Democracy and Dramaturgy. Notes on Curating Socially Engaged Art

 

Seminar with Andrea Phillips to discuss the contradictions at the heart of democratic dramaturgies, with regard to the Visible Project.

5th Visible Award

 

Presenting projects by Forensic Architecture, Richard Bell, Luke Ching, and Otobong Nkanga at

Lafayette Anticipations, Paris. Visible is a project by Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna.

Paisajes Esenciales

 

The IEB Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics, Ibiza, presents 4 balearic artists reasoning on the various declensions at JustMAD, Palacio de Neptuno, Madrid (Feb 2019) and JustLX, Museo de Carris, Lisbon (May 2019).

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

 

Goethe-Institut, Sofia 

 

Ergin Cavusoglu, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Vikenti Komitski, Stefan Nikolaev, Nedko Solakov, Krassimir Terziev, Alexander Valchev 

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Jordi Colomer

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An essay presenting the main projects of the Catalan artists with special focus on his participative projects across theatre and architecture, including his projects for the 57th Venice Biennale and Manifesta12.

Pedro Cabrita Reis, Jimmie Durham, Cildo Meireles

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Sprovieri, London

 

Group show of the three conceptual artists in collaboration with Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo

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Ahali: A Journal for Setting a Setting

 

ARCO, Madrid 

 

Presentation of the project by Turkish artist Can Altaj, Ahali, originated as a sporadic publication reflecting on the notion of community.

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Why Don't Curators Like Art?

 

dissertation for the MA in Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London

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A reflection on cultural policy and instrumentalisation of art and curatorial practices. 

We Exist: Self-Portraits in Prison

 

Online exhibition documenting the participative project of Cristina Nuñez with a group of students of the Oslo Fotokunstskole and groups of inmates of three Norwegian prisons: Bredtveit, Ila and Ullersmo.

 

MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona

 

Research fellowship at the MACBA to research on Catalan contemporary art, with special references to how political events influenced art practices from the Spanish Civil War onward.

Cristina Nuñez: Someone To Love

 

Boiler Room, Oslo

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Images forming a sort of "lifeline" and a video portray the artists and her family, investigating the relationships with and among them.

Opera Italia

 

Consulate of Italy in Guangzhou and Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

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Coordinator of the research project about the classical heritage in Italian contemporary art.

Boston - Como

 

Various sites, Como

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15 artists from Como and 15 artists from Boston in comparison on history and society in Italy and the States. Co-curated with James Hull.

Sonia Barrett: Othering Sea/Home

 

Trapani Biennale

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The installations of the German-Jamaican artist brought up in England, China and Cyprus refer to feminine identity and multiculturalism. 

Nascita dell'uomo libero

 

Villa Bolasco and Galleria Flavio Stocco, Castelfranco Veneto

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Solo show by Italian young artist Mattia Novello working between installation and photography.

Claudio Cavallaro

 

Sponge Living Space, Pesaro Urbino

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His studied scenographies exploit the shadow and a type of lighting particularly suggestive and symbolic when not directly perceptible by man.

Silvia Mei: Incarnati in natura

 

Modena, Underdog Studio

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Irreverent and sour caricatures, where ugliness is magnified and placed in the foreground with an underground attitude.

Fragile: Handle With Care

 

Lu.C.C.A. Lucca Centre for Contemporary Art

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The project focused on fragility through vides by 18 international artists, including: Sonia Balassanian, Zackary Drucker, Masbedo. 

Guido Airoldi: Circus Lupiensis

 

Castello Carlo V, Lecce

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The solo show presents a comprehensive selection of de-collages of animal stolen from circus posters and decontextualised.

AKOSS NGO Residency Programme, Yerevan

 

3-week residency for an exchange between Italy and Armenia supported by European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam; and Open Society by Soros Foundation, New York.

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To Find A Video

 

Castello di Rivara Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino

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Dafne Boggeri, Rita Casdia, Sabina Grasso, Luca C. Mander, Christian Rainer, Elisa Strinna

 

Dany Vescovi: Natura viva

 

Galleria Marelia, Bergamo, and YvonneArtecontemporanea, Vicenza

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Luca Bidoli: Straziami ma di baci saziami

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Fondazione Villa Benzi Zecchini, Treviso, and Galleria L'Occhio, Venice

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Alejandro Vidal at Artra, Milan

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Exibart (Italian)

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Oltre il concetto del bene e del male. La ricerca di un’estetica della violenza che trascenda gli eventi.

Massimo Bartolini at Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan

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Exibart (Italian)

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Da un ricordo d'infanzia parte una riflessione riassunta in una suggestiva unica installazione.

