Sofia Baldi Pighi

Experience

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  Blacklemon

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2016

  Art curator

  Curator of the exhibition "Apnea (one year after the flood)", immersive photographic installation by Andrea Pasquali, at deconsecrated church of San Bartolomeo, Piacenza. Exhibition realized with the support of Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Black Lemon and Siderpighi. Assistant curator: Valentina Bonsignore Zanghi.

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  Thara Rothas Association

  Sept 2016 - Nov 2016

  Art curator of “Figli Sbagliati per i Prossimi Giusti”

  Art curator of the exhibition "Figli sbagliati per i prossimi giusti", artists: Carla Nigro, Edrev Verde Cordero di Montezemolo, Francesca Rossi and Marta Sollima. Realized at CAM, Garibaldi27, for the Garibaldi Kult Festival in Milan.

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  Milano Lab Gallery

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2017

  Art curator

  Curator of the exhibition "Pluriverso", paintings dialogue between D.K. Allodi and Luca Venturelli, at Milano Lab Gallery.

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  Thara Rothas Association

  Sept 2017 - Sept 2022

  In Milano, at Casa dei Diritti, I organized, together with Silvia Passerini and the Thara Rothas Association, the public talk "Green Humanity". Environmental Rights and Social Equity", promoted by Milano Green Week and Associazione Thara Rothas together with Fridays For Future Italia and Banca Prossima.I invited to speak - at my side - several national and international politicians, artists, environmentalists and scholars: Eleonora Evi (European Parliamentarian), Elena Grandi (Councillor for Green Areas, Municipality of Milan), Giancarlo Tancredi (Town Planning Councilor , Municipality of Milan), Cecilia Fiacco and Ester Barel (Fridays for Future Italia), Olivia Bina (University of Lisbon), Marco Morganti (former CEO of Banca Prossima), Teresa Antignani (Artist and Activist) and Stefano Nespor (Jurist). Show less At Triennale di Milano, the collective exhibition “Milano Piano Zero” is an invitation to imagine a new city model starting from a common, shared vision of city making, along with the reappropriation of public space.This project was promoted by Thara Rothas Association, and curated by Chiara Spagnol and Giacomo Pigliapoco at Milano Urban Center/Triennale di Milano, with Comune di Milano.Sponsor of the project: Fondazione AeM; a2a Life CompanySponsor of the public program: Repower ItaliaScientific partners: NABA, Accademia di Brera, Ordini Architetti MilanoWith the patronage of: Touring Club Italiano, viasaterna, Galleria ZeroArtists involved: Alessandro Calabrese, Giorgio Andreotta Calò Studio, Irene Fenara, Riccardo Giacconi, Elisa Giuliano and Chiara Siravo, G Olmo Stuppia, Grazie Toderi, ZimmerFrei Studio, Superstudio.Together with Heidi Mancino , I curated the public program between art and architecture of “What Is The City But The People?”, at Triennale Milano, among the guests: Italo Rota, Gabi Scardi, Franco La Cecla, Sex and the City, Leonardo Caffo, Bertram Maria Niessen, Elena Dorato, Rosa Rogina (...) Show less

  • Project Manager and Speaker

    Sept 2016 - Sept 2022

  • Art curator of “Milano Piano Zero”

    Sept 2016 - Feb 2022

  • Art curator of the exhibition “In Principio Era Domani”

    Sept 2017 - Dec 2017
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  Plastic Club & PlasMA

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2018

  Art curator

  Curator of the night collective exhibition "ControCanto", artists: Federico de Lorentis, Virginia Roghi, Carla Nigro, Edrev Verde Cordero di Montezemolo, Francesca Rossi, Luca Venturelli, Mauro Cicerchia, D.K. Allodi, at Plastic Modern Art (via Gargano 15, Milan). Exhibition realized with the support of Permanente Museum (Milano)

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  Spaces. offices | co-working | meeting rooms.

  Jan 2019 - Jun 2019

  Curator of the exhibition “Mano per mano - Influences and Contaminations between Art and Design" and public talk with artists Edrev Verde Cordero di Montezemolo, Francesca Rossi, Mauro Cicerchia, and designers Maryam Roshanaei and Andres Eduardo during the Milano Design Week - FuoriSalone 2019, at SPACES Isola (via Pola 11). Exhibition realized with the support of Permanente Museum (Milano), BnBiz Coworking Hotel and Jacopo Foggini Design. Curator of the artistic project "In fila per tre": Exhibition and art therapy workshops for children with artists Edrev Verde Cordero di Montezemolo, Francesca Rossi, Mauro Cicerchia, Stefano Ferrari, D.K. Allod; "In fila per tre" is realized with the support of Permanente Museum and NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti at SPACES Porta Nuova, Milano.

