Marianne Derrien

Marianne Derrien is an independent curator, art critic, and lecturer, a member of C-E-A and AICA France. After serving as exhibitions project manager at the Villa Médicis in Rome, she now collaborates as a guest curator with museum institutions and independent venues in France and internationally.

Since 2020, she has been in a curatorial residency at Le Wonder, an artist-run space in the Paris region. In 2023, she was awarded, together with artist Eva Nielsen, the BMW Art Makers program prize for the Rencontres d’Arles and Paris Photo.

Her 2026 book De l’usage des forces magiques ou les contre-mondes de l’art (On the Use of Magical Forces, or the Counter-Worlds of Art) is published by MagiCité, with the support of the Cnap and Fluxus Art Projects.

Through the lens of the subversive and political dimension of these magical practices in art, she is preparing several exhibitions, conferences, and seminars, notably at the CEAAC in Strasbourg, the MAC VAL, and Paris 8 University-ArteC.