Marcella Lista

Marcella Lista is a French curator and art historian. She is chief curator at the Centre Pompidou.

Career In 2004 she was responsible for the contemporary art and architecture program. With Sophie Duplaix she curated the exhibition Sons & Lumières, A history of sound in 20th Century at the Centre Pompidou. In 2011 she was in residency at the Villa Médicis to research "dance, modernity and abstraction, 1910-1930". Lista is the chief curator of the New Media Collection at the Centre Pompidou since 2016. She curated the two inaugural exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum The Shape of Time, Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection and Observations, Highlights of the New Media Collection in 2019.

Bibliography (selection)

Sons et Lumières: une histoire du son dans l’art du 20e siècle (co-direction with Sophie Duplaix). Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2004. L’œuvre d’art totale à la naissance des avant-gardes (1908-1914). Paris: Éditions de l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 2006. Corps étrangers : danse, dessin, film : Francis Bacon, William Forsythe, Peter Welz... Lyon: Fage Editions and Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2006. Paul Klee, 1879-1940: polyphonies. Arles: Actes Sud, 2011. Suzanne Lafont: Situations. La Garenne Colombes: Bernard Chauveau Editeur, 2015. Ryoji Ikeda: Continuum. Paris: Xavier Barral Editeur, 2018. Hassan Khan: blind ambition. Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2022. Chris Marker. Survivances de Zapping Zone: (1990-1994). Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2024.