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