Arte Fiera Observatory

Arte Fiera Observatory: a short online contribution in which a well-known figure in the art world (a critic, artist, gallerist, collector, journalist etc.), with a link to Arte Fiera and familiar with Bologna and its art scene, has presented every week, for almost three years, an exhibition to visit, an artwork that left a lasting impression, a place to see, or an artist to rediscover.

08-07-2021

Luca Cerizza

Luca Cerizza (b. Milan, 1969), a critic and curator, lives in Turin. He has taught at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan) since 2006. His books include Alighiero Boetti. Mappa (Afterall, London 2008/Electa, Milan 2009) and L’uccello ...

01-07-2021

Chiara Camoni

Chiara Camoni (b. 1974) lives and works in Fabbiano, in the Versilia hills. Her solo shows include the upcoming one at CAPC (Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux) in Bordeaux; in 2019: About this and that. The self and the other. ...

24-06-2021

Aldo Giannotti

Aldo Giannotti (b. Genoa, 1977), a visual artist, has lived and worked in Vienna since 2000.He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, at the Wimbledon University of Arts in London, and that the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.He has ...

17-06-2021

Filippo Tappi

Filippo Tappi (b. Cesena, 1985, living in Bologna) is an artist who works with sculpture, the press, and collective dynamics. In 2010 he founded Tipografia Testamento, a press organ devoted to quick-print and artisanal publications. In 2019, ...

10-06-2021

Riccardo Baruzzi

Riccardo Baruzzi (b. Lugo, 1976) is a visual artist. His autobiography can be summed up as follows: “One day I went to my valley – the Ravenna Valley – where some friends organised lunches in the hunting and fishing huts. ...

03-06-2021

Fabio Farnè

Fabio Farnè has always been passionate about contemporary art. An entrepreneur in the ‘80s and ‘90s, he invited artists to create experimental projects in an electromechanical company, and in 2008 he hosted an exhibition ...

27-05-2021

Giorgio Andreotta Calò

Giorgio Andreotta Calò (b. Venice, 1979) lives and works in Italy and Holland. He studied sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and at the Kunsthochschule in Berlin. In 2008, he moved to Holland, where he was artist in residence ...

06-05-2021

Stefano Arienti

Stefano Arienti is one of the most important Italian artists of his generation. Born in Asola (Mantua) in 1961, in 1980 he moved to Milan, where he still lives. In 1986 he earned a degree in Agricultural Science with a dissertation on virology. ...

18-02-2021

Beppe Finessi

Beppe Finessi (b. 1966), architect and PhD, is an Associate Professor at the School of Design at Milan Politecnico, a critic (former editor of “Abitare” magazine), and a researcher who has curated exhibits and publications on the ...

11-02-2021

Luca Scarlini

Luca Scarlini, writer, playwright for theatre and music, narrator, performance artist. Teaches narration techniques at the Holden School in Turin and has worked with numerous Italian and European theatrical institutions, including the National ...

04-02-2021

Elena Pasoli

Elena Pasoli has always promoted culture, working in children’s publishing and illustration for over 20 years. She is the Exhibition Manager of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the world’s leading fair for the children’s ...

28-01-2021

Paola Ugolini

Paola Ugolini lives and works in Rome.She is an Art critic and independent curator. She writes regularly for Exibart. Since the late eighties she has been curating various shows and artistic projects based mostly on the work of female artists, ...

14-01-2021

Alessandro Luppi

Alessandro Luppi is the director of the LABS Contemporary Art Gallery in Bologna. The space has always been dedicated to research, with special attention to the dialogue between historicized art and contemporaneity, focusing on the territory ...

07-01-2021

Luca Lo Pinto

Luca Lo Pinto (b. 1981), the artistic director of MACRO – Museo d’arte contemporanea di Roma, was the curator of Kunsthalle Wien from 2014 to 2019 and is a co-founder of NERO magazine and publisher. His essays have been published ...

24-12-2020

Elena Re

Elena Re, art critic and independent curator, works with public and private institutions in Italy and abroad. She studies and promotes Italian art by means of cultural projects, exhibitions, and publications, focussing especially on the thought ...

26-11-2020

Roberto Martorelli

In 2000, after many years as an interior designer, Roberto Martorelli joined the team in charge of the Civic Museum of the Risorgimento’s “Certosa Project,” which promotes and restores Bologna’s monumental Certosa cemetery. ...

