Residency announcement: Marianne Derrien
AICA-UK and AICA France Writer Residency
Autumn 2026
Flat Time House is pleased to announce Marianne Derrien will be in residence as part of an international exchange for writers who are members of AICA, the International Association of Art Critics. Marianne Derrien was selected following an open call from AICA France. During her stay, Marianne will continue her research into magical practices in contemporary art through encounters with the London art scene, in collaboration with Flat Time House and AICA-UK.
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Marianne Derrien is an independent curator and art critic, and a member of C-E-A and AICA-France. Following her role as exhibitions officer at the Villa Medici – French Academy in Rome, she now works as a guest curator with museums and independent venues in France and internationally. She also teaches on the Master’s programme in Exhibition Studies at the École des Arts de la Sorbonne. Since 2020, she has been a curatorial resident at Wonder, an artist-run space in the Paris region. In 2022, she co-founded Fluidlabor, an independent curatorial and production platform, through which she develops her curatorial and publishing projects. In 2023, she was awarded the BMW Art Makers programme, together with artist Eva Nielsen, as part of the Rencontres d’Arles and Paris Photo. In 2026, her book De l’usage des forces magiques ou les contre-mondes was published by MagiCité with the support of the Cnap and Fluxus Art Projects.
As part of the exchange, Lauren Dyer Amazeen from the UK branch of AICA has been selected to undertake a residency at Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz (MABA) Fondation des Artistes, Nogent-sur-Marne in the eastern suburbs of Paris in April 2027. Based in Oxford, she directed The Kitchen in New York in the 1990s and has since developed an interest in artists’ run spaces and collaborative practices, research which she will pursue through encounters with the Paris art scene.
A short stay at Flat Time House has also been offered to Katia Porro in early 2027. Her research project, which explores the absurdities of bureaucratic systems and the ways in which emotions are integrated, displaced or concealed within them, takes on particular significance in relation to the English context following Brexit.
This is the 2nd Edition of the London–Paris Residency Programme, established and coordinated for AICA-France by Mathilde Roman, and for AICA-UK by Rui G. Cepeda and Gareth Bell-Jones.
AICA-UK is the British section of AICA International. The International Association of Art Critics (AICA) supports those engaged in writing and thinking about art through offering public programmes and membership benefits that include free access to museums and galleries across the globe. AICA is committed to promoting art criticism as a practice and to protecting the ethical and professional interests of its members Established in Paris in 1950, this larger parent body is well represented in all parts of Europe, Australia, North and South America and the Caribbean. It has very active National Sections in Middle Eastern and Asian countries (Israel, Singapore, Japan, Hong-Kong, Pakistan) and a number of African Sections have been formed in recent years.