Julia Marchand

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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Curating
Georgian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia INNVERVISION at Centre d’Art Edouard Manet ACTION, GESTURE, PAINT WOMEN ARTISTS AND GLOBAL ABSTRACTION (1940–70) at FVVGA BREATHING ONE’S BREATH at FVVGA TVSF – The Very Scary Forest, Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde, Arles Vu Que La Poésie M’est Obscure at Orbeliani Palace, Tibilisi LAURA OWENS & VINCENT VAN GOGH at FVVGA World Living Soil Forum, Moët Hennessy The Complicity at FVVGA Robin Plus: SOAP at Extramentale Abbieannian Novlangue at Sultana Paris La Vie Simple – Simplement La Vie at FVVGA Julien Carreyn & My-Lan Hoang-Thuy at Extramentale Dark Centuries: James Ensor & Alexander Kluge at FVVGA
Talking
ANDRO ERADZE: Post-Cyborg Dog at Galerie Poggi with JOHN ARMELEDER in Geneva THE RAGING AGE (Red without color) at écal PAUL MCCARTHY at Hauser & Wirth ON NICOLE EISENMAN “ABOUT FEELINGS, LAUGHTER AND STREETS”, FVVGA TEEN SPIRIT, Beaux-Arts de Paris THE CARNIVALESQUE at Centre Pompidou ALEXANDER KLUGE & CONSTELLATION at Luma Arles ALEXANDER KLUGE : TEXT & IMAGES at ENSP
Writing
DIEGO MARCON: Adolescence on a Loop, Lenz Press LISA YUSKAVAGE: This is not a studio, this is a studio! David Zwirner CHOUCHOU-DE-TOI : Esthétique Adolescentes dans l’Empire des Nineties, écal LAURA OWENS (Eugène Marie, Mauroco et Laura), FVVGA POLITICAL BODIES AND CROWDS, interview with Maxime Boidy