CV
EDUCATION
2024
Practice-Based PhD, Screen School, LCC, University of the Arts London.
2014
MA Visual Culture, University of Westminster, London.
2010
BA Fine Art, University of Westminster, London.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Unsettling Genealogies, Museo Novecento, Florence. Curated by Daphne Vitali.
2022
Unruly Connections, ar/ge kunst, Bolzano, Italy. Curated by Emanuele Guidi.
A Bomb to be Reloaded, Villa Romana, Florence.
Se la realtà non è solo un fotogramma... (If reality is not just a photogram...), Casa Testori, Milan IT. With Jacopo Rinaldi. Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni.
2015
Negotiating Amnesia, P.A.C. Le Murate, Florence. Curated by Livia Dubon Bohlig.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS
2025
Gaddafi in Rome: Anatomy of a Friendship, IFRR International Film Festival Rotterdam.
POST-COLONIA, ex-Torre Fiat, Massa. Curated by Martina Angelotti and Emanuele Guidi.
2024
Foreigners Everywhere, 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Confluences, DeLaCruz Gallery, Georgetown, Washington. Curated by Ilaria Conti.
The Insubric Line, Kunst Meran. Curated by Lucrezia Cippitelli and Simone Frangi.
Projections | chapter III: Narrating, ICA Sofia. Curated by Katia Anguelova and Lucrezia Cippitelli
Gaddafi in Rome: the Expanded Script, performance-lecture, Pushkin House, London.
Unsettling Genealogies, performance-lecture, Live Works vol.11, Centrale Fies.
On Iconographic Silences and Unruly Connections, performance-lecture, Transart Festival/Kunst Meran.
2023
Beauté et Terreur, Mucem, Marseille. Curated by Alessandro Gallicchio and Kathryn Weir.
Totalitarian Props, Africa Centre, London. Curated by Tewa Barnosa and Najlaa El-Ageli.
Realistic Utopias, Køs, Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Denmark. Curated by Irene Campolmi.
2022
The Words Create Images, 5th Casablanca Biennale, Morocco. Second instalment. Curated by Christine Eyene.
Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2022, MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome. Curated by Giulia Ferracci.
KAS, Centrale Fies, Italy, curated by Simone Frangi.
GEOGRAFIE - Raccontare i tempi, raccontare i luoghi (GEOGRAPHIES - Narrating times and places). Ma*Ga Gallarate's Contemporary Art Museum, Milan. Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni.
2021
Memory Matters, public art project. Commissioned and curated by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Biennale della Democrazia, Turin.
When the Present is History, MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki. Curated by Daphne Vitali.
School of Waters, 19th Mediterranea Biennale. Republic of San Marino, curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, Simone Frangi and A Natural Oasis.
Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, UK .
Colonial (Dis)entanglements, film programme at Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami USA.
2020
Rue d’Alger, Manifesta 13 Paralléls du Sud, Casa Italia, Marseille, France. Curated by Alessandro Gallicchio and Simone Frangi
Everything Passes Except the Past, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, curated by Irene Calderoni and Jana J. Haeckel, Goethe Institut
The Art of Non-Fiction, Open City Documentary Film Festival, London
Art works! European Cultures of Resistance and Liberation, travelling exhibition: Cubo Garutti - Museion (Museo of Modern and Contemporary Art), Bozen and MSU Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (education project)
Tutta un'Altra Storia, MaGa Gallarate's Contemporary Art Museum, Milan (education project)
2019
How to Build a Lagoon with a Bottle of Wine, 2nd LAGOS Biennal, Nigeria
When the Present is History, DEPO, Istanbul Biennal collateral. Curated by Daphne Vitali.
Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
Gaddafi in Rome: the Expanded Script, performance-lecture, Archive Kabinett, Berlin
Gaddafi in Rome: the Expanded Script, performance-lecture, DEPO, Istanbul Biennal collateral. Curated by Daphne Vitali.
