is a Venice-based curator, researcher and broadcaster. Her main fields of researches are related to carnivalesque,  adolescent aesthetics within visual arts, the editorial and poetic activities of Ilia Zdanevich (1894-1975), who was lately the subject of the Georgian pavilion at the 60th edition of the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, which she curated as well as a show at the Fondazione Antonio dalle Nogare in Bolzano.

Since 2016, she run the program Extramentale dedicated to adolescence within visual art, working on site specific projects with Saradibiza ( site-specific video games TVSF exhibited at the Centre Pompidou Metz & 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). The project culminated in an publication (I Am The F****** Subject: Art & Adolescence, Lenz Press) and an exhibition at Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw.

 Julia Marchand was a curator at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles between 2015 and 2023 co-curating with Bice Curiger the exhibitions Action / Gesture / Painting: Women in Abstraction, a World History, 1940-1970 (2023); Laura Owens and Vincent van Gogh (2021), Pirosmani: Walkers between Worlds (2019), Hot Sun, Late Sun (2018) and Simple Life – Simply Life (2017) among others.

In 2020, she organized a 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, run parallel to her exhibition Dark Centuries: Alexander Kluge & James Ensor held at FVVGA.

In 2025, she was the the rapporteur for Xie Lei, recipient of the 2025 Marcel Duchamp Prize as well as  guest curator for Prix Rubis Mécénat x Beaux-Arts de Paris.  She is the Curator of Société Générale Collection in 2026.