Aurélia Defrance studied Fine Arts in the ENSA, Dijon and Curatorial Studies in the Städelschule and the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. She has been working as a curator assistant in Portikus, Frankfurt; La Loge, Brussels and Triangle France, Marseille. She co-founded and programmed the Berlin based project space PMgalerie from 2009 to 2012 and has been invited as a guest curator in venues such as the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt; Solalanotte, Frankfurt; Oslo 10, Basel and La Box, Bourges. She was part of the program CAPACETE 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and is currently based in Marseille where she works as an independent curator.