Matteo Innocenti è curatore e critico d’arte, docente. Come curatore ha collaborato con musei e istituzioni (tra cui il Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato, la Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, MAD. Murate Art District, Firenze), con spazi no-profit, gallerie private italiane ed estere, residenze d’artista. È tra i fondatori di Estuario project space, presso Officina Giovani (Prato); è inoltre ideatore e direttore dello spazio no-profit La Portineria (Firenze) e curatore delle residenze artistiche Vacant Zone (online) e Vis à Vis Fuoriluogo (Molise). In ambito critico e giornalistico ha scritto e scrive per testate d’arte quali ATP Diary, Artribune, Exibart, Flash Art, oltre che per cataloghi e riviste. Insegna all’interno di corsi accademici e master.

Maria Rosa Sossai is a researcher in the field of artistic practices and education policies. She lives in Rome. In 2010 she founded esterno22, an association for contemporary art education, which in 2012 became ALA accademia libera delle arti, an independent platform for education and contemporary art; recent projects include a cycle of workshops and exhibitions of Italian and international artists at FAI – Villa e Collezione Panza in Varese. It currently collaborates with Spazio5 in Trieste. From 2013 to April 2015 she was artistic director of AlbumArte spazio | projects for contemporary art, a non-profit cultural association in Rome. She has curated exhibitions and projects in galleries, foundations and museums in Italy and abroad such as the MAN museum in Nuoro, the Pastificio Cerere Foundation, the Polish Institute in Rome, Nomas Foundation, the American Academy, the Real Academia de España in Rome, the Italian Cultural Institute in Istanbul and Seoul, the Tel Aviv Museum, SongEun ArtSpace in Seoul and together with Laura Cherubini, a travelling exhibition by Carla Accardi in Toruń, Budapest, Thessaloniki and Athens.
She writes for contemporary art magazines such as Flash Art, Arte e Critica, Artribune and Shifter; with Silvana Editoriale, Milan, she has published Arte video, storie e culture del video d’artista in Italia, 2002, Film d’artista, percorsi e confronti tra arte e cinema, 2009, Vivere insieme art as a pedagogical action, 2018.

Born and raise in Lebanon, Roi Saade is an indipendent visual designer working in both graphic design and photography. Saade holds a Master’s degree in of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the Holy Spirit University – USEK in Lebanon. After years as a graphic designer, Saade’s visual perception and curiosity led him to leave the corporate worls and follow his crative path. He uses photography as a toll to access unfamiliar places. In 2016, he was granted the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) supported by The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Magnum Foundation and Prince Claus Fund. Alongside, Roi is a designer of DogFood Magazine, an indipendent Photo Magazine combining archival material mized with a dash of cynicism.

Roberto Mastroianni è filosofo, curatore e critico d’arte, Dottore di Ricerca in Filosofia e Scienze della Comunicazione, membro del Comitato di Direzione della UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Development and Territory Management dell’Università degli Studi di Torino, Ricercatore Indipendente presso il C.I.R.Ce – Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche sulla Comunicazione e Presidente del Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà di Torino. Le sue ricerche si concentrano principalmente sull’Estetica filosofica, la Teoria generale della Politica, l’Antropologia, la Semiotica, Urban Studies, Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, Urban Innovation and Cultural Heritage, Street Art e Graffiti-Writing, Urban Design e UrbanArt, l’arte contemporanea e irregolare e la critica filosofica.

È autore e co-autore di diversi libri, articoli e saggi di teoria della politica, filosofia e critica d’arte e curato diverse esposizioni in spazi pubblici e privati e musei e tenuto lezioni, seminari e conferenze in differenti Università italiane e straniere. Inoltre ha svolto attività di consulenza nell’analisi strategica e culturale per diverse agenzie internazionali, organizzazioni pubbliche e private e istituzioni politiche.

Janine Gaëlle Dieudji is a bi-national French and Cameroonian graduate of Culture and International Relations from Lyon 3 University in France. She also holds a Master Degree in Political Science from Paris 2 Panthéon Assas University.

She’s been living in Florence, Italy, for the past six years, a city she has since fallen in love with. This is how Florence became home to her and the place where she started to build her career as an art professional. She considers herself as a ‘multi­local’ by believing that we belong to all the places we have lived in. Home is where the mind can create and feel rested at the same time. This is what the life journey is made for, exploring to become the person we decide to be.

