--- title: "Chronology" description: "Chronology of Arthur Fouray from 1990 to today in seven chapters: works, exhibitions, books, records and shared projects, from ECAL to DOC! and LUMA." canonical: https://arthurfouray.systems/chronology type: WebPage year: 1990 updated: "2026-09-26T19:59:57+00:00" license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ --- # Chronology Chronology Arthur Fouray Chronology Chapters 1. Before art: the early archive 1990–2008 2. Penninghen, ECAL and early experiments 2008–2013 3. Painting and exhibition formats 2013–2015 4. Silicon Malley and DOC! 2016–2018 5. Documentations and the move to LUMA 2018–2020 6. Archives, paintings and records 2021–2023 7. Chapters, cards and Systems 2024–2026 Nothing was indexed in this mode. Works, exhibitions, books, records and shared projects, from 1990 to the present. It is a Gesamtkunstwerk, simultaneously exhaustive and discontinuous. The intent is to offer a range of interpretations, envisioning projects and periods as autonomous universes within non-hierarchical chronologies. — arthurfouray.systems, 2023–present 1990–2008 Before art: the early archive Paris 1990 Arthur Fouray is born in Paris on 9 May 1990. 1991 Works dating from 1991 are brought together retrospectively in before ARTS , which spans 1991–2011. The later Pre-Natal phase covers 2011–2013. These early materials form part of a continuing archive, revisited through the website. before ARTS , Pre-Natal 1998 He enters the École Alsacienne, Paris, and stays until the baccalauréat. 2008 Baccalauréat, École Alsacienne, Paris. He enters ESAG Penninghen, Paris, for a bachelor in art direction. 2008–2013 Penninghen, ECAL and early experiments Paris · Renens 2010 Bachelor in Art Direction, ESAG Penninghen, Paris. 2011 He enters ECAL, Renens, for a Bachelor of Arts HES-SO in Fine Arts. His tutor is Philippe Decrauzat. An early sound montage examines the art market. Pré-Natal , a text on his own work. 2012 Cartels à Jouer : wall labels drawn as paintings, and paintings written as labels. C.R.O.M. , a group show in Saint-Émilion with Nicolas Degrange and Paul Limoujoux. In Iceberg , a walk through Paris galleries becomes an investigation of the white cube. The text records the journey and the printed material gathered along the way. Pre-Natal brings together sculptures, paintings and videos, accompanied by wall labels giving their medium, date, dimensions and installation. The videos include P.A.V. and LDMB49.49 . Pre-Natal A Painting on the Wall brings together digital page-works and videos made between 2012 and 2013, composed on an A4-format canvas. The page becomes a place to arrange and encounter the work. A Painting on the Wall 2013 Bachelor of Arts HES-SO in Fine Arts, ECAL, Renens. Dear Peggy , Treize, Paris, 6 April – 4 May 2013. Fourteen ECAL artists selected by Gallien Déjean, Stéphane Kropf and Stéphanie Moisdon. Assistant at Pierre Huyghe Studio, Paris, for the retrospective at the Centre Pompidou curated by Emma Lavigne. a + o – begins, a collaborative artistic and curatorial practice with Nastassia Cougoulat Montel, active until 2015. a plus o minus DE)ª(F , a 62-page theoretical text, written and typeset on an iPhone and two iPads. It develops a reflection on the ready-made, representation and the terms through which art is understood. He enters the Master of Arts HES-SO in Fine Arts at ECAL, in the programme directed by Stéphanie Moisdon. The aaafff paintings begin around this time. Their pale blue takes its name from a web colour code formed from the initials A and F; objects concealed within the paintings make what cannot be seen part of the work. aaafff “My logic is irregular.” Systems 2013–2015 Painting and exhibition formats Renens · Geneva · Paris 2014 An unsigned text on aaafff develops the idea of painting as a container: its visible surface can suggest an object held out of sight. aaafff Entourage II (8 Objects – 9 Interventions) , a collaborative artistic and curatorial project by Arthur Fouray and Nastassia Cougoulat Montel at Le Romandie, Lausanne, on an invitation by Julien Gremaud / Think Tank. The interventions enter the nightclub environment; the installation is photographed by Julien Gremaud. Entourage II Synallagma Show , Espace Quark, Geneva, curated by Elisa Langlois. Summer Camp , Happy Baby Gallery, Crissier. The Rise of the New Creative Class , a workshop at the Allianz Club, Renens. Entourage II , Le Romandie, Lausanne, 2014. Photograph by Julien Gremaud 2015 Master of Arts HES-SO in Fine Arts, ECAL, Renens. M , Micronaut no. 8, Vevey, 2015. The book brings an online notes system into print, gathering material from 21 April 2013 to 21 October 2015. Published on the occasion of Spectre , it includes a conversation with Julien Gremaud; ISBN 978-2-8399-1768-1. M Spectre , curated by Elisa Langlois, Espace Quark, Geneva. The painting made for it, 000fff (Polyvision) (Spectre) , takes its name from Abel Gance’s three-screen process for Napoléon : a format built for showing becomes the image itself. Spectre Osmosis , La Placette, Lausanne. Osmosis Life is a Bed of Roses (un roman) , Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, 27 May – 4 July 2015, conceived by Stéphanie Moisdon. Life is a Bed of Roses Nuit des musées , curated by Simon Paccaud and Stéphanie Serra, Musée Jenisch, Vevey. Private Life , Can Sep Simo, Ibiza. Core Texts , 216 pages of interviews with Alfredo Aceto, Frédéric Gabioud, Nastassia Montel, Damián Navarro, Prokos and Baker Wardlaw. Edition of twenty-two, plus two. Boom , ÉCAL, Renens. Boom Silicon Malley opens in Prilly, co-founded with Grégoire Bolay, Julien Fischer, Frédéric Gabioud and Paul Limoujoux; Baker Wardlaw joins subsequently. It runs until 2022. Exhibition Making CCI opens the space, with Thomas Baud, Giulia Essyad, Thomas Koenig, Thomas Vogel, Laura Zalewski and Guillaume de Nadaï. Robin Lebey, 1 , and Myriam Stamoulis, Guitare, Tanpura et Tabla électronique , follow the same year. CCI Spectre , Espace Quark, Geneva, 2015 M , Micronauts Publishing, Vevey, 2015 Osmosis , La Placette, Lausanne, 2015 Boom , ÉCAL, Renens, 2015 2016–2018 Silicon Malley and DOC! Prilly · Paris 2016 He joins the curatorial team at DOC!, Paris, an autonomous artist-run production space, and stays until 2018. Cruising , curated by Elise Lammer, SALTS, Birsfelden. Nominated for the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize, Swiss Art Awards, Basel. Kiefer Hablitzel Prize Accrochage Vaud , MCBA, Lausanne. Accrochage Vaud Tous les tableaux sont à l’envers , Circuit, Lausanne. RÉ DO , curated by Silicon Malley, La Cabine, Clermont-Ferrand. Les lèvres nues , a proposal by Noémie Vulpian and Jarry, DOC!, Paris, 16–30 April 2016. The installation includes Lauren (#aaafff) , acrylic on cotton duck and bed base, and Rrose (DOC) , acrylic on jute and pillow. Les lèvres nues Frédéric Gabioud, Arthur Fouray, Baker Wardlaw , Galerie Joy de Rouvre, Geneva. At DOC!, he co-curates Rob a Robe with Lauren Coullard and presents Francis Baudevin, Guitars , 16 December 2016 – 15 January 2017. At Silicon Malley, the collective programme includes Nicolas Degrange, Suite , and Noémie Vulpian and César Chevalier, Cluster . Rob a Robe arter, to art, kunsten, artarre , an insert for Éditions Clinamen. Four sheets conjugate an invented verb meaning “to make art” in French, English, Dutch and Italian, adopting the form of a grammar table. Accrochage Vaud , MCBA, Lausanne, 2016 aaafff (Autruche) , 2016. Kiefer Hablitzel Prize, Swiss Art Awards, Basel Les lèvres nues , DOC!, Paris, 2016 2017 Caravan , curated by Yasmin Afschar and Katrin Weilenmann, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau. His first solo exhibition in an institution. Caravan 2080 (MMLXXX) , ZQM, Berlin. Eleonora Castagna writes on it for Droste Effect Mag , 9 June 2017. 2080 Andy (Pyrrole) , 2017, enters the Aargauer Kunsthaus collection as a gift. An artist’s talk at the Aargauer Kunsthaus on 24 October brings Arthur Fouray into conversation with Philippe Decrauzat and Katrin Weilenmann. He discusses the paintings as interfaces, connecting a visible surface with an object concealed inside. SCREEN , Tombolo Presses, Nevers. Edition of 500, edited by Thierry Chancogne, ISBN 979-10-96155-05-7. Its text is an extract of the dialogue Alain Robbe-Grillet wrote for Alain Resnais’ L’Année dernière à Marienbad . SCREEN Greffes , Art Club #18, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto at the Académie de France à Rome — Villa Medici. He presents a collaborative work with Christophe de Rohan Chabot. Greffes Ristretto , Le Marquis, Saint-Denis, 23–27 June 2017. MONO , DOC!, Paris, 15–28 July 2017. PRIX Novembre à Vitry , Galerie municipale