2019: she is appointed director of the Olivier Debré Center for Contemporary Creation in Tours. Situated in its contemporary architecture designed by the Portuguese agency Aires Mateus, the CCC OD is a contemporary art venue that is part of the French contemporary art centers network. It produces and co-produces up to 8 exhibitions per year within its walls and has about 1500 m2 of exhibition space. Its programming explores both international and national creation. The CCC OD offers itself to the public as an open place, a space of discovery, sharing of knowledge and experience. The CCC OD is now the custodian of a donation of works by the painter Olivier Debré who lived in Touraine (Loire) since his youth. The donation of an historical fund within an center for contemporary art is a fertile singularity, which allows to establish bridges between the creation of yesterday and today.
After studying law at the University of Montreal, she moved to Paris in 1996 and began studying Art History at the University of Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne where she obtained a master’s degree in contemporary art.
2000: she graduated in administration and conservation of heritage at the Institut National du Patrimoine.
From 2002 to 2010: after having been responsible for contemporary art at the direction of culture of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, she became deputy director of the art center Le Parc Saint-Léger located in Burgundy. From 2010 to 2019: she is director of CIRVA / the International Research Center for Glass and Arts in Marseille, a unique art center focused on research and production for international artists and designers.
At Cirva, Isabelle Reiher is committed to decompartmentalizing contemporary approaches to glass in the artistic field. By opening up her calls for residencies to visual artists and designers, as well as choreographers, video artists and researchers in the humanities, her project is to renew our understanding of the relationship between art and craft, while at the same time contributing to the enrichment of an already rich collection of contemporary glass creations.