The international curators in residence are guided by a reference Italian curator, that acts as a tutor, mediator and coordinator of the residency programme during the period of residence and the development of the exhibition. The biographies listed in this page are updated to 2026.

• Lorenzo Balbi
  Lorenzo Balbi (Turin, 1982) is the current Director of the Verona Museums. He graduated from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice with a BA in Fine Arts and Preservation of Cultural Heritage and from the University of Turin with an MA in Contemporary Art History. He was artistic director at Verso Artecontemporanea Gallery, Turin, an exhibition space devoted to research on emerging artists from South-East Asia. He was part of the board of Nesxt, Independent Art Festival, curator of the Live Program for DAMA, the new experimental fair for emerging international galleries, and curator of the Pomilio Blumm Prize, a prize for contemporary artists promoted in collaboration with Magnolia and Sky Arte HD. From 2006 to 2017 at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in Turin, he taught Curatorial Methodology at CAMPO, a course for curators, and was involved in the organization and development of exhibition projects in the institution’s spaces in Turin and Guarene d’Alba, as well as the exhibition programs of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection abroad. He followed the project Residency for Young Foreign Curators as assistant curator in 2009 (coordinator Ilaria Bonacossa), in 2011 and 2012 (coordinator Stefano Collicelli Cagol), until becoming the coordinator for three editions from 2015 to 2017. In 2018, he assumed the artistic direction of ART CITY Bologna, a series of exhibition events in the city promoted on the occasion of Arte Fiera. Professor of Art Systems at the DAMS of the University of Bologna, he is a member of the board of directors of AMACI – Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums and of the coordination of the Italian Contemporary Art Forum. From 2017 to 2026, he was the artistic director of MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna and he took on the role of Head of the Modern and Contemporary Art Department of the Bologna Museums Institution, to which he is attached, in addition to MAMbo, Villa delle Rose, Museo Morandi, Casa Morandi, Museo per la Memoria di Ustica and Residenza per artisti Sandra Natali. His texts and articles were published by several publications and magazines, including: Il Giornale dell’Arte, Inside Art, Artribune, Mousse, La Stampa, Exibart, ATP Diary, Il Giornale dell’Architettura.

  
  
  

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• Michele Bertolino
  Michele Bertolino (Savigliano, 1992) is Adjunct Curator at Centro Pecci, Prato, and tutor of CAMPO – a course in curatorial studies and practices at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin. From 2022 to 2026, he collaborated with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo as coordinator of the Young Curators Residency Program. He has collaborated with various Italian and international institutions, including MAMbo (Bologna), Last Tango (Zurich), Modern Art Institute (Glasgow), HEAD (Geneva), Palazzo Gucci (Florence), among others. In 2025, he curated VIVONO. Arte e affetti, HIV-AIDS in Italia, 1982-1996, the first institutional exhibition to reconstruct the forgotten history of Italian artists affected by the HIV-AIDS crisis, and in 2026, together with Alessandra Acocella and Monica Gallai, he co-curated Verita Monselles. CARNALE, both exhibitions were presented at Centro Pecci, Prato. He edited Tongue on Flames and Porpora, photographic books by Lina Pallotta. He teaches in Italy and abroad. His writings have appeared in NERO Magazine, Flash Art and Mousse Magazine, and his essays have been published in several monographic volumes, including the most recent Satura on Louis Fratino (Mousse). In 2022 he published L’Ano Solare. A Year-Long Programme on Sex and Self-display with Il Colorificio and Albe e tramonti a Praiano with Giulia Crispiani. In 2020, he was visiting lecturer in the LAB.ZONE PETROLIO, class led by Lili Reynaud-Dewar at HEAD Genève. Between 2019 and 2021 he worked as assistant curator of the 2020 Art Quadriennale FUORI, held at Palazzo delle Esposizioni. In 2018-2019 he was Junior Curator at The Institute of Things to Come, with which he continued collaborating in 2020-2021 as curator of the research project Guerrilla against the Uncessing Hostilities of the Livings. In 2016 he founded, with Bernardo Follini, Giulia Gregnanin and Sebastiano Pala, the curatorial collective Il Colorificio. He graduated in philosophy of art at the University of Turin and in 2015-2016 he participated in the CAMPO15 edition.