  • Curator of "Mano per mano"

    Apr 2019 - Jun 2019

  • Curator of "In Fila Per Tre"

    Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
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  Complesso monumentale della Pilotta

  May 2019 - Dec 2019

  Assistant curator

  Assistant curator to Director Simone Verde at Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta in Parma, Italy

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  Bookcity Milano

  Nov 2019 - Nov 2019

  Art curator

  I was curator of the exhibition and the public talk “Per Filo e Per Segno”, solo exhibition by Federico de Lorentis at the cultural hub Walden, on the occasion of Milano BookCity, at the cultural hub Walden, Milan.Public program with the philosopher and activist Leonardo Caffo, the architect Silvia Passerini, the historian Francesco Garrapa, the Farm Valico Terminus and Dr. Carla Nigro.

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  PSICO.LOBO

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2020

  Curator of the performance “People of Ruins”

  PSICO.LOBO presented the performance “People of Ruins”, at the Avantgarden Gallery in Milan, an anarchist tribe that emerges from the ruins of the metropolitan subculture, and overcomes the normalization of the rule. From the dystopian scenario made of rubble and waste created by the artist Alexander Bavard, the performance “People of Ruins” proposes as illegitimate children of industry, native citizens who investigate underground culture and the possibility of expressing an opinion that is divergent from the dominant system. The producer MACE created the sound installation ad hoc for the show. Show less

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  Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

  Speaker

  In 2020, I took part in the public talk entitled “Pensando al Museo Diffuso”, on the occasion of the International Anthropology Day in Milan, in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca and Associazione Antropolis. In conversation with Dr. Camilla Marcucci, Dr. Margherita Valentini and Dr. Anna Bottesi at Walden Cultural Hub.

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  Dolomiti Contemporanee

  May 2020 - Jun 2020

  Curatorial Assistant

  Curatorial assistant for the project "Radio Borcia" conceived by the artist g.olmo.stuppia. Session "Desideri Patafisici" at Dolomiti Contemporanee - Visual art workshops in environment.

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  Cascinet AgroHub

  Aug 2020 - Nov 2020

  Art Curator

  I curated the exhibition “Pensieri Ancora Possibili” that takes shape at the Cascina Sant’Ambrogio in Milan, which became famous as one of the first women’s monasteries, where the nuns fled in 1162 AD when Barbarossa destroyed the city. Today, the property has been transformed into a cultural AgroHub, Cascinet, which implements participatory urban regeneration projects, putting citizens and the local community at the center. The exhibition’s research investigates ‘new possible thoughts,’ narratives that are unknown but essential to begin imagining viable futures on a planet that is now irreparably damaged. The artists in the exhibition tell their stories with immersive installations designed to be observed and walked through. Modular structures look to plants’ organic and inclusive architecture, where there is no inside and outside but a habitat embedded within becoming. The works are not limited to the will of the artist who arranges them because they are continually modified when encountering other living species, such as molds, animals, or plants.Artists: Camilla Alberti, Federico de Lorentis, PSICO.LOBO, Tsamani Tovar and VerySery. The exhibition is realized with the support of Permanente Museum, BricoCenter, BnBiz Coworking Hotel Show less

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  Accademia sull'Arte del Gesto

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2021

  Researcher and Performer

  Researcher and performer for PARADISENOW #GIBELLINA, a project by Virgilio Sieni - promoted by the Centro Nazionale di Produzione Virgilio Sieni. Realized in collaboration with Orestiadi Foundation on the occasion of Gibellina Festival at Cretto di Burri (Sicily).

