Antonia Alampi Personal data Selected Education and Training

Antonia Alampi
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Nationality: Italian.
Selected Education and Training
2011 – 2012
De Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2009 – 2011
La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Master Degree 110/110 cum laude/with honour (equivalent to British A level) in Contemporary Art.
Thesis: The message is me. Artistic practices in the society of the self 1989 – 2011.
The research focused on the rise of autobiographical discourse in artistic practices in relation to mass democracy and
neo-liberal capitalism, to global phenomena such as the big brother or facebook, to changing in film productions, in
literature, in political rhetoric.
2004 - 2008
La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Bachelor degree 110/110 cum laude/with honour (equivalent to British A level) in Art History.
Thesis: History and evolution of the gallery systems in Rome.
The research presented an analysis of the development of the institutional landscape in Rome from the end of the
eighties and until the present.
Institutional Positions
2014 – on-going
the Imaginary School Program
Co-founder and Director
2014 – on-going
Alchimia
Tutor in Exhibition Curating
Master of Fine Arts program
Florence, Italy
2012 – 2015
Beirut
Curator
Cairo, Egypt
The Imaginary School Program is an educational project spanning art
practice, philosophy, cultural and political theory. Comprised of
workshops, lectures, fieldtrips, reading groups and other hybrid
activities, the program provides space for critical reflection on
institutions and forms of organizing with the aim to collectively
understand how they can manifest and articulate their political
potential. Its first edition took place in Cairo from September 2014 to
May 2015.
Alchimia’s MFA develops over a two-year period with the aim to
expand and deepen knowledge and skills in studio based jewellery
design. The programme is intended to generate further critical
understanding in and of the discipline, strengthen individual artistic
approaches and positions and investigate new possibilities of exhibition
making in the jewellery field.
Beirut was a not-for-profit art initiative and exhibition space in Cairo
(EG) that existed between 2012 and 2015, and was co-run by Antonia
Alampi, Jens Maier-Rothe and Sarah Rifky. Beirut has been
considering institution building as a curatorial act by exhibiting, writing,
talking, showing, teaching, commissioning artworks and organizing
research, in Cairo and internationally.
2013 – 2014
Azza Fahmy Design Studio
Art History Lecturer
Cairo, Egypt
2009 – 2011
Opera Rebis
Co-founder and co-director
Rome, Italy
2009 – 2011
Studio Stefania Miscetti
Assistant to the director
Rome, Italy
2008 – 2009
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea
Press Office
Trento, Italy
2008
Manifesta7 the European Biennial of
Contemporary Art
Mediator
South Tyrol, Italy
The Azza Fahmy Design Studio (AFDS) is an academic space
whereby interested students can grow their jewellery-making skills and
establish their own independent practice. AFDS also provides a more
secured career path in jewellery design and entrepreneurship in Egypt.
Opera Rebis was a nomadic institution, operating in different cities
such as Florence, Rome and Venice and realizing its range of projects
(exhibitions, conferences, screenings, workshops) in places
conventionally not related to art, and mainly abandoned. The institution
suicide in late 2011.
Since 1990 Studio Stefania Miscetti has focused on working on new
projects and commissions with artists linked to the experiences of the
'60s and '70s avant-garde movements such as Marina Abramovic,
Yoko Ono, Ben Vautier, ORLAN, Wolf Vostell, Maria Lai, Nancy Spero,
Valie EXPORT, amongst the others.
The Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, before becoming
a Foundation and while directed by Fabio Cavallucci, was an institution
dealing with participatory, socially engaged and relational artistic
practices. One of its objectives was to realize the ‘diffused’ museum,
overcoming its physical and psychological institutional presence and
engaging, through different approaches, an enlarged audience.
Manifesta 7 was curated by Anselm Franke and Hila Peleg, Adam
Budak and Raqs Media Collective. Manifesta 7 built a mediation
department via an open call. The selected participants, coming from all
over the world, were first invited to undertake a research on location,
and subsequently improve and propose alternative models of
mediation throughout its course.
Curatorial Projects (selected)
2017
April – June 2017
The School for Political Imagination
State of Concept
Athens (GRE)
2016
April 2016 – April 2017
A Foreign Romance
FormContent
London (UK) and Vienna (AT)
2015
A three-months educational program focused on forms of organizing in
Greece.
A year-long research residency on institutions’ subjectivities, ethics and
participation with different formal outcomes throughout the year in various
partner organizations including Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon), David
Roberts Art Foundation (London) and Art in General (New York).
