Biografie
Curatrice

Caterina Riva is the Artistic Director of MACTE Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Termoli. She founded and co-directed the project space FormContent in London (2007–2010), directed Artspace in Auckland, New Zealand (2011–14), and was Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2017–19). Among her recent curatorial projects are the exhibitions The three ecologies and The bait, both at MACTE. Since 2022, Riva has been part of the Board of Directors of AMACI Associazione dei Musei di Arte Contemporanea Italiani and the Advisory Board of STARE Associazione delle Residenze Artistiche Italiane.

Giuria Sezione Arti Visive

Gianfranco Maraniello is Director of the Modern and Contemporary Art Museums Area of the City of Milan(Museo del Novecento, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo Morando, Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano, and Studio Museo Francesco Messina), a position he has held since May 2022.
Previously, he served as Director of MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto from 2015 to 2020, and as Director of GAM Bologna (including MAMbo, the Morandi Museum, and the Museum for the Memory of Ustica) from 2005 to 2015.

Liliana Moro (Milan, 1961) is an artist who graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. In 1989, together with other artists, she co-founded Spazio di Via Lazzaro Palazzi in Milan.
Moro has exhibited in major solo and group exhibitions, including: Documenta IX in Kassel; Aperto, 45th Venice Biennale; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Rome Quadriennale; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; PS1, New York; De Appel, Amsterdam; 58th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion; Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan; MUHKA, Antwerp; Fondazione A. Ratti, Como; Fondazione Zegna, All’Aperto (permanent work), Trivero; Cubo Garutti/Museion, Bolzano; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz; and PAC – Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Milan.

Selezionatori

Simone Ciglia is an art historian, curator, critic, currently serving as a Career Instructor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon. His areas of research focus on marginal spaces within contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on its intersections with agriculture, craft, and utopian/dystopian impulses. He has curated exhibitions internationally, including most recently the 75th Edition of the Michetti Prize, Pesaro Capitale Italiana della Cultura, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Fondazione La Rocca, and 16th Quadriennale di Roma. He has also taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, Italy, and served as an Assistant Researcher at the MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome. He holds a Ph.D. in the History of Contemporary Art from the Sapienza University of Rome.

Gioia Dal Molin (PhD) is a curator and writer, based in Zurich. From 2020 till 2024 she was Head Curator at Istituto Svizzero, Rome/Milano/Palermo. She has curated numerous exhibitions, screenings, and performance programs such as: Together? Together! Screening program with Noor Abed, Joyce Joumaa, Valentin Noujaïm, She has curated numerous exhibitions – including this also the first monographic exhibitions on Klodin Erb, Mai-Thu Perret or Hannah Villiger in Italy – and has written and edited various texts and publications on contemporary art. She studied history and art history and holds a PhD from University of Zurich.

Rossella Farinotti is an art critic, independent curator and journalist. She teaches at Cattolica University and at the New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA) in Milano. She is the executive director of the Gio’ Pomodoro Archive since 2016. In 2017 she became artistic director of the City of the Archives (Milano); in 2013 she has published the book “Il Quadro che visse due volte” (Morellini ed.) on the relationship between art and cinema. In recent years she worked on projects linked to the public space (like the permanent installation by Vedovamazzei 2018; Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week dal 2023) and to the landscape (“How Far Should We Go?”, Fondazione ICA Milano, 2022). She collaborated with public and private institutions; held workshops and panels on topics such as the relationship between art and industry and public art. The dialogue and relationship with artists of different generations remains the main driver of her curatorial and analytical research, that is often developed into contexts or territories to be activated.

Emanuele Guidi is a writer, curator and researcher based in Berlin. Guidi teaches Curatorial Studies at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) in Milan and is PhD candidate in Practice in Curating at the University of Reading & Zurich University of the Arts with a research titled Like a Mountain / Like a Mall: Environmental Thinking from Border-Ecologies. He is co-artistic director of Post-Colonia: Festival of Architectures and Immaginaries in Transition – to be held in Marina di Massa, Toscany in April 2025. From 2013 and 2022 Guidi was artistic director at ar/ge kunst, Kunstverein of Bolzano/Bozen, where he carried out a programme of commissions and productions with a focus on political ecology; curated exhibitions include, a.o. Katrin Hornek, Jumana Manna, Otobong Nkanga, Slavs and Tatars, Adji Dieye, Mohamed Bourouissa, Ho Tzu Nyen, Alessandra Ferrini and Lorenzo Pezzani.