curator
and researcher
My curatorial practice is deeply informed by radical imagination, a curatorial commitment to envisioning and facilitating alternative ways of thinking, creating, and existing.
My work is rooted in the Mediterranean, a region marked by its layered histories and ongoing migrations. Here, I see the frontier not as a place of division but as a laboratory of coexistence, proposing new political and social structure models. It invites a rethinking of borders, both physical and conceptual, as fertile grounds for utopian experiments.
The place where art projects take shape is essential for me.
I believe in the value of public spaces, I repudiate cultural heritage as a postcard to be sold to tourists, and I believe in the fundamental relationship that the community of citizens must have with its cultural heritage. Public space is to be investigated in the conflicting nature of the planning of underlying memories in the political contingencies that have traversed the EuroMediterranean geographic and social territory, marking and marching militarized borders and territories.
I believe in a curatorial practice that always continues beyond the pure exhibition dimension but actively works at engaging the public.
For this reason, my projects are always accompanied by a public program to unpack the artists' research and bring it closer to the public. In fact, I consistently devise, together with the artists, a series of workshops, talks, lectures, and experiences that I like to target for different audiences:
children,
recent
activities
PROJECTS:
2024 / Ongoing – PhD candidate, Critical-Curatorial Practices of Contemporary Creation, at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts - Turin, Island as political Utopia, supervisor: Dr Irene Biolchini.
2026 / Ongoing – part of Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies, an experimental ecosystem where art, research, and activism converge to prototype bold responses to today’s ecological urgencies.
TBA21–Academy and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
2023 / Ongoing – Curator 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.
2025 / Ongoing – Curator of Emilija Škarnulytė for the exhibition at the National Mountain Museum in Turin, titled The New Orchestra. From Mountain Communities to the Communities of the Future, scheduled from October 29, 2025, to May 31, 2026.
2025 / Ongoing – Professor of Contemporary Art Phenomenology, NOMAD, MADE – “Rosario Gagliardi” Academy of Fine Arts, Siracusa, Italy.
EXPERIENCES:
2024 – Artistic Director of Malta Biennale 2024, Insulaphilia, promoted by Heritage Malta, MUZA and Arts Council Malta under the patronage of UNESCO.
2024 – Head Curator of Malta Biennale 2024, The Mediterranean as a Political Body, co-curated with Emma Mattei and Elisa Carollo.
Includes work by: Tania Bruguera, Laure Prouvost, Zineb Sedira, Rosa Barba, Agnes Questionmark, Simon Benjamin, Adrian Paci, Buhlebezwe Siwani.
2024 – Head Curator of Malta Biennale 2024, The CounterPower of Piracy, co-curated with Emma Mattei and Elisa Carollo.
Includes work by: Mel Chin, Pedro Reyes (Artists Against the Bomb), Post Disaster, Franziska Von Stenglin, Goldschmidt & Chiari, the Republic of the Suez Canal.
2024 – Head Curator of Malta Biennale 2024, The Matriarchive of the Mediterranean, co-curated with Emma Mattei and Elisa Carollo.
Includes work by: Cecilia Vicuña, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Jean Marie Appriou, Anna Calleja, Anna Anderegg, Ana Shametaj and Giuditta Vendrame, Teresa Antignani.
2024 – Head Curator of Malta Biennale 2024, Decolonizing Malta: Polyphony is Us, co-curated with Emma Mattei and Elisa Carollo.
Includes work by: Guadalupe Maravilla, Ibrahim Mahama, Austin Camilleri, Monica de Miranda, Gaia de Megni, Zehra Doğan, Dew Kim, Andrea Ferrero, Zazzarotto.
2023 / Ongoing – Curator for 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, under the scientific patronage of the Geology, Soils and Seismicity Unit of the Emilia Romagna Region.
2026 – Curator of the 6th edition of Una Boccata d’Arte, Emilia Romagna, with the artist Vasilis Papageorgiou, Tredozio (FC), in collaboration with Habitat.
2025 – Curator of the 6th edition of Una Boccata d’Arte, Emilia Romagna, with the artist Vica Pacheco, Bagnara di Romagna (RA).
2024 – Curator of the 5th edition of Una Boccata d’Arte, Emilia Romagna, with the artist Sóley Ragnarsdóttir, Berceto (PR).
2023 – Curator of the 4th edition of Una Boccata d’Arte, Emilia Romagna, with the artist Raghad Saqfalhait, Travo (PC).
2023 – 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 European Media Art Platform, co-funded by the EU.