Passavamo Sulla Storia Leggeri
Museum of Modern Art of Cagliari (IT)
A series of events including screenings, talks, performances and a
publication in the context of Cagliari Cultural Capital 2015 with artists
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Marwa Arsanios, Eric Baudelaire, CAMP
and Ashok Sukumaran, Curandi Katz, Matteo Guidi & Giuliana Racco and
Adelita Husni-Bey and responses by Cagliari based sociologists,
geographers, anthropologists and cultural theorists.
Forum dell’Arte Contemporanea
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea
Luigi Pecci, Prato (IT)
A panel discussion in and around curatorial education in Italy in the
context of a large symposia on the current state of Italian art’s
infrastructure. With contributions by Renato Barilli, Federica Bueti, Ester
Coen, Matteo Lucchetti, Cristiana Perrella, Marco Scotini, Gaia Tedone,
among the others.
Artworks also die,
or: before and after (becoming a ghost)
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR)
A workshop in the presence of original artworks by Akram Zaatari on
collecting practices and collections in Egypt.
How to Act: On Stages and Storytellers
Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk
Beirut, Cairo (EG).
A program of film screenings, talks and discussions around the practice
of this duo of film-makers.
2014
Adelita Husni Bey, White Paper,
Beirut, Cairo (EG) and Casco, Utrecht
in 2015 (NL).
A chaptered research and exhibition project with Adelita Husni-Bey
involving a series of newly commissioned artworks and discursive
frameworks, collaboratively shaped and shared by Beirut and Casco.
A Guest Without A Host Is A Ghost,
Collection in Residence, Beirut and
different venues in the city of Cairo
(EG).
A one year collaboration with the Kadist Art Foundation, featuring thirty
artworks from its collection from artists such as Taysir Bhatniji, HansPeter Feldman, Jiří Kovanda, Walid Raad, Anri Sala, Danh Vo, Akram
Zaatari, amongst the others.
Sono qui [un esercito di donnacce
nude], Studio Stefania Miscetti, Roma
(IT).
The first solo-show in Italy by Doris Maninger.
fatamorgana, Galleria Enrico Astuni,
Bologna (IT).
A group-show and publication with works by Carlos Amorales, Goda
Budvytyte, Malak Helmy, Clemens Hollerer, Basim Magdy, Luca Pozzi.
Rayyane Tabet, Here Today Gone
Tomorrow, Stedelijk Museum and De
Verdieping, Amsterdam (NL).
A solo-show and new commission of Rayyane Tabet for the premises
of the night-club and restaurant TrouwAmsterdam commissioned by
the Stedelijk Museum to Beirut, Palais de Tokyo and New Museum.
Alternative Models of University
Education in Egypt, organized by
Townhouse and Megawra, Cairo (EG).
A 3-days symposia on practiced educational models engaging with
visual arts, architecture, and urbanism, with Abdel Khalek Ibrahim,
Aliaa Ahmad, Jurgen Bey, Farida Makar, Kareem Ibrahim, Karim
Goessinger, Joacob Jacobsen, Magdi Mostafa, amongst the others.
The Real World They Promised Is Not
There, Centre of Contemporary Art,
Torun (PL).
An exhibition within an exhibition, with films by Oliver Laric, Maha
Maamoun, Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Jasmina Metwaly,
Ciprian Mureşan & Gianina Cărbunariu.
Malak Helmy, Lost Referents of Some
Attraction, American University in
Cairo (EG).
Malak Helmy’s first major solo exhibition at the Sharjah Art Gallery at
AUC’s New Cairo campus.
2013
Unexpected Encounters, Camera Austria,
Graz (AUT).
An exhibition and editorial project with Malak Helmy, Hassan Khan,
Jasmina Metwaly, and Mada Masr.
Institution as Fiction: What is an Institution? A workshop reconceiving the institution as a fictitious entity, with the aim
Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, (AUT).
to think beyond accepted and practiced models of institutional founding,
and exploring new charters for (art) institutions to become.
Writing with the other hand is imagining,
Beirut, Cairo (EG).
A group-show choreographed in two studies of assignments, talks,
workshops and artworks by Luis Camnitzer, Dina Danish, Redmond,
Entwistle, Malak Helmy, Adelita Husni-Bey, Parallel Lines, Mladen
Stilinović and Katarina Zdjelar.
You Only Fall Twice, Center for
Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry,
(IRL).
A research and exhibition project presenting an alliance of music files,
lectures, books and artworks by Irina Botea & Nicu Ilfoveanu, Aurélien
Froment, Oliver Laric, Pilvi Takala, Harald Thys and Jos De Gruyter,
and Peter Waechtler.
Posse Comitatus, Fondation
d'entreprise Ricard, Paris (FR).
A day of performances with Chelsea Knight and Mark Tribe in
collaboration with Valerie Oberleithner, Emilie Combet, and Lautaro
Prado.
