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PAOLA NICOLIN
SACI instructor starting 2015
Contemporary Art – Biennale & Beyond
EDUCATION
2007/2008
2002
PhD History and Theory of Arts, Scuola di Studi Avanzati (SSA)
in Venezia, Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia
(IUAV), Advisors: Carlos Basualdo, Jean Louis Cohen, Angela
Vettese (defended on 15th March 2007). Thesis: T68. The World
in a Show. The 14th Triennale in Milan. Art Architecture
Environment.
MA History of Architecture, Accademia di San Luca – Università
di RomaTre, Roma – Paris IFA, Cité de L’architecture e du
Patrimoine, Paris (October 2001-2002).
Advisor: Jean Louis Cohen. Thesis: Louis François Cassas and
the Voyage Drawing. Cultural Identity, Interchange and Value of
the Artistic Document (1756-1827).
2000
BA Department of Art History, Università degli Studi di Milano.
Advisors: Maria Teresa Fiorio, Antonello Negri. Thesis:
Muséographie 1934. The Debate on Museums in the 30s.
1999
International Seminar "Palladio e l’Antico" – Centro
Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio
(C.I.S.A.), Vicenza, curated by Prof. Howard Burns and Prof. Pier
Gros.
1996
International Seminar "Palladio costruttore" – Centro
Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio
(C.I.S.A.), Vicenza, curated by Prof. Pier Nicola Pagliara and
Prof. Mario Piana.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011-2015
Research Affiliate, Bocconi University Milan/ASK – Department
of Policy Analysis and Public Management (teaching class:
Method, Critique and research in artistic disciplines – History
of Contemporary Art).
2014-2015
Instructor, extra-curricular course, Bocconi University Milan
(course title: Art, Architecture and the City: the Artistic
Production of Susan Philipsz in the Context of Genoa
Renaissance Palaces).
2011- 2012
Visiting professor, History of Modern and Contemporary Art
(20th century Italian art), New York University – Florence
(course title: Italian Art: Futurism to Present).
2010-2011
Instructor, extra-curricular course (with Andrea Lissoni),
Bocconi University Milan (course title: Artistic Production in
Contemporary Art).
2008-2010
Visiting lecturer, NABA Milan – Department Visual Arts,
Graduate program in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies
(teaching class: History of Contemporary Art and Exhibition
History).
2007-2010
Teaching fellow, Bocconi University, Milan – Department of
Policy Analysis and Public Management (teaching class: Visual
Arts – History of Contemporary Art and Exhibition History;
research fellow on Contemporary Art project at ASK (Art,
Science and Knowledge - Osservatorio dell’arte
contemporanea).
2005-2006
Visiting scholar, Harvard University, Graduate School of
Design, Cambridge, MA.
2004-2005
(Spring) Teaching assistant, IUAV – Faculty of Design and Arts,
Venice, for Prof. Nicolas Bourriaud (course title: Theory and
History of Curatorial Practices).
2004-2005
(Fall) PhD exchange student, MIT – Department of Architecture
(History, Theory, Criticism of Art and Architecture Program),
Cambridge, MA.
2004-2005
(Fall) Research assistant, Antoni Muntadas “On Translation. I
Giardini,” Spanish Pavilion at 51° Venice Art Biennale, 2005.
2003-2004
(Fall) Teaching assistant, Mendrisio Architectural Academy,
Swiss University, for Prof. Stanislaus von Moos (course title:
History of Modern Art and Architecture).
GUEST LECTURES AND ROUNDTABLES
2013
Scultura nello spazio pubblico: tra monumento e conversazione.
Il caso di Skulptur Projekte Münster (1977-2007), paper
discussed at “Rethinking Public Space” seminar, Politecnico di
Milano, School of Architecture and Society, curated by Chiara
Toscani, Ester Dedè, Milan, 13th December.
The Politics of Curating Art and Architecture. The 14th Triennale
in Milan and the Relationship between Show and Tell, lecture at
for Prof. Andres Lepik’s course in History of Architecture,
Technical University of Munich, Munich, 14th November.
