Marie Muracciole

Marie Muracciole is a writer and curator based in Paris and Beirut.[1]

She has been the director of the Beirut Art Center [2] from February 2014 to February 2019.[3] She taught as a cinema and video theory professor at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux until 2017.

At Beirut Art Center (BAC) she curated monographies of Zineb Sedira, Joachim Koester, Marie Voignier, Danièle Genadry, Naeem Mohaiemen, Francis Alÿs, Allan Sekula, Marwa Arsianos, Tony Shakar, Rana El Nemer, Hassan Khan, Otobong Nkanga, as well as ten group show. More generally she curated numerous exhibitions including Yto Barrada RIffs at the Deutsche Guggenheim,[4] at The Renaissance Society, Chicago,[5] Allan Sekula Disassembled Movies 1972–2012 at Akbank Sanat, Istambul [6] in collaboration with Ali Akay.

She contributes to Texte zur Kunst, 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’Allan Sekula et d’Aerospace, in Jeux sérieux, (HEAD), 2015, Something New About Plants, Genealogy Tree, in Yto Barrada (JPRingier, 2013); A Love Story, Transportations, in Amar Kanwar: Evidence (Fotomuseum Winterthur/Steidl, 2012); Memory's body. "Retrospective" by Xavier Le Roy, in Texte zur Kunst, 2011/12; Tomorrow Never Knows, Peter Roehr, in 20/27 n°5, 2010.

She is the editor of "Knots'n Dust: Francis Alÿs", andPhotography at Work: Allan Sekula published by the Beirut Art Center (Beirut, 2018 et 2017), Allan Sekula's writing École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 2013), Yto Barrada Riffs (Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, 2011), Claude Closky Climb at Your Own Risk (Naples: Electa, 2007)

She has held positions as head of the cultural department at Paris’s Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume from 1991 until 2011.