Nouvelle Vagues, The Real Thing?,
Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR).
An exhibition with artworks by Jérôme Bel, Alicia Frankovich, Shadi
Habib Allah, Chelsea Knight and Mark Tribe with Valerie Oberleithner,
Alexi Kukuljevic, Pilvi Takala, Diego Tonus and a contribution by
Franco 'Bifo' Berardi.
The Falling of the books..., Beirut,
Cairo (EG).
A library, research and exhibition project with readings and works by
Åbäke, Aurélien Froment, Goldin+Senneby, Oliver Laric, Pilvi Takala,
Harald Thys and Jos De Gruyter.
What is an institution?
The First Meeting, Beirut, Cairo (EG).
A seminar with Kunsthalle Lissabon, CCA Derry-Londonderry,
FormContent and Art in General.
Indent, Egypt Independent and Beirut,
Cairo (EG).
A bi-weekly newspaper spread in collaboration with the newspaper
Egypt Independent, with works by Carlos Amorales, Taha Belal, Dan
Perjovschi, Azin Feizabadi, Jasmina Metwaly and Malak Helmy,
amongst the others.
The Magic of the State, Beirut, Cairo
(EG) and Lisson Gallery, London,
(UK).
An exhibition and editorial project, including new commissions, and a
public program of performances, talks and screenings by Ryan
Gander, Goldin+Senneby, Rana Hamadeh, Anja Kirschner and David
Panos, Liz Magic Laser, Christodoulos Panayiotou, and Lili ReynaudDewar.
2012
What Does A Drawing Want?, Beirut,
Cairo (EG).
An essay exhibition unfolding with various interventions by Carlos
Amorales, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Jimmie Durham, Gabriel Lester,
Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Deimantas Narkevičius, Christian
Rattemeyer, Isabel Seligman, Hito Steyerl.
How We See, Beirut, Cairo (EG).
Screenings and talks of and around Harun Farocki’s work, with Amr
Abdelrahman, Lina Attalah, Ute Holl, amongst the others.
Three Artists Walk into a Bar..., de
Appel arts centre and 54 other
locations around Amsterdam and the
Netherlands.
A group show of performative interventions and a public program,
involving 91 art students from higher education art institutions across
the Netherlands.
Why stay if you can go?, the Stedelijk
Museum @ de Appel arts centre,
Amsterdam (NL).
A series of reading groups developed as a collaboration with the
Centre for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade, XYZ projects in
Athens, and Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.
2010-2011
She Devil, MACRO, Museum of
Contemporary Art of the city of Rome
(IT); MNAC, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Bucharest (RO); and Studio
Stefania Miscetti (IT).
A video review of international female video artists, with works by
Katarzyna Kozyra, Pilvi Takala, Berni Searle, Bahar Behbahani, Laurel
Nakadate, Janet Biggs, Nina Lassila, Julika Rudelius, Valie EXPORT,
Marinella Senatore, amongst the others.
A better tomorrow, Studio Stefania
Miscetti, Rome (IT).
A group show with works by Navid Azimi Sajadi, Bizhan Bassiri, Doris
Bloom, Paolo Canevari, Manuela Filiaci, Maria Lai, Christiane Loher,
Nunzio, Luigi Ontani, Cesare Pietroiusti, amongst the others.
How to Make a Revolution – Anetta
Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, MLAC,
Museum Laboratory of Contemporary
Art of the University of Rome La
Sapienza, Rome (IT).
A solo-show of the artistic duo Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová.
Once upon a time there was a future,
abandoned space in San Lorenzo,
produced by Opera Rebis.
A group show with works by Thomas Bugno, Luca Cutrufelli, Dario
D’Aronco, Marco Fedele Di Catrano, Marco Di Giovanni,
Elettrophonica, Michele Giangrande, Alessandro Giuliano, Giorgio
Orbi, Christian Niccoli, Agnese Trocchi.
Giandomenico Sozzi – Brava, Studio
Stefania Miscetti, Rome (IT).
A solo-show by Giandomenico Sozzi.
Education and lecturing (selected)
On imagination, crystal globes and the museum, a talk at Tabakalera, San Sebastian (ES), 2015 (lecturer).
InExchange, IFA, Berlin (DE), 2015 (panellist).
RE-MAKE / RE-MODEL, The Green Parrot, Barcelona (ES), 2015 (lecturer).
Trading Zones, Le18, Marrakesh (MA), 2015 (lecturer).
On instituting imagination, a workshop in the context of Madrassa, L’Atelier de l’Observatoire, Casablanca
(MA), 2015 (workshop giver).
