Promoters (4)
PAOLA VALENTI (main curator)
Paola Valenti is an Italian scholar of contemporary art and a researcher and professor in the same field at the University of Genoa. She graduated in Foreign Languages, Literature and Arts and specialized in History of Contemporary Art at the University of Genoa, where she completed her studies with a PhD in History, Conservation and Restoration of Architectural and Artistic Heritage (Faculty of Architecture). Her academic career began with a research grant (2003-2004) for the organization and diffusion of the materials preserved in the Archives of Contemporary Art (AdAC) of the University of Genoa; since then her research activity develops in the field of XX and XXI century visual arts, with a particular attention to documentary sources. She is the author of many essays on the figurative culture of the XX century and of monographs on Lucio Fontana (Lucio Fontana in dialogo con lo spazio: opere ambientali e collaborazioni architettoniche 1946-1968, De Ferrari Editore, Genova 2009); Paul Klee (Klee erobert Italien. Italiens Kunstkritik über den Bilder-Zauberer, Verlag Steinmeier, Deiningen 2009); Ludwig Meidner (Ludwig Meidner attraverso gli scritti, De Ferrari Editore, Genova 2009), Maria Rebecca Ballestra (Maria Rebecca Ballestra. Changing Perspectives /Cambiando Prospettive, texts in Italian and English, De Ferrari Editore, Genova 2011). She also wrote some essays on the avant-garde movements of the second half of the XX century for Art of the Twentieth Century, published by Skira in several volumes (Italian and English version). She recently collaborated with Carlo Bertelli for the new edition of History of Art, a manual published by Bruno Mondadori (2010; V Volume, XX Century Art and the new trends in the art of the present). She is also an art critic and a correspondent of Juliet Art Magazine; she took part in the organisation of several national and international art exhibitions and she recently curated Maria Rebecca Ballestra's exhibition in five steps Changing Perspectives / Cambiando Prospettive (Genoa, June – November 2011).
LUCA BOCHICCHIO (1st step curator)
Luca Bochicchio is an Italian art critic and curator. He has a PhD in Arts, Theatre and Multimedia Technologies and he is currently working on the development project of MuDAC - Museo Diffuso d'Arte Contemporanea in Albissola Marina (Savona, Italy). At the University of Genova he works as a temporary contract researcher for the Department of Arts (DIRAS) and cooperates with AdAC (Archives of Contemporary Art). He has published reviews as well as scientific essays in magazines such as Tk/Artkey, Juliet Art Magazine, Faenza, Ore Piccole, Tecnologie Didattiche, Anthropos & Iatria, Opuscula Musealia, Elephant & Castle. As a curator he has presented monographic and group exhibitions in Italy, Switzerland, Monte-Carlo and Paris.
THOMAS KALAU (2nd step curator)
DANIELA LEGOTTA (3rd step curator)
Daniela Legotta graduated in History of Art (second degree) at Genoa University. She is an independent curator and art critic. She is one of the founders of Ko.Ji.Ku. Association (Consortium Young Curators) which has organized several solo and collective exhibitions of young artists. She has published essays in magazines and catalogs. Currently She collaborates with the Archive of Contemporary Art (University of Genoa) and she is working with Comune di Celle Ligure (Savona, Italy) to the development of a web portal dedicated to contemporary art and young creativity. She is museum guide and is also active in the field of communication.
MAMIA BRETESCHE (4th step curator)
Born in Algeria, mamia Bretesche has been manager of the cultural department of the institute and school of Petroleum in Oran – Algeria. She has also curated several exhibitions for galleries and institutions in Algeria, Dubai and France. In 1978, she curated the exhibition “The independence day in Angola” White & Black photography by famous photographers, held at the Institute of petroleum. She has been the curator of “Europa’rt ” artists of the European countries at the European parliament bureau, Information office and exhibition center in Berlin, in 1995. Between 2003 and 2008, she held several international fairs as a Parisian gallery owner, Diva New York, Venice V7, Roma, Dubai, Paris. In 2010 she helped organise the exhibition “ Direct form Algiers ” at the Museum of Montparnasse in Paris. Mamia Bretesché held the first video biennial in Dubai in 2010 and was co-curator of the video Appart Paris /Dubai 3rd edition. She also has been the co-curator with Sadek Rahim of the white night “ la Nuit Blanche “ of Oran initiated in 2010 and 2011 by The French Cultural Center of Oran. In 2011 she was nominated manager and curator of the trophy Arts Plastiques of the Rapec an NGO based in Africa and supported by the UNESCO. Mamia Bretesché works as a private dealer and independant curator since 1977, she has opened a public space from 2003 until 2008 in Paris, three blocks far from Beaubourg, the museum of Modern Art and has specialised in contemporary art by young emerging artists as well as establisched ones. Mamia Bretesché is responsible of the management of artists studios and a gallery at Saint Maur des Fossés in the suburb of Paris.