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  Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

  Feb 2021 - Feb 2021

  Speaker and Writer

  I took part in an online public talk entitled “Musei In Giostra” in Milan, on the occasion of the International Anthropology Day, in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca and Associazione Antropolis. The resulting publication, "Museums in carousel. Dialogues between anthropology and curatorship", aims to spark new reflections in the reader, without providing a univocal interpretation. The dialogue between the three professions in fact allows us to highlight the complexity of the themes explored and becomes the focal point through which to build constructive criticism and interdisciplinary reflections. Show less

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  PSICO.LOBO

  Mar 2021 - Mar 2021

  Curator of the Art Therapy Workshop "Sano Come Un Pesce"

  For the Milano Digital Week 2021, PSICO.LOBO presented Sano Come Un Pesce workshop aimed at exploring the emotional experiences that arise in the controversial relationship between the individual and the city.Sano Come Un Pesce focuses on sharing therapeutic tools such as the clinical doodle technique and the digital, thus understood as an inclusive and cultural space. The doodle proved to be an ingenious device to interpellate and share the emotional experiences of the participating group, especially in these times, given the depersonalizing tendencies of cities and the absence of sociality caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop was preceded by a virtual dialogue with the public on the collective's IG page through the ''Prefer'' format. The online survey showed the need and desire to collectively invest in more sustainable, ecological, and consequently habitable cities.With the contribution of Dr.and Psychologist Virginia Roghi, Greta Capelli, Serena Monaco. Show less

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  Corneliani S.p.A.

  May 2021 - Jun 2022

  On the occasion of the launch of the SS23 collection and Milan Design Week 2022, Corneliani is hosting the artistic research Unbinding Creatures by Camilla Alberti, which can be seen for the first time in Milan after the exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi - Florence. Let's imagine for a moment that we are stepping into a time machine. We are still in Casa Corneliani, but with a bit of imagination, we have been catapulted into the future and what we see in front of us are the relics of the present time. A large creature towers in the center of the room; it holds within it the typical elements of the contemporary. Like explorers of the future, if we approach the 'huge fossil,' we can discover shells, branches, lichens, or lignicolous fungi that, in an unlikely but authentic dance, converse with hydraulic pipes, power steering, and bicycle sprockets. After a careful inspection at the production site in Mantova (Italy), the artist conceived a new ad hoc Organism (no. 25), the result of an encounter with the textile workers and the company's waste materials. Why Matter Matters? is the title of a project conceived on the threshold between art and fashion that asks us to pay attention to Matter and the memory stored in it through a play on words. Can matter be the key to answering the critical issues of the present? Show less To enhance the Corneliani brand's choices of ecological production, the Sardinian-Piedmontese artist SCERBO (Biella, 1984) picks three elements for the installation UltraCapi: oak barks, cherry tree branches, and metal pipes. These materials, of natural and anthropic origin, are the fruit of urban scouting and exploration in the Piedmont woods through a creative survey of the context. Thanks to these SCERBO creates three sculptural elements delicately placed on the heads of three Corneliani mannequins. Crowns are commonly associated with social responsibilities (be they derived from temporal or spiritual power); these headgears invoke environmental responsibility in the face of an urgency that can wait no longer. With UltraCapi, SCERBO creates a habitat, a scenography that oscillates between the physical dimension of the sculptural and pictorial elements explicitly designed for Palazzo Durini and the virtual dimension through a video art intervention that guarantees the digital fruition of the work. Show less Corneliani renewed its commitment to sustainability by collaborating with the italian emerging artist Federico de Lorentis (1994, Galatina) and joining together the capsule collection with low environmental impact, featuring garments in natural and organic fibers, with a consequent reduction in CO2 emissions and waste with an immersive contemporary art installation. Federico de Lorentis creates “Forests of Thread” composed of over 300km of silk and cotton thread, painstakingly spun and suspended in vertical strips from the high ceiling of the main hall. The artistic operation provides the exclusive use of worn-out yarn discarded by Corneliani and its suppliers, which is re-assembled and enhanced by the artist to promote a respectful attitude towards the planet that hosts us.The artist has worked by weaving a series of unprecedented relationships between Corneliani’s parent company and the entire production chain, a sort of collective word-of-mouth to help find the expired and “throw-away”thread, because a sustainable attitude always stems from the sincere reflections that are closest to us, before touching on the significant issues that afflict the planet.Like any other industrial sector, fashion cannot avoid environmental responsibility, which becomes an imminent urgency to which the entire economic-productive system. Show less

  • Curator of “Why Matter Matters?” - III edition

    May 2022 - Jun 2022

  • Curator of "UltraCapi" - II edition

    Dec 2021 - May 2022

  • Curator of "Forests of Thread" - I edition

    May 2021 - Nov 2021
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  IPERCUBO

  Sept 2021 - Dec 2021

  Gallery Assistant

  Gallery Assistant as cultural mediator and sales assistant (cultural mediator and sales assistant) for Galleria Ipercubo on the occasion of the exhibition "Out There" by Gianni Lucchesi, curated by Nicolas Ballario, at Scalo Lambrate, during Milano Design Week and Fuori Salone.