2024 – Curator of The Spell of Monsters, by artist Camilla Alberti, at MOKA - Hyundai Museum of Kids’ Books & Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
AND CONTRIBUTOR:
2020 / Ongoing – Contributor of:
Made in Mind Magazine
NERO
Artslooker
Fakewhale LOG.
Modern Times Review
Times Malta
Exibart
Acre Magazine
Ǒpěra
2020 / Ongoing – Curator, part of IKT, International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art. IKT was founded in 1973 and included prominent curators such as Harald Szeemann.
2020 / Ongoing – Curator, part of Art Workers Italia, the first autonomous and non-partisan association to give voice to contemporary art workers in Italy.
ART
AND PEDAGOGY
2025 – Curator for Particle, in the UNESCO-listed area of the Natural Reserve of Rock Engravings, in Val Camonica.
2024 – Curator of the Art Workshop, Rethinking Lampedusa / Rethinking Malta, by Leonardo Caffo, Roberta Esposito and Carlo Alberto Giardina, in collaboration with MADE Program and MCAST during Malta Biennale 2024.
2024 – Curator of the Art Workshops and Public Program of the Malta Biennale, with Emma Mattei and Mirjana Batinic (children, teenagers, adults, families, seniors, visually impaired):
- Decolonizing Malta: Polyphony is Us
Art Children Workshop, Exploring Globalisation and Maltese Identity through Art, by Joseph Cochrain II
Saturday is Alright to Fight for Your Rights, by Art Workers Italia
- The Matriarchive of the Mediterranean
Goddess Making, by Nina Gerada
Matriarchive of the Mediterranean, by M.A.M. and Orientale University
Shape of Stories: Photography Zine Workshop, by Jenia Fridlyand
Making Memory Zines, by Anna Calleja
- The CounterPower of Piracy
School of Wind and Waves, by Jimmy Grima
Profession of the Giants, by Rivoluzione delle Seppie
- The Mediterranean as a Political Body
Mobile Photo Studio, by Anné Immele, Laura Besançon and Tom Val Malderen, in collaboration with Mulhouse Biennale
2024 – Curator of the Art Workshop, The Spell of Monsters, with the artist Camilla Alberti, at MOKA - Hyundai Museum of Kids' Books & Art, Seoul.
LECTURES:
2025 – Speaker at a TEDx talk at Teatro Sociale, Trento, titled The Brush Shop at the Border of War.
2025 – Speaker at the dialogue Practices of Indiscipline Towards a New Model of Art Biennale at BienalSur, Casa degli Artisti, together with:
Diana Wechsler (Artistic Director of BienalSur)
Benedetta Casini (Curator BienalSur)
2025 – International Network of Curators, SYMPOSIUM 2025, DISRUPTURE: Perspectives from the Arabian Peninsula, in collaboration with mm:museum at Northwestern Qatar, Qatar Museums, University of Jeddah Faculty, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center.
2025 – Public Lecture, Che cosa resta dell’Europa alle sue frontiere? – La storia della IUVENTA, Villa della Regina, in collaboration with the Royal Residences of Savoy and the Albertina Academy, Turin.
2026 – Public Talk, Field Practices and Cultural Mobility in Times of War, with Valeria Radke, Sofia Baldi Pighi and Leone Michelini, moderated by Giulio Verago as part of World Anthropology Day 2026 – Milan, organized by Endless Residency in collaboration with Viafarini, under the patronage of the Italian Cultural Institute of Kyiv (Milano).
2024 – Public Lecture, Heritage Interpretation, organized by UNESCO, WHIPIC and Malta Biennale, together with Dr Sujeong Lee (WHIPIC), Haeree Shim (WHIPIC), Valentina Buzzi (Hankuk University), Emma Mattei (Malta Biennale), Muza Malta.
2024 – Public discussion, Trauma-informed art and therapeutic effect of art: What are the borders of art to heal and to help?, Yermilov-Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2024 – Public Lecture, Mediterranean carte blanche, together with Emma Mattei (Malta Biennale), Elyse Tonna (Venice Biennale), Romina Delia (Arts Council Malta), during the Venice Biennale 2024, Art Explora, Venice.
2024 – Public Lecture, Dispersed home, 分散的家, Heart Space, Beijing, China.
2024 – Public Lecture, Imperial Heritage, Imperial Violence – Past or Present?, together with Emma Mattei (Malta Biennale), Anastasiia Kapranova (Programme Manager for Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa at the Ukrainian Institute), George Juma Ondeng (University of East Anglia, UK), Oksana Dovgopolova (PhD, co-curator of the Ukrainian Pavilion for the Malta Biennale), organized by the Ukrainian Pavilion during the Malta Biennale, Muza Malta 2024, Art Explora, Malta.
