is a curator based in Venice and founder of Extramentale. Her projects and researches revolve around activating archives, instituting forms of adolescence, carnivalesque, Georgian modernism and contemporary art,  Van Gogh as well as the rurality.  She curated exhibitions at the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation between 2015 and 2023, her projects include Action / Gesture / Paint: women artists and global abstraction 1940-70 (2023); Laura Owens and Vincent van Gogh (2021); Nicole Eisenman & The Modern (2022), Black Centuries: James Ensor & Alexander Kluge (2019), as well as  Niko Pirosmani (2018) and La Vie simple – Simplement la Vie (2017). Artistic director of the curatorial platform Extramentale, founded in 2016 to analyse adolescent aesthetics in the field of visual arts since the early 1990s, Julia Marchand has worked notably with Saradibiza on the video game TVSF (exhibited at the Centre Pompidou Metz and at the Festival Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde), Mathias Garcia (Extramentale, Arles), Anaïs-Tohé Commaret (Centre d’Art Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers) Mohamed Bourouissa (Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographies), Lisa Yuskavage (Galerie Zwirner, Paris) and works by Henry Darger (Galerie Sultana, Paris). In 2020, she organized a day-long performances on carnivalesque art at the Centre Pompidou Paris with, among others, Claire Tancons, Paul B. Preciado, Jenkin v. Zyl and Jean-Baptiste Carobolante. Preciado, Jenkin v. Zyl. She is currently working on the topic of Illegal Astronomy and activating archives.