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• Ilaria Bonacossa
  Ilaria Bonacossa (Milan, 1973) is a curator, art critic and the current Director of Palazzo Ducale, Genoa. She previously served as director of the National Museum of Digital Art in Milan from 2023 to 2024. She earned a BA in Contemporary Art History from the Università Statale di Milano and an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College, New York. She has worked as a research assistant for the 2003 Whitney Biennial and as curatorial assistant for Manifesta 3, Ljubljana. For seven years, she was curator at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, and from 2012 to 2017, she was the artistic director of the Contemporary Art Museum of Villa Croce, Genoa. In 2013, she curated the Icelandic Pavilion with the solo project of Katrin Sigurdardottir. She has been a member of the technical committee for acquisitions of FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur of Marseille (2007–2013), member of the scientific committee of PAC Milan (2013–2016) and Head of Italy for the Artist Pension Trust. In 2007, she was a member of the Golden Lion Jury at the Venice Biennale and in 2013 a member of the nominating committee for the Inamori Foundation Prize, Kyoto. She was a founding member of Art@Work, a collective that develops contemporary art projects in the non-profit sector and for private collections. Since 2016, she has been the artistic director of La Raia Foundation. From 2017 to 2021, she was director of Artissima, the International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin, and, since 2019, she has been Course Advisor Leader for the Master’s programme in Arts Market at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan. From 2021 to 2024, she served as Arts and Culture Liaison for Riyadh Art, the Public Art programme of the Royal Commission of Saudi Arabia.

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• Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti
  Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti (Desenzano del Garda, 1990) is a curator and art writer. She is currently Head Curator at Istituto Svizzero in Italy, where she curates the programmes across its venues in Rome, Milan, and Palermo. Her recent projects include the monographic exhibition how we always survived by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz and the group show Con lo zucchero in bocca in Rome; the exhibitions Deadline With The World by Gabriele Garavaglia and Miriam Laura Leonardi and The House of Dorothy by Vincent Grange in Milan; and the public programme Time is on my side by Helvetropicos in Palermo (all 2025). She previously served as Chief Curator and Head of the Curatorial Department at Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin. At Pinacoteca Agnelli, she curated and co-curated major monographic exhibitions such as Salvo. Arrivare in tempo; Lee Lozano. Strike (Pinacoteca Agnelli and La Bourse – Pinault Collection, Paris, 2023–2024); and Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On (2022); as well as new commissions including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. PISTARAMA and exhibitions such as Lucy McKenzie and Antonio Canova. Vulcanizzato (2023). For Pinacoteca’s Pista 500, she curated projects and new commissions by artists such as Chalisee Naamani, Monica Bonvicini, Shirin Aliabadi, Nina Beier, Julius von Bismark, Mark Leckey, Cally Spooner, VALIE EXPORT, Sylvie Fleury, Liam Gillick, Marco Giordano, Nan Goldin, Shilpa Gupta, Louise Lawler, Alicja Kwade, SUPERFLEX, among others. She curated exhibitions and programmes for institutions in Italy and abroad. In 2018 and 2019, she was the curator of the New Entries section at Artissima, Turin. In 2018, she curated the main exhibition of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, titled Abracadabra, and co-founded the collective platform The School of the End of Time, with whom she co-curated the public programme accompanying the Biennale. From 2018 to 2021, she worked at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo as curator and head of the Young Curators Reisdency Programme. From 2015 to 2018, she co-founded and curated the programme of CLOG Project, a research-driven independent space with a focus on contemporary arts and culture, autonomous education experiments and self-production projects. As a writer and journalist, her essays and texts have been published in various exhibition catalogues, publications and journals. Her book In the studio: Lee Lozano was recently published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers (2025). She is a co-founder and currently vice-president of AWI – Art Workers Italia, the first association established to advocate for contemporary art workers in Italy, since 2020; and she sits on the board of the Milano Art Community since 2025. She received her education in visual and performing arts from IUAV University in Venice, in curatorial studies from De Appel, Amsterdam and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, and specialised in critical social theory at the University of Milan – Bicocca and at the Critical Curatorial Cybermedia research Master at la HEAD, Geneve.

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• Stefano Collicelli Cagol
  Stefano Collicelli Cagol (Padua, 1978) has been the Director General of FACT – Fondazione Arti Contemporanee in Toscana, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, since 2022, and since 2021 has been a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MIC) and the Contemporary Art Foundations Committee. In 2002, he graduated in Conservation of Cultural Heritage from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. In 2014, he earned a PhD at the Royal College of Art in London with a thesis on the history of thematic exhibitions of contemporary art in Italy between the 1930s and 1950s. His career as a curator began in 2003 at Castello di Rivoli – Museum of Contemporary Art for the exhibition The Moderns curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Between 2004 and 2006, he was assistant curator at Villa Manin – Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano (UD). In 2011, he was assistant curator for the exhibition A Geographical Expression. Unity and Identity of Italy through Contemporary Art, produced by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, where he worked, among others, with Victor Man, Johanna Billing, Isabelle Cornaro, Markus Schinwald, Andro Wekua and Ibon Aranberri. From 2010 to 2013 at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, he coordinated the residency for young curators and contributed to the design and teaching of CAMPO – Course for Curators. At the ninth edition of the Premio Furla in 2012, together with Bart Van Der Heide, curator of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, he nominated the winner, Chiara Fumai. Through these projects, he developed a thorough understanding of the Italian art system and emerging contemporary art. In Italy, as an independent curator, he worked at Castello di Rivoli – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli-Turin; Artissima, Turin; Palazzo Grassi, Venice; GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice; and the Marino Marini Museum, Florence. He also collaborated with international institutions such as Kunstmuseum Trondheim, where he has been Curator at Large since 2015 and where he presented the works of artists including Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Sidsel Meineche Hansen; LUX Artists’ Moving Images, London; steirischer herbst festival, Graz; VAC Moscow and Venice; the curated by_vienna festival, Vienna; and Art-O-Rama, Marseille. He was curator of La Quadriennale di Roma (2018) and was a visiting professor in the Master in Design for Arts at the Polytechnic of Turin (2018–2019). From 2019 to 2022, he was Curator-at-Large for BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China. He has published several academic articles on the history of exhibitions and his articles have appeared in Stedelijk Studies, Domus, Mousse and Flash Art. He has edited several art publications and exhibition catalogues, including: Davide Stucchi, Light Lights, Mousse Publishing, Milan (2025); Louis Fratino, Satura, Mousse Publishing, Milan (2024); Diego Marcon, Glassa, Lenz, Milan (2023).