12-11-2020

Paola Forni

Paola Forni earned a degree in biology in 1985 and immediately began working with her father Tiziano, managing the Gallery he had founded in 1967. She became the Gallery’s director in 1995, opening and managing Studio Forni in Milan from ...

05-11-2020

Gian Luca Farinelli

Gian Luca Farinelli has been the director of Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna since 2000. In 1986, he created the Cinema Ritrovato festival, and in 1992 promoted the opening of the restoration laboratory L’Immagine Ritrovata. He has supervised ...

29-10-2020

Caterina Molteni

Caterina Molteni (b. Milan, 1989) is the Assistant Curator at MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna. From 2016 to 2019 she was the director of the Public Program and Digital Contents at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in ...

22-10-2020

Claudio Musso

Claudio Musso is an art critic, independent curator, Professor of Phenomenology of Contemporary Art and of Theory of Perception and Psychology of Form at the G. Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo, where he is Coordinator of the Painting ...

15-10-2020

Giovanni Di Brindisi and Stella Massaro

Giovanni Di Brindisi and Stella Massaro have run the AF Gallery in Bologna since 2010. Re-named AF Gallery in 2018, it focuses on research and experimentation (with specific reference to the ‘90s) and also presents works by more ...

08-10-2020

Riccardo Venturi

Riccardo Venturi is a contemporary art historian and critic. His publications include Mark Rothko. Lo spazio e la sua disciplina (Electa 2007), Black paintings. Eclissi sul modernismo (Electa 2008) and Passione dell’indifferenza. Francesco ...

01-10-2020

Cristiano Seganfreddo

An innovator and creative entrepreneur, he was a professor of Fashion Design at Milan Politecnico and Scientific Director of Corriere Innovazione at the newspaper Corriere della Sera in Milan. He is the director of Progetto Marzotto and author ...

24-09-2020

Silvia Evangelisti

After earning a degree in Modern Literature with a dissertation on the History of Contemporary Art, she received her PhD in Art History in 1989. From 1986 to 2015 she chaired the department of History and Methodology of Art Criticism at the ...

17-09-2020

Giulia Biafore

Giulia Biafore (b. Bologna, 1992) is the director of Galleria Studio G7 in Bologna, founded by Ginevra Grigolo in 1973. In addition to its main activities, Galleria Studio G7 promotes artistic research by means of collaborations with public ...

10-09-2020

Leonardo Regano

Leonardo Regano (b. Bari, 1980. Lives and works in Bologna) is an art historian, independent critic and curator. He has curated shows for public institutions (including the International Museum and Library of Music of Bologna; Mar – Museum ...

17-06-2020

Davide Rosi Degli Esposti

Davide Rosi Degli Esposti is the director of Bologna’s CAR DRDE Gallery, which inaugurated the art district created in the “Manifattura delle Arti” area. CAR DRDE is an exhibition space for the promotion and popularization of contemporary art ...

16-06-2020

Luca Caccioni

Luca Caccioni was born in Bologna in 1962. He attended public school, art high school, and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.He taught painting in Palermo and Brera (Milan), and since 2002 has been the Chairman of Visual Arts and Painting ...

11-06-2020

Chiara Bertola

Chiara Bertola was born in Turin in 1961. She lives and works in Venice and Milan. She is Curator of Contemporary Art Program at the Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice since 1999. She was artistic director at the Hangar Bicocca in Milan ...

10-06-2020

Pier Paolo Pancotto

Pier Paolo Pancotto is the curator of La Fondazione, Rome and of the Art Club exhibition programme at Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici (2016-present). He has curated, among others, the Fortezzuola exhibition series (Museo Pietro Canonica, ...

28-05-2020

Patrizia Raimondi

Patrizia Raimondi has directed the Galleria L’Ariete artecontemporanea in Bologna since 1983. The gallery presents Italian and foreign artists in dialogue with recent generations of authors through conceptual and stylistic relations. ...

21-05-2020

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup is a collective of italian filmmakers based in Romagna, founded in 2000 by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. The group experiments in the film field, on the border between figurative, performative and ...

14-05-2020

Andrea Pizzi

Andrea Pizzi, an attorney in Bologna, specialises in art law and serves as a consultant to museums, foundations, artists and collections. In 2005, he founded the UIA Art Law Commission in Paris. He has written numerous essays and articles on ...

