THE TECHNICAL ACQUISITION COMMITTEE

The technical acquisition committee is moderated by the director of the Frac Grand Large. It is made up of contemporary art professionals appointed by the Frac board of directors at the suggestion of the director.

The members – volunteer art professionals – are appointed for a period of three years, renewable. They form a working and orientation group on the collection and are responsible for prospecting and proposing works that are part of the artistic project.

– Keren Detton
Director of Frac Grand Large — Hauts-de-France

– Heidi Ballet (Belgium / Germany)
A curator based between Berlin and Brussels, Heidi Ballet focuses on oceans, climate change, and postcolonial theory. Since 2021, she has been working as a curator at the DE SINGEL arts center in Antwerp. She has been a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp since 2022.

– Guillaume Désanges (France)
Director of the Palais de Tokyo art center in Paris
An exhibition curator and art critic, Guillaume Désanges has been president of the Palais de Tokyo since January 2022. He has worked at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, founded the independent production structure Work Method, and was a guest curator at Le Plateau – Frac Île-de-France.

– Anne-Claire Duprat (France)
Director of the Fondation Martell in Cognac
An art historian, she has worked for more than 15 years in the field of contemporary art and design, and has expertise in cultural policy and diplomacy, as well as in international cooperation.

– Catherine de Zegher (Belgium)
Art historian and independent curator
A member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium, Catherine de Zegher was Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. She has curated numerous historical and contemporary exhibitions. An author and editor of many publications on modern and contemporary artists, she notably co-edited the book Women Artists at the Millennium with Carol Armstrong (MIT Press), published in October.

– Thierry Verbeke (France)
An artist and curator based in Lille, Thierry Verbeke explores the memory of the working world, various forms of protest, as well as issues related to economics and political communication. His works are included in public collections in France and Belgium.