LCV - Selected texts

2019
Exhibitions Abstract Sex. We don't have any clothes, only equipment
Exhibitions Get Rid of Yourself (Ancora Ancora Ancora)
Publications and writing We Have Never Been Post-Internet
Long-term projects The School of the End of Time
Lectures Attentiveness: How to Strike in the Economy of Presence
2018
Publications and writing Selected texts
Publications and writing The New Work Times
Lectures Ontology of trash
Exhibitions ABRACADABRA
Programmes Umlaut. Il public programme per le arti visive contemporanee
2017
Lectures Drop out of art school
Exhibitions Self-care While Smoking
Programmes Why Is Everybody Being So Nice?
Exhibitions Good Luck, See You After The Revolution
2016
Programmes Fansub Sessions
Exhibitions Dear Betty: Run Fast, Bite Hard!
2015
Long-term projects CLOG

Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti is a curator and art writer, currently serving as the Chief Curator and Head of the Curatorial Department at Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin.

Her recent projects at Pinacoteca include the new commission Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. PISTARAMA; the exhibition Lucy McKenzie and Antonio Canova. Vulcanizzato (2023); the co-curation of major monographic exhibitions such as Lee Lozano. Strike (Pinacoteca Agnelli and La Bourse – Pinault Collection, Paris, 2023-24), and Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On (2022). For Pinacoteca's Pista 500, an ambitious open-air installations project, she curated projects and new commissions by artists such as Shirin Aliabadi, Nina Beier, Julius von Bismark, Mark Leckey, Cally Spooner, VALIE EXPORT, Sylvie Fleury, Liam Gillick, Marco Giordano, Nan Goldin, Shilpa Gupta, Louise Lawler, Aljcia Kwade, SUPERFLEX, among others.

She regularly curates exhibitions and programmes for institutions in Italy and abroad. Recent projects include Motherless Daughters, VIN VIN, for "curated_by", Wien (2023); Esasperate, Eretiche, Estatiche, Almanac Inn, Turin (2021); the public programme Verso, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (2020-21); No Space, Just a Place, Daelim Museum, Seoul (associate curator, 2020); Get Rid of Yourself (Ancora Ancora Ancora), Fondazione Baruchello, Rome (2019); Abstract Sex. We don't have any clothes, only equipment at Artissima, Turin (2019); Good Luck, See you After the Revolution at UvA, Amsterdam (2017); Why Is Everybody Being So Nice?, De Appel and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017); Dear Betty: Run Fast, Bite Hard!, GAMeC, Bergamo (2016).

In 2018 she curated the main exhibition of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, titled Abracadabra, and co-founded the collective platform The School of the End of Time, with whom she co-curated the public programme accompanying the Biennale. From 2018 to 2021, she worked at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo as curator and head of the Young Curators Reisdency Programme, a research-based residency programme for international curators selected by prominent curatorial schools worldwide. From 2015 to 2018 she co-founded and curated the programme of CLOG Project, a research-driven independent space with a focus on contemporary arts and culture, autonomous education experiments and self-production projects.

As a writer and journalist (registered to the Ordine dei Giornalisti), her essays and texts have been published in various exhibition catalogues, publications and journals. She has curated volumes such as Lee Lozano. Strike (2023); Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On (2022), Shifting Views on Italian Art (2021), and The New Work Times (2018). She has delivered lectures and conferences at museums and organisations in Italy and Europe and regularly engages in teaching at universities and programmes.

She received her education in visual and performing arts from IUAV University in Venice, in curatorial studies from De Appel, Amsterdam and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, and specialised in critical social theory at the University of Milan - Bicocca and at the Critical Curatorial Cybermedia research Master at la HEAD, Geneve (currently on hold). She gained her curatorial training at Artists Space, New York.

She is a co-founder and currently vice-president of AWI - Art Workers Italia, the first association established to advocate for contemporary art workers in Italy.

This bio is updated to 2023. The website is updated to 2019.