2024 – Public Lecture, Biennalocene, together with Larnaca Biennale (Vassilis Vassiliades, Diana Wechsler, Artistic Director) and BienalSur (Diana Wechsler, Artistic Director), during the Malta Biennale, Muza Malta.
2025 – PhD research mission on the Island of Jersey (Channel Islands), participation in the International Conference of Advanced Studies in Island Studies 2025, with the presentation of a paper in collaboration with JICAS – Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies, Jersey Heritage, Shima Journal, and SICRI – Small Island Cultures Research Initiative.
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curator
and researcher
My curatorial practice is deeply informed by radical imagination, a curatorial commitment to envisioning and facilitating alternative ways of thinking, creating, and existing.
My work is rooted in the Mediterranean, a region marked by its layered histories and ongoing migrations. Here, I see the frontier not as a place of division but as a laboratory of coexistence, proposing new political and social structure models. It invites a rethinking of borders, both physical and conceptual, as fertile grounds for utopian experiments.
The place where art projects take shape is essential for me.
I believe in the value of public spaces, I repudiate cultural heritage as a postcard to be sold to tourists, and I believe in the fundamental relationship that the community of citizens must have with its cultural heritage. Public space is to be investigated in the conflicting nature of the planning of underlying memories in the political contingencies that have traversed the EuroMediterranean geographic and social territory, marking and marching militarized borders and territories.
I believe in a curatorial practice that always continues beyond the pure exhibition dimension but actively works at engaging the public.
For this reason, my projects are always accompanied by a public program to unpack the artists' research and bring it closer to the public. In fact, I consistently devise, together with the artists, a series of workshops, talks, lectures, and experiences that I like to target for different audiences: children, adolescents, adults, families, older people, and specific micro communities. This modality is essential to ensuring that the work of art is not only the ultimate goal of the creative process but also an activating device of social engagement practices. In this sense, curatorial practice intersects with pedagogy, as the creative process aims to raise awareness and foster critical thinking through the experience of the artwork.
recent
activities
ONGOING PROJECTS:2024 / Ongoing – PhD candidate, Critical-Curatorial Practices of Contemporary Creation, at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts - Turin, Island as political Utopia, supervisor: Dr Irene Biolchini.
2026 / Ongoing – part of Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies, an experimental ecosystem where art, research, and activism converge to prototype bold responses to today’s ecological urgencies, with TBA21–Academy and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
2023 / Ongoing – Curator 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.
2025 / Ongoing – Curator of Emilija Škarnulytė for the exhibition at the National Mountain Museum in Turin, titled The New Orchestra. From Mountain Communities to the Communities of the Future, scheduled from October 29, 2025, to May 31, 2026.
2025 / Ongoing – Professor of Contemporary Art Phenomenology, MADE – “Rosario Gagliardi” Academy of Fine Arts, Siracusa, Italy.
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCES:
2024 – Artistic Director of Malta Biennale 2024, Insulaphilia, promoted by Heritage Malta, MUZA and Arts Council Malta under the patronage of UNESCO.
2024 – Head Curator of Malta Biennale 2024, The Mediterranean as a Political Body, co-curated with Emma Mattei and Elisa Carollo. Includes work by: Tania Bruguera, Laure Prouvost, Zineb Sedira, Rosa Barba, Agnes Questionmark, Simon Benjamin, Adrian Paci, Buhlebezwe Siwani.
2024 – Head Curator of Malta Biennale 2024, The CounterPower of Piracy, co-curated with Emma Mattei and Elisa Carollo. Includes work by: Mel Chin, Pedro Reyes, Post Disaster, Franziska Von Stenglin, Goldschmidt & Chiari, the Republic of the Suez Canal.
2024 – Head Curator of Malta Biennale 2024, The Matriarchive of the Mediterranean, co-curated with Emma Mattei and Elisa Carollo. Includes work by: Cecilia Vicuña, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Jean Marie Appriou, Anna Calleja, Anna Anderegg, Ana Shametaj and Giuditta Vendrame, Teresa Antignani.
2024 – Head Curator of Malta Biennale 2024, Decolonizing Malta: Polyphony is Us, co-curated with Emma Mattei and Elisa Carollo. Includes work by: Guadalupe Maravilla, Ibrahim Mahama, Austin Camilleri, Monica de Miranda, Gaia de Megni, Zehra Doğan, Dew Kim, Andrea Ferrero, Zazzarotto.
2023 / Ongoing – Curator for Una Boccata d’Arte, Emilia Romagna, promoted by Fondazione Elpis in collaboration with Galleria Continua, with the participation of Threes Productions and under the scientific patronage of the Geology, Soils and Seismicity Unit of the Emilia Romagna Region.
