Julie Boukobza

Julie Boukobza is a curator based in Paris, Founder of Pourquoi Paris? and Head of the Luma Arles Residency Program. After “Tendre-sur-Estime” in 2022 with Michael Dean and “Decade of Emotion” in 2023 with Anthea Hamilton part of Pourquoi Paris ?, her new curatorial project, Julie Boukobza has invited Jamian Juliano-Villani and O’Flaherty’s gallery this year in New York. In May 2022, she co-curated with Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga the group exhibition “Myriad Reflector” at CA2M in Madrid. In 2021, she curated the group exhibitions «Kolé Seré» at Braunsfelder Family Collection in Cologne (Germany) and « Wear the Right Thing » at the Virginia Commonwealth University gallery in Doha (Qatar). In 2020, she curated the solo exhibition « The End » of the artist Michael Dean at Converso in Milan (Italy). Between 2018 and 2019, she co-founded an artist-run space in Paris (France) with the curator Stéphanie Moisdon and the artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy. In 2017, she co-curated with the Swiss Institute a group show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (Serbia) called « FADE IN 2 EXT. MODERNIST HOME ». In 2016, she curated the group exhibition « Pure Fiction » at Marian Goodman gallery and a solo show of Peter Shire at New Galerie, both in Paris (France).