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Selected texts

Contributions in publications, catalogues, exhibitions (selection)

“Talking Heads” [ITA] [ENG]. Published in Le Dictateur 6, Le Dictateur 2021.
“Politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale” [ITA] [ENG]. Published in Historia. Francesco Bertocco, Mousse 2021.
“Feel yourself pulsating without having to see your veins: towards a strike from presence” [ENG] [ITA] On the work of Ambra Pittoni and Paul-Flavien Enriquez-Sarano, Chiara Fumai and Giulia Crispiani. Published in 17a Quadriennale d’Arte, Treccani 2020.
“The Curatorial Residency as a Research Model” [ENG] [ITA]. Published in Shifting Views on Italian Art, edited by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Irene Calderoni for Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, NERO 2020.
“Afterward. Il Malatino by Diego Marcon” [ITA] [ENG]. Published in Il Malatino, Silvana Editoriale 2019.
“A Roof of One’s Own – or, the best way to measure things” [ENG]. Published in Cameron Nichole is Chloë Sevigny is Bruce Nauman by New Scenario, 2019.
“A compact guide to independent art production in Italy from 2008 to today” (with Gabriele Tosi and Serena Osti) [ITA] [ENG]. Published in That’s IT! On the newest generation of artists in Italy and one meter eighty from the border, published by MAMbo Museo di Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2018.
A Conversation about Hyper-Performer-American-Psycho-Viagra-Prozac-Performing-Engines (with Shona Mei Findlay) [ENG]. Published in Why is Everybody Being so Nice?, De Appel 2017.
“Queering Genesis through Punc Arkæology” [ENG]. Solo show by Michael Dudeck, BRUNO, New York, 2014.
“The Italian Job: Italian Theory and the Art of Trolling” [ENG]. Commissioned by Emilio Vavarella for embarrassment party, curated by Marii Nyröp, Hampshire College, Massachusetts, 2014.
Image-based contribution for PHOTODUMP: Achieving or archiving images today? Curated by Valeria Mancinelli, Chiara Nuzzi, Stefania Rispoli. Published by LINK Art Center, 2014.

Contributions in magazines and journals (selection)

“Curatorial Impostor Syndrome. Forms of labour during lockdown: from operative images to an ethics of curating” [ITA]. TBD Ultramagazine, 2020.
“Josefin Arnell” [ENG]. Cactus #10, 2020.
“A Brief History of Invisibility”. [ENG] [ITA]. Published by NERO online, 2019, in occasion of Get Rid of Yourself (Ancora Ancora Ancora), Fondazione Baruchello, Rome.
“Ludwig. Diego Marcon” [ITA] [ENG]. MARMO #8, 2019.
“Hito Steyerl. Archeology of the present moment” [ENG] [ITA]. L’Officiel Art #32, 2018.
“Q-Rated: Sensitive Researches. Zach Blas, Robert Leckie, Rana Hamadeh” [ITA]. Flash Art Italia, 2018.
“We Have Never Been Post-Internet” [ITA] [ENG]. Not - NERO on Theory, 2017.
“University and Undercommons. The only possible relationship with university today is a criminal one” [ITA]. Kabul Magazine, 2017.
“Can Institutional Critique Be Performed as an Act of Love?” [ENG]. Estonian Art #17 2017.
“Laboratory of the doubt. Seven months of cross-disciplinary experiments” [ITA]. Flash Art Italia, 2016.
“Dear Betty, Run Fast Bite Hard!” [ENG] Published in Chronicles by Gang of Ducks, 2016, in occasion of Dear Betty, Run Fast Bite Hard! at GAMeC, Bergamo.
“Metahaven VS Propaganda” [ITA]. Prismo Mag, 2016.

Curated publications

Shifting Views on Italian Art. The Curatorial Residency as a Research Model. Edited by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Irene Calderoni for Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, NERO 2020.
The Living Museums. Orietta Lanzarini [ITA] [ENG]. Edited by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, Stefano Collicelli Cagol and Luigi Fassi, published by NERO 2020.
The New Work Times [ENG] [CHI]. Edited by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, commissioned by Maurizio Cattelan for The Artist is Present, published by GUCCI 2018.
Abracadabra [ENG] [RU]. Publication of Abracadabra, 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, 2018.
Shit and Die [ITA] [ENG]. (editorial staff) Publication of the exhibition Shit and Die by Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah, Marta Papini, published by Damiani 2014.

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