2022/2025 - Ongoing
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.
Since 2022 I have been curating the art programme at KUNE, defining the artistic vision edition after edition and curating exhibitions, site specific installations and, since 2025, live art performances and hybrid live music shows. Since 2024 I am also member of the board of directors, representing the music, activities and talks branches.
Following a context and site specific approach, my curatorial approach aimed for contrasts, ambiguity and surprise in the poetic and rough environments of Ungdomsøen Island.
Reminiscences of ancient columns swaying in the wind, music brought to life by mycelium, vases and ancient tea pots, novel interpretations of lighthouses, rituals of connection, and a blend of art forms merging with bunkers and large concrete platforms. Each year through different relevant narratives, installations and performances welcome participants to engage and connect, rest or experience forms of intensity. This aspect in particular has been my personal objective, rooted in the convinction that festivals represent spaces where life can be experienced “with no other purpose than life itself”.
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 (DK)
Horizontology (DK)
Circuit Circus (DK)
Daniel Rosca (ROM)
Sancho (AR/DK)
B612 (DK)
Matias Frøsyaa (NO)
Keeptress (GR/DK)
Adietoday (GR/DK)
Sol Sarratea (ROM)
Matei Petrescu (ROM)
Daiva Saff (DK)
Myrgon (GR)
Dance Is Ancient (SE)
Baronato Quattro Bellezze (IT)
Dila Kirmizitoprak (AUT/TR)
Polina Fradkina (RUS/DK)
Anne Jeppesen & Omid Zarei (DK/FR/IR)
Brian Veis (DK)
Tamar Hadechian (LBN)
Researched Bio (DK)
Sophie Gevind (DK)
Yi Ten Lai (SP/HK)
2023
In May 2023, the Met Museum hosted a large repository on Karl Lagerfeld, curated by Andrew Bolton. FENDI collaborated on the exhibition, providing inputs and lending more than 80 garments to the Met Museum and collaborated in the organization of the exhibition, by virtue of Lagerfeld’s 54 years of collaboration as a creative director.
On this occasion, as art mediator and researcher for FENDI’s Heritage and Archive department, I supported the organization of the exhibition through archival researches, working in close contact with the Met’s curatorial department to ensure clear artistic interpretations.
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.
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2023/2024
The Museum for the United Nations - UN Live is a Copenhagen-based borderless museum that aims to drive positive action through culture.
While at UN Live, I developed the “Global We” programme, rooted in the existence of a global network of “portals” - blue containers equipped with audio-visual technology - connected between each other in endless constellations, through talks, intimate artistic experiences, exhibitions and design sprints tackling pressing global themes.
The program is rooted in the idea that art and culture foster a sense of global belonging and connection. I carry this vision with me as curator and artist.
My work at UN Live in programme development, curation of the sessions, communication, strategy and partnerships has enriched the globality of my approach to artistic transformation.
© ph Museum for the United Nations - UN Live
2024
In May 2024 I started a talks series at Supertime in Copenhagen. The conversations reflect on the human condition and the contemporary through the lenses of art and emotional awareness. Including artists and experts from the fields of performance art, music, dance, figurative art, the series aimed to create a setting for 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, re-defined the concept of empathy (as oneness, rather than the misleading “I feel what you feel”) as a cornerstone of humanity, to reflect on art as a conduit to re-contextualize with the world.
The second talk in the series featured Polina Fradkina, internationally recognized pianist and expert in music psychology and sociology. Through practical demonstrations, this session looked at music in its complex 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 and practice empathy towards ourselves and others. Participants were guided by Tamar to focus on the process of creation, rather than the outcome, allowing a free flow of creativity, devoid of pressure.
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.
*Podcast in the making
2024
Live Art Denmark is a Copenhagen-based artistic collective engaged in independent performance-art experimentation for about two decades. Especially involved with initiatives 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 supported Live Art Denmark with 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, held at the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art in November, I curated an online campaign that embodied the festival's theme, that practically became the eleventh performance of the festival, virtual component reaching beyond phisicality.
Artists:
Va-Bene Fiatsu (© ph) (GH)
Linnea Langfjord (© ph) (DK)
Kristoffer Ørum (DK)
Antikapitalistik Musikkooperativ (DK)
Marsian DeLellis (US)
Tim Spooner (UK)
Rosie Gibbens (© ph) (UK)
Isaac Nissen (DK)
Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill (© ph) (UK)
Stine Marie Jacobsen (DK)
Louise Orwin (© ph) (UK)
Jörn Burmester (DK/DE)
Boaz Barkan (© ph) (IL/DK)
2025 - Ongoing
On Ritual And Art is a curatorial research project carried out through artistic media. Drawing from the theories of Byung Chul-Han, Richard Schechner and Tim Ingold, this projects aims to draw from rituality to develop a new approach to curation of the art experience.
The long term aim is curatorial, yet the means are artistic. Through alternating phases of research, immersion, implementation, the project is conceived of as duratorial and iterative.
Visit the project’s Landing Page to learn more.
2025
For Kune Festival 2025, painter Brian Veis and I came together for an exhibition that combined our works, based on an alignement in our artistic visions.
We brought together painting and photography, blending borders between media and tested out alternative hanging possibilities to create and dismantle images.
How labile is the confine between figurative and abstract?
How easily can a view be changed, what does it take to do so? When should this happen, if at all? Some of the questions we posed in a purely visual way, adopting an artistic approach to curation and display.
Curatorially, staying at the border between figuration and abstraction, allowed to think about perspective shifts.
*disclaimer: Ungdomsøen island, the venue that hosts KUNE Festival, is an ex military fortress. The choice to maintain traces of its origins in no way suggests an affiliation to war.
2025 - Ongoing
From Boughs To Shade, From Shade To Bliss, From Bliss to Wrath
is an experimental, innovative and intense visual art, performance, and music modular initiative that aims to advance hybrid artistic experimentation in music and performance and to create a space for an intimate and powerful exploration of internal landscapes.
The show brings together artists from different backgrounds, generations, and disciplines—classical and contemporary musicians, electronic sound, visual art, and light: Polina Fradkina, internationally acclaimed pianist and musicologist; Academeia, Greek/Swedish electronic duo and label based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Together we created a piece where piano and electronics interact—sometimes harmonically, sometimes in dissonance—following the principle of variation and emotional crescendo. The music is based selected pieces by Mussorgsky, Drukh, Bach reworked, looped and transformed.
Brian Veis’s large-scale paintings provide the visual dimension. They are manually moved and rotated during the show. His works are semi-abstract, rooted in mathematical logics. Light is projected on the paintings and manipulated to explore perception shifts, encouraging the audience to look differently, to question what in seen and how easily a view can shift. My curatorial approach sought to layer media, build an emotional journey and create a complete art experience.
The show premiered at Kune Festival 2025 and it will tour around Europe, in varied possible forms, due to its scalable and modular nature. Learn more