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Marc Donnadieu is an independent exhibition curator and art critic. He has been curator in chief at Photo Élysée (Musée Cantonal pour la Photographie, Lausanne), after previously working as curator of contemporary art at LaM Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut (2010-2017) and director of the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Haute-Normandie (1999-2010). He has curated or co-curated a number of major exhibitions, both solo shows and themed exhibits in the field of contemporary photography, drawing practices, present-day representations of the body in art, identity processes at work in society today, the relationship between art and architecture and between photography and art brut. He has been a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA) since 1997 and has contributed to numerous French and international periodicals, including Art Press with which he has been working since 1994. He has also taken part in the elaboration of several dozen catalogues, monographs and themed publications in the fields of the visual arts, architecture, design and fashion.

Héloise Rival, Smirnoff ice, 2024
Philippine d'Otreppe, Boucan, 2024
Marco Emmanuele, 10000 seahorse power, 2021
Manon Lanjouère, ©ManonLanjouère_repro_paysagessensibles#1, 2025
Hugh Byrne, Like an Oak, 2024
Gaspard Girard d'Albissin, Sans titre, 2021
Lara Bloy, Celle qui regarde, 2024
Elisabeth Scherffig, Écossaise, 2020
Marc Ming Chan, I LASH 5, 2020
Israfil Ridhwan, This Time I'll Leave First, 2023
Nooka Shepherd, Black Star, 2023
Yoann Estevenin, Un ami en or , 2022
Carlos Noronha Feio, "O descanso antes da elevação em 's' ", 2021
Arnaud Rochard, Vuelta , 2024
Alymamah Rashed, When The Earth turned Red (The Leaves of Sakarya Blush When You Love Them), 2024
  • Alymamah Rashed
  • When The Earth turned Red (The Leaves of Sakarya Blush When You Love Them), 2024
  • Less than 5000 €
  • Hunna Art
Mashudu Nevhutalu, Family Picnic, 2024
Felipe Rezende, Devolução, 2024
Yuki Onodera, How to make a Pearl, No. 07, 2000
Juanita McLauchlan, balima / place far away , 2025
Noah Beyene, Luncheon in Silence, 2025
Lucia Tallova, CLOUDS, 2023
Johan Tahon, Taboo, 2018
Dayane Obadia, Le Chemin du Tonnerre, 2024
Gregory Hodge, In Bloom, 2024
Nicolas Boulard, Stilton, 2020
Dmitry Bulnygin, Between the pages (detail), 2025
Marguerite Bornhauser, Les témoins #6, 2025
Yoshimi Futamura, Rebirth (YF No. 5), 2023
Aurèce Vettier, a breath in a whisper (after the landslide), 2025
Holly Stevenson, The most difficult thing was, how to disguise her face, 2025
Killion Huang, The Goldfish, 2024
Lea Toutain, Planche, 2025
Pitseolak Qimirpik, Anaconda Transformation, 2024
Juliette Lemontey, La dernière piste, 2024
Rieko Koga,  My Soul, 2016
kwama frigaux, ntitled (Mandorel 2, 2025
Gillian Brett, Eleusine indica , 2023
Luciano Goizueta, 1242km II B, 2025
Yozo Ukita, Red-White-White, 2000
Edgardo Navarro, Dimensional Middle Time II, 2020
Sergio Morabito, Creacion de arquetipos, 2017
Nicolas Delprat, Lost Control (serie of 3 or 4 paintings), 2024
Sosthène Baran, Des figures, 2024