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  Fahrenheit 39

  Nov 2021 - Nov 2021

  Writer

  I was selected for the art book fair Fahrenheit 39 with my recent research “Plan B for Cultural Institutions - Museum Beyond its Walls”.My theoretical project (that is also my master's thesis) aims at the fundamental process of awareness-raising made by cultural institutions through the formulation of a “Plan B” to use if the state of emergency will be perennial and the accompanying crisis intermittent. Overcoming the museum’s physical boundaries to fit the urban and natural contexts allows cultural workers to embrace unprecedented public types, which never before had expressed interest in culture. Therefore, the delocalization of cultural activities will enable institutions to have an active and dynamic role concerning the context and communities where they are based. Show less

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  Acre Magazine

  Nov 2021 - Nov 2021

  Speaker and Writing Contributor

  I was invited to participate, as a speaker, to the panel “LOTTA”/”FIGHT - an impulse to change”, realized by ACRE Magazine at Condominio in Milan: a conversation between creatives (Clara Scola, Francesco Conti, Federica Col, and me) which addressed and explored some of the themes of the first printed issue of Acre, released in December 2021. The intent was to activate a comparison and exchange on the concept of struggle, analyzed through the lens of each of the guests in the contemporary art scene. Show less

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  Triennale Milano

  Nov 2021 - May 2023

  From November 2021 to February 2022 at Triennale di Milano, the collective exhibition “Milano Piano Zero” is an invitation to imagine a new city model starting from a common, shared vision of city making, along with the reappropriation of public space.This project was promoted by Thara Rothas Association, and curated by Chiara Spagnol and Giacomo Pigliapoco at Milano Urban Center/Triennale di Milano, with Comune di Milano.Sponsor of the project: Fondazione AeM; a2a Life CompanySponsor of the public program: Repower ItaliaScientific partners: NABA, Accademia di Brera, Ordini Architetti MilanoWith the patronage of: Touring Club Italiano, viasaterna, Galleria ZeroArtists involved: Alessandro Calabrese, Giorgio Andreotta Calò Studio, Irene Fenara, Riccardo Giacconi, Elisa Giuliano and Chiara Siravo, G Olmo Stuppia, Grazie Toderi, ZimmerFrei Studio, Superstudio.Together with Heidi Mancino, I curated the public program of “What Is The City But The People?”, at Triennale Milano, among the guests: Italo Rota, Gabi Scardi, Franco La Cecla, Sex and the City, Leonardo Caffo, Bertram Maria Niessen, Elena Dorato, Rosa Rogina (...) Show less

  • Speaker

    May 2023 - May 2023

  • Art curator

    Nov 2021 - May 2023
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  Istituto Svizzero

  Mar 2022 - Jun 2022

  Art curator

  I curated the exhibition and public program of “Re_g(u)ard_e” at Spazio Gamma in Milan, together with Irene Biolchini. Exhibiting artists: Matthew Attard, Meloe Sapphire (in collaboration with Rafael Kuoto and J.A Santschi), Stefano Non, with the participation of Sergio Giusti. The name of the exhibition plays with the term guarde (intended as guardian), the verb regard (to consider), and the French verb regarde (to look), trying to unhinge the limits of the visual and the too frequent association between gaze and judgment.In the works of the international artists in the exhibition we see a new way of understanding the faze: no longer an automatic exercise - and the first instrument for the formulation of a judgment - but care, attention, poetry. With urgency, the artists rethink and update contemporary mythology in the light of the absolute technical deployment in which we live, poetry and incommunicability replace narration and the detail reveals the whole without describing it.Supported by: Istituto SvizzeroScientific Partners: Edinburgh College - University of Edinburgh, of Art and University of MaltaIn collaboration with Galleria Michela RizzoThanks to: US Holocaust Memorial MuseumMedia Partner: Made in Mind Magazine, where (in the issue #24) I wrote an article entitled “The chivalrous adventures of Spazio Gamma" Show less

