Gorospe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the ID-Arte ART SCHOOL of the Basque Country (Spain) and from the Art Faculty of Vilnius (Lithuania). He has exhibited in numerous countries and institutions such as Norway, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Slovakia and Singapore. In his work, he focuses on new approaches to the idea of man-made landscape, developing several projects in this area. He combines his creative work with the study and understanding of the image from the theoretical point of view. He collaborates on several projects as a curator and photo editor, managing photo festivals and participating in debates and publications. Among the artists of the new photographic trend, he distinguished himself among others by several public and private institutions, such as the Guggenheim Museum (Spain-USA), Sasakawa Foundation (Japan-Scandinavia), Futures Photography (European Creative Program) and Ankkara (European Creative Program) and the Ankaria Foundation (Spain).
Gorospe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the ID-Arte ART SCHOOL of the Basque Country (Spain) and from the Art Faculty of Vilnius (Lithuania). He has exhibited in numerous countries and institutions such as Norway, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Slovakia and Singapore. In his work, he focuses on new approaches to the idea of man-made landscape, developing several projects in this area. He combines his creative work with the study and understanding of the image from the theoretical point of view. He collaborates on several projects as a curator and photo editor, managing photo festivals and participating in debates and publications. Among the artists of the new photographic trend, he distinguished himself among others by several public and private institutions, such as the Guggenheim Museum (Spain-USA), Sasakawa Foundation (Japan-Scandinavia), Futures Photography (European Creative Program) and Ankkara (European Creative Program) and the Ankaria Foundation (Spain).
After studying Engineering and Business Administration he is dedicated to the design as a freelance designer and as an analyst of the objects language, collaborating with other designers, artists and people of marketing and communication. His several areas of intervention include graphic concept, interior design, art direction and branding.
Currently president of the Luciana Matalon Foundation, he is the founder of Milarte, an art gallery in the heart of Brera in Milan. Over the years he has organized several exhibitions of painting, sculpture, photography and various cultural events (with a strong fondness for Japanese culture), as well as concerts and theater performances. From an early age he devoted himself to painting and sculpture and he writes poems, but his greatest passion is photography.
Nartwork was founded by Rossella Bellan, Giulia Mazzilli and Antonietta Panico with the aim of promoting and value any form of art by supporting the cultural heritage and the works of contemporary artists. Nartwork organizes a variety of different national and international exhibitions and contests. Furthermore, Nartwork publishes catalogues and brochures for artists and art-centres and works as a training centre in collaboration with public and private organizations. Exhibitions curated by Nartwork : Group exhibition “Metamorfosi creative” from 15th to 26th February 2019 at the exhibition rooms of Fondazione Valenzi, inside Maschio Angioino,in Naples (Italy). Group exhibition “Irrealta’ Visibili” from 24th May until 4th of June 2019 at the exhibition room of Fondazione Valenzi, inside Maschio Angioino, in Naples (Italy). Group exhibition “Mindfulness” from 11th to 17th October 2019 at Hoxton 253 in London (UK). Solo exhibition By Antonio Corbo “Contaminazioni” from 18th to 29th of October 2019, at the exhibition rooms of Fondazione Valenzi, inside Maschio Angioino,in Naples (Italy). Group exhibition “Scandagli” from 10th to 20th January 2020, at the exhibition rooms of Fondazione Valenzi, inside Maschio Angioino,in Naples (Italy). Group exhibition “Transizioni Moderne” from 31st October to 5th November 2020 at Centro d’Arte San Vidal, in Venice (Italy).
Born in Modena, he graduated in law from the Università Statale di Milano. Journalist for the cultural page of the newspaper "IL Giorno" from 1986 to 1988 Head of press office and assistant to the artistic direction of the Smeraldo Theater in Milan from 1988 to 1995 Since 1996 he has been the artistic director of the ARTEUTOPIA association which carries out numerous exhibitions with public and private bodies including the exhibition cycle "Visioni di Fine Millennio" at the Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan. with the Regione Lombardia and the Provincia of Milan, Star Wars Show with Lucas Film and the Milan Triennale, "La Fornarina di Raffaello" with the Soprintendenza of Rome and Palazzo Barberini, City of Guitar, Arengario of Monza, Storm in Venice - Chiesa della Misericordia , Venice, etc.(www.arteutopia.it) From 2000 to 2006 he was director of the Musei of P.ta Romana in Milan Since 2006 he has been the artistic director of the Galleria Arteutopia in Milan Since 2019 he has been artistic director of the multicultural space Arteutopia-Apres coup Arte in Milan.
Curator and editor Domenico de Chirico, born in Bari in 1983, lives and works in Milan. From 2011 until 2015 he taught courses in Fashion and Art, Visual Culture, and Trend Research at Milan’s European Institute of Design. He collaborates with numerous international galleries, artists and magazines. In 2016 he has been appointed as artistic director of DAMA Fair, Turin.