LUCA ZORDAN (5th step curator)
FABIO CARNAGHI (6th step curator)
Art critic and independent curator. Scientific and cultural co-ordinator for the FAI (Italian Environment Fund) focuses his research on the visual languages of the contemporary, with a close attention to sustainability, transversality and cultural development, favoring areas with high environmental impact and strong historical connotation. The interest in the conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage and environmental issues has led him to work together with institutions (UNESCO, MAB-Man and Biosphere, Parco del Ticino), local associations and historic houses in Milan and its territory, where is working at a circuit project. He has worked as curator of contemporary art exhibitions and events in historical locations and his articles on the topic have been published on professional reviews, publications and monographies (Quayola, Bertozzi & Casoni, ZimmerFrei). Fabio Carnaghi is curator of the art section of Ultrafilosofia, webzine about art, culture and invention. He's artistic director and curator of the Rugabella Art Award, an innovative eco-contest-oriented cultural project, which aims at the definition of alternative and unconventional spaces for contemporary art.
ALESSANDRA PIATTI (7th step curator)
Alessandra Piatti is a Phd student in Visual, Performing Arts and Multimedia Technologies at the University of Genoa. She is a member of INCCA (International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art) and she is specializing in the field of conservation and documentation of installations, time-based works, and variable art. She collaborates with the Archive of Contemporary Art of the University of Genoa and she also active as an indipendent curator and art critic. From 2008 she is member of Ko.Ji.Ku Association (Consortium Young Curators) and she has organized and curated some exhibitions with the same association. Se hads also co-curated the exhibition Maria Rebecca Ballestra. Changing Perspective/Cambiando Prospettive (Genoa, June - November 2011) an she is the author of the following essays: Tra metafora e concetto. Declinazioni visive di alcune problematiche sociali e ambientali, in La grande abbuffata. Scarti_Scorie_Sprechi. Risorse Energetiche?, Erga edizioni, Genova 2009; Tra anima e corpo, in P.Valenti (a cura di), Mara Rebecca Ballestra CHANGING PERSPECTIVES/CAMBIANDO PROSPETTIVE, De Ferrari Editore, Genova 2011.
SARA REES (8th step curator)
ADAC – ARCHIVE OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GENOA
The ADAC is part of the Department of Italian Studies, Roman Philology and Performing Arts of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Genoa. In addition to the Archive's work of cataloguing and preserving documentary material on work of Italian and foreign artists, and exhibitions in public and private galleries from after the Second World War to today (over 50,000 items including catalogues, books, brochures, invitations, photographs, audiovisuals, signed documents), the Archive also promote studies and exhibitions dedicated to young contemporary research.
http://www.adac.lettere.unige.it/news.php
MAQROLL
Maqroll is an association working in the field of cultural events and publishing, to create and spread a new awareness on the issues of the relationship between man and nature. It brings together different skills and abilities around a common project: a new look to the landscape that surround us, recount in the sign of the Manifesto for Earth and the Human Being
KALART
Kalart is a platform for culture and contemporary arts and related services. KalART is a service oriented enterprise for the promotion of the arts within Switzerland and the neighboring countries. It focuses on contemporary art and is based on an international network of artists and cultural decision makers.
RAMDOM
Ramdom is an association working on cultural and artistic design and production, on international mobility and on research and development of new communication languages. Ramdom aims to promote and diffuse creative and innovative practices in the field of culture and art interacting with citizens and, private and public, national and international, organizations.
CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY ALBERTA PANE
Contemporary Art Gallery based in Paris (France)
MUCAS – MUSEUM OF CAOS
The Museum of Caos is an anti-museum, a center of production, documentation and reflection, a workshop on contemporary communication, collective, with particular attention to new generation, to the lower classes, art brut, accidental, marginal, primitive, infantile, street, underground, pop, whatever language it may be, from time to time, declined. The Museum offer to the public a place, both virtual and physical, totally free and open, in order to activate a potential of imagination for the future.