2026 – Curator of the 6th edition of Una Boccata d’Arte, Emilia Romagna, with artist Vasilis Papageorgiou, Tredozio (FC), in collaboration with Habitat.
2025 – Curator of the 6th edition of Una Boccata d’Arte, Emilia Romagna, with artist Vica Pacheco, Bagnara di Romagna (RA).
2024 – Curator of the 5th edition of Una Boccata d’Arte, Emilia Romagna, with artist Sóley Ragnarsdóttir, Berceto (PR).
2023 – Curator of the 4th edition of Una Boccata d’Arte, Emilia Romagna, with artist Raghad Saqfalhait, Travo (PC).
2023 – 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 and Elisa Carollo.
2024 – Curator of The Spell of Monsters, by artist Camilla Alberti, at MOKA - Hyundai Museum of Kids’ Books & Art, Seoul.
MEMBER AND CONTRIBUTOR:
2020 / Ongoing – Contributor of:
Made in Mind Magazine
NERO
Artslooker
Fakewhale LOG.
Modern Times Review
Times Malta
Exibart
Acre Magazine
Ǒpěra
2020 / Ongoing – Curator, part of IKT, International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.
2020 / Ongoing – Curator, part of Art Workers Italia, the first autonomous and non-partisan association to give voice to contemporary art workers in Italy.
ART AND PEDAGOGY:
2025 – Curator for Particle, in the UNESCO-listed area of the Natural Reserve of Rock Engravings, in Val Camonica.
2024 – Curator of the Art Workshop, Rethinking Lampedusa / Rethinking Malta, by Leonardo Caffo, Roberta Esposito and Carlo Alberto Giardina, in collaboration with MADE Program and MCAST during Malta Biennale 2024.
2024 – Curator of the Art Workshops and Public Program of the Malta Biennale, with Emma Mattei and Mirjana Batinic, for children, teenagers, adults, families, seniors, and visually impaired audiences.
2024 – Curator of the Art Workshop, The Spell of Monsters, with artist Camilla Alberti, at MOKA - Hyundai Museum of Kids' Books & Art, Seoul.
PUBLIC LECTURES:
2025 – Speaker at a TEDx talk at Teatro Sociale, Trento, titled The Brush Shop at the Border of War.
2025 – Speaker at the dialogue Practices of Indiscipline Towards a New Model of Art Biennale at BienalSur, Casa degli Artisti, together with Diana Wechsler and Benedetta Casini.
2025 – International Network of Curators, SYMPOSIUM 2025, DISRUPTURE: Perspectives from the Arabian Peninsula, in collaboration with mm:museum, Northwestern Qatar, Qatar Museums, University of Jeddah Faculty, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, and NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center.
2025 – Public Lecture, Che cosa resta dell’Europa alle sue frontiere? – La storia della IUVENTA, Villa della Regina, in collaboration with the Royal Residences of Savoy and the Albertina Academy, Turin.
2026 – Public Talk, Field Practices and Cultural Mobility in Times of War, with Valeria Radke, Sofia Baldi Pighi and Leone Michelini, moderated by Giulio Verago as part of World Anthropology Day 2026 – Milan, organized by Endless Residency in collaboration with Viafarini, under the patronage of the Italian Cultural Institute of Kyiv (Milano).
2024 – Public Lecture, Heritage Interpretation, organized by UNESCO, WHIPIC and Malta Biennale, together with Dr Sujeong Lee, Haeree Shim, Valentina Buzzi and Emma Mattei, Muza Malta.
2024 – Public discussion, Trauma-informed art and therapeutic effect of art: What are the borders of art to heal and to help?, Yermilov-Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2024 – Public Lecture, Mediterranean carte blanche, together with Emma Mattei, Elyse Tonna and Romina Delia, during the Venice Biennale 2024, Art Explora, Venice.
2024 – Public Lecture, Dispersed home, 分散的家, Heart Space, Beijing, China.
2024 – Public Lecture, Imperial Heritage, Imperial Violence – Past or Present?, together with Emma Mattei, Anastasiia Kapranova, George Juma Ondeng and Oksana Dovgopolova, organized by the Ukrainian Pavilion during Malta Biennale 2024, Muza Malta.
2024 – Public Lecture, Biennalocene, together with Larnaca Biennale and BienalSur, during the Malta Biennale, Muza Malta.
2025 – PhD research mission on the Island of Jersey, participation in the International Conference of Advanced Studies in Island Studies 2025, in collaboration with JICAS, Jersey Heritage, Shima Journal and SICRI.