Marianne Derrien is a french independent curator, art critic and teacher, member of C-E-A – French association of curators and AICA France. After having been in charge of exhibition’s program at the Académie de France in Rome – Villa Medici, she currently collaborates as guest curator with museums and independent venues in France (Mrac Occitanie, Cité internationale des arts, Le Wonder, Mac Val…) as well as internationally (Mudam in Luxembourg, Unosunove in Rome, Wooyang Museum in South Korea, Plataforma Revolver in Lisbon, The Pill in Istanbul…). She teaches in the Master of Science and Techniques of the exhibition at the Sorbonne School of Arts and regularly publishes critical texts.

Since 2020, she is in residency at le Wonder, an artist-run space in the Paris region, to develop several curatorial projects (Humain autonome) and publishing projects (Some of Us, Manuella Éditions). She co-founded in 2022 the curatorial platform Fluidlabor, independent and producer structure.

In 2023, she won, with artist Eva Nielsen, the BMW Art Makers program as part of the Rencontres d’Arles and Paris Photo. This exhibition Insolare was also presented in China in 2025—at Three Shadows in Xiamen and in Beijing—with the support of the Institut français and Trampoline. Following this project, she co-curated Diluvium a solo exhibition of Eva Nielsen (nominated for the 2025 Marcel Duchamp Prize), at Icicle in Shanghai in April this year.

In 2026, her book De l’usage des forces magiques ou les contre-mondes was published by MagiCité with the support of Cnap and Fluxus Art Projects. She is currently guest curator at Frac Arto Nouvelle-Aquitaine in Limoges (France), leading a curatorial program running until September 2027 that fosters a dialogue between works from the collection and invited artists.