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).