07-05-2020

Giuseppe Iannaccone

Giuseppe Iannaccone was born in Avellino on 25 November 1955. In the early ‘70s he moved to Milan, where he earned a degree in law and opened his own office. In the early ‘90s he discovered his passion for art, convinced that a ...

30-04-2020

Veronica Veronesi

Veronica Veronesi is the director of GALLLERIAPIÙ (Bologna, 2013). The gallery is a versatile space for contemporary art, focusing on research and artistic experimentation. In addition to its schedule of shows, the gallery regularly ...

02-04-2020

Renato Barilli

Renato Barilli was born in Bologna in 1935 and taught Phenomenology of Styles for many years at the DAMS course of the University of Bologna, where he is now an emeritus professor. In addition to aesthetics, his interests include both art criticism ...

19-03-2020

Chiara Casarin

Chiara Casarin is the director of the Civic Museums of Bassano del Grappa and a curator of contemporary art. She has curated numerous shows and publications for Italian and foreign public institutions as well as for private bodies and collectors, ...

11-03-2020

Francesco Ribuffo

Francesco Ribuffo manages the Galleria de’ Foscherari in Bologna with Bernardo Bartoli and Elena Ribuffo. The gallery was opened in the early ‘60s by Pasquale Ribuffo and Franco Bartoli and remains faithful to its origins, ...

04-03-2020

Francesca Passerini and Claudio Calari

FRANCESCA PASSERINI An art historian and archivist, she has worked at the Lercaro Collection in Bologna since 2007, doing research on the art collection, curating shows, and organising training courses for all kinds of audiences. She is a member ...

26-02-2020

Alessandro Bosetti

Alessandro Bosetti (b. Milan, 1973, living in Marseille) is a composer and sound artist who, through multiple forms and fields, has expressed his passion for the sound of speech and for the voice understood as an independent object and expressive ...

19-02-2020

Ludovico Pratesi

Ludovico Pratesi was born in Rome in 1961. He contributes to the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica” and is a professor of contemporary Italian art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino. He was the Artistic Director of the Peschiera ...

12-02-2020

Laura Moro

Laura Moro (b. Rome, 1967) is an architect and PhD in Conservation of Architectural Heritage. She began working with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBAC) in 2000 and was the Director of the Central Institute for Cataloguing ...

05-02-2020

Luca Vitone

The artwork of Luca Vitone (Genoa, 1964), began in the second half of the ’80s. It focuses on the idea of the place, inviting us to recognize something we already know, defying the conventions of mutable, faded memory that characterize ...

29-01-2020

Simone Menegoi

Simone Menegoi (b. Verona, 1970) is a contemporary art critic and curator. From 1997 to 2003 he worked mainly as a journalist, writing for Italian newspapers such as Corriere della Sera. Since 2004, he has curated exhibits in public and private ...

22-01-2020

Barbara Abbondanza Maccaferri

Barbara Abbondanza was born in Pesaro and earned her degree at Bologna University. While still a student, she formed an organization and communication company (active until 2009) that gradually specialized in organizational consulting in the ...

15-01-2020

Giuseppe Palmieri

Born in Matera in 1975, Giuseppe Palmieri is self-taught in wine and food. In 2000, after working at Villa Crespi and Locanda Solarola, he came to Osteria Francescana in Modena, where he began working with a very young Massimo Bottura, for ...

08-01-2020

Eva Marisaldi

Eva Marisaldi, a visual artist, lives and works in Bologna. She was the featured artist at Arte Fiera 2020, with “Welcome”. I remember a series of works by Dutch designers at the Certosa Monumental Cemetery in ...

18-12-2019

Fabio Alberto Roversi Monaco

Degree in Law, Professor of Administrative Law at Bologna University. Rector of Bologna University from 1985 to 2000. During his term as Rector he modernised the University and also conceived and created the Magna Charta Universitatum. He promoted ...

11-12-2019

Nico Vascellari

Nico Vascellari was born in Vittorio Veneto (TV) in 1976. Nico currently lives and works in Rome. He is considered to be one of the most important Italian artists of his generation. During Arte Fiera 2019 he performed "Ciao Ciao Arte Fiera", ...

04-12-2019

Marcorea Malià

Marcorea Malià (real name Marco Zanardi) opened his "creative cave," a studio-salon-laboratory and meeting place for art, in 1978. Since then, he has dictated fashion in Milan shootings, and countless artists, politicians, ...

