Elodie Royer

Élodie Royer is an independent curator. Her recent works delve into the interactions between art and the environment through exhibitions and writing. As part of a doctorate in research creation within the programme SACRe at the École Normal Supérieure, she specifically explores artistic practices and ecological narratives in Japan, in the aftermath of the triple catastrophe of Fukushima. 

Since her residency at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2011, she has been regularly designing exhibitions alongside the Japanese artistic scene (Les Êtres Lieux, MCJPn 2022; Things Entangling, MOT, Tokyo, 2020; Les nucléaires et les choses, KADIST, 2019). In 2025, she was co-curator of the exhibition L’écologie des choses at the Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris, and in 2025, of its second run L’écologie des relations—La Forêt amante de la mer, at the FRAC Sud in Marseille.

In 2024, she designed Gianni Pettena’s retrospective exhibition Anarchitecture at the FRAC Centre Val-de-Loire and was the scientific director for the catalogue. She was also guest curator of the programme La Fabrique in 2023-2024 where she created the exhibition La Logique des lieux at the Fondation Fiminco. She has previously collaborated with many public and private contemporary art institutions in France (Palais de Tokyo, Le Plateau/FRAC Ile-de-France, gb agency, DOC!, etc.) and abroad (Mercer Union in Toronto, Tate Modern in London, GAMeC—Galerie d’art moderne et contemporain in Bergame, etc).