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Thierry Forien
Collector and President of the Prize Carré sur Seine 2019

French, English
Specialty: Multidisciplinary

Passionate about art and culture in all its forms, Thierry Forien is a collector of classical and contemporary art.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Palais de Tokyo and President, for three years, of the Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo.

Thierry Forien is today a member of the boards of directors of the Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré in Tours, the Thalie Foundation in Brussels, the FRAC Picardie and theassociation des Amis de la Maison de Balzac. Thierry is president of theassociation of the Friends of DOMUS Galatina.

He is regularly called upon to participate in juries and selection committees. He is a member of the gallery selection committee of the contemporary drawing fair Pareidolie. He chaired the jury of the 2018 edition of the contemporary drawing fair DDessin and organized an exhibition in London on the theme "Unlimited Bodies". Thierry Forien led a conference in 2017 on the theme "Art and Big Data" organized by Axa Art and Happening Art.
He is also a member of the Artistic Committee of the Franco-Britishassociation Fluxus Art Projects.

An engineer by training, he completed his education with a certificate in corporate administration and a diploma in conflict mediation. The subject of his mediation thesis was mediation as a response to disputes related to the return and restitution of cultural property.