Agnès Violeau (b.1976) is a Paris-based freelance exhibition curator and art critic. Her research relates partly to the potential of language and the performative territories. After she graduated in museology and art history at the Ecole du Louvre and Cambridge University, she was director of project space Site Odéon5 and chief curator at Le Point Éphémère (Paris). She co-founded the art and literature magazine J’aime beaucoup ce que vous faites publishing under-contruction projects, which led to the Fiction / Performed Readings cycle at the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Paris). She curated the performance program at Espace culturel Louis Vuitton (Paris) and at Maison de l'Amérique Latine. Following exhibitions in particular: “La Part du blanc – Nemours, Opalka, Parmiggiani” (2001, Paris); “Extra-light – Armleder, Verjux, Violette” (2008, Point Ephémère, Paris); “Signs of Life” (Nuit Blanche, Montreal, 2012); “Experienz, live art platform” (Wiels, Brussels, 2013); "Something Less, Something More" (The French National protocol-based Collections, 2014, Palais de Tokyo) etc. In 2015 and 2016, she is amongst others consultant for the Nouveau Festival at Centre Pompidou, Paris; guest performance curator of the programm Jeunes Commissaires at Deutsches Ackitectur Zentrum is Berlin with performative exhibition "A space is a space is a space"; awarded curator in residency at Fire Station (Dublin). In 2017 she did a curation for "Verbo - Performing Art Festival" 2016 at Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo. In 2018, she is appointed Satellite Curator at Jeu de Paume (Paris), CAPC (Bordeaux) and Museo Amparo (Puebla, Mexico). Since 2013, she teaches Contemporary Museology and Curating (Paris, Shanghai).
Leila Topić works as a curator in Zagreb's Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), in charge of three collections: film and video, photography and media art. "I perceive my curatorial practice primarily as a process of research and exploration within the wider context of socially engaged cultural production and reflections of social reality. I am especially interested in exploring recent, emancipatory artistic practices (criticism of art systems and the artistic position on the labour market, feminist research, relationship between popular culture and high-brow art thus media/ sound art). Within my practice, I try to comprehend and articulate the new logic / optics of contemporary artistic production whose roots spread freely, all the while either destroying or rediscovering history and memory ''arranged'' in a modernistic manner focusing on the complex East-West/Centre-Periphery relations within the international art system. Throughout the last two decades, we have stood witness to new models of representation in contemporary art, which have caused disquiet, deviations and jolts. The protective net of the classical Western discipline of art history finally gave way under the load of ''slanted'' views or ''lateral'' approaches (Duchamp himself once concluded that a clock, when viewed from the side, cannot tell the time) and caused the widening of lacunes.The shift in the usual point of view which I advocate changes the viewed idea/term / model itself and leads to a slide, shift and movement of sense and meaning. The acknowledgement and articulation of multiple side–views allows the infiltration of the intermedial, intertextual, multilingual, narrative, referential, fictional, borderline, allegoric or ludic – while the fullness of differences and the simultaneity of opposites are the expected result of my curatorial practice. At the same time, i am trying to raise issues on identity - having in mind specific geopolitical context that I'm working in, by confronting it with the emerging global paradigms."
L’Associazione Iniziative Culturali Rivoli2, istituita nell’ottobre del 2018 è legata nella continuità della sua attività all’omonima Fondazione e nasce con l’obiettivo di contribuire allo sviluppo culturale, alla conoscenza delle arti, alla loro diffusione, all’educazione al bello e all’approfondimento delle tematiche culturali, etiche ed artistiche. Le sue attività sono orientate alla diffusione della giovane arte e alla sua promozione oltre che al sostegno per la ricerca delle nuove forme di espressione inerenti al panorama contemporaneo. L’Associazione si propone di stringere partnership, di promuovere e organizzare progetti in sinergia con le realtà pubbliche come Enti e Istituzioni sia in ambito territoriale che internazionali per richiederne i patrocini e la collaborazione. L’Associazione inoltre ha nei suoi intenti di coinvolgere personaggi di rilievo in ambito culturale e di confrontarsi con realtà omologhe in Italia e all’estero. Ai progetti proposti o promossi dall’Associazione si affiancheranno attività di diffusione della cultura in collaborazione con Accademie, Università, altre Associazioni e soggetti esterni (open studio, tavole rotonde, azioni pubbliche, performance, studio visit, workshop).
Douglas Heingartner is a journalist and critic based in Amsterdam, where we writes for publications including The New York Times, The Economist, Frieze, Wired, Flash Art, and The Village Voice.
After studying cultural science and art history, Elodie Evers completed the extra occupational course Cultures of the Curatorial at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Before becoming a curator at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2009, she worked in the curatorial office at the at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and realised as a freelance curator the transcultural exchange project SICE in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her curatorial activities include exhibitions with Yüksel Arslan; Peter Land; Matt Connors; Chris Martin; Joao Maria Gusmao & Pedro Paiva; Hans-Peter Feldmann as well as the thematic group shows “Anton Voyls Fortgang” (with Guy de Cointet, Channa Horwitz and Henri Chopin), “First we make the rules, then we break the rules” (with Simon Evans und Öyvind Fahlström), “Spaces of Remembrance” (with Kader Attia, Mircea Cantor, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Cyprien Gaillard, Anri Sala, Tatiana Trouvé) and “Real Presences” (with Marcel Broodthaers, Tacita Dean, Cerith Wyn Evans, Stephen Prina, Hernik Olesen, Kirsten Pieroth, Susanne M. Winterling).
