The Italian art critic and curator will present a selection of projects he has curated over the last years, both as a curator in his institutional positions in Colombia and Australia and as a guest curator at the 59th Venice Biennale. Viola will focus on his socially committed curatorial approach, aimed at challenging assumptions, promoting the margins over the center, the minority over the majority, and inclusive strategies of resistance.
About our Speaker
Eugenio Viola, Ph.D. is the current Chief Curator of MAMBO – the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, in Colombia. He has curated more than 80 exhibitions worldwide, including the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, and the Italian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, both of which were critically acclaimed. Viola previously served as the Senior Curator of PICA - The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in Perth, Australia, from 2017 to 2019, where he curated, among others, the first Australian institutional exhibitions of Kimsooja, Amalia Pica, and Cassils; and Curator at the MADRE Museum in Naples, Italy, from 2009 to 2016, where he curated, among others, the first major institutional exhibitions in Italy of Boris Mikhailov and Francis Alÿs, and a complex site-specific installation of Daniel Buren.
He has collaborated with numerous international institutions, curating exhibitions devoted to artists such as Regina José Galindo (Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 2016); Karol Radziszewski (CoCA - Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, 2014); Mark Raidpere (EKKM - The Contemporary Art Museum of Tallinn, 2013); Marina Abramović (PAC - Milan, 2012); Francesco Jodice (MSU - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2011), ORLAN (MAMC - Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint Etienne, 2007).
Viola has a Ph.D. in "Methods and Methodologies of Archaeological and Art Historical Research" and is a scholar of experiences related to performance and the body. On this subject, he has edited the monographs dedicated to Teresa Margolles (Edizioni MAMBO, Bogotà, 2019); Regina Jose Galindo (Skira, Milan, 2014); Hermann Nitsch (Morra Editions, Naples, 2013); Marina Abramović, (Sole 24 Ore Cultura, Milan, 2012); ORLAN (Charta, Milan-New York, 2007). Over the years he has edited over 50 catalogs and books and has been a long-term collaborator of the magazine Artforum and Italian Arte. His writings have also been published in Flash Art, Exit Express, Enciclopedia Treccani, and many other international magazines and publications.
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