Marjolaine Lévy

Marjolaine Lévy is a doctor in Contemporary Art History at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), art critic, and art history professor at the EESAB (Rennes) and the ENSAD (Paris).

Among other essays and exhibition catalogues, she is the author of Les Modernologues (Mamco, 2017) and directed the book 20 ans d’art en France. Une histoire sinon rien. (Flammarion, 2018), a vast panorama of the French art scene from 1999 to the present day. She recently directed the first monograph dedicated to Polish abstract painter Jozef Halas (Skira, 2023).

She regularly contributes to the Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne and Interwoven magazine. She was the curator of the exhibitions "Des mots et des choses" at FRAC Bretagne in the spring of 2019; 26 x Bauhaus, an itinerant project presented in 2019 in the French Institutes of Berlin, Bremen, and Munich, as well as "Histoires d’abstraction. Le cauchemar de Greenberg" in 2022 at the Pernod Ricard Foundation. In spring 2023, she curated the first exhibition by Belgian abstract painter Léon Wuidar at the Bonisson Art Center and in September 2023 she organised a retrospective dedicated to the Italian artist Fausta Squatriti at the Centre d’art Pasquart in Bienne, Switzerland.