27-11-2019

Massimo Cirulli

Silvia Grandi is an art historian and curator. A Professor in the History of Contemporary Art at the University of Bologna, she focusses primarily on performance art and current forms of moving images. She curates shows and exhibitions in public ...

20-11-2019

Massimo Cirulli

Massimo Cirulli began his collection in the early ‘80s in New York by frequenting the NY art scene with his wife Sonia. In 1984 they created the Massimo and Sonia Cirulli Archive to present 20th century Italy and its art. In the following ...

13-11-2019

Enrico Paroletti

Enrico Paroletti, a graduate of Bologna University and a GIOCA master, is Chairman of the Friends of the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti Onlus, one of the most active cultural NPOs in Genoa.Every year, I take the same train back to Bologna ...

06-11-2019

Giovanni Egidio

Giovanni Egidio, 55, has been the editor-in-chief of "Repubblica Bologna" since 2010 I’m inhabited by a gloriously bipolar spirit during Arte Fiera. On the one hand, I’m a journalist afflicted by ill-concealed anxiety, ...

30-10-2019

Cesare Pietroiusti

Cesare Pietroiusti (born 1955 in Rome) is a visual artist, founder and coordinator of many art research, design, and conference centres. Since 1977 he has exhibited in numerous private and public spaces in Italy and abroad. With a degree in ...

23-10-2019

Massimo Mezzetti

Massimo Mezzetti, 57, was born in Rome. He moved to Modena 30 years ago and now lives in Bologna. He studied humanities and theology, and became involved in politics at an early age, when political commitment meant something entirely different ...

16-10-2019

Giancarlo Tonelli

Giancarlo Tonelli (Bologna, 1960) received the Italian Order of Merit for Labour in May 2018. In March 2013 he was appointed a Director of the Chamber of Commerce Industry Handicrafts and Agriculture of Bologna. Since November 2000 he has been ...

09-10-2019

Maria Morganti

Maria Morganti, Milan 1965, lives and works in Venice. Her work focuses on the experience of colour, understood as matter and trace of existence. Among her personal exhibitions in public institutions: "Il Sostituto: lo studio itinerante", ...

02-10-2019

Matteo Zauli

Matteo Zauli is a cultural manager and curates shows, events, residences and festivals related specifically to the use of ceramics in contemporary languages in Italy and abroad. He teaches cultural management and lectures in the Course for ...

18-09-2019

Federica Schiavo

Federica Schiavo is the director (with Chiara Zoppelli) of the Federica Schiavo Gallery, founded in Rome in 2009 and based in Milan since 2016. She has been a member of the Arte Fiera Selection Committee since 2019. Patrick Tuttofuoco ...

11-09-2019

Selva Barni

Selva Barni founded Fantom and is a photography curator and editor. In addition to her work as a curator, she lectures in the Master in Photography and Visual Design course at the New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA) in Milan. Since December 2017, ...

04-09-2019

Fabiola Naldi

Fabiola Naldi is an art historian and curator. She teaches Art Appreciation at Bologna University, Problemi Espressivi del Contemporaneo at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts, and Storia e Teoria dei Nuovi Media at the Bergamo Carrara Academy. ...

31-07-2019

Mauro Stefanini

Mauro Stefanini became a collector because he is passionate about art. Bolognese by birth, he founded the Open Art Gallery in Prato (where he has lived for over 40 years) in 2000. Entrepreneur by profession and gallery owner by calling, he ...

24-07-2019

Stefano Collicelli Cagol

Stefano Collicelli Cagol (b. Padova, 1978) is the curator of the Rome Quadrennial and teaches in the 2nd Level Specialising Master’s programme in Design for Arts at the Politecnico of Turin. An expert in the history of exhibitions, he ...

17-07-2019

Alessandra D’Innocenzo Fini Zarri

Alessandra D'Innocenzo Fini Zarri è is Chairman of the do ut do Commission. A work from the do ut do collection was exhibited in “Solo figura e Sfondo”, the first show in the Courtesy Emilia-Romagna cycle curated by Davide Ferri at Arte Fiera ...

10-07-2019

Giangi Fonti

Giangi Fonti was born in Naples in 1973. From 1999 to 2004 he worked at the Neu Gallery in Berlin. On 10 June 2004, he opened the Fonti Gallery in Naples. Since 2005, the Gallery has participated in the largest national and international fairs, ...

