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My name is Larys Frogier, art historian, artistic director, curator and researcher.

Post-graduated in the history of modern and contemporary art from the High School for Social Studies (EHESS) and the National Institute for Art History (INHA) in Paris, as well as from the University of Rennes 2. I’m currently teaching modern and contemporary art history at the University of Lille where I’m a member of the National Research Center for the Contemporary Arts.

From an academic background, under the lead of Dr. Giovanni Careri, Director of the Research Center for the history and theory of art and images in the modern age, I developed my skills, specializing in the early 20th century art history with a strong focus on the development of the avant- garde artists such as André Derain, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, El Lissitsky, Marcel Duchamp. Under the lead of Dr. Jean-Marc Poinsot, Director of Research at the French National Institute of Art History Paris, Emeritus Professor at the University of Rennes, I specialized in the history of exhibition making and art curation from the early XXth century to the 1990s, cultural activism and art theories during the 70s and the 80s in the USA, as well as on the development of emerging curatorial practices in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

I regularly engages in the development of curatorial and research programs between art museums, private foundations and academies supporting shared knowledge and transcultural development of the arts. As such, in 2023-2024, he was the Head of the scientific project “BECOMING WORLDS” gathering universities and art institutions from Asia, Europe and the Pacific dedicated to study of innovative curatorial practices in different regions of the world but also in regards to the development of digital technologies.

This scientific project was directed by the European Commission in Brussels and the European Agency for Culture in Paris.