The “Me” You Will Never See. Maurizio Cattelan Backstage
Exhibition at Guggenheim New York, paper discussed at
“Imaginary Exhibitions” symposium, Henry Moore Institute,
Leeds, UK, 6-7 November (paper selected).
2012
How Not to Do a Retrospective, lecture at Graduate Studies
Seminar, New York University of Florence, Florence, 21st
February.
Ricerca storica e pratiche curatoriali, talk at “CAMPO, Curatorial
international program,” organized by Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Turin, 12th February (invited).
2011
“The (Artistic) Meaning of Art Market Value,” public talk at Art
Basel – Art Salon, (with Prof. Stefano Baia Curioni and Prof.
Marta Kuzma), 26th June, Basel.
Producing for Exhibiting: the Art of Producing Art, talk at
Fondazione Antonio Ratti (with Nato Thompson, Creative Time,
New York and James Lingwood, Artangel, London, Como), 24th
March.
Gli ultimi vent’anni, public lecture at MAXXI–Museum of the
XXIst Century, for the lecture series “Le Storie dell’arte.
1960/2010,” Rome, 19 March.
Large Scale Exhibition and the Problematic Dialogue between
Art and Architecture, talk at international roundtable “Show
and Tell. A Roundtable and a Booklaunch,” curated by Carson
Chan, 0047, Oslo, 4th March.
2010
La mostra come discorso critico: il caso della XIV Triennale di
Milano, public lecture at MART- Museo di Rovereto e Trento,
organized by Trento University within the seminar on History
of Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Emanuela De
Cecco and Roberto Pinto, 26 May.
2009
Qui mostra a voi Spazio. L’idea di spazio nell’arte italiana del
secondo Novecento, lecture at Bolzen University – Faculty of
Design and Arts, invited by prof. Emanuela De Cecco, 29th
October.
Abitare TALKS, organized talks and public lectures on art,
architecture and design for the magazine Abitare at Galleria
Vittorio Emanuele Milan, 21st April, (curated by, with Stefano
Boeri).
2007
Shadrach Woods at the 14th Milan Triennale. Art, Architecture
and the Fluxus Effect in 1968, paper discussed at Buell
Dissertation Colloquium – The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for
the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, New
York, curated by Mary McLeod, (paper selected).
Palais de Tokyo: dall’Exposition Internationale di Parigi del
1937 al sito di creazione contemporanea. Evoluzione dell’idea
di museo e di produzione artistica, public lecture at Bologna
University, Visual Art department, invited by Prof. Mario
Lupano 17th May.
Gyorgy Kepes e i suoni della città, lecture at Politecnico di
Torino, 12th March.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS, EXHIBITIONS, AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015
Miartalks, co-curator of MIart – Milan Modern and
Contemporary Art Fair public program, Milan 9-12 April.
Susan Philipsz, co-curator, solo show at Museo di Villa Croce,
Genoa, April-July 2015.
2014
Markus Schinwald. Il dissoluto punito, curator, solo show at
Triennale Milano, May - July.
Grafting, Italian Pavilion at 14th Venice Architecture Biennale,
scientific advisor (with Federico Bucci and Francesco Repishti),
June – November.
2013
Adrian Paci. Lives in Transit, co-curator, solo show at PAC–
Padiglione d’arte contemporanea, Milan (with Alessandro
Rabottini), October–January.
2012
Alberto Garutti. Caption, co-curator, solo show at PAC–
Padiglione d’arte contemporanea, Milano (with Hans Ulrich
Obrist), November–February.
Farewell to the 70s. Art in Milan 1969–1980, co-curator,
exhibition at Palazzo Reale, Milan (with Francesco Bonami),
May–September.
Susan Philipzs, coordinator, solo show (permanent installation)
at San Gottardo church, Palazzo Reale, Milan, May–present.