Áron Fenyvesi is a Budapest (HU) based curator and art writer. Since 2011 he is the leading curator of the Trafó Gallery, which focuses on central-eastern european art. He is a member, and ex-secretary of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Budapest and a member of the board of AICA, section Hungary. Fenyvesi was nominated for the Lorenzo Bonaldi EnterPrize in 2009, and he curated many exhibtions in Hungary focusing on the local emerging art scene - including shows which were located in the Ernst Museum, Budapest; Studio Gallery, Budapest; Art Gallery, Paks; and the Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros. His most recent shows include Donumenta 2010 – Aktuelle Kunst aus Ungarn, which was held in Regensburg, Germany. One of his latest publications is an interview with the Elmgreen & Dragset artist duo, and a catalogue for Ádám Kokesch.
I am Art Curator, Art Consultant, International Cultural Management and Museum Counsellor. The interest in 20 years of my work is focused on new international art practices, installations especially regarding the participation of art in public spaces. I want to create a constantly approaching work of art as a tool essential to the understanding of the contemporary world, to create a dialogue between Italian art and the International, to demonstrate common values and points of contact. I’m created and curated more then 50 exhibitions -solo and group exhibitions- of Contemporary Art in State Italian Museums, Art Organizations, Festivals, Universities, Cultural Centers of Embassies, Institutional and international Foundations with excellent relations. (Curatorial, Education, Texts, Communications, Exhibition Management, Facilities and conversant of museum protocols.) Now, I have some Art project in Italy, England, France, Belgium and USA, where I curated some exhibitions. I have been also Judge of competition of Art, writing contests and organized Auctions for no profit. My aim is to encourage and to improve the cultural and the artistic exchange between outstanding artists originating from different historical backgrounds. In 2005, I founded the Art & Communication, a non-profit association for the support, promotion and dissemination of Contemporary Art. From 2014, I writes and publishes texts on contemporary arts, and writes cultural interviews for Rome Central Magazine. Mentions: 2014 "Presidential Gold Medal" for the project “the table of Alliance”. 2013 "Plaque of Distinction from Embassador of Austria" for "1700 years of the Battle of Costantino”
Ece Pazarbaşı works and walks on the merged borderline of curatorial practice and artistic research as her main profession. With 13 years of experience in the curatorial and art management field, she has realized many projects. In April 2013 she had the privilege to take part in Olafur Eliasson’s Institution for Spatial Experiments with a special grant. Among her recent positions are artistic collaborator of Tell Me What You Eat and I tell you where you live, Mobile Community Kitchen project together with Erik Göngrich, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (2014); curator of ‘Walk Over the City’ soundwalk series in Istanbul (2013); Istanbul Coordinator for New Museum – New York’s Ideas City (2012): Istanbul; curator of “Silent Shape of Things” at ARTER Istanbul (2012); in Berlin she co-curated “12/12” and “Turkish Art Nice and Simple” exhibitions at Tanas Berlin (2011-2012) together with René Block. She will be curating 5th Short Video Biennial at P74 Gallery, Ljubljana (2015). Between 2001-2003 she acted as assistant director at Proje4L-Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art and between 2002-09 she was the executive assistant to director of the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center.
Born in 1960 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 1987 she graduated from the Faculty of Arts, receiving her BA in art history and sociology. Continuing her studies she earned an MA from the Faculty of Arts, Department of Arts History. She then joined the International Centre of Graphic Arts where, she currently holds the position of museum counsellor and curator of the print and artist publications collections. She has curated more than 40 exhibitions of modern and contemporary Slovene and international art, she was three times curator of Graphic Biennial in Ljubljana. She writes and publishes texts on contemporary arts. Website: mglc-lj.si
Isabella Ellaheh Hughes is an independent curator and critic, based between Dubai and Honolulu, serving as the Dubai Editor for ArtAsia- Pacific and an Editorial Correspondent for Ibraaz. She has contributed essays and interviews to a number of catalogues, in addition to Frieze, Persianesque, Contemporary Practices and Brownbook. As a writer, curator and cultural producer, Hughes focuses on contemporary art from the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific. She has a deep interest in the rise of transculture and the global nomad artist, the role of public art in society and genres of new media and interactive contemporary art. Website: isabellahughes.com
Francesca Anfosso is a curator and a gallerist based in Rome. She is the owner of the 28 Piazza di Pietra - fine art gallery. The Gallery is situated in the centre of Rome, at number 28 in Piazza di Pietra. The space is born with the purpose of creating, within this unique location, a new hub dedicated to Art and culture. The project is conceived as an interaction centre, with the aim of allowing a dynamic mix of idea generation and artistic production. The intent of the gallery is to promote contemporary Art and its multiple expressions with a particular focus on the photographic medium both locally and on an international level.