Jean-Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine, 19 November – 17 December 2017. Nouvelle Collection Paris , ENSBA, Paris; Jeudi x PRP and 3 years, Smart Move , with Galerie Joy de Rouvre, Geneva. Galerie Joy de Rouvre, Geneva, begins to represent him. The gallery closes in 2022. Assistant to Philippe Decrauzat, Paris. At DOC!, he curates Christophe Lemaitre, 25 November – 17 December 2017, under a changing title: Manners Maketh Man , Adversarial Objects , then Road Rage . The DOC! programme also includes Francesco Cagnin, So Leggere , and La Nuit juste avant les forêts , with Corentin Canesson, Lucas Erin and Eva Vaslamatzi. At Silicon Malley, the collective presents Lauren Coullard, BREAK(FEAST) , and Demelza Watts, free time . Road Rage He edits Francis Baudevin, The Guitar and Other Machines , DOC!, Paris. Silicon Malley, Terrasse 2013–2017 , mixed media, 300 × 300 × 125 cm, Art Genève. SCREEN launches at Motto Berlin on 18 May, with a conversation between Arthur Fouray and curator Rachel Walker. Caravan , Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, 2017. Curated by Yasmin Afschar and Katrin Weilenmann 2080 (MMLXXX) , ZQM, Berlin, 2017 SCREEN , Tombolo Presses, Nevers, 2017 Greffes , Académie de France à Rome — Villa Medici, 2017 2018 At DOC!, he helps host Ending Explained , organised by Will Benedict with the ECAL Master, 17 March – 9 April 2018. Ending Explained Galerie Joy de Rouvre, Art Genève, Geneva. He curates Pierre Joseph, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles , DOC!, 8 September – 7 October 2018, with the support of Air de Paris. His signed bilingual essay follows the exhibition’s forty-five potato photographs and the systems of reproduction around them. Pierre Joseph On Italian museography… at Silicon Malley, with Koenraad Dedobbeleer and the EPFL Studio Master 1. Texts in Art Club , Académie de France à Rome — Villa Medici, and in Caravan , Aargauer Kunsthaus. Tournures , Grichka Commaret and Kim Farkas, DOC!, Paris. The exhibition opens on 19 January and is on view from 20 January to 12 February 2018, within the programme directed by Corentin Canesson, Arthur Fouray and Eva Vaslamatzi. Ending Explained , DOC!, Paris, 2018. Photograph by Aurélien Mole Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles , Pierre Joseph, DOC!, Paris, 2018. Photograph by Aurélien Mole “rt4a is a utopia researching times as clouds of rumors, for works are complex words, and arts shifting languages.” rt4a 2018–2020 Documentations and the move to LUMA Paris · Geneva · Arles 2018 Documentations develops as a participatory media outlet, co-founded with Guillaume Maraud in 2018. A dated announcement marks its public launch on 7 January 2019. He is Studio Director for Matthew Lutz-Kinoy in Paris, from 2017 to 2019. 2019 He joins LUMA Arles as Archivist and Curator, in charge of the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives. 1984 (feat. 1990) , Galerie Joy de Rouvre, Geneva. 2020 1984 (feat. 1990), deuxième partie , Galerie Joy de Rouvre, Geneva. He delivers I do not wish to add any more on 14 February at Vues & Données , École nationale supérieure de la photographie, Arles. The colloquium runs 13–14 February 2020. Silicon Malley presents Matthieu Laurette, Demands & Supplies , Prilly, opening on 24 August 2020. Contracts disclosing the costs of the artist’s practice fill the small exhibition space, and the project extends into an online shop. Demands & Supplies Demands & Supplies , Matthieu Laurette, Silicon Malley, Prilly, 2020. Photograph by Arthur Fouray 2021–2023 Archives, paintings and records Arles · Zurich 2021 I do not wish to add any more , delivered in 2020, is published in January in the proceedings of Vues & Données , ISBN 979-10-91540-38-4. The text is cited in the press material for Demands & Supplies . Édouard Glissant — Où tous les imaginaires du monde peuvent se rencontrer et s’entendre , Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives, Chapter 1, LUMA Arles, 26 June 2021 – 1 May 2022. Co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, with Sylvie Séma-Glissant, Etel Adnan, agnès b., Julien Creuzet, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Manthia Diawara, Julie Mehretu, Philippe Parreno, Asad Raza, The Otolith Group and Koo Jeong A. Chapter 1: Édouard Glissant He writes rt4a , a text connecting his work across images, language and sound. Painting