Justin Randolph Thompson is a new media artist, cultural facilitator and educator born in Peekskill, NY in ’79. Living between Italy and the US since 1999, Thompson is Co-Founder and Director of Black History Month Florence, a multi-faceted exploration of African and African Diasporic cultures in the context of Italy founded in 2016.
Thompson is a recipient of a Louise Comfort Tiffany Award, a Franklin Furnace Fund Award, a Visual Artist Grant from the Fundacion Marcelino Botin, two Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants, A Jerome Fellowship from Franconia Sculpture Park and an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park. His life and work seek to deepen the discussions around socio-cultural stratification and hierarchical organization by employing fleeting temporary communities as monuments and fostering projects that connect academic discourse social activism and DIY networking strategies in annual and biennial gathering, sharing and gestures of collectivity.

Following a specialist degree in Phenomenology of styles at DAMS in Bologna with Renato Barilli, she obtained a series of advanced studies in Curatela, History of Religions and Anthropology of Art in Berlin, Rome and Milan. She has collaborated with the magazines Segno and Exibart.
From 2005 to 2007 she was responsible for institutional exhibitions and publications for Photology, organizing projects involving, among others, Mario Giacomelli, Enzo Cucchi, Joel-Peter Witkin, Claudio Abate and Achille Bonito Oliva.
In the museum field, from 2008 to 2015 she curated the collections of the 20th and 21st century and the exhibitions on contemporary art at Mart, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto.
From 2016 to 2019, in charge of the Museum of Palazzo Pretorio in Prato, she worked on the symbolic stratifications of the time with Pretorio Studio, inviting artists in residence to the museum with a final collection-specific exhibition.

She published, among others, with Silvana Editoriale, Electa Mondadori, Gli Ori and Mousse Publishing.

Luigia Lonardelli graduated in Florence in 2004 following the archiving of the studio of the artist Mario Mariotti. The following year she obtained a master’s degree in management for curators at the Faculty of Architecture of Valle Giulia in Rome. She graduated from the Scuola di Specializzazione di Siena with a study on Ugo Mulas’ colour photography. In 2012 she discussed her doctoral thesis on the activity in the seventies of the association Incontri Internazionali d’Arte, which is currently being published. Since 2005 he has collaborated with the Direction for Contemporary Art dealing with the promotion of Italian art. She is editor-in-chief for the Art section of the latest volume of the Enciclopedia Treccani. Since 2010 she has been working at MAXXI where she is currently curator.

Pietro Gaglianò (1975) is an art critic and curator. After graduating in architecture he deepened the relationship between the aesthetics of power and individual freedoms, preferring the urban, architectural and social context as the scene of contemporary art practices. He has curated special projects and exhibitions in Italy and abroad. For years he has been experimenting with hybrid formats of the art verification space, in which laboratory and training experiences are grafted onto the traditional model of exhibition and conference.

Matteo Innocenti Curator and art critic. As a curator he collaborates with museums and institutions (including: Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Center for Contemporary Arts in Vilnius in Lithuania, Museum of Villa Croce in Genoa) with no profit spaces, Italian and foreign private galleries and artistic residences. As a critic he has written and writes for art magazines such as Artribune, Exibart, Flash Art, ATPDiary and for catalogs and magazines.
Since 2000 he has also worked in the field of communication as an author, director, director. Since 2010 he has been involved in the technical management of a communication company active on the national territory both in the institutional sphere and in the organization of events. He is a freelance journalist.

Gabriele Pantaleo graduated in Art History and methodology of historical and artistic research at Universtiy of Genoa in 2013. In 2015 he won the call for young curators helded by Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci of Prato and collaborated in the organization of the exhibition Così ti ha fatto Dio e così ti devo tenere: the call was organized in order to discover and to promote young artists in Tuscany. In 2016 he parteciped as curator in the exhibition Guardare il mondo di oggi e immaginare quello di domani organized by Centro Pecci of Prato. In 2018 he enrolled in the course for indipendent curators N.I.C.E. and he worked as curator in the exhibition Mettersi a nudo organized as part of the art fair Paratissima in Turin. In 2019 he has been assistent professor for the master course in Museum services management organized by Palazzo Spinelli Associazione no profit Firenze and Mus.E. Firenze. In the same year he organized the exhibition Nel Pensiero, Nello Sguardo by photographer Mohamed Keita, hosted by MAD Murate Art District in Florence. He lives and works in Florence