Margherita is an art historian based between Poland and Italy. Graduated at Warsaw University in 2006, since 2010 she is associated curator in international art organizations. She has organized many exhibitions across Europe and arranged a number of workshops, conferences and fairs. Margherita has worked on the influence of classical aesthetics in contemporary art and on the classic art tradition in modern-day culture as well. She’s also editor and contributor of various websites focused on contemporary art, continuing to dedicate her skills in order to present the creativity of others.
Roberto Borghi (Como 1972) is a curator of contemporary art exhibitions and a cultural journalist. His journalistic activity focuses on contemporary art and theater and on the cultural industry in Italy. As a curator and author of texts for catalogs and collections of essays, he mainly investigated the abstract avant-gardes of the early twentieth century and their influence on the art of the second half of the century. He collected his writings on this subject in the volume The symbol is not neutral published in 2014 by Edizioni Lorenzelli, a publishing house born from the reference gallery of abstract painting in Italy, Lorenzelli Arte. He also studied the relationship between art and nature on the one hand, and art and writing on the other, in the Italian art scene of the second half of the twentieth century.
Born in Italy (1985) and raised in Lugano, Switzerland, she received a degree in Italian Literature and History at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2009, she moved to New York City to attend the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography. In 2011 she was selected to be part of the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2011. Currently enrolled in the 2-years photography program at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano. She has contributed to publications and clients such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fader Magazine, Club Milano. Recipient of the Internazionale’s special mention at the Italian Fnac Prize 2012. Finalist at the Inge Morath Award 2012. Website: carlottazarattini.com
Lives and work as a curator, producer and photographer in Copenhagen, Denmark. During the past 10 years, Thomas has been wide around in contemporary art. As a curator he produced a danish contribution to the 10 th Istanbul Biennale, and besides various exhibitionprojects in Copenhagen, he has also curated exhibitions in Shanghai, New York & Sao Paolo with contemporary danish artist. The art-film-projects, such as “Yellow Waste Blue Heaven” has been screened at The National Gallery of Denmark, Centre Pompidou Paris, Pera Museum Istanbul, etc. Website: thomasandersen.nu
Daughter of painter Angelo Titonel and art historian Lela Djokic, Daina Maja Titonel (Rome, 1970) took a degree in mathematics at La Sapienza University in Rome before starting out on her career as Project Manager for Microsoft, where she worked for 4 years. In 2000 she was co-founder of the Nuova Galleria Campo dei Fiori, an art gallery in Rome specialized in Italian art of the 19th and 20th century. She organized over twenty exhibitions devoted to artists of that period, edited various art publications and took part in the foremost Italian art fairs (Palazzo Venezia, Milano Internazionale Antiquariato, Gotha, Modenantiquaria, etc.). Alongside these activities, which continued for ten years, in 2006 she began curating shows of contemporary art, seeking in the selected works, especially paintings, the quality found in the great masters of the Novecento. In 2013 she opened her own gallery, MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea, acting as artistic director and exhibition curator. To date she has organized over 40 shows of contemporary artists. In 2016 she was one of the co-founders of the first edition of Rome Art Week, managing relationships and contacts with private galleries, Foundations, Academies and Institutes of Culture. In 2018 the Hungarian Academy commissioned her to curate the show “Una, nessuna e centomila”.
Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio is an artist run space created and directed by Filippo Marzocchi and Mattia Pajè. It is divided into two separate areas, in which one is dedicated to studio practice and artistic research, while the other one acts as a space for exhibitions, collaborations and discussions. The direction of the project is an extension of Marzocchi and Pajè individual artistic practice. Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio is a space dedicated to experimentation and freedom.
Born in 1977 in Krakow (Poland). Artist, freelanced curator, producer and organizor of cultural events. Studied graphics and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and photography at the University in Essen. Graduated from The Andrzej Wajda Masters Course of Film Directing. Co-founder and Chairman of Foundation Artists – Innovation – Theory (F.A.I.T.) that was established in 2005 to encourage new approaches to the visual arts, promoting the idea of innovation in the artistic practice as well as theoretical interpretation. Realize his exhibitions in the style of subjective curating doing shows as „The worst photos you have ever taken“ (F.A.I.T. 2006), „East’s Desires“ (Outpost Gallery, Norwich, 2006), Demi Volte – Jakub Julian Ziółkowski (F.A.I.T. 2007), Collapse – Stefan Burger, (F.A.I.T. 2008), „Subjective history of disco music“ – performance in privat apartment, (Krakow, 2010) or creating subversive intervensions such as „Galeriests“ (Art Review 2009-2010). Interested in coleraltions between visual arts and film. Working on a series of creational documentary movies presenting the icons of contemporary art in Poland in order to discover new strategies.
