Thomas Conchou

Function: Artistic director Centre d'art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson Country: the Netherlands Visiting period: 27 - 31 March Visiting year: 2023

Thomas Conchou is a curator, member of the Curatorial Hotline collective and an art facilitator approved by the Fondation de France for the implementation of the New Patrons program.

In 2020, he was a curator in residency at the art center Maison Populaire (Montreuil, France), an association for popular education and amateur practice, where he led a two-year cycle of exhibitions and events on queer artistic practices and relationships. In 2021, he was commissioner for the AWARE prize where he presented the work of Gaëlle Choisne. In 2022, he joined the jury of the Utopi·e prize for queer artists, the selection committee of the Salon de Montrouge, and he is the guest curator for the first edition of The Kooples Art Prize.

He is the recipient of the Textwork writing grant from the Pernod Ricard Foundation, and curated exhibitions for the Sissi Club (Marseille, France) and the CAC Brétigny (Brétigny, France). He was appointed as the new director of the Contemporary art center of La Ferme du Buisson in July 2022.