Elad Lassry, coordinator, solo show at PAC – Padiglione d’arte
Contemporanea, Milan, June-September.
2011-2013
Art advisor for contemporary art and responsible for the
exhibition program for the City of Milan, Cultural affair
Councilor.
2010
Isola&Norzi. A Ballad of the Flooded Museum, curator, solo
show at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, SeptemberNovember.
2009 – 2015
Contributor to Artforum.
Contributing editor for Mousse magazine and Kaleidoscope.
2006-2011
Art editor for ABITARE and editor-in-chief of the supplement
The Reader.
2006
The Private Eye: the Prologue, assistant curator to the collective
show at Moderna galerija /Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
(curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), June–September.
2005
Antoni Muntadas “On Translation. I Giardini,” assistant research
for the Spanish Pavilion at 51° Venice Art Biennale, June–
November.
2002-2006
Contributor for La Repubblica (Milan edition).
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS
2003-2006
Fellowship from Scuola di Studi Avanzati (SSA) in Venezia,
Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV),
Università di Venezia “Cà Foscari,” Venice International
University), for PhD advanced program in Theory and History
of Arts.
2004-2005
Research fellowship at Archivio del Moderno, Università della
Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio (teaching and research projects).
2002-2003
Research Fellowship at Archivio del Moderno, Università della
Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio (research projects and archival
activity).
PUBLICATIONS
Books (author)
Scultura come conversazione – Immagine, oggetto e azione nella scultura contemporanea
(book manuscript 2015-2016).
SHE. La figura femminile nel lavoro di Adrian Paci, Milan, Johan&Levi, 2014.
ISBN: 978886010125-9, pp. 88, ill. 15 b/w.
Castelli di carte. La XIV Triennale di Milano, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2011.
ISBN: 9788874623730, pp. 296, ill. b/w and 1/16 c.
Palais de Tokyo. Sito di creazione contemporanea, Milan, Postmediabooks, 2006.
ISBN: 9788874900282, pp. 96, ill. 36 b/w.
Books (editor)
Alberto Garutti. Didascalia/Caption, Milano/Köln, Mousse/Walther König, 2012 (co-editor
with Hans Ulrich Obrist). ISBN: 8867490168, pp. 326, ill., c.
Addio Anni70. Arte a Milano 1969–1980, Milan, Mousse, 2012 (editor with Francesco
Bonami).
ISBN-13: 9788896501696, pp 474, ill. b/w.
Being Cattelan, Abitare, n.517, Milan, 2011 (editor).
ASIN: B00A94D0KO, pp. 194, ill, c.
Costruire il dispositivo storico. Tra fonti e strumenti, Milan, Bruno Mondadori, 2006 (coeditor with J. Gudelj).
ISBN-10: 8842497983, pp.336, ill. b/w.
Peer-reviewed essays, entries in encyclopedias and book chapters
“Diverting Art History: von hier aus– Zwei Monate neuer deutschen Kunst in Düsseldorf,”
in Carson Chan, Marianne Zameczik, eds., On Exhibition Design + Exhibition: from
Historical Perspectives to Contemporary Practice, Berlin, Sternberg Press, 2014 (upcoming
2014).
“Sculpture in the Public Field: Between Monument and Conversation. Skulptur Projekte
Münster (1977-2007),” in Chiara Pagani, Ester Dedè, eds., Rethinking Public Space,
Politecnico di Milano, 2014, pp. 138-155 (in print).
“Cao Fei, RMB city (2007-2011),” in Marco De Michelis, ed., La città nuova, Milan, Silvana
editoriale, 2013, pp. 167-177.
”T68/B68,” in Alex Coles, Catharine Rossi, eds., EP Vol. 1 The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968–
1976, Berlin, Sternberg Press, 2013, pp. 79-95.
“Year Zero: On the Canon of Exhibitions in Italy (1967–1968),” in Manifesta Journal, n.
11, Amsterdam, Manifesta Foundation, 2011, pp. 28-40.