Tevž Logar currently works as an independent curator and collaborates with different institutions and galleries. Between 2009 and 2014 he worked as artistic director of Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has curated many group and solo exhibitions in various galeries and museums. Selected projects include: exhibition and publications Jerman (2008), Ulay: Become (2009), Vadim Fishkin: Light Matters (2011, 2013), Alban Muja: I never knew how to explain (2013, 2014); solo exhibitions Societe Realiste: One-way World (2010), Tanja Ostojić: Body, Politics, Agency... (2012), Bas Jan Ader: The World Was Young When Gravity Fell (2012) (co-curated); international group exhibitions Broken Down Walls of the Crimson Salon (2010), Displaced Divisions (2010), Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue (2010), NSK Folk Art (2011), Accretions (2011) (co-curated), Fragments of Unspoken Thoughts (2012) (co-curated); Only to Melt, Trustingly, Without Reproach (2013) (co-curated), What if Time Stood Still (2014), Tensions (2014),.... At the 55th Venice Bienial Logar curated the project of Jasmina Cibic For Our Economy and Culture for Slovenian Pavilion. In 2009, Logar already worked as assistant commissioner of the Slovenian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennial. Between 2009 and 2014 he has been lecturing on the history of the 20th century art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana (AVA). Recently, he also worked as a screenwriter on a full-length feature documentary Project Cancer, Ulay's journal from November to November. He is also a co-founder of Ulay Foundation in Amsterdam. In 2014 he was nominated for ICI Independent Vision Curatorial Award. He regularly publishes texts and lectures on contemporary visual art. Logar lives and works in Berlin.
Curator and researcher. Her work articulates practices of collaborative nature.Reflects the possibilities of the community making through projects that explore alternatives in the production, reception and channeling of art. She has worked as a Curatorial fellow at the Guggenheim Museum in NY, Cultural Coordinator at the Consulate of Spain in Shanghai with the AECID. She has been Assistant Curator in the Spanish Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial. She is currently developing her PhD thesis at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Some recent projects are: Continuous Movement, in Hangar Centro de investigación artística, Lisboa (2017); Exercises Around the Concept of Post-truth in the independent space Salón, Madrid (2017); Forms of Friendship in the gallery The Goma, Madrid (2016). She has made presentations on The Conditions of Artistic Production in Relation to the Socio-political Context at Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway (2017) and The Body to Body of the Community at La Verdi, Buenos Aires (2017). Curatorial residences at Ses Dotze Naus, Ibiza (2016) and CIA, Buenos Aires (2017). She writes for the magazine Codigo in Mexico. In January 2018 inaugurates Creación y pueblo at the Center del Carme, Valencia.
Born in South Africa, Claire Breukel began her career curating the 2002 Cape Town Month of Photography biennale and the Vision Photography Festival before being introduced to Miami by the Rubell Family Collection. In Miami, Breukel was Executive Director of Locust Projects, a renowned alternative non-profit, and participated in a number of art-related boards including as Vice Chair of Miami Beach Art in Public Places. Following this she became nomadic in her role as Coordinator of PUMAVision and Curator of PUMA.Creative, developing the arts specifically within Africa and the Caribbean region. As an independent curator and writer, Breukel is interested in contemporary art that falls outside of conventional modes of exhibition. She has curated exhibitions in South Africa, New York, Miami, Vienna, and El Salvador and writes for ArtPulse, Arte Aldia, Eikon and weekly for online blog Hyperallergic. She is currently establishing Dirty Pink 305, a project exploring the voice of artistic practice in Miami and works as a creative advisor for Downtown Miami as well as Bal Harbour public Art commission. Breukel lives and works between New York and Miami.
Brad Clark is a Journalist, Writer and Curator that writes for various magazines and publications around the subjects of contemporary Fine Art, Graphic Design, Photography and Modern Aesthetic Theory. Brad studied initially at Colchester Sixth Form and then some time at Goldsmiths and the University of East London (Docklands) where he studied History of Art, specialising in Linguistics and Semiotics, History of Design and the Consumption and Business practices of Fine Art. His passion for Contemporary Fine Art has led him to create Broken Vault, an Agency that seeks to support and offer advice to emerging artists, giving them the opportunity to develop, grow, exhibit and ultimately sell their work in perhaps the worlds most vibrant and buoyant art market, London.
Coline Milliard is an art writer based in London. She is UK Editor for Modern Painters and ARTINFO, Managing Editor for ibraaz.org and London correspondent for art press. She is a regular contributor to Art Monthly and has also written for Frieze, Art Review, The International Herald Tribune, Afterall Online, MAP, Artnet Magazine, Contemporary, Flash Art International, Untitled, Metropolis M, Numéro and Art in America. Coline is a member of AICA, the International Association of Art Critics. She holds MAs in Curating Contemporary Art (Royal College of Art, London) and Art History (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). She is founding co-editor of Catalogue, the first contemporary art magazine designed to act as a platform for interaction between the English and French-speaking art worlds. Read online: www.cataloguemagazine.com.
