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Young Curators Residency Programme
Every year since 2007 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo promotes the Young Curators Residency Programme Torino. The project aims to support emerging curatorial practice while spreading knowledge of the Italian art scene on an international level.
Young Curators Residency Programme 2012 Coordinated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy May 29 – August 2, 2012
Underneath the Street, the Beach
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino and V-A-C, VICTORIA – the Art of being Contemporary, Moscow present Underneath the Street, the Beach. Inspired by a protest slogan used during the French May 1968 protests “Sous les pavés, la plage”, the exhibition explores the importance of making active gestures and taking positions that redefine our relation to reality. Underneath the Street, the Beach presents works by artists who experiment with disruptive strategies and counter-narratives in order to create new dynamics and conditions for visibility within the socio-political, cultural and urban Italian context of today. By drawing on both the vitality and poetic content of the featured works, the exhibition suggests imagining new aspects of life beyond the obvious surface and, as suggested in the title, a possible way to find the beach beneath the street.
Curators
Benoit Antille
Benoit Antille (Switzerland, 1975) graduated from the MA Program in Classical Archeology and Art History at the Fribourg University (Switzerland) in 2001 and from the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2011. Between 2001 and 2003, he worked on various projects, such as the inventory of the roman paintings of the Schola del Traiano in Ostia, Roma, or a research project on the industrial heritage of Nyon (Switzerland), for the Historical Museum of this town. At that time, he also started to work as director of communication of the Gallery FAC, Sierre (Switzerland). In 2003, he has been appointed curator and coordinator of the residency program at the Cultural Center Ferme-Asile, a non-profit association in Sion (Switzerland). During the six years he worked there, he ran the Ferme-Asile following the Kunsthalle model. In 2007, he took part to the elaboration of the Label’Art Triennial, the first large-scale event gathering together all the main spaces working in the field contemporary art in the Valais. For 2012, he has been contracted by the Culture Department of the Valais to write a report on the situation of contemporary art in this region in anticipation of their revision of the criteria for public funding.
Michele Fiedler
Michele Fiedler is a Puerto Rican independent curator currently based in Montreal, Canada. She was the Curator at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City (2016-2019), and worked as an associate researcher for the project Below The Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico at The Armory Center in Pasadena, California; a project that was part the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative. She has been Curator in Residence at the independent space Disjecta (now Oregon Contemporary) in Portland, Oregon (2016-17) and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy (2012). She has collaborated with artists Melanie Smith, Ad Minoliti, Johanna Unzuetta, Naufus Ramírez Figueroa and Ximena Garrido-Lecca among others. She is interested in how information is produced and dispersed, how it formulates ideas of the normal, their subversion, and in how art can be a space that fosters conversation. Through her exhibition programs and research projects she provides spaces for political art and critique with perspectives towards gender issues and rights, Latin American historical, political and social conflicts, and art practices that have not been included in the larger historical framework.
Andrey Parshikov
Andrey Parshikov (Russia, 1985) is a curator. Since 2004 he worked in Xl-gallery, as the coordinator and manager of the branch-XL-projects gallery in the cultural center ARTStrelka, Moscow. In the summer of 2004 he made a project for the festival PUSTO Comedia del Arte: sequel for submission Madrid video-festival Vallecas Puerto del Cine and Kansky video-festival. In 2005, as implemented curator with O. Lopuhova draft Ars Longa in the context of the Bulgakov festival Manuscripts don’t burn. Until recently Parshikov has worked as an associate curator for an emerging Moscow contemporary art gallery GMG, helping to develop the exhibition policy, concept and image of the gallery on the international art scene. He has curated three major museum exhibitions, one of which – Ultra-New Materiality – was included in the program of the III Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art 2009. In 2011 he curated an innovative theatrical exhibition, Human Oratorio. Afghan-Kuzminki, where theater, drama, music and the real works of contemporary art developed the dramaturgy of this curatorial approach, connected to Eisenstein Montage Theory. He curated self-authors program for two years Ultra-New Materiality in Contemporary City Foundation. In 2008 he presented the project The Great Repression with emerging Russian video-artists, at the White Box gallery, New-York. Since 2009 he has been a member of the editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine – the leading intellectual contemporary art publication in Moscow, and he is author of many critical articles in the journals Art-Chronicle, Zaart, Afisha, Vremya Novostey, Independent newspaper, internet-portals Gif.ru and Art-Times, articles for gallery catalogues, Russian and foreign publications.
Coordinator
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).
