Marcella Lista is a French curator and art historian. She is chief curator at the Centre Pompidou.^[1]

Career

In 2004 she was responsible for the Auditorium du Louvre [fr] contemporary art and architecture program.^[2] With Sophie Duplaix she curated the exhibition Sons & Lumières, A history of sound in 20th Century at the Centre Pompidou.^[3] In 2011 she was in residency at the Villa Médicis to research "dance, modernity and abstraction, 1910-1930".^[4] Lista is the chief curator of the New Media Collection at the Centre Pompidou since 2016.^[5] 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.^[6][7]

Bibliography (selection)

• Sons et Lumières : une histoire du son dans l’art du 20e siècle (co-dirrection), catalogue de l’exposition, Paris, ed. du centre Georges 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.^[8]
• Corps étrangers : danse, dessin, film, Lyon et Paris, Fage Editions et musée du Louvre, 2006.
• Paul Klee, 1879-1940 : polyphonies. Arles: Actes Sud, 2011. ISBN 978-2330000530
• Suzanne Lafont: Situations. La Garenne Colombes: Bernard Chauveau Editeur, 2015. ISBN 978-236306-142-3^[9]
• Ryoji Ikeda : Continuum. Paris: Xavier Barral Editeur, 2018. ISBN 978-2-36511-190-4^[10]