bio

Education

2012-2014 Master Master in Advanced Studies in Contemporary Images, Fondazione Fotografia (FMAV), Modena

2009-2011 MA Visual Art (History of Contemporary Art), University of Bologna (degree thesis : “The presence of the object in Sophie Calle’s work”)

2010 – 2011 : the research for the thesis was conducted in Paris

2005-2009 BA Literature and History of Art, University of Bologna (degree thesis : “Federico Zeri and the Accademia Carrara”, about Zeri’s bequest to the museum collection)

2007 – 2008: Université Toulouse -Le Mirail France – Erasmus scholarship

Grants | Residencies | Prizes

2021 Residency at Izolyatsia – Platform for Cultural Initiative, Kyiv with the support of Movin’up Prize

2020 Premio Francesco Fabbri – contemporary photography section – finalist

2020 Residency at Hangar – Centro de Investigaçao Artistica, Lisbon with the support of Movinup Prize

2020 Movin’up Prize – residency grant Lisbon – Kiev

2015 Fondazione Carlo Gajani Grant (residency grant : Albania)

2015 Place called space, visiting professor Lucasz Surowiec, Careof-Via Farini, Milan

2014 Colonos Artist Recidency

2014 Firouz Galdo Grant, promoted by Fondazione MAXXI e Associazione Meno finalist

2013 Artist in residency, Stills Gallery, Scotland’s Centre for Photography, Edinburgh

Exhibitions 

2021

Premio Francesco Fabbri for contemporary arts – contemporary photography section

2020

Live stream at SPAMM – 4BR3 4 tU4 M3NT3, D35con3c+4 curated by Systaime and Zaratan

2019

Tempi complessi, MAD Murate Art District, Firenze, curated by Fondazione Marangoni

Sequenza sismica, Istituto Italiano di cultura in collaborazione con FMAV, Berlino

Ricostruzioni – sezione Tempo sospeso, curated by N. Bassoli, La Triennale, Milano

State of mind, curated by Petra Carson, Palazzo Valmarana Braga, Vicenza

2017

Sequenza sismica, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, curated by Filippo Maggia and Teresa Serra, with Alicja Dobrucka, Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir, Naoki Ishikawa, Tomoko Kikuchi, Olivier Richon, Valentina Sommariva

DEE DEE Distant Dwarf, curated by Massimo Vitangeli, Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi (PERSONAL)

2016

Gërmoj, Fondazione Carlo Gajani, Art City 2016, Bologna (PERSONAL)

Matrimonio all’italiana, with Flavio Favelli, Francesco Carone, Mirko Smerdel and Fratelli Broche, curated by Elisa Del Prete and Homemovies, Atelier Corradi, Bologna

Artes | Xmq of pit, ready for the mosh!, curated by Andrea Bruciati and Valentina Lacinio, ArtVerona

Occulta il volto che pietrifica: Photography as Performance, a cura di Andrea Bruciati, Demanio marittimo KM-278, Marzocca di Senigallia

Posto Fisso, Ex Aci, Fotografia Europea Off, Reggio Emilia

2015 

Firouz Galdo, MAXXI B.A.S.E., MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome 

2014

IV Biennal of young italian photographers, curated by Francesca Lazzarini, Centro Italiano della fotografia d’autore, Bibbiena

Colonos Open Call 2014, curated by  Angelo Bertani and Michele Bazzana, Colonos, Udine

US, curtated by Filippo Maggia, Foro Boario, Modena

2013

Principianti, curtated by Filippo Maggia, Ex ospedale Sant’Agostino, Modena 

The summer Show, curtated by Filippo Maggia, Ex ospedale Sant’Agostino, Modena

Catalogues | interviews | book publications

Sequenza sismica, curated by Filippo Maggia and Teresa Serra, Skira Milano 2017 (catalogue)

Karesansui (short story) in Larizzate Sette Racconti, curated by Paola Pasquaretta, 2017. Texts by Francesca Lazzarini, Alessandra Cesare e Timothy O. Asoie, Marta Collini, Roberto D’Agostin, Elena Mazzi, Anna Pavone, Eleonora Quadri, Daniela Zangrando.

222 Artisti emergenti su cui investire, Exibart, Rome, Settembre 2017

Allons enfant/25, interview curated by Andrea Bruciati 

Il mare che unisce, with interventions of Martina Di Tommaso, Elia Fofi, Francesca Paolillo, Stefan Pircher, Eleonora Quadri, Valentina Sommariva, Quaderno di Cinema del Reale, year II number 2

Colonos open call 2014, curated by Angelo Bertani et Michele Bazzana, ed Poligrafiche San Marco Udine 2014, pp. 46 – 49 (catalogue)

Us The summer show 2014, Fondazione Fotografia Modena 2014, pp. 38-39 (catalogue)

E. Quadri, A Proposito dei visitatori, in Ogni cosa suo tempo | All in good time, Mousse publishing Milano, 2013

Teaching and archive experience

2016 – 2022 : teaching at Master in Advanced Studies in Contemporary Images, FMAV, Modena

2020-ongoing I collaborate with the photographic archive of the Bergamo ISREC (Istituto per la storia della Resistenza e dell’età contemporanea) in Bergamo on a project supported by Premio Brighenti.

I am currently teaching History of Art at Liceo Artistico Decio Celeri in Lovere (BG)

Other experiences

2014 – Archivist for the documentary LUDRIMI – LA TRAVERSATA, directed by Martina Di Tommaso, Stefan Pircher Verdofer, Soena Lame, curated by Cristiano Regina, with the supervision of Pietro Marcello, Daniele Gaglianone, Kujtim Cashku, project promoted by MOXA, voiceoff and Marubi film Academy, Tirana. 

2011 – 2012 Project manager Ogni cosa suo tempo, cap IV V, curated by Stefano Raimondi e Mauro Zanchi. Artist: Navid Nuur, Alis/Filliol, Daniel Rees and Francesco Arena, Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo

Collections

Italian photography collection, Fondazione Cassa Risparmio Modena