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  Viafarini

  Mar 2022 - Mar 2022

  Speaker and Writing Contributor

  I was invited to participate to the writing of the fifth chapter of the handbook “Il Giardino d’Inverno/Winter Garden”, a cycle of conferences, and digital publication conceived by Rebecca Agnes and Vera Pravda in collaboration with VIAFARINI, Fabbrica del Vapore, and Animot Magazine.I participated together with Camilla Alberti, Caretto Spagna, Davide Crippa, Beatrice Oleari. We were asked to try answering the question “What can I do about environmental issues?”, talking about materials, real or perceived needs, and minimization of environmental impact. Show less

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  SOMA_studiomilano

  Apr 2022 - Apr 2022

  Art curator

  At SOMA studiomilano for Isola Design District, during Milan Design Week 2022, I curated the work by artist SCERBO, entitled "Radical Light". SCERBO worked with the Neon Led installation’s waste, designing new solutions to divert silicone and electronic waste from landfills

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  Liceo Classico Gioia

  May 2022 - May 2022

  Speaker

  As a former student of Liceo Classico Gioia, I held a public talk, on the occasion of the event “I reward you with Gioia”: a conference and an award ceremony of the best students.

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  University of Malta

  Jun 2022 - Nov 2023

  I held a lecture “maltabiennale.art - Insulaphilia" at University of Malta, Department of Digital Art In 2022, Dr Irene Biolchini invited me and the artist Camilla Alberti to hold a lecture at University of Malta, to talk about the relationship between artist and curator inside maltabiennale.art, to the students of the course “Comparative Approaches to Art, Design and Visual Culture” (Department of Digital Art)

  • Speaker

    Sept 2023 - Nov 2023

  • Speaker

    Jun 2022 - Sept 2023
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  Alfabeto Bianco

  Oct 2022 - Apr 2023

  Art curator

  I curated Camilla Alberti’s exhibition “Ai Bisognosi di Meraviglia”, on the occasion of the opening of Alfabeto Bianco, in Piacenza, in collaboration with Montrasio Art Gallery and ZERO. On the occasion of this exhibition, I curated also the art therapy workshop “I Mangiamondo”. Alfabeto Bianco is a multidisciplinary reality, a space of urban anthropology, where sustainability becomes the nodal point and in which the different languages (art, architecture, publishing, oenology, design, literature, poetry, music, theater) are investigated in a transversal way. Born from an idea by Francesca and Ruggero Montrasio, AlfabetoBianco is housed inside Palazzo Laviosa (16th century), it is arranged on two levels and overlooks a private internal garden. Show less

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  Gwangju Biennale Foundation

  Oct 2022 - Jul 2023

  Curatorial team

  I was part of the Curatorial team of the first Italian Pavilion for the 14th Gwangju Biennale, Che cosa sogna l’acqua quando dorme?, South Korea, together with Valentina Buzzi (Head Curator) and Elisa Carollo. The Italian National Pavilion is supported by the Embassy of Italy in Korea, Quadriennale di Roma, and the European Media Art Platform, co-founded by the European Union.Entitled "Che cosa sogna l’acqua quando dorme?", the pavilion exhibited the works of five Italian artists: Camilla Alberti, Agnes Questionmark, Yuval Avital, Marco Barotti, and Fabio Roncato. Artists invite us to abandon our own anthropocentric perspective to enter a new realm of possibilities that are whispered by the dreaming water, asking us to reflect on the symbolism that nurtures our imaginative vocabulary, nudging us to look at the conceptual architectures of our present and future. Through a suggested immersive path, we learn of the ways in which the act of becoming is reflected in several aspects of our current world and embodied in our worldviews: sometimes is a slow process of erosion, other times is a revolutionary uprising; in order to transform at times we need to allow a period of static distance, acknowledging the current status of things, absorbing the results of previous decisions; other times we take action throughout our imagination and the future appears with new shapes and hybrid possibilities.Supported by:• Embassy of Italy in Korea• Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma• European Media Art Platform, co-founded by the European UnionPartners:• F&B Partner: Illy, Acqua Lauretana• Institutional Partner: Seoul Institute of the Arts• Digital & Experience Partner: Particle• Sound Partner: Bang & Olufsen Show less

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  Kunstverein Wiener Art Foundation

  Oct 2022 - Nov 2022

  Art critic and writer

  In Trieste, in the exhibition venue shared between MLZ Art Dep and Wiener Art Foundation, I wrote a text entitled “Sforzi di immaginazione ibrida” to describe the work by artist Camilla Alberti. I then presented the catalog of this exhibition entitled “Approach #1” at Art Verona, together with the artist.