03-07-2019

Sissi

Sissi (Bologna, 1977) lives and works in Bologna and London. She graduated from the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts and now teaches at the Department of Visual Arts of the Florence Academy of Fine Arts. She won the Furla Art Award (2001) and the ...

25-06-2019

Maura Pozzati

Maura Pozzati is an art historian and art critic, and a professor of History and Methodology of Art Criticism at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts. She specialises in contemporary art and curates exhibitions in public and private spaces. She ...

19-06-2019

Massimo Orsini

Massimo Orsini was born in Reggio nell'Emilia and grew up in Sassuolo (MO). In late 2005, curiosity led him to leave his family’s company and take over Mutina to try his hand at ceramics, quickly making it a material loved by the world’s ...

12-06-2019

Carlo Repetto

Carlo Repetto, Director of the Repetto Gallery in London since 2015, began his career at the Repetto and Massucco Gallery in Acqui Terme in 1983. In 2006, he opened the Repetto Gallery with headquarters in Acqui Terme and Milan. The ...

04-06-2019

Francesco Zanot

Francesco Zanot, photography critic and historian, has curated exhibitions and written monographs of artists such as Olivo Barbieri, Mark Cohen, Linda Fregni Nagler, Luigi Ghirri, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, Francesco Jodice, Erik Kessels, ...

29-05-2019

Fulvio Macciardi

Fulvio Macciardi is the Superintendent of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna. A chamber-music and orchestral violinist up to 2003, he then worked as the artistic director of opera houses. After holding the positions of General Director, Artistic ...

22-05-2019

Gianluca Ranzi

Gianluca Ranzi has worked mainly with Fluxus, Mono-Ha, Happening and Gutai, and has curated exhibitions and projects for artists such as Yoko Ono, Cèsar, Daniel Spoerri, Carsten Nicolai, Gordon Matta-Clark, Danh Vo, and Lee Ufan. He ...

15-05-2019

Paolo Giacomin

Paolo Giacomin, journalist, age 53. Managing Director of the newspaper “il Resto del Carlino” after having directed Quotidiano Nazionale (Qn). Married to Sandra, father of Caterina. Has a black cat named Bagheera. A fan of Europe, ...

08-05-2019

Ludovica Carbotta

Ludovica Carbotta (Turin, 1982) lives and works in Barcelona. She received a Master in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University in London (2015). Her work has been exhibited in personal and group shows at prestigious institutes in Italy and abroad. ...

02-05-2019

Andrea Viliani

Andrea Viliani has been Director of MADRE, Naples since 2013. In 2010-12 he was one of six Agents/Core-Group of dOCUMENTA(13); from 2009 to 2012 he was Director of the Fondazione Galleria Civica-Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità ...

24-04-2019

Ilaria Speri

Ilaria Speri is a curator and producer of exhibitions and publications. A correspondent at Il Giornale dell’Arte, she writes for books and magazines, and collaborates with the creative agency Boiler (Milan and Barcelona) in the development ...

17-04-2019

Alex Cecchetti

Alex Cecchetti, an Italian artist, poet, and performer living in Paris, has developed an artistic practice that is hard to classify – he calls it “art of avoidance.” Invisible choreography, highly imaginative tales, objects ...

10-04-2019

Sara Piccinini

Sara Piccinini studied in Bologna and Brussels, and did an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. In 2018 she was appointed Senior Coordinator of the Maramotti Collection in Reggio Emilia, where she has worked since before ...

02-04-2019

Laura Cherubini

Laura Cherubini, critic, curator and art historian, known especially for her contributions to the study of 1960s and ‘70s Italian art, is the curator of the new FOCUS section of Arte Fiera 2020. IN BOLOGNAAlberto Garutti taught at ...

27-03-2019

Laura Trisorio

Laura Trisorio is the director of the Studio Trisorio Gallery in Naples and of Artecinema - International Film Festival on Contemporary Art. She was a director of ANGAMC – National Association of Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries ...

20-03-2019

Letizia Ragaglia

Letizia Ragaglia has been the Director of Museion, Bolzano's Modern and Contemporary Art Museum since 2009. At the 2019 Arte Fiera, she was a member of the Annamaria and Antonio Maccaferri Photography Award jury.Photo by Luca Meneghel I ...

