Scientific Committee

Chiara Bertola

Chiara Bertola (Turin, 1961) critic and curator lives and works between Turin and Venice. Since January 2024 she has been Director of GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin. She was the creator and curator of the contemporary art project “Conservare il futuro” at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice from 1999 to 2023. In 2017 she set up the Fund dedicated to the work of Luigi Ghirri at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia. She is a founding member of the Venice Gardens Foundation in Venice. She was the creator and curator of the Furla Prize for young Italian artists and the Furla Foundation from 2000 to 2015. She was artistic director of Hangar Bicocca in Milan from 2009 to 2011. She is part of the Ars Aevi Project for the establishment of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo. Together with Michelangelo Pistoletto and others, she is a founding member of “Love Difference”, an artistic movement for a Mediterranean policy. 

She was president of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice from 1996 to 1998. She was among the curators of the 15th edition of the Quadriennale di Roma in 2008 and curator of the Venice Pavilion for the 52nd Venice International Art Biennale.  

She has curated several exhibitions in Italy and abroad and published several Italian and international texts. With Bruno edizioni in 2023, she published the book Conservare il futuro, winner of the Italian Council competition.

Antonio Grulli

Antonio Grulli (La Spezia, 1979) is an art critic, curator, and regular contributor to the daily newspaper La Stampa for which he keeps the column ‘Lampi Critici’. He is the curator of the Albanian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale currently in progress. Over the years he has been in charge of the collection and activities related to contemporary art at Palazzo Bentivoglio (Bologna, palazzobentivoglio.org), has been a member of the board of Viafarini (Milan, viafarini.org), and has initiated a series of exhibition, design and publishing projects in collaboration with fellow curators, artists and collectors. For the MAMbo Museum in Bologna, he conceived (with curator Davide Ferri) Sentimiento Nuevo, a research on the state of art criticism made up of meetings, lectures and performances. He curates two non-profit exhibition spaces: Lucerna, in Milan, together with Federico Pepe, and the FBI space in the artist Jacopo Benassi's studio in La Spezia. Over the years he has curated exhibitions for public and institutional spaces such as: Ala Scaligera of the Rocca di Angera (Varese), Fondazione Carispezia (La Spezia), Fondazione del Monte (Bologna), Le Dictateur (Milan), Match Gallery (Ljubljana), MAMbo (Bologna), Museo di Castelvecchio (Verona); the non-profit C21 (Reggio Emilia), Codalunga (Vittorio Veneto), Hamlet (Zurich), Neon Campobase (Bologna), Viafarini (Milan). He has collaborated with, among others, Arte e Critica, Arte Mondadori, Artribune, ATP Diary, Boite, Cura Magazine, Exibart, Flash Art, Le Dictateur, Mousse Magazine, Studio Magazine.

Francesco Manacorda

Francesco Manacorda is Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea and Artistic Director of Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti. He has been Artistic Director of V-A-C Foundation (2017–22), Artistic Director of Tate Liverpool (2012–17), Director of Artissima (2010-12) and Curator at Barbican Art Gallery (2007-09). From 2006 to 2011 he was Visiting Lecturer in the Curating Contemporary Art department at the Royal College of Art, London. He has co-curated the 2016 Liverpool Biennial and in 2018 the 11th Taipei Biennial.