Artists
- Yuri Ancarani
Yuri Ancarani is an Italian director and video artist. His works come from a continuous mingling of documentary cinema and contemporary art, and are the result of a research aimed to explore regions which are not very visible in the daily life, realities in which the artist delves in first person. He made his debut with the short film The Chief (2010), presented in Venice, followed by Da Vinci (2012), included in the Palazzo Enciclopedico, international pavilion of the Biennale Arte curated by Massimiliano Gioni. His first feature film, The Challenge (2016), received the Ciné+ Cineasti del presente Special Jury Prize in Locarno. In 2021, he made Atlantide, presented in Venice in the Orizzonti section and nominated as Best Documentary at the David di Donatello Awards. He has been invited to major international film festivals, including Toronto, Hot Docs, IDFA, SXSW, Cinema du Reel, Full Frame, True/False, Viennale and New Directors/New Films at MoMA. Numerous solo exhibitions have been dedicated to his work, including: Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2014), Kunsthalle Basel (2018), Castello di Rivoli (2019), Kunstverein Hannover (2022), MAMbo in Bologna (2023) and PAC in Milan (2023), where he premiered his
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Il capo, 2010
35 mm, 15' (video still)
Courtesy of the artist and Zero Gallery, Milan, Italy - Francesco Arena
Francesco Arena (b. 1978) lives and works in Cassano delle Murge, Bari, Italy. Arena’s practice unfolds along two intersecting trajectories: collective history and personal history. These parallel narratives continuously converge, overlap, and intersect. In his work, stories “in-form” objects, whether everyday items—such as diaries, cigars, furniture, and other domestic objects—or sculptures made from traditional materials such as marble and bronze. His solo exhibitions include: Trenta Altalene, XXVI Premio Pino Pascali, Fondazione Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare; Il fulmine governa ogni cosa, Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome; Measured Stones, NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid; Otto angoli, Studio Trisorio, Naples; Terza mostra: tre cose, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan; Cubic metre of seawater as a diagonal, Sprovieri, London; Posatoi, Olnick Spanu Art Program, Garrison, New York; Onze mille cent quatre-vingt sept jours, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; Trittico 57, Museion, Bolzano; Cratere, De Vleeshal, Middelburg. Selected group exhibitions include: After Image, MAXXI L’Aquila; Le Futur derrière nous. L’art italien depuis les années 1990. Le contemporain face au passé, Villa Arson, Nice; The Paradox of Stillness. Art, Object and Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Utopia Distopia, Museo MADRE, Naples; The Humans, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Ennesima, Triennale Milano; Ritratto dell’artista da giovane, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli; Vice Versa, Italian Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
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Struttura Articolata, 2012
Paper, cigar, 120 x 175 x 120 cm, (Detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Monitor, Rome - Ludovica Carbotta
Ludovica Carbotta (Torino, 1982) lives and works in Barcelona (ES). Her practice focuses on the physical exploration of the urban space and how individuals establish connections with the environment they inhabit. In recent works, by combining installations, texts and performances, she is researching on fictional site specificity, a form of site-oriented practice that considers imaginary places or embodies real places with fictional contexts, recovering the role of imagination as a value to construct our knowledge. Carbotta has completed an MFA at Goldsmiths University in London (2015). Her work was presented at the 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice Biennale (2019), curated by Ralph Rugoff. Recent solo exhibitions: Column Press, Bombon Projects, Barcelona (2026); Città, Città, Radar, Milano (2025); Constructor de mundos muy parecidos al nuestro, Espai 13, Fundació Miró, Barcelona (2025); Very Well, on my Own, MAMbo, Bologna (2024); I come from outside of myself, European Pavillion, OGR, Turin (2022); Growing Pains, Sala Veronicas, Murcia, Spain (2021); Paphos, Bombon Projects, Barcelona, Spain (2021); Die Telamonen, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland; Monowe, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (2019); smART, Roma (2019); Artissima Present Future, Torino (2018); Marselleria, New York (2018); Marta Cervera Gallery, Madrid (2017); ON Public – Monowe, Bologna (2016); A motorway is a very strong wind, Care Of, Milan (2014); Vitrine 270° – Without Walls, Galleria Arte Moderna, Turin (2013); Greater Torino, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin (2011). Among her recent group shows: Scuola Piccola Zattere (Venezia, IT), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, film screening (Berlin, DE), Gasworks, film screening (London, UK), IVAM, (Valencia,ES), Teatrino Palazzo Grassi, (Venezia, IT), MACRO Museum (Rome, IT), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome, IT), Tecla Sala (Barcelona, ES),Drawing Center (New York, US), EACC (Castelló de la Plana, E), La Casa Encendida (Madrid, E), Mambo (Bologna, IT), Palazzo Fortuny (Venice, IT) Kunstlerhaus Museum (Graz, AU), MAXXI Museum (Rome, IT), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, IT), Hangar Bicocca (Milan, IT), Dublin Contemporary (Dublin, IRL), Matadero (Madrid, E), Swiss Institute (Rome, IT), Les Instants Chavirés (Paris, FR). She is the co-founder of Progetto Diogene, an International Residency Program in the public space and The Institute of Things to Come, a research centre on futurological scenarios. She was awarded the Ariane de Rothschild Prize, Milan (2011), the Premio Gallarate (2016), International Fellowship Gasworks, London (2016), and the Special Mention at Premio ITALIA, MAXXI Museum, Rome (2016). In 2017 she is fellow researcher at Jan Van Eyck Academie, in Maastricht, in 2018 recipient of New York Prize, ISCP/Columbia University. She currently teaches Sculpture at BAU, Barcelona University Centre of Art and Design and is a PhD student on the PhD course in Languages, Materials, Processes and Sustainability in Contemporary Artistic Production at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
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Il viaggio è andato a meraviglia, eserciziouno, 2010
Video, colour, 120' (video stills)
Courtesy of the artist
Produced of the support of E/static, Turin - Angelo Castucci
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Back to Rome, 2010
Installation, mix media
Courtesy of the artist - Danilo Correale
Danilo Correale was born in 1982 Napoli, Italy. He lives and works in New York and Napoli.
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Untitled (The Future in Their Hands / The Visible Hand), 2011
Digital print, 400 x 250 cm , Courtesy Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy - Luca De Leva
Luca De Leva (1986) lives and works in Milan. His practice explores how much of a life is negotiable. Through participatory situations designed to be directly experienced, he develops temporary conditions in which everyday life becomes the material of the work. Since 2021, this research has taken the form of THYSELF AGENCY, a travel agency organising expeditions into the unknown through non-fiction performative journeys. Developed through immersive exercises, the agency investigates how temporary changes in behaviour can transform the way people perceive themselves in the world around them. Its projects unfold through journeys, public INFO POINTS and the Journal, an expanding archive of participants’ reports. This research extends into his teaching of Performative Techniques, where the classroom becomes another space for exploring lived experience. De Leva’s work develops temporary conditions in which art and life overlap, allowing participants to experience everyday reality as a field of new possibilities. His work has been presented at the 18th Lyon Biennale, Triennale Milano, miart, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Pinksummer and the Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection.
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Catering Blotto, 2012
Sculpture, drinks, performance, dimensions variable,
Courtesy of the artist - Tomaso De Luca
Tomaso De Luca (1988), lives and works in Berlin. His work has been exhibited in multiple international institutions, such as Künstlerhaus Bremen; Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro; CAC Vilnius; SongEun Art Space, Seoul; Pori Art Museum; IIC Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; and MAXXI, Rome. Screenings of his video works were held at IIC Oslo; MAAT, Lisbon; e-flux, New York; Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Cinemateca MAM, Rio de Janeiro; Istituto Svizzero, Rome. He was a guest lecturer at La Sapienza University, Rome; Scuola Normale di Pisa; Universität Stuttgart; and Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam. He took part in Fantasmagoriana, LIAF 2022, the Lofoten Biennial, Norway; and FUORI!, Quadriennale di Roma 2020. In 2017 he was Cy Twombly Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and the Spring 2026 resident at Amant Studio & Research Residency Program in New York. In 2020 his work A Week’s Notice was the recipient of the prestigious MAXXI Bulgari Prize.
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The Sleepers, 2010
Photographic series, Lampda print, 6 pieces, 70 x 100 cm each
Courtesy of the artist and Monitor, Rome - Giulio Delvè
Giulio Delvè was born in 1984, Napoli, Campania, where he works and lives.