The Recovery Plan: Pop-up Black Cultural Center, Fondazione Biagiotti, Florence, Italy. Curated by Black History Month Florence
Global Perspectives on Fascism & Antifascism, Colgate University, NY, USA
Conversation Pieces, curated by Michelangelo Corsaro and Archive Books, Stantards, Milan
Our Skins are Porous Too, Skelf online platform, curated by Adam J B Walker
2018
Manifesta 12 Biennale, Film Programme, Palermo, Italy.
Offline Browser: 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei.
COMING SOON, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin.
Directing the Real. Films d’artistes et vidéos des années 2010, Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brest, France.
Amnistia, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Brera Art Academy), Milan.
LO-FI, Studium P, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Black Archive Alliance, organised by Villa Romana and Black History Month Florence.
Gaddafi in Rome: the Expanded Script, performance-lecture, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy.
Gaddafi in Rome: the Expanded Script, performance-lecture, Screen Research Forum, LCC, University of the Arts London.
2017
Document Film Festival 2017, CCA Glasgow (Centre for Contemporary Arts), Scotland.
Sound of Memory, Curzon Cinema, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Directing the Real: Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s, Lo Schermo dell'Arte - Artists' Moving Image Festival, Galleria delle Carrozze di Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence.
Global Learning - MaGa Gallarate's Contemporary Art Museum, Milan.
Postcolonia Italia, curated by Alessandra Ferlito, S.a.L.e. Docks, Venice.
2016
Orestiade Italiana, La 16º Quadriennale di Roma (16th Rome Quadriennal). Curated by Simone Frangi
A-i-R Wro Talk 2.0, Wroclaw PL
Genesis Cinema / CinemaItaliaUK, London
2015
56th Festival dei Popoli, International Documentary Film Festival, Spazio Alfieri, Florence
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
2023
Italian Council Grant for an international publication - 12th edition.
Live Works Fellowship (2023-24) - Centrale Fies.
Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film runner-up in the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS)’s Practice Research Awards, in the Doctoral category.
2022
Awarded the Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2022, MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome.
2021-24
Research Fellow at the British School at Rome
2021
TECHNE Research Conflux: Voices at the Margins?, University of Brighton, UK
2020
Sight Unseen short-listed for the UK Short Film Award at Open City Documentary Film Festival, London.
2019
Critical Engagements with the Archive in the Spaces of Contemporary Art, study retreat, Bergen University and Bergen Assembly, Norway.
NIDA Doctoral Platform Summer School Fight the Power 2019/1989, held at the Lithuanian Pavilion and the Research Pavilion, Venice Biennale.
2018
MEAD Residency at the British School at Rome
Q International grant - La Quadriennale di Rome - with Archive Kabinett, Berlin
TECHNE Conflux: The Object of Research Residency, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, organised by Royal College of Arts, UAL, and Kingston University UK
2017
BFI Experimenta Pitch Award, London Film Festival. Prize organised by FLAMIN (Film London Artists' Moving Image Network), in collaboration with LUX, BFI and Arts Council England
VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival, Florence
Arts and Humanities Research Council / TECHNE DP, fully funded PhD scholarship at the University of the Arts London
2016
A-i-R Wro Residency, Open Call Europe "Art and culture during the migration crisis in Europe in XXI century" / Wroclaw European Capital of Culture 2016
2015
Artist in Residence and Film Commission - Alinari Contemporary, Florence. Curated by Livia Dubon Bohlig at Fondazione, Archivio Alinari
SELECTED PEDAGOGIC & COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2025
Half Land Half Sea: Transcartographies of Resistance. Archive Ensemble Coop at Dutch Art Institute.
2024
"Practice-Based Research", co-curated with Bernardo Follini at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo as part of APERTO (Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT) - free training programme for contemporary art professionals.
2023
UNIDEE Residency Modules, Education commission, Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy. Curated by Chiara Cartuccia.
2021
Non Più Eroi! [No More Heroes!], Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in collaboration with Marco Stefanelli and Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfau'. Development of audio-walk
2020
Resilient Pasts in Haunted Presents. On the (Re)membering and (Re)enacting of Archives, Archive Milan. The workshop is part of a larger project, Vulnerable Archives: On Silenced Archives and Dissenting Views, initiated by SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin) in collaboration with Un lieu pour Respirer (Les Lilas) / Ateliers Médicis (Clichy-Montfermeil), After the Archive (Istanbul) and Archive (Milan). It is funded by Allianz Stifung and supported by HKW Berlin.
