2022/2025
KUNE is a Copenhagen-based internationally recognized art and music festival focused on community building and artistic quality. KUNE’s mission is to unify otherwise scattered undergroud scenes around the Scandinavian Peninsula.
For the 2022 and 2023 editions of the festival I served as Artistic Director, defining the visual identity and curating the art program.
Following a context and site specific approach, my curatorial practice aimed for contrasts and ambiguity in the poetic environments of Ungdomsøen Island.
Reminiscences of ancient columns swaying in the wind, music brought to life by mycelium, and a blend of art forms seamlessly merging with bunkers and large concrete platforms. Each year through different relevant narratives, installations would welcome participants to engage, connect, unwind, rest, interact and learn.
KUNE Festival has earned acclaim as a genuine, uplifting and heartfelt event which left a strong mark on its community.
Artists:
Davide Hjørt Di Fabio
Horizontology
Circuit Circus
Daniel Rosca
Sancho
B612
Matias Frøsyaa
Keeptress
Adietoday
Sol Sarratea
Matei Petrescu
Daiva Saff
© ph Anna Macchia, Agne Petrayte, Simon Nielsen Englyst
2023
In May 2023, the Met Museum hosted a large repository on Karl Lagerfeld, curated by Andrew Bolton. By virtue of Lagerfeld’s 54 years of collaboration as a creative director for FENDI, the house collaborated on the exhibition, providing inputs and lending more than 80 garments to the Met Museum and collaborated in the organization of the exhibition.
On this occasion, during my months of work in the FENDI Heritage department, I supported the organization of the exhibition through archival researches, working in close contact with the Met’s curatorial department to ensure clear interpretations and impactful descriptions.
The FENDI historical archive is a museum and creative inspiration hub, an educational tool and heritage preservation motor. It collaborates with museums and cultural institutions all over the world to organize exhibitions and is part of Museimpresa, the Italian Association for Archives and Enterprise Museums.
© ph Met Museum
2023/2024
The Museum for the United Nations - UN Live is a Copenhagen-based, innovative, borderless museum that aims to build global empathy and drive positive action by unleashing the power of culture.
While at UN Live, I worked on the “Global We” program, rooted in the existence of a global network of “portals” - the iconic blue containers equipped with audio-visual technology - connected between each other in endless constellations, through talks, intimate and powerful artistic experiences, exhibitions and design sprints tackling the most pressing global themes.
The program is rooted in the idea that art and culture are essential for the salvation of the planet, as they foster a sense of global belonging and connection, concepts that are suffering significantly in the current historical period. To this vision I align intimately and I carry it with me as curator and artist.
My work at UN Live in program development, curation of the sessions, communication, strategy and partnerships has considerably enriched the globality of my approach to artistic transformation.
© ph Museum for the United Nations - UN Live
2024
On May 2nd 2024 I started a talks series “I am Curious: Art and Empathy Talks”, hosted by Supertime bookstore in Copenhagen. The conversations reflect on the human condition and the contemporary through the lenses of art, emotional awareness and empathy. Including artists and experts from the fields of performance art, music, dance, figurative art, moderated by me, the series hopes to create a setting for empowering conversations about art and its role in the complex times we live in.
The first episode on May 2nd hosted Elif Gokcidem, PhD in Islamic Arts and founder of ONE - Organization for Networks of Empathy. We discussed artistic awakenings, redefined the concept of empathy as a cornerstone of human connection to reflect on art as a conduit to get in touch to our selves, and to what is around us.
The second talk in the series featured Polina Fradkina, an exceptional pianist and expert in music psychology and sociology. Through practical demonstrations, this session looked at music in its endlessly complex and multifaceted nature, seeking to answer questions about individual and collective emotional awareness as a means to heal and bridge difference.
The third talk featured Tamar Hadechian, a multidisciplinary artist working with clay and food storytelling. This session, a blend of hands-on art workshop and a discussion, aimed to dive into the creative process as a way to connect with emotions, practice empathy towards ourselves and others. Participants were guided to focus on the process of creation, rather than the outcome, allowing a free flow of creativity, devoid of pressure or expectations.
The fourth event invited artists David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo and Live Art Denmark in a conversation about performance art. Both David Sebastian and Live Art Denmark have been active in the field for more than 20 years and brought participants into contact with this art form through their words and actions, the very essence of performance.
Information on future episodes will be up soon.
To book your spot, visit Supertime website.
2024
Live Art Denmark is a Copenhagen-based, internationally recognised artistic collective engaged in independent performance-art experimentation for about two decades. Especially involved with experimentations that involve an audience as collaborator, Live Art is striving to curate qualitative and transformative performances for adults and the youth.
Since March 2024 I have joined Live Art Denmark, working on exhibition production, visual identity, art mediation and communication. For Live Art for Børn 2024, a performance festival exploring the theme of identity in the age of Social Media, to be held at the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art in November, I am curating an online campaign that embodies the festival's theme. In doing so, the social media campaign becomes the eleventh performance of the festival, the virtual component reaching beyond the walls of the museum to amplify its impact.
Artists:
Va-Bene Fiatsu (© ph)
Linnea Langfjord (© ph)
Kristoffer Ørum
Antikapitalistik Musikkooperativ
Marsian DeLellis
Tim Spooner
Rosie Gibbens (© ph)
Isaac Nissen
Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill (© ph)
Stine Marie Jacobsen
Louise Orwin (© ph)
Jörn Burmester
Boaz Barkan (© ph)