Julia Marchand is a curator, researcher and broadcaster based in Venice. Her projects and researches revolve around activating archives, adolescence, Illegal Astronomy, carnivalesque, Georgian modernism and contemporary art, Van Gogh as well as the rurality.
She recently curated the Georgian Pavilion of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. A MFA Curating Goldsmiths graduate, Julia Marchand was a curator at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles between 2015 and 2023. In 2016, she founded the curatorial platform Extramentale dedicated to adolescence within visual art, working on specific projects with Saradibiza (for her site-specific video games TVSF exhibited at the Centre Pompidou Metz and at the Festival Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde), Anaïs-Tohé Commaret (Centre d’Art Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers) Mohamed Bourouissa (Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles), Lisa Yuskavage (David Zwirner, Paris), Henry Darger (Galerie Sultana, Paris) and Paul McCarthy (Hauser & Wirth, Monaco).In 2020, she organized a day-long symposium on the carnivalesque art at the Centre Pompidou Paris with Claire Tancons, Paul B. Preciado, Jenkin v. Zyl, Mathis Colins and Jean-Baptiste Carobolante.
She is currently working on an exhibition revolving around Iliazd as well as the site-specific commission in Saint-Eustache Church in partnership with Rubis Mécénat and Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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