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  MANN Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

  Nov 2022 - Nov 2022

  Speaker

  On the occasion of the second edition of Art Days Napoli Campania, I was invited at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples to hold a speech inside the panel entitled "Art and companies compared: models and experiences for new perspectives of dialogue", responding to the question: “What links art and private business today and why should businesses establish links with artists and cultural organizations?”My speech, together with those of other professionals in the artistic and entrepreneurial sector, was moderated by Giorgia Ligasacchi, Art Consultant at Pavesio and Associati with Negri-Clementi. The festival is curated by Martina Campese, Raffaella Ferraro, Letizia Mari and Valeria Bevilacqua. Show less

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  PSICO.LOBO

  Nov 2022 - now

  As a curator, I collaborate with PSICO.LOBO. It is an interdisciplinary collective based in Milan that, in its practice, seeks to negotiate a meeting point between psychology, visual arts, and performance, as well as between digital culture and the contemporary debate that accompanies it. The collective aims to create artistic workshops that lead to inclusive and communitarian thinking on issues such as identity, intimacy, and sexuality experienced in physical and virtual reality. PSICO.LOBO is mainly dedicated to experimental workshops focusing on online and offline corporeality through the realization of performances, exhibitions, and projects in the virtual world. Defining the idea of a digitally-connected community, PSICO.LOBO understands art and psychology as a space for social experimentation. Show less In the sex-shop Erotika Boutique in Porta Venezia (Milano), PSICO.LOBO presented the workshop “Emozioni a scarabocchi”, in collaboration with Virgin and Martyr Cultural Association. The aim was to promote and spread sexual, socio-emotional and digital education. If D. Winnicott deepens the clinical scribble concerning children, contemporary psychology also traces its extraordinary potential in dialogue with adulthood. PSICO.LOBO decided to use this technique to work with groups, understood as complex systems with significant transformative potential, joining an artistic language with the language of psychoanalytic, psychodynamic psychology. The workshop becomes a collective experience, with unknown souls thinking intensely about individual suffering, of which they share only the doodle. The transformative clinical doodle thus creates a safe space that encourages group dialogue and the sharing of intimacy through a free association of images or thoughts. The exact manner in which each participant returns their doodle to the audience differs in gestures and posture. Show less

  • Art curator

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Curator of the Art Therapy Workshop “Emozioni a scarabocchi”

    Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
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  BNBIZ

  Nov 2022 - Nov 2022

  Art curator

  In November 2022 I curated the urban art installation and performance of artist Clara Scola, entitled “La buona Ernestina, ovvero la fanciulla educata”, in reference to one of the most used home economics manuals in Italy in the years of the Gentile reform, when the teaching of this subject was imposed on all girls in primary and secondary school.The artist was a guest at BNBIZ Coworking Hotel for the artistic residency period dedicated to this project.On the occasion of the international day for the elimination of male violence against women (25 November), I asked Clara Scola to decontextualize the object of the performative act (the housework) and to propose it again as an intervention in the form of a traveling performance, involving the artist in cleaning five symbolic places of Fiorenzuola d'Arda (near Piacenza). In this way, the performative act, deprived of a conscious spectator and lowered into the public dimension - without the codes and superstructures that normally act as a filter in a more conventional space such as a gallery or museum - acquires new strength both in content and in enjoyment; it triggers an immediate reaction which during the performance saw people almost instinctively joining the procession that winds through the city.Patronage: Municipality of Fiorenzuola d'ArdaSponsor: BNBIZ Coworking Hotel Show less

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  Corneliani S.p.A.

  Dec 2022 - Jan 2023

  Eucalyptus, palms, willows, and bamboo dance in the space for the 4th edition of the collaboration between Corneliani and contemporary art. On the occasion of the launch of the FW23 collection, Italian-Slovenian artist Luca Vanello has created an immersive installation entitled "In punta di piedi”/“On tiptoe" and composed of different plant species that twirl in the central hall of Casa Corneliani. Thanks to the artist's cooperation with botanical gardens and greenhouses, each plant comes from diverse and distant geographical locations that, in this space, embrace each other for the first time. The green - familiar in the relationship with the plant species - is replaced by different shades of white, obtained through eliminating chlorophyll. Without chlorophyll, plants live in suspended time, without growth or decay. This condition, which is impossible in the ordinary natural cycle, allows a close encounter with the different species, and details that are rare to notice when immersed in their original context appear to the eye. Today, when time seems to be running ever faster and work is ever more impetuous, it is essential to protect moments of stillness. Halting the natural cycle of plants, literally putting it 'on pause,' dialogues with one of the crucial declinations of Corneliani's FW23 collection, also designed to accompany moments of relaxation from the daily hustle and bustle. Show less

  • Art Curator

    May 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Curator of “In punta di piedi” - IV edition

    Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
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  SERVIZI ITALIA S.P.A.