Born in Venice, Paris based “explorer”, independent curator and visual arts consultant. She holds a degree in Contemporary Literature at the University of Bologna and the Université Paris-IV Sorbonne and a MA Phil in Contemporary Art History from University of Bologna and University of California - Los Angeles, where she focused on the history of photography. She was on the founding board of curatorial collective about:blank (Paris). Over the years she has worked with private art foundations and public institutions (Musée du Louvre, Fondation Cartier, Paris, Iris Foundation) and as an independent curator she has organised a number of exhibitions and live talks (with Chantal Pontbriand) and has worked closely with artists Melik Ohanian on a number of projects and exhibitions (Armenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, Datcha Project, Marcel Duchamp Prize). In 2013 she was the director of the art program at New Holland Festival (Iris Foundation – Saint Petersburg). Since 2012 she works as a teaching assistant for Contemporary Arts and practices at the Academy of Architecture (Mendrisio – Switzerland). She’s currently in charge of Territoires Extra art project, a partnership with La Criée Art Center in Rennes, Passerelle Contemporary Art Centre (Brest) and the French Ministry of Culture (Bretagne).
Lorenzo Bruni is an independent critic and curator, lives and works in Florence. Since 2005 he has been the art director of Via Nuova, Florence, for which he created ”La distanza è una finzione”, a cycle of group shows involving more than 30 artists, different for nationality and generation, such as Ian Kiaer, Mark Manders, Marinella Senatore, Koo Jong-A, Martin Creed, Cristian Jankowsky, Paolo Parisi, Roman Ondak, Rossella Biscotti, Jacopo Miliani, Marco Raparelli, Carsten Nicolai, Luca Francesconi, Nedko Solakov and Matteo Rubbi. His latest projects include the group show on the notion of performativity at the Astuni Public Studio (Bologna, 2010); the cycle of exhibitions and his collaboration with the international convention on the theme of the archive at the Monash University (Prato, 2009). Other two projects, both in 2008, are Il viaggio di Sarah at the Biennial of Bulgaria in Varna and What is my name? for the HISK of Gent in Belgium, on an analyse about a particular form of conceptual art of romantic type, from seventies till now. This Project involved 18 international artists, such as Rirkrit Tiravanija, James Lee Byars, José Dávila, Jonathan Monk, Maurizio Nannucci. He currently contributes to the magazines Arte e Critica and Flash Art.
Serge Klymko is a curator, cultural manager and journalist, working both independently and as a part of Visual Culture Research Center collective. His curatorial inquiry lays at the crossroads of visual and performance art, music curating and cultural projects ranging from art & politics debate panels to urban activism, musique concrete concerts and fashion. Working with established, emerging or underground artists, Serge is constantly focused on shifting of conventional art dispositives and reflecting on sociopolitical dimension of an artistic oeuvre. In the last 5 years he has curated a number of cultural and art projects in Kyiv, Moscow, Warsaw, Tbilisi and Vienna. He is a founder of VCRC project space and a co-founder of DIYstvo urban festival. Serge worked as an editor for culture for various magazines. Holds MA in Cultural Studies, lives in Kyiv, Ukraine.
After graduating in Western Languages and Literature, I majored in Art Management through an international master's degree. Passionate about art and mainly focused on graffiti and street art, I have been working since 2011 as an assistant and studio manager for the artist Manuel di Rita, aka Peeta, being interested in the management of public mural interventions and in the organization and curatorship of his exhibitions, as well as of communication and logistics for his studio. At the same time, I have collaborated in various positions in national and international projects, mainly related to urban art and the redevelopment of public spaces. Finally, I was selected by schools, universities and training centers as a teacher and guest-speaker on the occasion of courses dedicated to management in the artistic field.
Art curator and owner of the Hernandez Art Gallery founded in 2012. After several years of work experience in the culture area in the diplomatic field he decided to open an art gallery in Milan for the promotion of young emerging Italian and non-Italian artists. The mission of the gallery is also to make Latin American art known in Italy, becoming a point of reference in the Milanese artistic and cultural panorama.
Sarah Palermo, an art historian and curator, has from the very beginning set herself the goal of her research on art related to the sociological, photographic context and the study of surrealism. She works in the artistic cultural background of Rome and Paris, and has written several articles on contemporary art and the history of photography. Among her publications, Unica Zürn. The Gifts of Madness and Laura Albin Guillot. La récherche de la forme ” for scientific journals and numerous cooperation with newspapers and portals about art and culture.