  
  
  

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• Francesco Manacorda
  Francesco Manacorda (Turin, 1974) is currently the Director of Castello di Rivoli – Museum of Contemporary Art and the Artistic Director of Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte ETS. He earned a degree in Education from the University of Turin (2000) and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London (2001–2003). Between 2007 and 2009, he served as curator at the Barbican Art Gallery, where he curated the large-scale exhibitions Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art and Radical Nature – Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009 (2009). In 2007, he curated the Slovenian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale and in 2009 the New Zealand Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, while in 2013 he was a member of the International Jury for the 55th Venice Biennale. From February 2010 to March 2012, he was director of Artissima, the International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin, and from 2012 to 2017 he was artistic director of Tate Liverpool, where he curated exhibitions such as Mondrian and His Studios; Glenn Ligon: Encounter and Collisions; An Imagined Museum; Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline; and Cathy Wilkes. In 2016, he co-curated the Liverpool Biennial and, in 2018, the eleventh edition of the Taipei Biennial. From 2017 to 2022, he was artistic director of V-A-C Foundation. He was lecturer in Exhibition History and Critical Theory at the Curating Contemporary Art department of the Royal College of Art, London (2006–2011). His curatorial practice has also included freelance projects such as Subcontinent – The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2006). He has published articles and reviews in such publications as Artforum, Domus, Flash Art, Frieze, Metropolis M, Mousse, Piktogram, Kaleidoscope and ArtReview. He has edited numerous publications and written critical monographs on the work of several artists. 
  

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• Gaia Tedone
  Gaia Tedone (b. 1982) is a human-centered AI curator, a digital humanist and a researcher. She holds a BA in Economics for the Arts, Culture and Communication from Luigi Bocconi University, Milan (2005), an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College, London (2008), and was a Curatorial Fellow of the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York (2010). In 2013–2014, she was granted a Curatorial Fellowship funded by the Arts Council of England and organised by Whitechapel Gallery and Contemporary Art Society in collaboration with the Brighton & Hove Museums. The results of this period of research across the South of England culminated in the exhibition entitled Twixt Two Worlds, which was on show at Whitechapel Gallery, London during the summer of 2014 before touring to Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne. In 2011, within the framework of the Whitney Independent Study Programme, she worked on the conception and production of the group exhibition Foreclosed. Between Crisis and Possibility, which took place at The Kitchen in New York, and coordinated its extensive public programme and catalogue (Yale University Press, 2011). She curated the photographic group show Rotta di Collisione (Artopia, Milan, October 2013) and co-curated with Christine Takengny the group exhibition Shifting Gazes (Guest Projects, London, January 2013). From 2012 to 2013, she worked within Tate Modern’s curatorial department, assisting on acquisitions and displays for the Collection of Photography and International Art and was involved in the planning and organisation of photography displays. Alongside assisting in the management of the Photography and Middle East and North Africa Acquisitions Committees, she undertook substantial research for the collection of time-based media art. Previously, she was an assistant curator in charge of Exhibitions, Projects and Collection at The David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2008–2010), where she actively contributed to the conception and delivery of audience-focused exhibitions and events in collaboration with international artists and curators. She was curator at Contemporary Art Society & Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013–2015); between 2015 and 2019, she was Freelance Curator, Researcher and Educator between Milan and London, and Researcher at the Lucerne University of Art & Design (2019–2022). From 2021 to 2023, she was Head of the Painting and Visual Art School at LABA, Brescia, and Lecturer in Performativity of Digital Culture; since 2019, she has been Lecturer in the MA in Museology, Museography and Management of Cultural Heritage at the Catholic University of Milan; in 2021, she founded, with Marialaura Ghidini, the curatorial agency ://ftp; since 2022, she has been Lecturer at NABA, Milan, in Multimedia Languages; since 2024, she has been Lecturer at the University of Bergamo in Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities and Machine-based Reading and Digital Methodology, and Lecturer at Scuola Politecnica del Design in Visual Culture Theory and Practice.

  
  
  

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