CV
EDUCATION
ongoing
PhD Candidate at the Screen School, LCC, University of the Arts London
2014
MA Visual Culture, University of Westminster, London
2010
BA Fine Art, University of Westminster, London
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2023
The Words Create Images, 5th Casablanca Biennale, Morocco. Second instalment. Curated by Christine Eyene
2022
*Solo exhibition* Unruly Connections, ar/ge kunst, Bolzano, Italy. Curated by Emanuele Guidi.
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 Parallels 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)
Art is Always Public, Villa Romana, Florence
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 Gallery, Istanbul Biennal collateral programme
*Solo exhibition* A Bomb to be Reloaded, Villa Romana, Florence IT
Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
*Solo exhibition* Se la realtà non è solo un fotogramma... (If reality is not just a photogram...), Casa Testori, Milan IT. With Jacopo Rinaldi
Gaddafi in Rome: the Expanded Script, performance-lecture, Archive Kabinett, Berlin
Gaddafi in Rome: the Expanded Script, performance-lecture, Depo Gallery, Istanbul Biennal collateral project
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
Peer Session, APT Gallery, London
Conversation Pieces, curated by Michelangelo Corsaro and Archive Books, Santards, 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
Rights and Might: cultural counter-narratives of the migrant and refugee experiences part of the 2017 London Refugee Week - University of Westminster, London
Insurgent Projections, Anarchist Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
30th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille/Milan
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
SOAS University, organised by SOAS History Society, London
Mende International Film Festival, Cinema Paradiso in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
WE ARE ALL THE OTHER Symposium, The CERA Project, London
2015
*Solo exhibition* Negotiating Amnesia, P.A.C. Le Murate, Florence
56th Festival dei Popoli, International Documentary Film Festival, Spazio Alfieri, Florence
A Natural Oasis, Viafarini, special project for MEDITERRANEA17, BJCEM Biennale, Milan
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, COMMISSIONS
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
Research Fellow at Archive Milan
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
Negotiating Amnesia included in the 2017 RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) Film Festival's Library
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
Rising Star: Best Short Documentary – Negotiating Amnesia. Mende International Film Festival, Florida, USA
2015
Artist in Residence and Film Commission - Alinari Contemporary, Florence. Curated by Livia Dubon Bohlig at Fondazione, Archivio Alinari
2014
Katalogos Workshop with Basma Alsharif - ViaFarini (Milan). Organised by Little Constellation in collaboration with ViaFarini and BJCEM. Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi
A Natural Oasis Summer School in the Republic of San Marino. Organised by Little Constellation in collaboration with ViaFarini and BJCEM. Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi
SELECTED PEDAGOGIC & COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
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
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
About Archives, workshop for Academy Awards students at Viafarini, with Elisa Adami, Milan
2014
Family Workshop for CREATE London
2013
Propeller Youth Art Forum, Chisenhale Gallery, Victoria Park commission, London
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2022
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)
Identities in Motion: Precariato, Warwick University, organised by Gianmarco Mancosu and Gioia Panzarella
Artist Talk: Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Art Academy of Brera), Milan
Live (T)Race Symposium, University of Padua, organised by
2017
Artist Talk: Archival Resources and Ethnographic Film, RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) Film Festival, Watershed Cinema, Bristol UK
Artist Talk: Orestiade Italiana / Black History Month Florence - with Simone Frangi, Museo Novecento, Florence IT
Radical Hospitality, London Conference in Critical Thought 2017, South Bank University
2016
Visuality and (anti)racism Conference – University of Padua, Italy
Educazione Come Pratica Artistica (Education as Artistic Practice), Museum Novecento, Florence
2015
Shot / Countershot, Performing History, The Garrison Library, Gibraltar UK
Artists' Moving Image Practice in Britain: From 1990 to Today, conference at Whitechapel Gallery (London), organised by The Paul Mellon Centre (Yale University) in collaboration with Film London Artists' Moving Image Network and LUX