On Translation:

Antoni Muntadas and the Politics of Translation in Visual Arts (1995 - 2015)

 

Published in Studies in Visual Arts and Communication Journal Vol. 6(2), December 2019.

The Silicon Dawn

 

Stella Rahola Matutes

 

Text for the installation at Laurie Grove Baths, Goldsmiths College, London, part of the MFA Degree Show 2019.

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Politics of Translation

 

Goldsmiths College, London, part of Deptford X Festival, and The Stone Space, gallery of the Leytonstone Public Library, London

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Stella Rahola, Sofia Uquillas, Paul Wood

CLICK International Curatorial Residency

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Art Affairs and Documents Foundation, Sofia 

 

In Collaboration with Goethe-Institut Bulgarien, Credo Bonum Foundation and supported by the Programme Culture of the City of Sofia.

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What's the Contemporary Relevance of the APG?

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Presentation at Flat Time House, London, about the relevance of the Artist Placement Group from 1965 to today's art scene, with special reference to its influence on my curatorial practice.

Yesterday's Sandwich

 

Sprovieri, London 

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Solo show of Boris Mikhailov with photographs from the series Yesterday’s Sandwich and projection of the original slide slow of images.

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John Wallbank

 

DAMA, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Torino

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The project respond to the Baroque architecture of the space colonising it via contrasts with Wallbank's papier-mâche monumental sculpture.

Doing It In Public

 

Beaconsfield Gallery, London

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An exhibition about post-industrial society with specific focus on the context of the Nine Elms, one of Europe’s biggest regeneration zones. 

Eutopia: L'Europa come corpo Complesso

 

Fusion Gallery, Turin

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Renzo Marasca uses painting to reasons on ideologies and recent changes in Europe. 

Acqua Aura: The Hidden Project

 

IIC Italian Institute of Culture and Galería H20, Barcelona

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A show challenging the audience experimenting on new possibilities of display.

Philip Hui Kim Ho

 

Red Elation Gallery, Hong Kong

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Solo show of the young Hong Kong painter depicting adventures in nature between tradition and fantasy.

State of Matter

 

Solo show by Danilo Giannoni. Co-curated with Lily Leung. Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; and IIC Italian Institute of Culture, Los Angeles. in collaboration with Eastation Gallery, Beijing and Hong Kong.

Cristina Nuñez: But Beautiful

 

Sponge Living Space, Pesaro-Urbino

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A journey through the artist's past as a drug addict and prostitute linked to her ancestors' life and Spain recent history.

Carlo Colli: Section #1

 

Artcore, Bari

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Black geometric lines frame the space through a site-specifc intervention, while drawings folded on themselves become three-dimensional works.

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Agostino Arrivabene: Theoin

 

First Gallery, Rome

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Ancient and new mythologies are told by a sophisticated painting recovering techniques of the old Italian masters.

Growing in Lightness

 

Kaleidoskope, Berlin

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Sabrina Casadei and Giulio Zanet start from the book Invisible Cities to elaborate a collaborative installation about journeys of the mind.

Faulty Fables

 

00180 Project Room, Helsinki

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Young Italian artists (including Silvia Camporesi and Christian Niccoli) describe their country trough metaphorical fables that went wrong. 

Ararat Stories

 

Visual Container, Milan

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A video art exhibition of Armenian artists (including Sonia Balassanian) representing their country and society.

Suspense

 

Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice

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Part of Spazio Elastico, an initiative with which the Foundation has been hosting events aimed at supporting artistic research in the Veneto region.

Arianna Carossa: Sound of My Soul

 

Castello di Rivara Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino

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Site specific and multi media installations dealing with the meaning of 'authenticity'.

Cristina Treppo: Interno bianco

 

YvonneArtecontemporanea, Vicenza

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An assemblage of single white sculptures is built recovering found furniture that the artist transforms into a non-functional yet intimate space.

Imagine: La nuova visione della generazione anni '80

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GiaMaArt Studio, Benevento

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Including: Linda Carrara, Rudy Cremonini, Nebojsa Despotovic, Elena Monzo, Giulio Zanet

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Vadim Fishkin at Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan

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Flash Art (Italian)

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Il sogno irrealizzabile di controllare il tempo in una installazione dell'artista russo.

Renata Poljak at Artopia, Milan

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Exibart (Italian)

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In cosa crediamo? Attraverso un excursus storico e politico, i video di una giovane artista croata tentano di fornire una risposta. 

Urs Lüthi at Galleria L'Elefante, Treviso

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Exibart (Italian)

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A metà tra il maschile e il femminile, tra il bianco e il nero. Non siamo solo quello che sembriamo, perchè basta poco per sembrare tutt’altro...

