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2022
Long-term projects Pinacoteca Agnelli
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. She is currently Head Curator at Istituto Svizzero in Italy, where she curates the programmes across its venues in Rome, Milan, and Palermo. Her recent projects include the monographic exhibition how we always survived by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz and the group show Con lo zucchero in bocca in Rome; the exhibitions Deadline With The World by Gabriele Garavaglia and Miriam Laura Leonardi and The House of Dorothy by Vincent Grange in Milan; and the public programme Time is on my side by Helvetropicos in Palermo (all 2025).

She previously served as Chief Curator and Head of the Curatorial Department at Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin, where she contributed to redefining the institution’s mission on the occasion of its relaunch in 2022. At Pinacoteca Agnelli, she curated and co-curated major monographic exhibitions such as Salvo. Arrivare in tempo; Lee Lozano. Strike (Pinacoteca Agnelli and La Bourse – Pinault Collection, Paris, 2023–24); and Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On (2022); as well as new commissions including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. PISTARAMA and exhibitions such as Lucy McKenzie and Antonio Canova. Vulcanizzato (2023). For Pinacoteca’s Pista 500, an ambitious open-air installation project, she curated projects and new commissions by artists such as Chalisee Naamani, Monica Bonvicini, 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, Alicja Kwade, SUPERFLEX, among others.

She has curated exhibitions and programmes for institutions in Italy and abroad. Recent projects include Motherless Daughters, VIN VIN, for “curated_by”, Vienna (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, Artissima, Turin (2019); Good Luck, See You After the Revolution, UvA, Amsterdam (2017); Why Is Everybody Being So Nice?, De Appel and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017); and Dear Betty: Run Fast, Bite Hard!, GAMeC, Bergamo (2016).

In 2018 and 2019, she was the curator of the New Entries section at Artissima, Turin. 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 which 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 Residency Programme, a research-based residency for international curators selected by leading curatorial schools worldwide. From 2015 to 2018, she co-founded and curated the programme of CLOG Projects, a research-driven independent space focused on contemporary arts and culture, autonomous education experiments, and self-production projects.

As a writer and journalist (registered with the Ordine dei Giornalisti), her essays and texts have been published in various exhibition catalogues, publications, and journals. Her book In the Studio: Lee Lozano was recently published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers (2025). She has edited and curated volumes such as Salvo. Arrivare in tempo (JRP, 2025); Lee Lozano. Strike (Marsilio, 2023); Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On (Corraini, 2022); Shifting Views on Italian Art (NERO, 2021); and The New Work Times (Gucci, 2018).

Since 2024, she has been teaching the course Contemporary Museum Studies at NABA, Milan. She has delivered lectures and conferences at museums and organisations in Italy and across Europe, and she regularly teaches at universities and independent 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 the Critical Curatorial Cybermedia Research Master at HEAD, Geneva (currently on hold). She completed her curatorial training at Artists Space, New York.

She is co-founder and currently vice president of AWI – Art Workers Italia, the first association established to advocate for contemporary art workers in Italy (since 2020), and she sits on the board of the Milano Art Community (since 2025).

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Pinacoteca Agnelli
Chief Curator
2021 – 2024

Abstract Sex. We don't have clothes, we only have equipment, 2019 Co-curated with Guido Costa for Artissima 2019, Torino

Abstract Sex. We don't have clothes, we only have equipment, 2019 Co-curated with Guido Costa for Artissima 2019, Torino

Abstract Sex.
We don't have any clothes,
only equipment
with Guido Costa
Artissima 2019, Jana, Torino
October 30 – November 3, 2019

Get Rid of Yourself (Ancora Ancora Ancora)Fondazione Baruchello, RomeSeptember 23 – November 8, 2019

Get Rid of Yourself (Ancora Ancora Ancora)Fondazione Baruchello, RomeSeptember 23 – November 8, 2019

Get Rid of Yourself (Ancora Ancora Ancora)
in collaboration with ALMARE
Fondazione Baruchello, Rome
September 23 – November 29, 2019

Attentiveness: How to Strike in the Economy of Presence, 2019

Attentiveness: How to Strike in the Economy of Presence, 2019

Attentiveness
How to Strike in the Economy of Presence
Intervention at 9th CEI Forum for
Contemporary Art Curators
May 9, 2019, Venice

Selected texts
Publications, magazines, journals
2015–today

The New Work Times, 2018 Commissioned by Maurizio Cattelan for The Artist is Present, Shanghai

The New Work Times, 2018 Commissioned by Maurizio Cattelan for The Artist is Present, Shanghai

The New Work Times
Commissioned by Maurizio Cattelan
for The Artist is Present
YUZ Museum, Shanghai
2018

Ontology of trash / Anal capitalism OGR, Torino October 2018

Ontology of trash / Anal capitalism OGR, Torino October 2018

Ontology of Trash and Anal Capitalism
Lecture for Dance is what we make of falling
Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Torino
October 24, 2018

ABRACADABRA 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art June 7 – July 31, 2018

ABRACADABRA 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art June 7 – July 31, 2018

Abracadabra
6th International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
June 7 – July 31, 2018

The School of the End ofTime

The School of the End ofTime

The School of the End of Time
with Ambra Pittoni and Paul-Flavien
Enriquez-Sarano
2017 – ongoing

Umlaut. Il public programme per le arti visive contemporanee. April 12-14, 2018

Umlaut. Il public programme per le arti visive contemporanee. April 12-14, 2018

Umlaut. Il public programme per le arti visive contemporanee
with Stefano Collicelli Cagol and Luigi Fassi
Accademia delle Scienze, Cinema Porno Maffei, Politecnico, ISOLA, Torino
April 17–20, 2018

Drop out of art school Catalyst Arts, Belfast December 3-4, 2017

Drop out of art school Catalyst Arts, Belfast December 3-4, 2017

Drop out of art school
Workshop and talk for Black Mountain
Catalyst Arts, Belfast
December 1, 2017

Self-care While Smoking CLOG and Tile, November 4, 2017

Self-care While Smoking CLOG and Tile, November 4, 2017

Self-care while Smoking
CLOG and TILE
November 4, 2017

Why Is Everybody Being So Nice? Investigating the frictions between ethics and etiquette in the knowledge economy De Appel and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 12-15 June 2017

Why Is Everybody Being So Nice? Investigating the frictions between ethics and etiquette in the knowledge economy De Appel and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 12-15 June 2017

Why is Everybody being so Nice?
De Appel Curatorial Programme 2017

De Appel and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
April 14–18, 2017

Good Luck, See You After Revolution, 2017

Good Luck, See You After Revolution, 2017

Good Luck, See You After the Revolution
with Mira Asriningtyas and Shona Mei Findlay
University of the Arts, Amsterdam
February 11 – April 16, 2017

Fansub Sessions
CLOG
Summer 2016

Dear Betty: Run Fast, Bite Hard! GAMeC, Bergamo May 14 – July 24, 2016

Dear Betty: Run Fast, Bite Hard! GAMeC, Bergamo May 14 – July 24, 2016

Dear Betty: Run Fast, Bite Hard!
GAMeC, Bergamo
May 14 – July 24, 2016

CLOG Projects Torino, 2015-2018

CLOG Projects Torino, 2015-2018

CLOG Projects
Via Giulia di Barolo, 13 Torino

2015–2018

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