  Jan 2023 - Jan 2023

  Speaker

  I held a lecture entitled “The Role of Art in the Circular Economy”, ad hoc conference for Servizi Italia Spa, Parma

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  OTTN Projects

  Mar 2023 - Mar 2023

  Speaker

  In an Instagram live, I talked about the relationship between art and business in Italy, together with Giorgia Ori in collaboration with OTTN, a curatorial collective.In a period where cultural production is increasingly neglected and marginalized, the role of private companies is essential to support and enhance the creative intelligence that has always distinguished Italy as an artistic excellence in the International scene.

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  KyungHee University, International Debate Society

  Apr 2023 - Apr 2023

  Speaker

  I participated as a speaker in the conference entitled “Pedagogy of Monsters”, at Hello Museum in Seoul, South Korea, in collaboration with Kyunghee University. Together with Valentina Buzzi (the curator and artistic director of the first Italian Pavilion at 14th Gwangju Biennale) and Camilla Alberti (one of the five selected artists).

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  Maltabiennale.art

  May 2023 - now

  Artistic Director and Head Curator

  I am directing and curating Malta Biennale’s first edition, together with the curatorial team, made up of Elisa Carolllo (Curator), Emma Mattei (Arts and culture Journalist) and Nigel Baldacchino (Exhibition Designer).maltabiennale.art 2024 (entitled Insulaphilia) will take place under the patronage of UNESCO World International Heritage. maltabiennale.art seeks to delve into the concept of identity in a multiple and plural dimension, where the encounter and exchange with artists' vision and other cultures is its cornerstone, along with a dutiful and painful awareness of the trauma of colonisation. A participatory configuration of invisible networks across the Mediterranean will connect the East to the West and the North to the South to stimulate exchange, vision and unwavering trust in individual and collective transformation. The insular thinking (Insulaphilia) underlying maltabiennale.art hopes to defuse the postcard-like imagery of the Mediterranean. The contemporary artists, called to exhibit in the UNESCO’s cultural treasures of the island, will build an intimate relationship with these locations and will chronicle a sea that unites in the face of historical fractures—those forces that extract-exploit- instrumentalise Mare Nostrum.It is organized by: • Heritage Malta • MUŻA - National Museum of Art • Arts Council MaltaIn cooperation with: • Visit Malta • Festivals Malta • MCAST - The Malta College of Arts, Science & Technology • Spazju Kreattiv - Malta's Centre for Creativity • VCA - Valletta Cultural Agency • Malta Libraries • Malta Government (Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade, Ministry for Gozo, and Ministry for National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government) • Malta Tourism Authority Show less

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  Università di Napoli L'Orientale

  May 2023 - May 2023

  Speaker

  I presented at University of Naples L’orientale the art project “Martyrion” by artists Teresa Antignani and Sara Terracciano, together with curator Valeria Bevilacqua.I have been invited by University of Naples L’Orientale, Center for Postcolonial and Gender Studies; Department of Humanities and Social Sciences DISUS, and MAM - Matri-archive of the Mediterranean.

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  XNL Piacenza

  Jun 2023 - Jun 2023

  Moderator and Speaker

  Una Boccata d'Arte and XNL Piacenza organized the interdisciplinary talk "La montagna è ancora in movimento" curated by me, with the artist Raghad Saqfalhait, Claudia Losi, Paola Nicolin and Sergio Segadelli. I also took part in the public lecture "Borghi Invisibili - Manifesto sentimentale e politico per salvare i Borghi d’Italia", with the author Anna Rizzo and the artist Raghad Saqfalhait, at Teatro Organico Perduca, Travo.