Book review: "Introduction to Bulgarian Contemporary Art 1982-2015" by Vessela Nozharova

 

Published in Journal of Curatorial Studies Vol. 8(2), November 2019.

USF Verftet, Bergen

 

A 1-month residency at USF supported by the Municipality of Bergen. An online exhibition and a publication, Morning Mood, on new context-based curatorial models are being prepared for release in early 2020.

Rósa Sigrún Jónsdóttir 

 

A temporary commission to Icelandic artist Rósa Sigrún Jónsdóttir in 14 windows of the street Van Der Helstplein, Amsterdam. Gross (Grasses) is an installation involving the reproduction of healing plants by crochet.
 

Fire Station International Curators Residencies Programme

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Fire Station, Dublin 

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2 weeks of studio visits across Fire Station and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

Sprovieri at Frieze London

 

Frieze London 

 

Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Francesco Arena,

Pedro Cabrita Reis, Jimmie Durham, and Jannis Kounellis 

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Nan Goldin / Boris Mikhailov

 

Photo London, Somerset House, London

 

In the context of Photo London, Sprovieri presents works by Nan Goldin and Boris Mikhailov, two masters of intimacy and life on the margins. 

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Neon Curatorial Exchange

 

Programme and award for young curators in UK and Greece organised by NEON Foundation, Athens, and Whitechapel Gallery, London in collaboration with Dimitris Daskalopoulos's 

collection.

POST.COM

 

EAC, Montevideo

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Yamile Calderon, Marcus Coates, Christian Niccoli, Cristina Nuñez, the collective Jennifer Rosa, and Pilvi Takala

Back to the Future: Can new art practices arise from curating archives?

 

Paper presented during the symposium 'Institutions and Archives' at Royal Festival Hall, London. Organised by Birkbeck, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Art and Royal College of Art.

Renzo Marasca: Studio 13.2

 

Piramidón Centre d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona

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Realised during Renzo Marasca's residency in Barcelona, the project re-elaborates the city landscape and the connection of its elements.

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Her/Story: Women Behind the Camera

 

An exchange project between Norway and Spain about feminine identity in the two contry. The project consisted of workshops, filmed conversations and exhibitions in various locations of Oslo, Barcelona and Madrid.

Renzo Marasca: Ideologie der Nature

 

Corpo 6 Galerie, Berlin

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New works responding to the artist's research on the nature of form and painting and their relationship to ideas and ideologies.

Cristina Gori: Vault Over

 

IKONA International School of Photography, London

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The artist transforms herself into some of the sculptures from Qin Shi Huang’s Terracotta Army. 

Michelle-Marie Letelier: Doomed Scape

 

Perlini Arte Contemporanea, Padua

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The project draws from the biographic link between the artist in landscapes subjected to exploitation such as copper mines in Chile.

Schimmel auf Leinwand

 

Walter Bischoff Galerie, Berlin

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Cultivations of mold multiply and reproduce 

through spores, dominating the painting that they have in fact created in an unconscious way.

Marco La Rosa: Dasein

 

Adiacenze, Bologna

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The show present the artist as a demiurge through the rereading of five particular geometrical figures: the Platonic solids.

Vulpes Pilum Mutare

 

Musei Civici, Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza

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Among the artists: Franko B., Matteo Basilè, Francesco Carone, Vittorio Corsini, Marco Fantini, Laurina Paperina.

Matko Vekic: La gravità del tempo

 

YvonneArtecontemporanea, Vicenza

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An exhibition continuing Vekic's project at the  at the 53th Venice Biennale, a reflection about new media and the structures of modern living.

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Italian Container: The Italian Emerging Video-Art Comes To Yerevan

 

ACCEA Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan

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14 videos by Italian artists.

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Luca Bidoli: Everyone Will Be Eaten

 

Castello di Rivara Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino

 

Luca Bidoli substitutes human heads with preyed animals in a reflection on divinity and naturality.

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Selection

 

YvonneArtecontemporanea, Vicenza

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Including: Paolo Angelosanto, Jasmine Bertusi, Enrico Iuliano, Luisa Raffaelli, Cristina Treppo, Matko Vekic, Dany Vescovi

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Fairy Tales: Giovani artisti nel Paese delle Meraviglie

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Galleria Antonio Battaglia, Milan

Vlatka Horvat and Ana Prvacki at Artopia, Milan

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Exibart (Italian)

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L'arte come farmaco per guarire dall'insoddisfazione e dal senso di frammentarietà.

Anastasia Khoroshilova at Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan

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Exibart (Italian)

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Una fotografa in viaggio tra i paesi dell'ex Unione Sovietica.

Nike Ground Experience at Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia

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Exibart (Italian)

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Review of the provocative project by the duo 0100101110101101.org.