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And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, 2009
Luocks and chains, sculpture, Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Supportico Lopez, Berlin - Tony Fiorentino
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Cleaning a Lamp for Street Lighting (infinite action), 2012
DVD-PAL, loop, colour, sound , Video: Esteban Humet Fuentes, Reader: Maeva Deleernsnyder
Courtesy of the artist - Helena Hladilovà
Helena Hladilová (b. 1983, Kroměříž, Czech Republic) lives and works in Italy. Her sculptural practice explores the relationship between imagination, metamorphosis, and the natural world through hybrid forms that intertwine mythological references and narrative dimensions. She has presented solo exhibitions at SpazioA, Pistoia (2024, 2022), Pinacoteca G.A. Levis, Chiomonte (2023), Ex Chiesa di Ognissanti, Fermo (2022), flip project space, Naples (2022), ALMANAC, Turin (2021), the National Gallery, Prague (2016), GAM – Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Turin (2013), and MACRO, Rome (2014), as well as in several independent spaces across Italy and the Czech Republic. Her work has also been featured in major group exhibitions at Museo Madre, Naples; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere and MAXXI, Rome; BIENALSUR at Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan; PANORAMA Pozzuoli; the Gubbio Biennale; the British School at Rome; the American Academy in Rome; Artissima; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; and the Prague Biennale.
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Selfmade, 2012
Site-specific installation, grass, soil, dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist - Renato Leotta
Renato Leotta is an artist born in Turin in 1982; he currently lives and works in Italy. His work stems from a reflection on the landscape. Temporality is the core of his practice and takes shape through the observation of the elements that govern it: the sky, for example, and its relationship with things — the sea, plants, the wind, but also the body and memory. The focus of his research traces back to the Mediterranean and the cosmos — contexts understood as entities that situate his work within a critique of resistance to the rhythms of acceleration and image production. Recent exhibitions include his solo show at Galleria Sprovieri in London; Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; the 17th Istanbul Biennial; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Masp, São Paulo; and Manifesta 12, Palermo, MAXXI Bulgari Priza in Roma; among others. Leotta was founder of CRIPTA747 in 2008 and Turiner Kunstverein? in 2025 and editor in chief of the research platform and publishing house Istituto Sicilia.
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100 Lire, 2012
2 100 lire coins , 2,78 cm diameter each
Courtesy of the artist - Beatrice Marchi
Beatrice Marchi was born in Gallarate (VA), Italy, in 1986. She lives between Milan and Hamburg.
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Nº5, 2012
Installation, sculptures, plants, halogen lamps
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist - Liliana Moro
Liliana Moro was born in 1961 in Milano, where she lives and works.
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Home, 2011
Metal truck, sphere lamp, small yellow lamp, Variable dimensions
Courtesy of the artist - Maria Pecchioli
Maria Pecchioli’s (b.1977, Florence, Italy) practice unfolds through research-based projects that move across artistic languages, writing, and participatory practices. Each project takes shape as an ecosystem of artworks, texts, and relational dispositifs, conceived as distinct yet interconnected expressions of a broader research process. Her work explores the relationship between the individual and the social body, emotional environments, and processes of transformation, bringing contemporary art into dialogue with activism and sound- and vibration-based practices of care. Working across drawing, sculpture, film, sound environments, and collective workshops, Pecchioli places encounter at the heart of the artistic process, treating participation as both a method of research and a space for generating new forms of knowledge and relation. Pecchioli has exhibited in independent spaces and collaborated with museums, cultural institutions, and international festivals, while taking part in artist residency programs in Italy and abroad. Her documentary films have received awards and been presented at international film festivals. Since 2011, she has served as Artistic Director of Corniolo Art Platform, an artist run space in Tuscany, and since 2023 she has been Studio Manager at Woodman Residency Foundation.
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Versus Player, 2012
In collaboration with Alessandro Kraus (a.k.a Tasker)
Installation. Modified Techinics 1200, ampllifier, loudspeakers, table, 33 rpm LP cover
Courtesy of the artist - Alessandro Quaranta
Alessandro Quaranta (b. 1975, Torino, Italy) is a lecturer at the Giacomo Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo. He has been working with video for many years and on projects in which he explores the relationships between subjects and space. As a visual artist, he has also developed projects in schools, and through video – his preferred medium of expression – he examines the role of vision and the perception of reality, and how this is subsequently conveyed. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including: CAIRN centre d’art contemporain, Digne-les-Bains, (France;) Musée Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains, (France); e/static, Turin; GAM, Turin; Triennale d’art contemporain du Valais, Sion, Switzerland; Tile project space, Milan; Connecting Space, Hong Kong; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; ABP Autograph, London; Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin; CESAC, Caraglio; Galleria Martano, Turin; Upload project, Trento; 10th Lyon Biennale; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas; DOCVA Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan; munange, Crissolo. His project Essere meno won in 2021 the IX Italian Council award edition in the field of theoretical research.
