LCV - Selected texts

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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Selected texts

Books

Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, In the studio: Lee Lozano. Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2025. [ENG]

Contributions in publications, catalogues, exhibitions (selection)

“This has nothing to do with me” [ENG] in Cally Spooner. SWEAT, SHAME, etc. at Swiss Institute, New York 2024 (exh. cat.)
“L’improduttiva” [ITA] [ENG] in Giulia Andreani. L’Improduttiva, at Collezione Maramotti. Mousse Publishing 2024 (exh. cat.)
“DREAM MERDA” [ITA] [ENG] in Nico Vascellari. Museo Novecento, Firenze. Silvana Editoriale 2024 (exh. cat.)
“Talking Heads” [ITA] [ENG]. Published in Le Dictateur 6, Le Dictateur 2021.
“Lee Lozano. Strike” [ITA] [ENG] [FR] in Lee Lozano. Strike, Pinacoteca Agnelli and Pinault Collection. Marsilio Editore 2023 (exh. cat.)
“Turn Me On and Piss You Off. Construction of Femininity, High-speed vehicles and moving images”, in Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On, at Pinacoteca Agnelli. Corraini Edizioni 2022 (exh. cat.)
“The Saintly Hypochondriac” (with The School of the End of Time), in Il Colorificio, L’Ano Solare, AXIS AXIS 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)

“Lo specchio dell'Europa. Decolonizzare il museo” [ITA]. OperaViva Magazine, 2021.
LISTE Discourse: “At Stake”, 2021, LISTE Art Fair, Basel
“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

Salvo. Arrivare in tempo [ITA] [ENG]. Curated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Sarah Cosulich, scientific project Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti for Pinacoteca Agnelli, JRP 2023.
Lee Lozano. Strike [ITA] [ENG]. Curated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Sarah Cosulich, scientific project Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti for Pinacoteca Agnelli and Pinault Collection, Marsilio 2023.
Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On [ITA] [ENG]. Curated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti for Pinacoteca Agnelli, Corraini Edizioni 2022.
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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