I AM THE F***** SUBJECT, ART & ADOLESCENCE, LENZ PRESS

I AM THE F***** SUBJECT, ART & ADOLESCENCE, Ed. Julia Marchand

LENZ PRESS x Extramentale

TO BE OUT SOON 🙂

Julia Marchand

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. She is the the rapporteur for Xie Lei in the 2025 Marcel Duchamp Prize.

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 for 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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Curating

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

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