Andy Rankin



        Hello, I am an independent self-taught curator based in Paris. I conceive exhibitions as performative protocols that can be activated by myself or others, unfolding through contingent interactions rather than static display. My curatorial practice is drawn to artistic strategies that embrace destruction, material transformation, and participatory engagement, questioning the exhibition space and its possibilities.

        For several years, I have been conducting an ongoing research on disasters and their iconographies, focusing on the ways catastrophes are aestheticized, archived, and re-enacted within artistic and curatorial discourses. This inquiry extends to the traces of lost, vanished, or missing artworks, culminating in the Oblivion Collection, a participatory online archive dedicated to gathering remnants and spectral evidence of disappeared art. By engaging with the visual and conceptual residues of destruction, my curatorial research interrogates what remains, what is forgotten, and how disappearance itself might become an artistic gesture.

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StudioPoush
153 Avenue Jean Jaures
93300 Aubervilliers Represented bypal project
39 Rue de Grenelle
75007 Paris





Technikart
08/01/2025

According to Technikart, I am the #79 out of the 100 people who may save the year 2025 ! Thank you Mathilde Delli


BBB Centre d’art
18/11/2024

Had the chance to give a workshop about curatorial practices to the promotion of artists in their way of professionalization at the BBB Centre d’art in Toulouse

Adjacent Gallery
07/09/2024

Really lucky to have moderated the talk between Alexia Chevrollier and Clémence Estève at the Adjacent Gallery, following their exhibition I have accompanied with a text


Poush
25/05/2024

With Arthur Francietta we will discuss about Oblivion Collection invited by Thomas Hirschhorn at Poush

Parsons Paris
18/05/2024

Invited as guest critic to follow art, media, and technology seniors students of Parsons Paris

Cité Internationale des Arts
17/04/2024

Really lucky to meet 3 residents at the Cité Internationale des Arts, thanks to the Kunhavigi‘s programm, initiated in collaboration with C-E-A

Classic edition
20/03/2024

BAD EMS, published by Classic edition is out ! You will read my interwiew with Alexandre Bavard

IESA
22/02/2024

Thank you Hafida Jemni for the invitation to present my curatorial research to enthuasiasts students at IESA

Oblivion Collection
30/01/2024

Oblivion Collection is now constituted as a non profit-association under the 1901’s french law. With Arthur Francietta and William Ndedi, we are thrilled to move forward in the research of missing artworks

Résidence Saint-Ange
13/12/2023

The book following Nelson Pernisco’s residency at Saint Ange is out ! I have written essay retracing his last decade of research

193 Gallery
02/12/2023

Valentina Canseco & Gorgone la Prince have opened their new show, accompanied with an experimental text I had the chance to write

pal project
25/11/2023

Excited to announce that the gallery pal project now represents my curatorial practice worldwide. More to be announced soon about this experimental collaboration

pal project
18/11/2023

pal mag #17 about the exhibition Ring Ring Ring is available online. An exhibition made possible thanks to the technical help of Telerys Communication.

SOIXANT7 QUIN5E
09/11/2023

“Il n’y a pas de roman” has opened ! Alexandre Fandard & Niko Garnier’s first collaboration has taken place in Garage Haussmann

Villa Ruffieux
01/11/2023

Excited about the next two month in residency at Villa Ruffieux in Sierre (Switzerland) where I will be able to start my research for the Oblivion Collection

Fondation Emerige
05/10/2023

The catalogue of the ultimate edition of Prix Révélation Emerige has been published ! You can read my introduction to the practices of Ismaël Bazri, Hugo Ruyant and Frederik Exner

Galerie Eric Mouchet
29/04/2023

Really proud to have signed a text for the first monography of the artist Vincent Voillat: “C’est peut-être un peu plus qu’une histoire (d’amour)” edited by Galerie Eric Mouchet

Centre  Wallonie-Bruxelles
22/04/2023

A text about my attempt to send an exhibition in the outerspace can be read in the Absys, edited by the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles

Agence AMAC
13/02/2023

I had the pleasure to be a member of the jury for Shift #2, a session of young artist’s accompaniement given by Agence AMAC

Tick Tack Gallery
27/01/2023

Alexandre Bavard’s last exhibition, “BRAV” has opened in Tick Tack Gallery (Antwerpen), with a text I had the chance to sign

POUSH
 01/10/2022

Really glad to be part of the “Thinker’s office” at Poush, a collaborative workspace with other talented art workers

pal project
02/12/2022

The catalogue of the exhibition “There will never be a beautiful suicide” is now online. I have interviewed the 35 painters of the exhibition

Galerie Da-end
10/02/2022

César Bardoux & Célia Nkala have opened their first exhibition at the Galerie Da-End, and I had the joy to sign their text “Miserable Miracle”

Artec
25/06/2021
Really lucky to have been invited to take part to the workshop “S’approprier l’effondrement” by the lab Artec

pal project
12/06/2021

The pal mag #3 is now on sale. The exhibition catalogue included a text about François Dufeil’s practices, and interviews with Nelson Pernisco and Hervé Fischer

ADAGP
01/06/2021

ADAGP, with their project ElaineAlain has commissioned me a text about Olivier Masmonteil’s research 

City Cut-OFF
20/11/2020

Alexander Rosenkranz has launched his new book: City Cut Off, edited by Park Books, including a text by Ludovic Balland and myself 

Cité Internationale des Arts
01/10/2020

Honored to have been selected to be part of the first curatorial residency at Cité Internationale des Arts supported by a grant of the CNA