Vit à : Venise , Italy
A former Goldsmiths MFA Curating student, Julia Marchand is a curator based in Venice and Paris whose interest are mainly focused on marginalized modernism, archives and experimental contemporary art related to the theme of adolescence. She is the curator of the Georgian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024).
She has been a curator at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles between 2015 and 2023 and collaborated in curating exhibitions with Bice Curiger looking at unusual dialogues between Vincent van Gogh and established artists, such as Laura Owens, Urs Fischer, Roni Horn, Nicole Einseman and David Hockney. She curated and co-curated over twenty-five exhibitions including
Action / Gesture / Paint: women artists and global abstraction 1940-70 (2023); Laura Owens and Vincent van Gogh (2021); Nicole Eisenman & The Modern (2022), Dark Centuries: James Ensor & Alexander Kluge (2019), Complicity (2020), Niko Pirosmani (2018) and Soleil Chaud, Solail Tardif (2018) around the late work of Pablo Picasso and Joan Mitchell. She co-conceived symposium around autodidacts practices and proto-pop and oversaw the cultural program of the Fondation, organizing screenings and talks.
Since 2016, she is the Founder and Artistic Director of Extramentale, a curatorial platform dedicated to the realm of adolescence within visual art. She organized lectures and/or exhibitions throughout Europe with the works Henry Darger, Lisa Yuskavage, Anaïs-Tohé Commaret, Mathias Garcia, Kevin Blinderman, Robin Plus or Diego Marcon (on an occasion of a publication for his solo show at Centre Pecci). She has lectured around the theme of art and adolescence at Ecal, Lausanne, BPSS22, Charleroi, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Hauser and Wirth, Monaco as well as Centre Pompidou, Paris where she organized a day-long symposium on the theme of the carnivalesque. She was also a founder member of festival Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde devoted to experimental video games. Her latest commission to the artist Saradibiza was being shown in Centre Pompidou-Metz for the exhibition entitled Wolrdbuilding.
From 2025, Julia Marchand will be running a thematic podcast for Projet Media.