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Introducing Cristina Baldacci (@crismi77), who will participate in the symposium ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ
Cristina Baldacci is an art historian and associate professor in History of Contemporary Art at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches Contemporary Art and Photography. She is an affiliated faculty member at THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE), where she coordinates the “Ecological Art Practices” research cluster and the “Art Ecologies” series. She has authored books, including the monograph “Archivi impossibili: Un’ossessione dell’arte contemporanea” (Johan & Levi); and edited publications, such as “Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide” (Wetlands); “On Reenactment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools” (Accademia University Press); “Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory” (ICI Berlin Press); and “Double Trouble in Exhibiting the Contemporary: Art Fairs and Shows” (Scalpendi)
Photo by Claudia Peppel
Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia, ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ accompanies the group exhibition #NebulaVenice with a series of conversations and panels held at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 17–18, 2024.
ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ is coordinated by Chiara Nicolini, Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners: Department of the Arts, @unibo; Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, @cafoscari; and @curatorial.school
Media Partner: @moussemagazine
Visual identity: @lorenzomasonstudio
Introducing Lucia Aspesi (@luciaaspesi), who will participate in the symposium ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ
Lucia Aspesi is curator at @pirelli_hangarbicocca, where she co-curated shows by Trisha Baga, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Chiara Camoni, Sheela Gowda, Thao Nguyen Phan, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, and Nari Ward. Her upcoming curated projects include solo shows by artists Tarek Atoui and Nan Goldin. She is currently working on a duo show by Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger that will be presented at IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern in the Fall of 2024. In 2021, she curated the exhibition program “Cosmic Archeology” at WAM – Turku City Art Museum with shows by Tabita Rezaire, Alia Farid, Mox Mäkelä, and Patricia Domínguez. In her independent projects, Lucia has presented the solo show by Ben Rivers at La Triennale di Milano (2017) and co-curated the major retrospective on Marinella Pirelli at Museo del Novecento (2019). For more than 10 years, she has collaborated with the Marinella Pirelli Archive. Since 2020, she teaches Curatorial Studies at NABA – New Academy of Fine Arts. She has contributed to and edited numerous publications and exhibition catalogues, and regularly lectures on contemporary art and curating.
Photo by Lorenzo Palmieri
Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia, ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ accompanies the group exhibition #NebulaVenice with a series of conversations and panels held at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 17–18, 2024.
ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ is coordinated by Chiara Nicolini, Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners: Department of the Arts, @unibo; Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, @cafoscari; and @curatorial.school
Media Partner: @moussemagazine
Visual identity: @lorenzomasonstudio
Congratulations to Ali Cherri, whose film “The Watchman” (2023), which we commissioned and produced on the occasion of his solo show “Dreamless Night”at @gamec_bergamo and @fracbretagne, will be screened tonight at the @st.moritz_art_film_festival 2024.
The screening will be followed by a conversation between the artist and @leonardobigazzi, curator a the Fondazione and co-curator of this year’s edition of the festival.
“The Watchman” is centered around the figure of a soldier whose job is to guard the border of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. This soldier, like many others before him, spends his prolonged and dull shifts perched on a watchtower looking out for “the enemy,” who may or may not arrive down the hills of the recognized Republic of Cyprus under Greek-Cypriot rule. The stagnating landscape traps the protagonist in a physical and metaphorical threshold where the edges between alertness and sleepiness, reality and imagination are constantly trespassed until his fantasies and reveries take over and unleash unexpected events. Through a speculative fictional approach typical of Cherri’s filmic practice, the film continues the artist’s critical investigation into conflicts of acknowledgment, the inheritance of historical trauma, and the radical potential of the imagination.
More info via the link in bio
“The Watchman” was co-produced by @thevegafoundation and @KinoElektron. The film received additional support from Galerie Imane Farès, Robert Matta - Fondation RAM, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, and Frac Bretagne
Credit: @ali.cherri, “The Watchman,” 2023. Video still. Courtesy of the artist; Fondazione In Between Art Film; and @imanefaresgalerie
Introducing Mara Ambrožič Verderber, who will participate in the symposium ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ
Mara Ambrožič Verderber, PhD(c), is an expert in art institutional building, a curator and a contemporary art critic. Since 2020, she is the executive and artistic director of the @obalne.galerije.piran. She has been involved in the activity of numerous art organizations, museums, academic platforms and networks, including NSK State Pavilion; Monnaie de Paris; Fondazione di Venezia; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice; Slovenian Pavilion, Biennale Arte 2007. As a fellow professor at Università IUAV di Venezia (2007–12), she has co-lectured in Theory of Art and Cultural Critique alongside Prof. Marta Kuzma and Editorial and Curatorial Approaches in the Arts with Cornelia Lauf. She has also edited and co-authored several books, such as “Art as a Thinking Process. Visual Forms of Knowledge Production” (Sternberg Press). Since 2013, she has also been a team member of Raw Material Company in Dakar, and an editorial associate of the publishing house Archive Books, Berlin
Photo by Niko Mally, PCG 2024
Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia, ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ accompanies the group exhibition #NebulaVenice with a series of conversations and panels held at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 17–18, 2024.
ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ is coordinated by Chiara Nicolini, Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners: Department of the Arts, @unibo; Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, @cafoscari; and @curatorial.school
Media Partner: @moussemagazine
Visual identity: @lorenzomasonstudio
Introducing artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò (@studiogiorgioandreottacalo), who will participate in ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ, the symposium accompanying the group exhibition #NebulaVenice and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 17–18, 2024
In this excerpt, Giorgio Andreotta Calò tells us more about “Nebula” (2024), the work we commissioned and produced for the group exhibition #NebulaVenice, which is on view at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 24, 2024
Giorgio Andreotta Calò studied Sculpture at the Academy of Venice and the Weißensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin. He was an assistant to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov from 2007–11. He has participated in international residency programs such as at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Villa Arson in Nice, and the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions including Oude Kerk, Amsterdam; and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture, including the PAC – Piano per l’Arte Contemporanea (2021), the Italian Council (2017), and the Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea (2012). He exhibited in the Venice Biennale Arte 2011 and represented Italy at the Biennale Arte 2017. He lives and works in Venice, where he teaches Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts
Watch the full interview via the link in bio
Video credit: @daviderapp
ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ is curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia
Coordinated by Chiara Nicolini, Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners: Department of the Arts, @unibo; Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, @cafoscari; and @curatorial.school
Media Partner: @moussemagazine
Introducing Karimah Ashadu (@karimahashadu), who will participate in the symposium ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ.
Karimah Ashadu is a British-born Nigerian artist living and working between Hamburg and Lagos. Recent exhibitions include Biennale Arte 2024, where she was awarded the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant in the International Exhibition. Her work has been exhibited and screened in institutions such as Kunsthalle Bremen; Tate Modern, London; South London Gallery, London; Vienna Secession; Kunstverein in Hamburg; MoMA, New York; and Center d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. Ashadu is the recipient of other awards such as the Prize of the Bötterstraße in Bremen (2022) and the ars viva award (2020). Her work is part of the public collections of MoMA, New York; the Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Genève (FMAC); and the Bundeskunstsammlung in Germany. She was named Abigail R. Cohen 2021 Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Paris.
Photo by Israel Aigberadion
Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia, ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ accompanies the group exhibition #NebulaVenice with a series of conversations and panels held at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 17–18, 2024. The program also includes a discussion with Karimah Ashadu, whose film “Machine Boys” was produced in 2024 by the Fondazione for her participation at the Biennale Arte 2024 and was awarded with the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Artist.
ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ is coordinated by Chiara Nicolini, Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners: Department of the Arts, @unibo; Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, @cafoscari; and @curatorial.school
Media Partner: @moussemagazine
Visual identity: @lorenzomasonstudio
Introducing @2050.plus, the interdisciplinary agency founded by Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, which will participate in ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ, the symposium accompanying the group exhibition #NebulaVenice and taking place at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, on October 17–18, 2024.
In this excerpt, architects Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli (@ippopeste) and Francesca Lantieri (@fralantieri), tell us more about the scenography the agency designed for #NebulaVenice, which is on view at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 24, 2024
2050+ is an interdisciplinary agency based in Milan whose work revolves around diverse forms of critical spatial practices at the intersection of technology, politics, and the environment. Founded in 2020, 2050+ has carried out various curatorial and research practice-based projects that have been presented in 2022 at the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and the CCA, Montreal; and in 2021 at the Russian Federation Pavilion at Biennale Architettura, Venice, and the Istanbul Design Biennial. 2050+ has conceived the scenography and set design for exhibitions at Haus der Kunst, Munich; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; the National Museum of Norway, Oslo; MAAT, Lisbon; and for theater plays at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo. For Fondazione In Between Art Film, they developed the display concepts of the exhibitions Nebula and Penumbra at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice. They also completed the architectural renovation and spatial transformation of 10 Corso Como, Milan; Multertor, St. Gallen; and La Rinascente, Rome. Texts written by 2050+ have been published in numerous publishing platforms, including Flash Art, e-flux Architecture, Terraforma Journal, Volume, and Unbore.
Watch the full interview via the link in bio
Video credit: @daviderapp
ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ is curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst) and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia.
Coordinated by Chiara Nicolini, Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners: Department of the Arts, @unibo; Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, @cafoscari; and @curatorial.school
Media Partner: @moussemagazine
We are pleased to announce ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ, the symposium accompanying the group exhibition #NebulaVenice, which is on view at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto until November 24, 2024
Curated by Bianca Stoppani (@abinoppst), editor at the Fondazione, and organized in collaboration with @palazzo_grassi, Pinault Collection Venezia, on October 17–18, 2024, ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ will navigate a poetic path through the works, the curatorial posture and scenography of Nebula by embracing an entangled perspective on media and environments. In particular, the program will look at atmospheres as vectors dense with image and weather events while probing wider questions concerning the act of seeing and the sensory experiencing of moving images. It will also includes a discussion with Karimah Ashadu, whose film “Machine Boys” was produced in 2024 by the Fondazione for her participation at the Biennale Arte 2024 and was awarded with the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Artist. Furthermore, it will share the work in progress that Paola Ugolini, curator at the Fondazione, is undertaking with co-editors Maria Alicata and Carla Subrizi for an upcoming publication dedicated to women artists working with moving images in Italy from 1960–89
The participants include: 2050+/Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Maria Alicata, Mara Ambrožič Verderber, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Karimah Ashadu, Lucia Aspesi, Cristina Baldacci, Erika Balsom, Leonardo Bigazzi, Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Nav Haq, Sharon Hecker, Fatima Hellberg, Eleni Ikoniadou, Chrissie Iles, Saodat Ismailova, Amal Khalaf, Helena Kritis, Basir Mahmood, Diego Marcon, Lorenzo Mason Studio, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Matteo Pasquinelli, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Alessandro Rabottini, Mark Rappolt, Giulia Rispoli, Francesco Spampinato, Mike Sperlinger, Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Valentine Umansky, and Isobel Whitelegg
ᴛʜɪᴄᴋ ᴀᴛᴍᴏꜱᴘʜᴇʀᴇꜱ is coordinated by Chiara Nicolini, Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Educational partners Department of the Arts, @unibo; Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, @cafoscari; and @curatorial.school
Media Partner @moussemagazine
Visual identity @lorenzomasonstudio