Experience

Centro Pecci - Fondazione per le arti contemporanee in Toscana

• Curator and Special Projects Coordinator

  • Dec 2015 - Present

  Curator and special projects coordinator at Centro Pecci, where I curated, organized, and served as editor of catalogs for several exhibitions such as Chiara Fumai. Poems I will never release 2007–2017 (2021), Formafantasma. Cambio (2021), Protext! When fabric becomes a manifesto (2020), co-curated with Marta Papini, Rirkrit Tiravanija: Tomorrow Is the Question (2019), Wiltshire Before Christ: Aries, Jeremy Deller, David Sims (2019), Jozef Robakowski: Nearer Farther (2017), among other projects. In 2016 – on the occasion of the reopening of the museum after a period of renovation and expansion of the original building – I followed the design and production phase of the exhibition The end of the world (2016-2017), the management of relationships with artists, lenders, collectors, galleries and institutions involved. The exhibition included, among others, works by Adel Abdessemed, Darren Almond, Kader Attia, Francis Bacon, Fayçal Baghriche, Rossella Biscotti, Björk, Kerstin Brätsch, Cai Guo-Qiang, Julian Charrière, Julius von Bismarck, Analivia Cordeiro, Hanne Darboven, Marlene Dumas, Jimmie Durham, Olafur Eliasson, Carlos Garaicoa, Camille Henrot, Thomas Hirschhorn, Polina Kanis, Tadeusz Kantor, Andrey Kuzkin, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Suzanne Lacy, Ahmed Mater, Boris Mikhailov, Henrique Oliveira, Agsnieska, Pavlenska, Pavlenska Qiu Zhijie, Fari Shams, Santiago Sierra, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andrzej Wróblewski, David Zink Yi. In 2015 I conceived and coordinated the TU35 Geographies of Emerging Art in Tuscany, an ongoing mapping project that was subsequently followed up in the 2016 and 2017 editions. Show less



Istituto Europeo di Design

• Italy
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Lecturer at the Visual Arts MA at IED Venice and IED Florence, in particular of the courses Curatorial Practice and Curating and Projecting. The courses are designed as a research lab and are developed with the logic of learning by doing, in order to guide the students to develop a profitable professional path, as mediators of new languages of a transversal culture. Lecturer at the Visual Arts MA at IED Venice and IED Florence, in particular of the courses Curatorial Practice and Curating and Projecting. The courses are designed as a research lab and are developed with the logic of learning by doing, in order to guide the students to develop a profitable professional path, as mediators of new languages of a transversal culture.



Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia

• Italy
• Performing Arts
• 200 - 300 Employee

• The Milk of Dreams – Italian Catalog Editor

  • May 2021 - Mar 2022

  Italian editor of the catalog The Milk of Dreams / 59th International Art Exhibition curated by Cecilia Alemani. Italian editor of the catalog The Milk of Dreams / 59th International Art Exhibition curated by Cecilia Alemani.



Gucci

• Italy
• Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry
• 700 & Above Employee

• The New Work Times Executive Editor

  • May 2018 - Sep 2018

  Executive editor and researcher for “The New Work Times”, the editorial project published on the occasion of the show The Artist is Present, curated by Maurizio Cattelan and Marta Papini (Yuz Museum Shanghai, 2018). Executive editor and researcher for “The New Work Times”, the editorial project published on the occasion of the show The Artist is Present, curated by Maurizio Cattelan and Marta Papini (Yuz Museum Shanghai, 2018).



Fabrica

• United Kingdom
• Retail Art Supplies
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Imago Mundi Editor

  • Aug 2016 - Oct 2017

  Editor for the Imago Mundi project, the series of books ideated from the collection of works commissioned by Luciano Benetton during his travels around the world. The project wants to catalogue works, inspirations, and ideas, to pass down to future generations the widest possible mapping of the situation of human cultures at the start of the third millennium. In particular, I have been in charge of editing and proofreading: Finland: Myth and Innovation, India: Flowering cultures, Inuit: Land of Arctic Ice, Kosovo: Small Is Beautiful, New Zealand: Kiwi Consciousness, Norway: Cold Current, Venezuela: A Shining Constant in the Artistic Sky, West Canada: Oh West Canada! Show less



Casa dei Tre Oci

• Project Manager

  • Sep 2010 - Apr 2014

  As project manager I was in charge to organize shows and coordinating the editorial projects, support the artists invited and take care of relations with foundations, museums or collections involved such as - among others - La Biennale of Venice. As part of the annual program host at Tre Oci, during Art and Architecture Biennale, I served as Project manager for the V‐A‐C Foundation, Moscow. As project manager I was in charge to organize shows and coordinating the editorial projects, support the artists invited and take care of relations with foundations, museums or collections involved such as - among others - La Biennale of Venice. As part of the annual program host at Tre Oci, during Art and Architecture Biennale, I served as Project manager for the V‐A‐C Foundation, Moscow.



MARSILIO EDITORI S.P.A.

• Italy
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Editor

  • Apr 2008 - Sep 2010

  Junior editor of the Illustration & catalog department at Marsilio Editori publishing house (Rizzoli group), I was in charge of the editorial coordination for modern and contemporary art, photography and architectural publications. Junior editor of the Illustration & catalog department at Marsilio Editori publishing house (Rizzoli group), I was in charge of the editorial coordination for modern and contemporary art, photography and architectural publications.



Piotr Uklanski Studio

• Assistant Curator

  • Jul 2007 - Dec 2007

  Assistant at the Piotr Uklanski Studio, managing the archive and the artist’s liaisons, particularly supporting Galleria Massimo de Carlo (Milan), Gagosian Gallery (New York), and Galerie Perrotin (Paris). I was also the contact person for guest museums or institutions in the organization of both individual and group exhibitions. Assistant at the Piotr Uklanski Studio, managing the archive and the artist’s liaisons, particularly supporting Galleria Massimo de Carlo (Milan), Gagosian Gallery (New York), and Galerie Perrotin (Paris). I was also the contact person for guest museums or institutions in the organization of both individual and group exhibitions.



Palazzo Grassi | Punta della Dogana

• Italy
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Curator

  • Jan 2007 - Dec 2007

  Alison M. Gingeras’ assistant, during the time she was the curator of the François Pinault Collection, for the exhibition Sequence 1. Painting and Sculpture from the François Pinault Collection (Palazzo Grassi, Venice, May – November 2007). Alison M. Gingeras’ assistant, during the time she was the curator of the François Pinault Collection, for the exhibition Sequence 1. Painting and Sculpture from the François Pinault Collection (Palazzo Grassi, Venice, May – November 2007).



IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art

• Ireland
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Curator

  • May 2006 - Dec 2006

  Intern in the Education and Community Department at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art). I played a particular role in supporting the Talks & Lectures Program, taking part in the organization of the International Symposium Access… All Areas (IMMA, Dublin, 8-11 November 2006) and collaborated with the Artist Residency Program. Intern in the Education and Community Department at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art). I played a particular role in supporting the Talks & Lectures Program, taking part in the organization of the International Symposium Access… All Areas (IMMA, Dublin, 8-11 November 2006) and collaborated with the Artist Residency Program.