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  Acre Magazine

  Jun 2023 - Oct 2023

  I was part of the October 2023 publication "LA CURA", that was all about curation. With my favorite anthropologist - Dr. Margherita Valentini - we wondered if widespread museology could be considered a curation practice.Shouldn't museums, conservators, and incubators of culture par excellence, provide socio-cultural coordinates in the face of concrete issues, such as migration processes or environmental crises? The museum is a living, relational place at the service of society, a forge of knowledge and critical thinking; it must reflect contemporary complexity and, for this, needs a new role and a new face. Show less

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    Nov 2021 - Oct 2023

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    Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
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  Fondazione Elpis

  Jun 2023 - Sept 2023

  Art curator

  I was curator of the 4th edition of “Una Boccata d’Arte - Emilia Romagna” a contemporary art project spread throughout Italy, promoted by Fondazione Elpis in collaboration with Galleria Continua, with the participation of Threes Productions.The project highlighted the unique characteristics of small towns through the unprecedented gaze of the artists. Every year, 20 villages throughout Italy, one for each region, welcome 20 Italian and International artists of different ages, backgrounds, and practices. Invited to spend a short period of residence, the artists create 20 works related to the territory and traditions of the local communities.In Emilia-Romagna, the village of Travo (PC) hosted the project “La montagna è ancora in movimento”, by artist Raghad Saqfalhait (Palestina, 1996), coordinated by Sofia Baldi Pighi and produced with the patronage of the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Travo and the Province of Piacenza.“La montagna è ancora in movimento” showed attention both to the stories of the inhabitants of Travo and to the area’s millenary geological history. The intervention gave life to a Sentiero d’Artista (Artist’s Path), a physical and mental itinerary made of a series of sculptures, from materials of different hardness, from the plasticity of clay to the solidity of marl, and a video mapping the affections of the inhabitants of Travo, made after consulting local archives and performing a series of interviews, based on the conviction that landscape and community are symbiotic organisms, capable of influencing one another.Una Boccata d'Arte and XNL Piacenza organized the interdisciplinary talk, between art and geology, curated by Sofia Baldi Pighi, with the artist, Claudia Losi, Paola Nicolin and Sergio Segadelli. I also took part in the public lecture "Borghi Invisibili - Manifesto sentimentale e politico per salvare i Borghi d’Italia", with the author Anna Rizzo and the artist Raghad Saqfalhait, at Teatro Organico Perduca, Travo. Show less

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  Università IULM

  Jul 2023 - Jul 2023

  Speaker

  I was invited by Franco La Cecla to hold a lecture about maltabiennale.art and its curatorial statement at IULM University (Department of Humanities Studies, Faculty of Arts and Tourism) in Milan

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  AIDDA ETS, Associazione Imprenditrici Donne Dirigenti d'Azienda - Ente del Terzo Settore

  Oct 2023 - Oct 2023

  Speaker

  I was invited to participate as a speaker in the round table "Enterprise is culture" at Marino Palace in Milan, on 7 October 2023, organized by AIDDA Lombardia, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of AIDDA - Association of Women Business Executives. I talked about my career and especially about the relationship between business and art, and the important role of companies in supporting art and culture.AIDDA is the first Italian association created with the specific objective of enhancing and supporting female entrepreneurship, the role of women managers and professionals.The meeting was introduced by greetings from Elena Buscemi, President of the Milan City Council, and Anna Maria Gandolfi, Equality Councilor of the Lombardy Region.Other speakers: Antonella Giachetti, National President of AIDDA, Luisa Cazzaro, President of the AIDDA Lombardy Delegation, Maria Teresa Brassiolo, Vice President and co-founder of Biopap Srl, Elisabetta Cozzi, Founder of the Fratelli Cozzi Business Museum, Chiara Cremonesi, CEO of E-Wenco , Margherita Franzoni, Entrepreneur in Levico Acque and founder of Thaleae, Cristiana Messina, Flou trade marketing manager, Tiziana Vallone, Chartered accountant and expert appointed to support the Ministry of Industry and Made in Italy. Show less

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  Sex & the City APS

  Nov 2023 - Nov 2023

  Curator

  On the occasion of November 25, 2023, the international day for the elimination of male violence against women, I curated the project about gender urbanism entitled “A gender look at the city”, in collaboration with the Social Promotion Association “Sex & the City”, at the Mattei high school in Fiorenzuola d'Arda (Piacenza). Azzurra Muzzonigro, Florencia Andreola, and Laura Da Re spoke with third grade students about how patriarchy is reflected in our cities and how violence and gender disparities impact our daily lives.With the support of Comune di Fiorenzuola d’Arda and Istituto Enrico Mattei. Sponsored by BNBIZ Coworking Hotel. Show less