Marie Muracciole is a writer and curator based in Paris and Beirut.

Early life

Marie Muracciole studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She shifted her visual art practice to writing in 1991.

Career

Muracciole has held positions as head of the cultural department at Paris's Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume until 2011. She taught in ESAD, Amiens, as a contemporary art professor until 1998, then as film theory professor at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux until 2017. She has been the director of the

Beirut Art Center Beirut Art Center is a space for exhibiting contemporary art in Beirut, Lebanon History Beirut Art Center opened to public in January 2009. It is managed as a non-profit organization whose founders and executive board members were Sandra Dag ...

from February 2014 to February 2019. She is now an External Visiting Lecturer and Tutor in Fine Art at the

Malmö Art Academy Malmö Art Academy is an art school as part of Lund University in Lund, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to th ...

, Sweden. She was curator of 2024 biennial of Québec.

Selected exhibitions

Muracciole curated numerous exhibitions in museums and art centers, including

Claude Closky Claude Closky (born 22 May 1963) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. Reception Closky won the "Grand prix des Arts plastiques" (1999) and the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2005) awarded by the ADIAF. Dike Blair wrote in ''Artforum'' Ma ...

''Climb at your own risk'' at Madre (Naples, 2007);

Yto Barrada Yto Barrada (born 1971) is a Franco-Moroccan multimedia visual artist living and working in Tangier, Morocco and New York City. Barrada cofounded the Cinémathèque de Tanger in 2006, leading a group of artists and filmmakers. Barrada also work ...

''RIffs'' at the

Deutsche Guggenheim The Deutsche Guggenheim was an art museum in Berlin, Germany, open from 1997 to 2013.Kuhla, Karoline"Final Exhibition: The Guggenheim's Farewell to Berlin" ''Spiegel Online'', November 15, 2012 It was located in the ground floor of the Deutsche B ...

(Berlin, 2011),

Fotomuseum Fotomuseum Antwerp, also known as FOMU, is a museum of photography in Antwerp, Belgium. History and programme The museum opened in 1986. The Fotomuseum in Antwerp has a historical and contemporary collection of photography that is given a new p ...

(Winterthur), the Wiels (Brussels),

The Renaissance Society The Renaissance Society, founded in 1915, is a leading independent contemporary art museum located on the campus of the University of Chicago, with a focus on the commissioning and production of new works by international artists. The kunsthalle- ...

(Chicago, 2012);

Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (January 15, 1951 – August 10, 2013) was an American photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic. From 1985 until his death in 2013, he taught at California Institute of the Arts. His work frequently focused on large economi ...

''Disassembled Movies 1972–2012'' at

Akbank Sanat Akbank Sanat is an art center founded by the Turkish bank Akbank in 1993. The art center is located in Beyoğlu, Istanbul and organizes over 700 events every year. The Center supports the development of contemporary arts in Turkey and hosts man ...

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in collaboration with Ali Akay.l A Wonderfully Inadequate Medium: Allan Sekula and Photography, at

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London, March to May 2019. Yto Barrada, Holes in the moon, ENSAPC (école des beaux-arts de Paris-Cergy), l’Été culturel, August to September 2020. At Beirut Art Center (BAC) Muracciole curated monographies of

Zineb Sedira Zineb Sedira (born April 1, 1963) is a London-based Franco-Algerian feminist photographer and video artist, best known for work exploring the human relationship to geography. Sedira was shortlisted for the 2021 Deutsche Börse Photography Founda ...

Joachim Koester Joachim Koester (b. 1962) is a Danish contemporary artist who primarily works in installation, photography, and sound art. His work can be found in major metropolitan museums including MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, and the Centr ...

, Marie Voignier, Danièle Genadry, Naeem Mohaiemen,

, Marwa Arsianos, Tony Shakar, Rana El Nemer, Hassan Khan,

Otobong Nkanga Otobong Nkanga (born 1974) is a Nigerian-born visual artist, tapestry maker and performance artist, based in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2015, she won the Yanghyun Prize. In her work she explores the social and topographical changes of her environmen ...