“Jovanovic is truly an artist of the twenty-first century. She can no longer call one country home, after living in Europe, the Middle East and North America. Her practice moves effortlessly between performance, sculpture, video and installation. She is interested in the legacy of feminism, but she also has deep admiration for her male forbears. Are these contradictory stances? They should not be. For identity today is a shifting and transforming process, rather than a fixed state. We have learned from the achievements as well as the mistakes of earlier feminist thought—prescribing what is a liberated feminism from what is not is a futile process. What is more enlightening is to understand that the post-feminist condition allows for a personal quantification of identity, one that is not forced or assigned. This is what our feminist predecessors fought for so bitterly—for our generation to have freedom to make our own choices about our bodies, our art, our lives.” Dr. Kathy Battista – Marta Jovanovic: Performing the Self (2013). StudioMartaJovanovic - www.m-art-a.net
Born in Spain in 1980 and lives in Berlin and Barcelona. He holds a Philosophy degree at the Universtiy of Barcelona, a Photography diploma at the Freie Fotoschule Stuttgart and a Sculpture/Free Art degree at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin. He works with drawing, photography, video, installation and performance and has realized exhibitions and performances throughout Europe, Latin America and Canada. Selected solo shows: Art Rotterdam (2015), YIA Art Fair (Paris, 2014), Art Brussels (Brussels, 2014), Pavlovsdog (Berlin, 2014), Grimmuseum (Berlin, 2013). Selected group shows: Altered Status, Goethe-Institut (Barcelona, 2015), Present Indicatiu, Fabra i Coats (Barcelona, 2014), 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, 2013), Presume, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (Berlin, 2012), Creacions al vol, espai f (Mataró, 2012), Alle 7 del mattino il mondo è ancora in ordine, ‘O (Milan, 2009). Selected performances: M:ST Festival (Calgary, 2014). In 2011 he was awarded with Mart Stam prize by the KHB Berlin and in 2014 was finalist of the Miquel Casablacas prize in Barcelona. www.andresgaleano.eu.
Imagoars cultural association was born in 2009 thanks to a group of artists and art enthusiasts promoting events into the sphere of Art with the purpose of showing and promoting high-quality artistic expressions, from painting to sculpture, from installations to performances. Its activity is aimed at enlarging the knowledge of Art and spreading it through its different languages. Art is not seen as the pure reproduction of the physical world nor as the devastation of our shared satisfying aesthetic equilibrium. Instead, by proposing a new approach towards it, Imagoars conceives it as a contribution for the growth of human sensitivity in order to create a better quality of life inside a shared common ground, namely a “common-city”, more opened and tolerating towards diversity.
Leigh Markopoulos is the chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice located on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts. Formerly the director of Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco, Markopoulos came to San Francisco to take up the position of deputy director of the CCA Wattis Institute for the Arts. Prior to that she was exhibition organizer at the Serpentine Gallery in London, and at the Hayward Gallery. She has curated numerous exhibitions and has organized over 50 shows ranging from solo shows of Richard Artschwager, Dan Flavin, and Brice Marden to major group exhibitions such as Monuments for the USA and IRREDUCIBLE: Contemporary Short Form Video. Markopoulos is also the Director of the Steven Leiber Trust, which comprises an extensive collection of artist’s books, ephemera, multiples and unique works representing art movements from the 1960s to the 1990s and including Conceptual Art, Fluxus, Minimalism, Concrete Poetry and Mail Art. A regular contributor to various online and prints journals, Markopoulos is currently writing an extended article on Ulay’s contribution to performative photography, as well as editing a catalogue on the work of John Paul Ramirez.
David Ayala-Alfonso is a Chicago-based curator, artist and researcher, who works as editor in chief for {{em_rgencia} journal on contemporary art. Ayala-Alfonso has published books, book chapters and articles on Colombian art history, arts education, independent spaces, performance and artistic interventions in the public realm. He has also been curator of different exhibitions in Bogota, New York and London. As part of Group 0,29, he has produced various intervention projects and traveling exhibitions in the Americas. Recently, he has been awarded the Fulbright Grant and the ICI-Dedalus Award for Curatorial Research. Website: davidayala.info
Milica Cirovic (Belgrade 1984) graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 2017. In her art she uses her body in order to question the problems of identity, gender and sexuality through the use of photography and video. She was a winner of the 5th edition of the ORA Prize, selected for YICCA Prize in 2019 and the finalist in the photography section in the international competition for COMBAT Prize in 2014. In 2015 she exhibits at the Codice Italia Academy (56° Biennale of Art in Venice) in the section dedicated to the emerging artists from Italian academies, which was curated by Vincenzo Trione at historical Palazzo Grimani. In 2019 she had her work exposed in Hungarian Academy in Rome as a part of exhibition One, none and hundred thousand, curated by Maja Daina Titonel. During her artistic itinerary she was selected for workshops where she worked with artists such as Antoni Muntadas and Antonio Biasiucci.
Giovanni Rendina (1991) is an independent curator. He read drama, art and music studies at Bologna University before studying for his MA in Curating & Collections at the Chelsea College of Art UAL, London (2015–2016). Rendina carried out a year long curatorial traineeship at the Mahler & Lewitt Studios in Spoleto assisting the program curator and directors in all aspects of running the organisation. His professional experience also includes assistant curatorial work at Chelsea Space, London. In 2016 he co-curated the Exhibition Use/User/Used at Zabludowicz Collection, London. In March 2017, he curated the show “A SLUMP” at Gelateria sogni di Ghiaccio, Bologna, inviting the London based artist Andrew Mealor. In July 2017 he curated Mattia Pajè’s Installation “Do you come here often?” In Spoleto supported by the Mahler & LeWitt Studios and part of Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia. His practice focuses on art as “organised leisure”.