NKA FOUNDATION
Nka Foundation was in development in 2005 to bring together individuals and groups to engage in local-global humanitarian activities through use of the arts. In 2007, it developed as African Community of Arts Educators (AfriCOAE) and conducted projects at Accra and Kumasi from 2008 to 2009. In February 2008, FocusOnTheArts.Org evolved to extend AfriCOAE’s endeavors. In August 2008, Nka Foundation was established as a network of Arts Village and arts-based community projects in Africa and other industrially developing parts of the globe. In 2009, it was incorporated as a non-profit seeking company under the laws of the Republic of Ghana to carry on the work of bringing together motivated creative individuals in arts and technology, arts groups and supportive others to create cross-cultural synergy for community arts practice and infrastructure to support their continued professional growth and enhance the social, cultural and economic vitality of, especially rural communities in the Anglophone, Lusophone and Francophone African settings. The Foundation will be registered and develop residency facilities in other countries; each centre within the Network is to be independent but will similarly respond to local needs.
MATRESKA
Gruppo Matreska was founded as a cultural association and as an independent artistic group, which has the aim to diffuse at a local level various artistic and curatorial projects with an interdisciplinary and multiform style, through the experimentation of new artistic languages and proposing personal projects, which are realized through the cooperation between artists coming from various disciplines. Gruppo Matreska brings together the aim of "making art" of its representatives with their creative will of "growth", through various steps that could stimulate and spread creativity among young contemporary artists and members of the group. Matreska was first of all founded as an artistic group and then as a carrier of art and culture, which is always and fully available to interchange experiences and information through various partners, in order to support mobility, diffusion and updating.
METROPOLART
METROPOLART Cities & Artists specialize in Contemporary Art by young emerging artists in the fields of contemporary photography, digital based art, paintings and drawings as far far as new processes and forms are concerned. Metropolart cities & artists is also dedicated to promoting emerging and established artists from the Maghreb Mediterranean area and the Middle East, those, using art as an act to rethink our relationship to the world, the changes occurring in nature and its consequences. The objective is to create a dynamic climate based on art, exchange, energy, echoed by the artist cultural background, often expressed in a universal message.
XENIA
Xenia is an artist Residence Program in Francavilla al Mare (Italy). XENIA (hospitality) project wants to welcome on the hotel Villa Maria an artist to whom give hospitality. This opportunity will allow him to express all his creativity on the environment with the result of a permanent work which will last as a proof of this passing. The artist’s “stay” does not end inside the hotel but it opens outside, towards the local setting. That’s why young students or art lovers are invited in comparing directly with the artist during his creative period.
www.hvillamaria.it
ART TRIBUNE
Artribune is a platform of content and services dedicated to art and contemporary culture, born in 2011, thanks to decades of experience in publishing, journalism and new technologies of its staff, composed by Marco Enrico Giacomelli, Claudia Giraud, Massimo Mattioli, Santa Ribbon, Francesco Sala, Valentina Tanni, Helga Marsala with the direction of Massimiliano Tonelli. Edited by Artribune Ltd, chaired by Paolo Cuccia (also chairman of the Gambero Rosso), Artribune is the most extensive and widespread cultural preparation of the country (it has 250 employees around the world) and the following more information tool, updating and deepening in Italian art and everything that evolves around it. Bot only web magazine, but also free press, thanks to a free printed magazine in 55 thousand copies ad distribuited throughout Italy. Presence in the network, even through a series of channels and tools, all coordinated with each other: Artribune reaches you via e-mail, with a peculiar system of mailing lists, on various social networks, with apps for smartphones and effective webtv which publishes an average of five videos each year.
WALL STREET INTERNATIONAL
Wall Street International Magazine is one of the most educational web magazine among others focused on culture, and of its kind, the first one written in six different languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. With a strong team of international writers, photographers, and artists that have consolidated their experience in the traditional publishing, WSI Magazine is a multimedia instrument completely dedicated to satisfy the needs of those people who find their Domus through culture. Wall Street International Magazine is an instrument of collection, development, and news release useful and necessary to cultured people, whom maintains the characteristics of a paper magazine of high level, but at the same time presents itself as an innovative showcase through which it is possible to observe the world and its endless spaces. Through a careful analysis of cultural trends and a methodical research to identify international events, the magazine offers the readers specific areas with numerous headings that allow them to select topics of interest and to constantly monitor their main events.
www.wsimagazine.com