Renata è curatrice indipendente e responsabile per il progetto Artegiro Contemporary Art, un progetto curatoriale nomadico e transnazionale in arte contemporanea con sede in Italia. Artegiro è un programma che opera all’interno dell’AILAE, organizzazione co- fondata da Renata nel 2007. Summo O’Connell attualmente collabora con il Global Center for Advanced Studies, come docente del corso Materialist, anticolonial & diasporic studies. Avendo lavorato nei campi di ricerca e docenza in Sociolinguistica e Gender Studies specialmente in Australia, ha continuato indipendentemente la sua scrittura e ricerca critica dopo il ritorno in Europa, concentrandosi soprattutto su argomenti relativi ai ruoli dell’artista e del curatore nella società, la pratica artistica nelle nuove forme di cattività per migrazione, attraverso nuovi modelli di ricerca transnazionale che, al di là di confini istituzionali, possano far avanzare con decisione il dibattito internazionale sull’arte, sulla progettualità creativa e culturale in relazione alla vita politica e sociale. In collaborazione con Monash University Prato Centre, ha lanciato il progetto Imagined Australia. Una Riflessione sulla reciproca costruzione di identità tra Australia e Europa, pubblicato da Peter Lang nel 2009 e nel 2018, in collaborazione con un gruppo internazionale di curatori e artisti, il progetto di ricerca Decolonize! Art, curatorial and critical practices in contemporary times. Con la creazione del COCOAA, una collaborazione che lei ha stabilito tra AILAE e il Comune di Conzano in Monferrato, è curatrice delle residenze artistiche Artegiro che hanno luogo annualmente dal 2010 ed hanno visto più di 14 artisti internazionali in residenza finora. Renata ha creato AILAE Research forums e l’AILAE Summer School in collaborazioni con l’Universita di Monash Prato Centre, Prato; l’Università di Bari; Università Cà Foscari, Venezia; Unical, Rende. E’ stata invitata o ha proposto e collaborato con Goldsmith Uniersity, London; Set Up Art Fair Special Events, Bologna; MAD Murate art District; Università di Cordoba, Argentina; Estate Fiorentina, Comune di Firenze; Città Metropolitana, Firenze; White Night Melbourne, Melbourne City Council Australia.

In collaborazione con AILAE, Renata Summo O’Connell è in residenza curatoriale per il biennio 2020/2021 e per il biennio 2022/2023.

https://www.monash.edu/prato/timeline#/years/2005/events/2675979; https://www.murateartdistrict.it/en/stay-with-me/
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http://www.lemuratepac.it/en/decolonize-art-curatorial-and-critical-practices-in-contemporary-times/

LWCircus is the Italian – Mexican Operative Shared Program born in the 2016, following to a critical rereading of the guide lines delineated along the pluriannual experience of coordination inside of successful international operative programs and looking for a systematization of alternative methodologies based on social practices and an improvement of tools and devices, able to give life to long term process in term of sustainable development and responsible valorization. The Program focuses specifically on experimental modalities in searching new strategies for sustainable urban and rural development on sensitive natural areas and territories under transition (anthropologic, socio-economic and environmental aspects), together with a responsible valorization of cultural landscapes inside Mediterranean and the developing Countries.

Livia Dubon is a London-Florence based art writer and independent curator. Her curatorial practice, interweaves artist commissions, research and participatory practices encouraging innovative ideas and interdisciplinary dialogue between creative individuals. Her recent research focuses on the relationship between concepts of national identity, collective memory, and representation. She is particularly interested in how contemporary artists’ practices decolonize institutions and which processes foster a decolonization of knowledge. Exhibition she curated are “Negotiating Amensia” (Murate PAC, 28 Nov – 09 Dec 2015) and “The Impossible Black Tulip” (Murate PAC 3 May-3Jun.2018).

Livia successfully completed three Masters Degrees; in Museums and Gallery Studies (Newcastle, UK, 2009), in International Management of the Arts (Genoa, Italy, 2005), and in Art History (Parma, Italy, 2004). She is Ph.D. candidate at Kingston University London with the title “Italian Blackness: Decolonising the former Museum of the Colonies“. Livia writes for Artkernel, Artribune, and Kritica. She has also participated in international conferences as a guest speaker to disseminate her curatorial and research work such as LYNX Imaging The Past/Collecting The Future, 22-25 June 2016, Lucca (Italy) and Curatorial Challenges, The University of Copenhagen. 26-27 May 2016.