, as well as many group shows.

Francis Alÿs Francis Alÿs (born 1959, Antwerp) is a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist. His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. In 1986, Alÿs left behind his as an architect and relocated to Mexico City, ...

''Knots'n'' ''Dust'' at the

Ikon Gallery The Ikon Gallery () is an England, English art gallery, gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Listed building, Grade II listed, neo-Gothic former Oozells Street Board School, designed by John Henr ...

and the BAC.

Selected writings

She contributes to ''

Texte zur Kunst ''Texte zur Kunst'' is a German contemporary art magazine. History ''Texte zur Kunst'' was founded in 1990 in Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of ...

'', Berlin, and to the French art magazines ''Les Cahiers du Musée d'Art Moderne'', ''Art Press'', ''20/27''. Among her publications, ''Contre-courants: à propos d’

et d’Aerospace'', in Jeux sérieux, (HEAD), 2015, ''Something New About Plants, Genealogy Tree,'' in

(JPRingier, 2013); ''A Love Story, Transportations'', in

Amar Kanwar Amar Kanwar (born 1964) is an Indian filmmaker. His work challenges the limits of the medium in order to create complex narratives traversing several terrains such as labour and indigenous rights, gender, religious fundamentalism and ecology. E ...

: Evidence (

Fotomuseum Winterthur Fotomuseum Winterthur is a museum of photography in Winterthur, Switzerland. History The museum was founded in 1993 by photographer George Reinhart, the nephew of the wealthy Swiss art collector Oskar Reinhart. ''Fotomuseum''s exabits are dedicat ...

/Steidl, 2012); ''Memory's body. "Retrospective" by Xavier Le Roy'', in

, 2011/12; ''Tomorrow Never Knows, Peter Roehr'', in 20/27 n°5, 2010. She is the editor of

''Climb at Your Own Risk'' (Naples: Electa, 2007),

''Riffs'' (Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, 2011), ''Allan Sekula's writing'' (Paris:

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, 2013), ''Photography at Work: Allan Sekula'' (Beirut: Beirut Art Center, 2017), ''Knots'n Dust: Francis Alÿs'' (Dijon : Les Presses du réel, 2018)''.''

Books

Knots’n Dust,

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, (texts Michael Taussig and M.M.)

, 2018. Photography at Work,

, (text from M.M.) Beirut Art Center, 2017. Exposure 6, 7 and 8, Beirut Art Center, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Editor with Benjamin Young of Greyroom special issue on Allan Sekula, spring 2014. Écrits sur la photographie, French translation of the texts in Allan Sekula's Photography Against the Grain including “The Body and the Archive”, editor and translator, éditions de l’ ENSBA, Paris, 2013. Yto Barrada, RIFFS, (texts Okwui Envezor, Daniel Soutif, Negar Azimi, M.M.) English, German, Italian, Flemish and French editions,

Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag (English: Hatje Cantz Publishing) is a German book publisher specialising in photography, art, architecture and design. It was established in 1945 by Gerd HatjeGalerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, 2006.

Essays

« Lévitation », in Si petits entre les étoiles, catalogue de la biennale de Québec, éd. Musée National des beaux-arts de Québec, 2019. “Silence, moteur, mouvements” in

, Sharjah Foundation, 2017. “(Prière de toucher)” in Pierre-Lin Renié, D'autres jours / On Other Days, 2017 “Quitte ou double”, in Bernard Piffaretti Catalogue raisonnable, 2016, MAMCO, Genève. “Contre-courants : à propos d’

et d’Aerospace”, in Jeux sérieux – Cinéma et art contemporains transforment l’essai, HEAD et

MAMCO The MAMCO () is the contemporary art museum of Geneva, which opened in 1994. The building is a former factory building, with 3000 m2 of exhibition space, it is the largest contemporary art museum of Switzerland. From 1994 to 2015, MAMCO was dire ...

