ADOLESCENCE at Zacheta National Gallery

Co-curator of « Adolescence » with Katarzyna Kołodziej-Podsiadło, Joanna Kordjak, this group exhibition is taking place at the Zacheta National Gallery until September 20 2026. From Warsaw to Ukraine, Mexico to Paris, the show gathers a polyphony of voices, established artists and young person alike, including the collective fra fra fra, thinking together about what it means to grow up today. Films, installations, poetry, performance…The exhibition explore the uncertainty of a world drowning in images and noise.

With: Mohamed Bourouissa; Chiki; Matt Copson; Andro Eradze; Aneta Grzeszykowska; Ane Hjort Guttu; Eva Koťátková; Ant Łakomsk; Ania Nowak, Liselor Perez; Anhar Salem; Magda Szpecht; Gisèle Vienne and Dasha Chechushkova & fra fra fra (Awgust, Pavlo Chechushkov, Oksana Holovach, Nika Klianchyna, Mikki, Nika Lutsiuk, Téru, Katia Vazhynska, Alisa Yarova); Marta Romankiv i Weronika Zalewska

Julia Marchand

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.

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Curating

ADOLESCENCE at Zacheta National Gallery Prix Rubis Mécénat: Liselor Perez Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare 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

From the Girl Online to the Trad Wife Prix Marcel Duchamp: Xie Lei Joan Mitchell with Aware & Joan Mitchell Foundation Illegal Astronomy at Goldsmiths College For Frank Bowling, Beaux-Arts de Paris Frank Bowling at Hauser & Wirth 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

I Am The F***** Subject, Art & Adolescence, Lenz Press 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