Daria Filardo Storica dell’arte e curatrice indipendente, vive a Firenze. Insegna Contemporary art practices e Art Practicum al Master in studio Arts (Saci Firenze), Visual Arts al Master in Arts Management allo IED – Firenze, dove coordina il final project. Ha insegnato inoltre dal 2001 al 2011 Storia dell’arte contemporanea alla Fondazione Studio Marangoni. Dal 1998 al 2000 ha lavorato come curatrice al Palazzo delle Papesse di Siena e dal 2001 è curatrice indipendente. Scrive su cataloghi e su riviste. Si interessa a progetti a lunga scadenza che articola negli anni, come ‘‘Distanza come identità?”.
Selezione mostre curate: Do you remember, Aleksander Duravcevic, (saggio in catalogo) Montenegro pavillion, 56.ma Biennale di Venezia, 2015; Can I reach you?, Valerio Rocco Orlando, Bianco/Valente, Claudia Losi, insieme a Pietro Gaglianò e Angel Moel Garcia, Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Lucca, ottobre 2015; Filling the void – Walker Keith Jernigan, residenza e mostra personale, Boccanera Gallery, Trento, maggio 2014; Placing Space/Spacing Place- Walker Keith Jernigan, Xenos, Firenze, 2014; Material Marks (as far as I can reach) Sophie Tottie, Giacomo Guidi, Milano, maggio 2014; Arte torna arte, con Bruno Corà e Franca Falletti, Galleria dell’Accademia, Firenze, maggio – dicembre 2012; Cartabianca Firenze, con Lorenzo Bruni e Pietro Gaglianò, Museo of Villa Croce, Genova, 2011; Motherland/Homeland. Simon Roberts, Ex3, Firenze, 2010; Sahara chronicle. Ursula Biemann (distance for identity?) careof/DOCVA, Milano, 2010; Fuori Contesto – public art project, con Cecilia Guida, Bologna/Milano/Manifesta7 Bz-Tn-Rov, 2008.

He has been the Artistic Director of the Macro Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. Creator and curator of the MAAM Museum of the Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove Metropoliz_città meticcia and of the -1 art gallery of the Casa dell’Architettura of Rome. He founded and directs the diffused DiF Museum of the city of Formello. He has conceived and edited as event manager the Rome Architecture Festival. He was editor and director of «ARIA [rivista d’artisti]. He is currently the (ir) respondabile director of “FART i fogli della Fabbrica dell’ARTe”.
Among the latest publications we report the volumes: Diari urbani (Prospettive edizioni, introduction by Marc Augé), Forza Tutt*. La Barricata dell’arte, Exploit. Come rovesciare il mondo ad arte. D-istrizioni per l’uso (curated with F. Benincasa e A. Facchi), Space Metropoliz. L’era delle migrazioni esoplanetarie (curated with F. Boni), Rome. Nome plurale di città (with F. Benincasa), Il Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz (Boprdeaux editions) and Il museo dovunque (edizioni Inside art). He is also the author of numerous photographic books including: Umani, Urbani & Marziani (Postcart). He has also curated exhibitions and art catalogs and is the author of numerous critical contributions.
The MAAM Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz_città meticcia is the first inhabited museum of the Planet Earth (or rather of the Moon). Son of the film and art gallery Space Metropoliz, the MAAM was founded in 2012 to protect the house of 200 migrants and temporary workers from all over the world. Today it boasts a collection of over 500 works.

Curator and art critic. As a curator he collaborates with museums and institutions (including: Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Center for Contemporary Arts in Vilnius in Lithuania, Museum of Villa Croce in Genoa) with no profit spaces, Italian and foreign private galleries and artistic residences. As a critic he has written and writes for art magazines such as Artribune, Exibart, Flash Art, ATPDiary and for catalogs and magazines.

Kko-kka Lee è project manager e curatrice per il Korean Artist Project, una piattaforma online che mette in connessione gli artisti koreani con istituzioni ed editori, e ex-responsabile Pianificazione e Sviluppo del Programma Accademico alla Busan Biennale 2016.

Curatrice indipendente e Rappresentante del progetto Platform A