“L'arte delle mostre,” entry in Enciclopedia Treccani Terzo Millennio, Roma, 2011, pp.
729-740.
“Qui Mostra, a voi Spazio. L’impatto delle esposizioni nella definizione dell’idea di
ambiente nell’arte italiana degli anni Sessanta. Lo Spazio dell’Immagine, 1967,” in
Emanuela De Cecco, ed., Arte-Mondo. Arte Contemporanea. Teorie 1990-2000, Libera
Università di Bolzano, Milan, Postmediabooks, 2010, pp. 94-109.
“Scultura come conversazione: Falke Pisano,” in Cristina Baldacci, Cristina Ricci, eds.,
Quando è scultura, Milano, Et. al. edizioni, 2010, pp. 166-174.
“A Wild Story: the Exhibitions at Via Panfilo Castaldi, 33 Milan (1990–2010),” in Patrizia
Brusarosco, Milovan Farronato, eds., Italian Souvenir, Milano, Mousse 2010, pp. 214-223.
“Beyond the Failure. Notes on the 14th Triennale in Milan,” in LOG, n. 13/14, Cambridge
MA., MIT press, Fall 2008/ Winter 2009, pp. 87-100.
“Sragionare in lungo e in largo. Note sull’arte italiana tra ricerca d’identità e ipotesi di
spazio,” in Francesco Bonami, ed., ITALICS. Arte italiana tra tradizione e rivoluzione. 1968
– 2008, Milan, Electa, 2009, pp. 62-69.
“Protest by Design: Giancarlo De Carlo and the 14th Milan Triennale” in David Crowley,
Jane Pavitt, eds., Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970, London, Victoria and Albert
Museum publishing, 2008, pp. 231-236.
“Inside A White Cube. Maurizio Cattelan à la morgue,” in Mark Alizart et Christophe Kihm,
eds., Fresh Theorie, Paris, Editions Léo Scheer, 2006, pp. 20-35.
“Palais de Tokyo,” in Pippo Ciorra, ed., Museums. Next Generation, Milano, MAXXI–Electa,
2006, pp. 23-34.
“Gyorgy Kepes and the City by Night,” in Documenti, SSAV Venice University Journal,
2005, www.documenti.ve.org.
Selected Writings (from 2009)
“The Polis of the Gestures. Dance and Performance at 14th Architectural Biennale in
Venice,” in LOG, n.32, Cambridge MA., MIT press, 2014 (in print).
“Robert Overby,” in Artforum.com, June 2014.
“Stephan Balkenhol,” in Artforum, New York, May 2014.
“The Unfinished Conversation: John Akomfrah,” in Flash Art, February 2014, pp. 42-46.
“BEST of 2013 in Italy,” in Artforum.com, December 2013.
“Sharjah New Art Maps,” in Domus, May 2013.
“Good Morning Princess, or dOCUMENTA 13,” in Domus, September 2013.
“The Irony of the Sublime: João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva,” in Fantom, November
2011, pp. 33 – 41.
“Jeff Koons “The New,” in Kaleidoscope, Summer 2011.
“Carlo Mollino. Maniera Moderna,” in Kaleidoscope, Fall 2011.
“Gabriele Basilico,” in Artforum, March 2011.
“Gianni Colombo,” Artforum, February 2010.
“Adrian Paci,” in Artforum, July 2011.
“Maurizio Cattelan,” in Artforum, December 2010.
“Bruce Nauman,” Flash Art, June/July 2009, pp. 68-70.
“Radical Reconstruction. Tomas Saraceno and Elmgreen&Dragset,” in Abitare, June 2009,
pp. 36-41.
“Sculpture Turning into Conversation: Falke Pisano,” in Abitare, May 2009, pp. 28-32.
“One day. A Conversation between Hilla Becher and Gabriele Basilico at Museo Morandi
in Bologna,” in Abitare, March 2009, pp. 28-33.
“What’s on with the Italian Art Scene,” in Artpress, December 2008/January2009.