, 2015. “

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, Attirance fatale (Underground)”, in Art Public Poitiers, Les presses du reel, 2014. “Something New About Plants, Genealogy Tree“, in

, JPRingier, 2013. “Extrait (de sang-froid) “, in catalogue Sylvie Fanchon, SF, musée de Dole, 2012. “Transports, A Love Story“ in Evidence,

, Steidl, 2012. “Passons, Ich Sterbe“, in Les Sept Monde, Marylène Négro, ed Analogues, 2012. “Redistributing narratives with Yto Barrada“, in Plot for a Biennal, Sharjah, 2011. “

Aleksandra Mir Aleksandra Mir (born 1967) is a Swedish-American contemporary artist known for her large scale collaborative projects and for her anthropological methods, involving rigorous archival research, oral history and field work. Her work deals with tra ...

, Space Invader“, in Mutations, Paris Photo, Steidel 2011. “You Get It ?” in Eric Duyckaerts, ‘idéo, éditions du MacVal, 2011. “Tomorrow Never Knows,

Peter Roehr Peter Roehr (1 September 1944 in Lauenburg in Pommern – 15 August 1968 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German Pop Art minimalist artist. Life Roehr was the only child of Kurt and Eleonora Röhr. After their divorce the mother moved with her ch ...

”, in 20/27 n°5, 2010. “

Ceal Floyer Ceal Floyer (born 1968) is a Pakistani-born British visual artist. She is based in Berlin, Germany. Biography Floyer was born in 1968 in Karachi, Pakistan. Floyer received a BFA degree from Goldsmiths College, in 1994.Tino Seghal”, Cahiers du MNAM, Falls 2007. “Qui parle ? This is not a time for dreaming,

Pierre Huyghe Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French contemporary artist, who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems. He lives and works in Santiago de Chile. Early life and education Pier ...

” , in Cahiers du MNAM. “ Time Serial Killer ”; “ See the Words ”; “ Reading the Visible ”; in

, catalogue 315, editions

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, Paris, 2006. “Le bruit des images, entretien avec

David Claerbout David Claerbout (born 1969, Kortrijk, Belgium) is a Belgian artist. His work combines elements of still photography and the moving image. Early life and education Claerbout studied at Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp from ...

” in Cahiers du MNAM 94, 2005–2006. “Le labyrinthe des cartes ”, in Cox Codex, Paul Cox, Le Seuil, Paris, 2003. “Une fiction permet de saisir la réalité et en même temps ce qu’elle cache ”, essai sur

Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Broodthaers (28 January 1924 – 28 January 1976) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker, and visual artist. Early life Broodthaers was born on 28 January 1924 in Brussels, Belgium. Career Broodthaers was briefly associated with the surrealist ...

, Le Portique n°5, Strasbourg, 2000.

Articles

“

Documenta 14 Documenta 14 was the fourteenth edition of the art exhibition documenta which took place in 2017 in both Kassel, Germany, its traditional home, and Athens, Greece. It was held first in Athens from 8 April to 16 July, and in Kassel from 10 Ju ...

. Sans pertes ni profits“, in Revue L’art même, Bruxelles, juillet 2017. “Memory's body. Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy“ in

Texte Zur Kunst ''Texte zur Kunst'' is a German contemporary art magazine. History ''Texte zur Kunst'' was founded in 1990 in Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of ...

, 2013. “Exhibition, Inhibition“, in Texte Zur Kunst n° 85, 2012. “It Is Your First Mirage Sophie. On

Guy de Cointet Guy de Cointet (1934–1983) was a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works, often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces. Biography Guy de Cointet was born in Paris in 1934, the ...

“, Texte zur Kunst n°82, 2011 “Conversation avec Yto Barrada” in Index, Macba, 2011. “The Host and the Cloud, Pierre Huyghe”, in Art Press, Mai 2010. “ The Apse, the Bell and the Antilope ”, avec Aurélien Froment, Journal des Labos, 2008. “ Cartographie Friedl ”, in Critique d’art n°31, printemps 2008. “Civique coalisé communiste confiant“, (...) Yuri Leiderman, Art 3, Valence et Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, 2001.

References

External links

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Marie Muracciole collaboration to the Centre Pompidou, Paris
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