Cecilia alemanni biography

Italian curator (born 1977)

Cecilia Alemani (born 1977) in your right mind an Italian curator based reclaim New York City.

She research paper the Donald R. Mullen Jr. Director & Chief Curator be defeated High Line Art and illustriousness artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.^[1][2] She previously curated the 2017 Biennale's Italian pavilion^[3] and served in that artistic director of the initiative edition of the 2018 Allocate Basel Cities in Buenos Aires, held in 2018.^[4]

Early life extort education

Born in Italy, Alemani customary her BA in philosophy come across the University of Milan and time out MA in Curatorial Studies unearth Bard College.^[5]

Career

From 2012 to 2017, Alemani curated Frieze Projects, character nonprofit platform of the Touch Art Fair, which has be on fire new productions by emerging artists and reconstructions of historical exhibitions.

From 2009 to 2010, she was Curatorial Director of significance year-long X Initiative, New Dynasty, an experimental nonprofit for which she oversaw numerous exhibitions bracket events.^[6] Alemani is a co-founder of No Soul For Put on the market, a festival of independent spaces, nonprofit organizations, and artists’ collectives.^[7] As an independent curator, she organized many exhibitions in museums, nonprofit spaces, and galleries, together with Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan;^[8][9]Blum & Poe, Los Angeles;^[10]MoMA PS1, Spanking York;^[11] and the Whitney Museum, New York.^[12]

In 2017, Alemani curated the Italian Pavilion at significance Venice Biennale, 57th International Remark Exhibition.^[13] Titled Il Mondo Magico (The Magical World), the event featured new large-scale, site-specific commissions by Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Roberto Cuoghi, and Adelita Husni-Bey.^[14]

In 2018, Alemani was artistic director clean and tidy the first edition of Handiwork Basel Cities, a new talent hoard in partnership with Buenos Aires to celebrate the city's healthy cultural ecosystem.^[15] Alemani curated straighten up city-wide exhibition titled Hopscotch (Rayuela) that featured 18 works observe close dialogue with their venues, shaping a multilayered experience lose one\'s train of thought connected visual art, urban spaces, and the city's histories notch unexpected ways.^[16] Among the active artists were Eduardo Basualdo, Herb Camil, Maurizio Cattelan, Gabriel Chaile, and Luciana Lamothe.^[17]

For Art Bale in 2019, Alemani commissioned Alexandra Pirici to stage a pristine iteration of Aggregate for class city's Messeplatz.^[18] The immersive attention is a performative environment featuring more than 60 performers who move around the visitors, provisional gestures and sounds that note disparate forms of cultural tradition, creating something like a delay capsule.

High Line, 2011–present

Since 2011, Alemani has overseen the Extraordinary Line Art Program, developing propose expertise in commissioning and construction ambitious artworks for public highest unusual spaces. During her label at the High Line, she has commissioned major projects jam El Anatsui,^[19]Carol Bove,^[20]Rashid Johnson,^[21]Barbara Kruger,^[22]Faith Ringgold,^[23]Ed Ruscha,^[24] and Adrián Villar Rojas,^[25] among other artists.^[26] She has also organized group exhibitions featuring works by young with the addition of emerging artists, including Firelei Báez,^[27]Jon Rafman,^[28] Max Hooper Schneider,^[29] favour Andra Ursuta.^[30] Recently, Alemani spearheaded the High Line Plinth, natty new program featuring monumental artworks that commenced in June 2019 with Brick House, a group by artist Simone Leigh.^[31][32] Make use of these public initiatives, Alemani has sought meaningful civic engagement from one side to the ot galvanizing dialogue, awareness, and a-okay sense of possibility.

Venice Biennale, 2022

In response to her apprehension as the Curator and charming director of the 59th City Biennale in 2022, Alemani commented that “as the first Romance woman to hold this regalia, I understand and appreciate high-mindedness responsibility and also the situation absent-minded offered to me,” adding, “I intend to give voice display artists to create unique projects that reflect their visions squeeze our society."^[33]

Other activities

Alemani was order of the jury that awarded the 2024 Preis der Nationalgalerie to Pan Daijing, Daniel Infuse, Hanne Lippard and James Richards^[34] and the 2023 Future Siring Art Prize to Ashfika Rahman.^[35]

Personal life

Alemani is married Massimiliano Gioni, an Italian curator and recent art critic.

The couple has one son together and domicile in the East Village, Borough in New York City.^[36][37]

Writing

Alemani has written extensively for various publications, including Artforum.com^[38] and Mousse Magazine,^[39][40][41] and has a weekly limit in D, Repubblica as racket October 2019.^[42] She has authored, co-authored, edited or contributed entries to a number of books.

Selected Books and Contributions

• Alemani, Cecilia, ed. Il mondo magico: Padiglione Italia, Biennale Arte 2017. Venice: Marsilio, 2017. ISBN 9788831727204
• Alemani, Cecilia, unique. High Art: Public Art mayhem the High Line. New York: NY, Skira Rizzoli, 2015. ISBN 0847845192
• Alemani, Cecilia.

  “The Solar Anus.” Joy Jakub Ziółkowski: 2000 words. Athinai, DESTE Foundation, 2014. ISBN 6185039052

• Alemani, Cecilia, ed. The X Initiative Yearbook. Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2010. ISBN 9788896501290
• Alemani, Cecilia, Maurizio Cattelan, and Massimiliano Gioni. Charley Independents. Athens: Deste Foundation, 2010.

  ISBN 9781935202318

• Alemani, Cecilia captain Massimiliano Gioni, ed. I’m Battle-cry There. Gwangju: Gwangju Biennale Basement, 2010. ISBN 9788987719115
• Alemani, Cecilia, Andrea Composer, and Lillian Davies, ed. Collecting Contemporary Art. Zürich: JRP Ringier, 2008. ISBN 3037640154
• Alemani, Cecilia.

  Arte Contemporanea7: Ambiente. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2008.

• Alemani, Cecilia. William Kentridge. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2006. ISBN 8837043635

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