Anabelle Rodriguez is an independent curator and visual arts consultant for collectives, institutions, and organizations throughout Philadelphia and New York City. She is the Founding Director of the ~curARTorial LAB, currently housed at The Malkovich in Crane Arts Old School. Since 1999 Anabelle has curated more than fifty exhibitions of modern & contemporary art, and most recently of street and public art. In 2011 she was Biennale Researcher for the Indianapolis Museum of Art during the 54th Biennale di Venezia, and since her return to the US she is Chief Curator of Diálogo 365, the largest showcase of Latin American, US Latino, and Caribbean art in Philadelphia. Anabelle is a Future Faculty Fellow at Temple University, where she is working on a Ph.D. thesis in Visual Anthropology. Her education includes the Smithsonian Institution’s Latino Museum Studies Program, and BA degrees in the Hi story of Art & Architecture and The Visual Arts from Brown University. Rodriguez is an Adjunct Professor of Art History at The University of the Arts, and of Cultural Anthropology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US).
Born in France, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in 1970, Mathieu Mercier graduated in the Ecole nationale supérieur of Bourges and in the Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques in Paris. After winning the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2003, he exposed at the Centre Georges Pompidou; the overall work of Mathieu Mercier was shown at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Ville de Paris / ARC in 2007 and at the Kunsthalle Nuremberg in 2008. He is represented by galleries Mehdi Chouakri (Berlin), Massimo Minini (Brescia) and Lange Pult (Zurich). Since the beginning of his career, Mathieu Mercier is reflecting on the definition of the place of the object in both industry of consumption and in the field of art. His research resulted in a constant questioning about the symbolic and utilitarian features of the objects.
Noah Stolz (1976) lives between Locarno and Geneva. In 2004 he notes the activities of space for contemporary art La Rada in Locarno and in 2009 he became its co-curator, managing the program with Patrick Gosatti. Besides the activities of La Rada, he works as an independent curator, as a producer of experimental and art films, he looks after offsite exhibitions and writes for magazines such as Mousse, Kaleidoskope, Kunst-Bulletin, Art Collector. Since 2010 he curates with Patrick Gosatti the programming of visual arts at the festival Les Urbanes. Since 2009 he is member of Federal Comission of Art.
Graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the Department for French language and Litterature. Obtained M.A. degree at the University of Arts in Belgrade in the field of management in culture and mediation in Balkans. Currently finishing also the studies of Art history. Work in the Cultural Centre of Belgrade (www.kcb.org.rs) as coordinator for the international cooperation and program coordinator of Podroom gallery within same institution. Participated in trainings, workshops and courses abroad and in Serbia focused on financing and economy of contemporary art, mediation, diplomacy and art, cultural management, pedagogy, art education etc. She is a member of the curators’ network and IKT network. Working as free lance journalist, translator and ceramist. In 2006 for four months worked in development department in the Contemporary Art Centre P.S.1 in New York. From 2004, the year when the biggest exhibition of contemporary visual arts in Serbia, the October Salon became international until last year I’ve been its coordinator closely working with different curators. Professionally I’m interested in providing enough public space for the artists, groups and art projects that are clearly critical toward proper contemporaneity. Since 2012 I’m coordinating the program of the Podroom gallery within Cultural Centre of Belgrade that is focused on the collaborating projects, international cooperation, video, film and animation.
Irene Aristizábal is Head of Exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary where she has curated solo exhibitions by Danh Vo, Carol Rama and Asco. She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London, and an MA in Art History and Aesthetics from Paris 8 University. In 2010 she was the recipient of the H+F Curatorial Grant and worked as guest curator at the FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkirk. In 2005-2006 she co-directed the not-for-profit space Bétonsalon in Paris. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including: Revisiting Time at La Plateforme and FRAC Nord Pas de Calais (Dunkirk), You Are Not Alone at Miro Foundation (Barcelona), How do you know what it looks like? at Form Content (London), and Interferencia at the Museum of Health Sciences (Bogota). Website: nottinghamcontemporary.org
Michael K. Corbin is the creator and owner of ArtBookGuy.com which is an online contemporary art magazine that features art news, artist interviews, gallery happenings, artist projects, blogs, museum exhibitions and more. The mission and motto of ArtBookGuy focus on the accessibility of contemporary art. Art For All People. Website: artbookguy.com
Born in 1978, Sara is an art historian with a degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the University of Siena, in Arezzo, with thesis in History of Contemporary Art: “Studio Azzurro”, she has studied and worked professionally in Arezzo (Tuscany), Milan and London. She has several years of experience in the modern and contemporary art field as an Assistant to the Director of various major galleries, and museums, as well working independently as chief curator and coordinator of many exhibitions. In addition she has been employed as an art consultant, and as journalist and then editor in chief of content for publications. She has collaborated with several galleries in Italy and London, she has liaised extensively with auction houses, private collectors, institutions, museums, foundations, fairs and directly with artists. She attended several courses for curators with the most important Italian art critics and historians, in the most important schools of art as the Central Saint Martins, the College of Art & Design of London.
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