13-03-2019

Cristian Chironi

A multi-disciplinary artist, Cristian Chironi’s different expressive languages blend and dialogue. His site-specific installations and performative artworks are always designed to interact with their specific context, be it a live audience ...

06-03-2019

Cecilia Canziani

Cecilia Canziani is an independent and historical art curator. At Arte Fiera 2019, Cecilia Canziani was a jury member of the Mediolanum Award for Painting won by Nazzarena Poli Maramotti.Every time I go to Bologna, I visit the Church of Santa ...

27-02-2019

Tania Bruguera

Tania Bruguera, internationally renowned artist, will be in Bologna on March 1st with a lecture/debate at the DAMSLab to inaugurate the ten-day projects (1-10 March) that she will carry out as part of the Atlas of Transitions Biennale | HOME, ...

20-02-2019

Stefano Cortesi

Stefano Cortesi is a member of Arte Fiera’s Selection Committee. His passion for art led him first to be a collector and then to open the first Cortesi Gallery in Lugano in 2013, followed by venues in London and Milan. As always extremely ...

13-02-2019

Eva Brioschi

Art historian, curator of the La Gaia Collection in Busca (CN), Eva Brioschi was a member of the Jacobacci & Partners Award jury at Arte Fiera 2019. Bologna, “the fat” is one of the nicknames given to this city located between northern and ...

06-02-2019

Matteo Lepore

Matteo Lepore is Bologna’s City’s Counsellor for Culture, Tourism and Civic Imagination. He took over his current position in 2018 after seven years as Counsellor for the Economy and City Promotion. Bologna is the ideal street art ...

30-01-2019

Cristiano Raimondi

Cristiano Raimondi is the curator in charge of international projects and development at Monaco’s Nouveau Musée National. He has long experience working in partnership with artists and fellow curators on international exhibitions ...

23-01-2019

Gea Politi

Editor in chief and director of Flash Art, Gea Politi collaborates with key cultural institutions and is an adviser to the United Nations on cultural development projects in the field of contemporary Art. From 2019, her magazine Flash Art has ...

16-01-2019

Flavio Favelli

One of the most significant artists of his generation, Flavio Favelli was included in the 50th and 55th Venice Art Biennale. Arte Fiera 2019 hosts his “Hic et Nunc”, a sort of museum space dedicated by him to the general public, ...

09-01-2019

Marino and Paola Golinelli

Marino Golinelli, founder and Honorary President of Alfasigma and the Golinelli Foundation, and his wife Paola share a love of contemporary art. Collectors and “researchers”, they see the artworks in their possession as tools for ...

21-12-2018

Massimo Di Carlo

Massimo Di Carlo is Director of Galleria dello Scudo, established in Verona in 1968. A member of the advisory committees of numerous public exhibitions, he was President of ANGAMC – The Association of National Modern and Contemporary ...

19-12-2018

Roberto Grandi

President of the organization grouping Bologna museums (Istituzione Bologna Musei), Roberto Grandi was Bologna City Counsellor for Culture from 1996 to 1999. From 2000 to 2009, he was Bologna University’s Vice Rector for International ...

10-12-2018

Davide Ferri

Davide Ferri is an art critic and independent curator. A lecturer in Aesthetics at Rimini’s Fine Arts Academy (LABA) and in the Ergonomics of Exhibitions at Bologna’s Fine Arts Academy, in 2012 he curated the Art Section of the ...

03-12-2018

Fabrizio Padovani

Together with Alessandro Pasotti, Fabrizio Padovani directs the P420 Gallery, founded in 2010. He is President of the Association of Bologna’s Modern and Contemporary Art galleries and from 2018 has been a member of Arte Fiera's Selection ...

28-11-2018

Silvia Fanti

Silvia Fanti is a performing arts curator and programmer. She has founded and co-directed several independent transdisciplinary research organizations. For one of these, Xing, she recently curated the International Contemporary Performing Arts ...

19-11-2018

Massimo Torrigiani

Massimo Torrigiani is a founder member of Boiler, a creative agency with offices in Milan and Barcelona, and Fantom, a non-profit organization exploring the realms of photography, sound and the visual arts. They design and produce exhibitions, ...

14-11-2018

Lorenzo Balbi

Head of Modern and Contemporary Art Department Istituzione Bologna MuseiArtistic Director MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna Photo by Caterina Marcelli I am, I admit, biased but the exhibition I suggest visiting is the personal ...