ART WORKS! European Culture of Resistance and Liberation. Education programme at Museion, Contemporary Art Museum, Bozen (Italy). EU project partners: wannseeFORUM (Berlin), HASENHERZ or the Pleasures of Moving Images and Words (Vienna), Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (Croatia), Center of Contemporary History Melk Memorial (Austria).
2019
Developing Postcolonial Discourse in Art Education in Italy, study day at Villa Romana, organised by Alessandra Ferrini and Archive Books, in collaboration with Villa Romana, Black History Month Florence and with the participation of Savvy Contemporary
Outcross: Agromafia, Radio Activism and Crosscultural Fertilizations. Week-long workshop for high school classes (alternanza), MaGa Museum of Contemporary Art, Milan
2018
Resistant Archives. Week-long Workshop for post-graduate students on the Colonialità e Cultura Visivi in Italia (Coloniality and Visual Culture in Italy) at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Brera Art Academy), Milan.
2017
Notes on Historical amnesia pt.2, Commission for Education Project at MaGa Gallarate's Art Museum, Milan.
Archive-as-Method: Colonial Voices and Gazes - part of Postcolonia Italia. Commission of 2 days masterclass at S.a.L.E. Docks, Venice.
2016
Radio Ghetto Relay and Cross-cultural Fertilizations, education programme in collaboration with Fundacja Art Transparent and A-i-R Wro, Wroclaw Poland
2015
Notes on Historical amnesia pt.1, education programme, P.A.C. Le Murate, Florence
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2025
A Fascist Historical Present: Unraveling Italy’s Postcolonial Question, with Zoé Samudzi, EXPOSED Turin Photography Festival.
2022
The Damned of the Borders, with Sandro Mezzadra, Fondazione Antonio Ratti
On the politics of Visibility, Pensiero Plurale. Talk at Magazzino Italian Art, NY USA
2021
Restitution and the Non-Returnable: Discussing collections, repatriation, compensation and what might be ‘non-returnable, Delfina Foundation.
Counteracting ‘Iconographic Silence’: Alessandra Ferrini, seminar at Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome
BSR Fine Arts Talk, British School at Rome
Taking responsibility for colonial heritage in Europe? Perspectives from organisational ethnographies, ASA2021: RESPONSIBILITY, annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists. Moderated by Henrietta Lidchi (National Museum of World Cultures), organised by Jonas Jonas Tinius, Sharon Macdonald, Margareta von Oswald (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Screening and Presentation: Alessandra Ferrini, Postcolonial Italian Cinema Conference, Warwick University, in collaboration with La Sapienza University. Convenors: Damiano Garofalo (Sapienza, Rome) and Luca Peretti (Warwick).
2020
Everything Passes Except the Past, online conference at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Goethe Institut
On Fragments and Historical Erasure, in conversation with Emma Wolukau Wanambwa, Archive Milan
Art, space and memory, in conversation with Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani Rue d'Alger Webinar
2019
Committed Practices, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main.
Between Myth and Memory: Contemporary Politics and the Performance of History, Centre for Performance and Urban Living, University of Surrey.
Life of Crops: Towards an Investigative Memorialization, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.
Italian Colonialism and Resistance to Empire, in conversation with Dr Neelam Srivastava and Dr Angelica Pesarini, Villa Romana.
2018
Italian fascism in the prism of contemporary art, Roma Tre University and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
Live (T)Race Symposium, University of Padua, organised by the InteRGRace network.
2017
Artist Talk: Archival Resources and Ethnographic Film, RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) Film Festival, Watershed Cinema, Bristol.
Artist Talk: Orestiade Italiana / Black History Month Florence - with Simone Frangi, Museo Novecento, Florence
2016
Visuality and (anti)racism Conference – University of Padua, Italy.