The Place from Where We Look, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR), 2015 (workshop giver, lecturer).
Beirut, The Conference, a talk at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR), 2015 (lecturer).
On Undesired Institutions, a talk at Les Laboratoire d’Aubervillers during Performing Oppositions, Paris (FR),
2015 (lecturer).
The 2014 CIMAM Annual Conference Doha (QA), 2014 (panelist and Getty Foundation Grantee).
The Real World They Promised Is Not There, talk at CoCA, Torun (PL), 2014 (lecturer).
Alternative Models of University Education in Egypt, organized by Townhouse and Megawra, Cairo (EG), 2014
(co-curator, lecturer and day moderator).
What do we do when we are doing it? Models for a Future School of Curating, organized by the Stedelijk
Museum and de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (NL), 2014 (panelist).
ARCO Curatorial Meeting: Talking about my generation: on the relevance of generations in contemporary
curating, Madrid, (ES), 2014 (panelist).
Qui Enter Atlas, International Symposium for emerging curators, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Bergamo,
Italy, 2013 (lecturer).
Liaisons dangereuses. Seeking emancipatory alternatives in trembling times, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz
(AUT), 2013 (panelist).
May Invitational #3 | Beirut (Cairo) @ Viafarini, Milan (IT), 2013 (lecturer).
Second Wave: reflections on Curatorial Practices, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR), 2013 (lecturer).
What is an institution? The First Meeting, Beirut, Cairo (EG), 2013 (co-curator, lecturer and moderator).
Exhibition history through curatorial practice, MASS, Alexandria (EG), 2013 (lecturer).
Enter the artworld? Marginal establishments, cooptation, and resistance, Giant Step Symposia, organized by
Van Abbemuseum, MOSTYN | Wales, vessel and Galeria Labirynt, Bari (IT), 2012 (lecturer).
Writing and editing (selected)
Writings have appeared on many journals and magazines including Art-Agenda, Afrikaada, Artluk, Arte e Critica, Chew
Magazine, Cura Magazine, Flash Art International, and Frieze blog among the others.
In 2016 I will be a regular contributor to Nero Magazine, with a column focusing on experimental institutional practices
developed in the last decade in non-European countries.
Adelita Husni-Bey: White Paper, a compendium of writings and artists’ interventions around issues of housing rights in
Egypt, the Netherlands and Spain, in collaboration with Casco (Utrecht), upcoming, (co-editor and writer).
On Undesired Institutions, in Performing Opposition, Journal des Laboratoires, ed. Les Laboratoires d’Aubervillers,
2015 (writer).
fatamorgana, a book of conversations between Antonia Alampi and Carlos Amorales, Goda Budvytyte, Clemens
Hollerer, Basim Magdy, Luca Pozzi, and a critical text by Jens Maier-Rothe, published by Galleria Enrico Astuni, 2014
(editor and writer).
Sono qui [un esercito di donnacce nude], an artist book by Doris Maninger, with texts by Antonia Alampi, Michele Mari,
Sarah Rifky, Riccardo Lami, Stefania Miscetti, published by Nero Publishing, 2014 (editor and writer).
The Underlay, in Réalités du Commissariat d’exposition, edited by Nicolas Bourriaud, published by l’école nationale
supérieure des Beaux-arts, 2014 (writer).
In The Lives And Loves Of Institutions, in Active Withdrawal, co-edited by Biljana Ciric and Nikita Yingqian Cai,
published by Guangdong Times Museum, 2014 (co-writer).
The Real World They Promised Is Not There, in Arena, published by the Centre of Contemporary Art of Torun, 2014
(writer).
A Guest Without A Host Is A Ghost, A booklet, published by Beirut, 2014 (co-editor and co-writer).
In The Lives And Loves Of Institutions, in Performing the Institutional Vol.3, published by Kunsthalle Lissabon, 2013
(co-writer).
The Real Thing?, in Palais de Tokyo Magazine, ed. PDT, 2013 (writer).
Lucid Dreams, Cristiano Pintaldi, catalogue of the exhibition, published by Silvana Editoriale, 2011, (editor and writer).
How to Make a Revolution - Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, catalogue of the exhibition, published by
Cura.Books, 2010 (editor and writer).
POST MONUMENT International Sculpture Bienniale of Carrara, catalogue of the exhibition, published by Silvana
Editoriale, 2010 (writer).
Once upon a time there was a future, catalogue of the exhibition, published by Boîte, 2010 (editor and writer).
Other affiliations
Board member of the network After April, and Viafarini DOCVA.
Jury Member of Tabakalera Open call for projects 2016.
Jury Member of Celeste Prize 2014.
Jury Member of Live Works_performance art award 2013.
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