04/15/2025
Meet the Curator!
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago is once again partnering with EXPO CHICAGO to invite two Italian curators, who will join the program Curatorial Exchange.
Marianna Vecellio is a curator, researcher, and writer. In 2012 she has been appointed as curator at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli/Torino – where she works since 2007. . She has conceived and created several exhibitions and publications which explore, between posthumanity and ecology, new forms of coexistence and transformation of living.
She collaborates to numerous editorial projects and published with international institutions, including the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; MAXXI, Rome; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; Whitechapel, London; Le Consortium, Dijon; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; Le Center d'Agazines.rt Contemporain, Geneva; Fondation Serralves, Porto and published in Italian and International magazines. From 2016 to 2019 she curated the Curva Blu residency program located on the island of Favignana inviting the following artists: Trisha Baga, Diego Marcon, Massimo Grimaldi, Giulia Cenci, Stephen G. Rhodes and David Horvitz; and curating the exhibition Sivilization's Wake with Stephen G. Rhodes and Barry Johnston (Palermo, 2018).
She has held conferences and lectures at universities and institutions including, Triennale, Milan; LACMA, Los Angeles; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; NABA – New Academy of Fine Art, Milan; Politecnico, Turin; University of Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; OGR, Turin; Galleries of Italy, Turin.
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago is the cultural office of the Consulate General of Italy in Chicago.
