Prix Marcel Duchamp: Xie Lei
Talk not open to the public but the exhibition of the nominees of the Prix Marcel Duchamp will be open at Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Talk not open to the public but the exhibition of the nominees of the Prix Marcel Duchamp will be open at Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
is a Venice-based curator, researcher and broadcaster. Her main fields of researches are related to carnivalesque, adolescent aesthetics within visual arts as well 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.
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.
Since 2016, she run the program Extramentale dedicated to adolescence within visual art, working on 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).
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.
She is currently working on an exhibition revolving around Iliazd and the Boîte-en-Valise by Marcel Duchamp for the Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare (with Eva Brioschi) as well as guest curator/speaker for Prix Marcel Duchamp and Prix Rubis Mécénat x Beaux-Arts de Paris. She is lecturing on the works by abstract painters such as Frank Bowling (Hauser & Wirth, Beaux-Arts de Paris), Joan Mitchell (Joan Mitchell Foundation – AWARE).
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