continues alongside archival and curatorial work. Museum (Fraser Official Welcome) and Beware of Curator bring text and familiar visual signs onto canvas. Beware of Curator is also paired with a sound work released in 2022. Édouard Glissant , Chapter 1, LUMA Arles, 2021. Photograph by Arthur Fouray 2022 Etel Adnan — Le monde a besoin de proximité, pas de séparation. D’amour, pas de suspicion. D’un avenir commun, pas d’isolation. , Chapter 2, LUMA Arles, 2 July 2022 – 29 May 2023, with Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal. Chapter 2: Etel Adnan The first records appear under the name rt4a: Accelerate , Beware of Curator — Smithson Cultural Confinement , This Is Not a Tender World and Chiquito . Music Galerie Joy de Rouvre closes. Etel Adnan , Chapter 2, LUMA Arles, 2022. Photograph by Joana Luz and Arthur Fouray 2023 Agnès Varda , Chapter 3, LUMA Arles, 2 July 2023 – 26 May 2024. The Glissant chapter travels to LUMA Westbau, Zurich, 9 June – 17 September 2023. Chapter 3: Agnès Varda Cartes-cartels , forty pages of museum-style labels made in 2023 for works from 2012. The catalogue gives materials and dimensions to an early body of sculpture, painting and installation and returns it to the present as an archival form. arthurfouray.systems begins. Inspired by Duchamp’s La Boîte verte (1934) and built as an interface rather than a portfolio, it traces and retraces a single body of work — an active archive of everything produced since the age of one, alone or in groups, as artist or as curator. Systems A text in Matthew Lutz-Kinoy , les presses du réel, Dijon. A text in Matthieu Laurette : une monographie dérivée (1993–2023) , MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine. Agnès Varda , Chapter 3, LUMA Arles, 2023. Photograph by Arthur Fouray 2024–2026 Chapters, cards and Systems Arles · Zurich · Paris 2024 Gustav Metzger — Chacun de nous, tous ensemble , Chapter 4, LUMA Arles, 30 June 2024 – 4 May 2025. The Varda chapter opens at LUMA Westbau, Zurich, on 7 June 2024. Chapter 4: Gustav Metzger Édouard Glissant, Dans un monde imprévisible, l’utopie est nécessaire , co-edited with Bernard Comment. Exhibition catalogue and compendium, Éditions du Seuil / LUMA. P+ develops as an associative system of 620 physical and digital cards. Images, words and references can be rearranged into changing connections, extending the archive into a form that can be handled and recomposed. P+ P+ , 2024. 620 physical and digital cards 2025 Maria Lassnig — Living with art stops one wilting! , Chapter 5, opens at LUMA Arles on 1 May 2025. It is the first major exhibition in France in more than twenty-five years devoted to Lassnig. The Metzger chapter opens at LUMA Westbau, Zurich, on 13 June 2025. Chapter 5: Maria Lassnig He curates Lauren Coullard, They Hover over Me , DOC!, Paris, 11–26 January 2025, and writes the signed bilingual booklet. The project resumes a working relationship begun with BREAK(FEAST) at Silicon Malley in 2017. They Hover over Me Mémoire , a video work, goes into production. Three albums and a series of singles appear as rt4a, including godart, Unreleased 2008–2014 and two versions of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade , Op. 35. Earlier recordings become part of the published body of work. Music They Hover over Me , Lauren Coullard, DOC!, Paris, 2025. Photograph by Arthur Fouray 2026 Zaha Hadid — I Think There Should Be No End to Experimentation , Chapter 6, LUMA Arles, 1 May 2026 – 31 March 2027. Artistic direction by Vassilis Oikonomopoulos; co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist in close collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation. Chapter 6: Zaha Hadid The Lassnig chapter is presented at LUMA Westbau, Zurich, 13 June – 20 December 2026. Lassnig, LUMA Westbau A new series of canvases begins — charcoal, pencil and acrylic on cotton — “seeking to simplify my relationship with visual production.” The chronology ends at the present and is revised as the work is. Curriculum Vitae · Biography · Index The chronology follows the development of the work across different forms and collaborations. Solo exhibitions appear under their own titles; group exhibitions are selected. Curatorial projects are identified by their host spaces, with collaborators credited in the entries. 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