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Kames Te Pijis Kafa?, 2003
Video, DV, colour, 4:3, 10’
Courtesy of the artist - Andrea Romano
Andrea Romano born in Milan, in 1984. Romano’s work consists in the combination of different media and languages, as if to prevent a univocal definition of artwork and to evoke a reality in which different aspects and feelings coexist. The artist investigates the role of images within identity and the boundaries between the private dimension and the collective sphere by addressing personal references and experiences with what we call art, its margins and the values we commonly attribute to it. Selected solo exhibitions: Federica Schiavo, Rome; Centralbanken, Oslo; Gaudel de Stampa, Paris; Vistamare, Pescara; Fluxia, Milan; Gasconade, Milan. Selected group exhibitions: Kunsthalle Zürich; CFAlive, Milan; Vistamare Studio, Milan; Pio Pico, Los Angeles, Quadriennale di Roma, Rome; Silvia Steinek, Vienna, Triennale di Milano, Milan; Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz; Fondazione Morra-Museo Nitsch, Naples; La Maison Rouge-Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; 1m3, Lausanne; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice. His work is part of private and public collections in Italy and abroad and published in various magazines, catalogues and publications.
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Untitled (Spotter), 2009-12
Text on adhesive and performance. Text done for Real Presence 09, curated by Dobrila Denegri and Biljana Tomic. House of Legacy, MKM Magacin, Belgrade, Serbia
Couresy of the artist - Mirko Smerdel
Mirko Smerdel’s artistic research is mainly focused on the narrative and ideological power of images, on the relationship between collective and individual memory and on the human habitat in the late capitalist world. His main expressive languages are photography, drawing, collage and video. From 2013 to 2020, he’s been co-founder of Discipula, a collaborative research platform dealing with contemporary image research and visual culture, with whom he has published visual essays, photobooks and exhibiting in numerous solo and group show in Italy and abroad including: Krakow Photomonth, Unseen – Amsterdam, Photo50 – London Art Fair, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, FORMAT International Photography Festival – Derby, Kunsthalle Budapest, Tokyo Institute of Photography, Centre Photographie Genève. In 2021, in collaboration with Comunità montana della Val Camonica, the artist made the feature film I testimoni, which documents an experimental cultivation project in a small village in the Alps, relating it to events on a global scale. He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad including: South Kiosk – Londra, Museum Art Park – Mosca, Biennial of Young Artists – Bucarest, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo – Torino, FORMAT International Photography Festival – Derby, Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto – Biella. Since 2018 he works as a teacher of Artistic Anatomy and Painting Techniques at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) in Milan.
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I Vostri Grattacieli, 2010
Series of 30 digital images with text, printed on paper , 100 x 70 cm each (detail)
Courtesy of the artist - Nico Vascellari
Nico Vascellari (b. 1976, Vittorio Veneto, Italy) lives and works between Rome and Vittorio Veneto. His practice spans performance, sculpture, installation, drawing, video, and sound. Through an anthropological lens, he explores humankind’s relationship with nature, ancestral and ritual phenomena, folklore, and traditions, often in dialogue with underground culture. Solo exhibitions include Palazzo Reale, Milan (2025); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2024); Palazzo Vecchio and Forte Belvedere, Florence (2023); Fondazione Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare (2022); Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome (2021); MAXXI, Rome (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2016); Museion, Bolzano (2010); and MAN, Nuoro (2007). He has participated in the Mercosul Biennale (2022), October Salon, Belgrade (2021), Lyon Biennale (2019), the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale (2010), Manifesta 7 (2008), and the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007). His work has been exhibited at Fondation Beyeler, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Selected collections include MAXXI, MACRO, Museion, Museo del Novecento, Whitworth Art Gallery, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Deutsche Bank, Banca d’Italia, Banca Ifis, Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Triennale Milano, and Museo Novecento.
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Lago Morto, 2009
Video installation, poster, collage, photograph, sculpture (detail) Dimensions and duration variable, Courtesy of the artist and Fondazione Remotti - Valentina Vetturi
Valentina Vetturi is born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, 1979. She lives and works between Bari, Italy, and Geneva, Switzerland.
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La funzione, 2009
Performance detail (visit card printed on light paper)
Courtesy of the artist
Jury
Iwona Blazwick
Iwona Blazwick OBE (1955) is director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Until 2001, she was head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Modern, where she was responsible for co-curating the installation of the collection and formulating the exhibitions programme. From 1993 to 1997, Iwona Blazwick worked as an independent curator for museums and major public arts projects in Europe and Japan, devising surveys of contemporary artists and commissioning new works of art. During this period she was also Commissioning Editor for Contemporary Art at Phaidon Press where she created the ongoing book series, Contemporary Artists Monographs and Themes and Movements. From 1986 to 1993 she was Director of Exhibitions at London’s ICA where she curated exhibitions of modern and contemporary art; and from 1984 to 1986 she was Director of the AIR Gallery. She read English and Fine Art at Exeter University before becoming a junior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, under the tutelage of Sandy Nairne, who is now director of the National Portrait Gallery, London. Her first show, Objects and Sculpture (1981), included work by Bill Woodrow, Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley. Exhibitions she has curated include monographic shows of Katharina Fritsch, (Tate Modern) Art and Language, Willie Doherty, Peter Halley, Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, Ilya Kabakov, Barbara Kruger, Meret Oppenheim, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel and Lawrence Weiner (ICA). Group exhibitions, often curatorial collaborations, include Objects and Sculpture, Possible Worlds, True Stories, (ICA); On Taking a Normal Situation… (MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium), Body of Evidence (Toyama Museum of Modern Art, Japan ), Ha-Ha, (Killerton Park, Devon, UK), Now Here: Work in Progress (Louisiana Museum, Denmark) and Performing Bodies (Tate Modern). Iwona Blazwick was visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art and teaches occasionally at Goldsmith ‘s School of Art, Central St. Martins, Middlesex University, the Slade School and Sothebys MA Course; in addition she has taught at academies in Hamburg, Malmö and Vienna. Her writings have also been published extensively; they include contributions to monographs on Hannah Collins, Ceal Floyer, Katharina Fritsch, Ilya Kabakov, Cornelia Parker, Lawrence Weiner and Rachel Whiteread, among others; and anthologies such as Fresh Cream in 2001. She was editor of the Tate Modern Handbook and Century City and writes art criticism for numerous periodicals. She is also a broadcaster contributing occasional reviews and commentaries for BBC and Channel Four television and BBC radio. Iwona Blazwick has been on numerous juries including the Turner Prize in 1993, the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1997 and as a member of Ohio’s Wexner Center’s International Arts Advisory Council, the Wexner Prize for 2002. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.
Francesco Bonami
Francesco Bonami (Firenze, 1955) has been senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, from 1999 to 2008. He also was artistic director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (Italy) since its foundation (now honorary director), Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Firenze (Italy) and the contemporary art center Villa Manin, Udine (Italy). He was the director of the 50th Venice Biennial of Visual Arts in 2003, and he was the first Italian curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial. He curated several international exhibitions like The Universal Experience at the Hayward Gallery, London, the Whitney Museum of America Art Biennial in 2010, and of the first edition of the T-Torino Triennale Tremusei. He is a regular contributor to the Italian daily Il Riformista, Zero and Vanity Fair Italy. Until 2013 he was director of Tar, a magazine of art and culture. In 2010 he received the Légion d’honneur of the Franch Republic. He published several books among which Lo potevo fare anch’ io. Perché l ‘arte contemporanea è davvero arte (2009), Dopotutto non è brutto (2010), Si crede Picasso (2010) and Maurizio Cattelan. Autobiografia non autorizzata (2011). Among his last exhibitions, the Takashi Murakami’ s solo exhibition, Il Ciclo di Arhat, (Milan, 2014) and The see is my land–Artisti dal Mediterraneo, at the Milan Triennial with Emanuela Mazzonis (Milan, 2014 and MAXXI, Rome, 2013 ).
Beatrix Ruf
Beatrix Ruf (Germany, 1960) is currently the Artistic Director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and she was appointed Director/Curator of the Kunsthalle Zürich in 2001. Previously, she had been Director/Curator of the Kunsthaus Glarus, and curator at the Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth (Switzerland) between 1994 and 1998. Since 1995 she has been Curator of the Ringier Collection. She has organised exhibitions, written essays and published catalogues on artists such as Jenny Holzer, Marina Abramovic, Peter Land, Liam Gillick, Urs Fischer, Emmanuelle Antille, Angela Bulloch, Ugo Rondinone, Richard Prince, Keith Tyson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Monica Bonvicini, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Pierre Huyghe/Philippe Parreno: No Ghost just a Shell, Rodney Graham, Isa Genzken, Doug Aitken, Wilhelm Sasnal, de Rijke/de Rooij, Rebecca Warren, Carol Bove, Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Sean Landers and many others. Among her last exhibitions, she curated the solo show Avery Singer, Pictures Punish Words, at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (Italy) in 2015.
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