Benedetta di Loreto

Née en Italie en 1975
Vit et travaille à Rome

Participante au programme YCI 2006

Formation

Juin 2004

Istituto Luigi Sturzo, Rome, Italy. Training program aimed at writing cultural projects.

2002- 2003

MAGASIN, Contemporary Art Centre, Grenoble, France.Curatorial. Training Program.

2001

University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. Degree in History of Contemporary Art. Title of thesis: From the museum as exhibition towards the museum as disposition. Topic: the evolution of museum and display compared to the transformation of artistic language and technological opportunities. Particular attention addressed to the communication processes between art and public.

1996

ANAC (National Association of Cinematographic Authors), Rome, Italy. Screenwriting course.

Projets en cours

qwatz, residency for artists, based in Rome.

The project aims to carry out two basic activities: 1. an Artist Residency Program, based on internationally established practice and local connections. 2. the development of researches and projects investigating the relation between visual arts and cinema, and their impact on everyday life. Founding members: Benedetta di Loreto - director, Andrea Pagano di Melito - co-director. Actual panel: Alberto Grifi, independent cinema director; Norma Jeane, artist; Alessandra Galasso, curator and critic; 1: 1 projects, cultural association based in Rome and London. Starting from 2007 (www.qwatz.it.)

on-access, an ongoing project investigating the way art and culture approach the theme of cultural differences in everyday life. Curator (www.on-access.net, an archive and a platform developing a research on cultural differences.).

First related event: screening of the video Magical World by the Swedish artist Johanna Billing in different contexts: during different stops of the cruise Crociera Mediterranea di Zingara (July-September); at the MedVideoFestival in Paestum (14-17 September).

Acitivités professionnelles

2006

Una diversa casa, workshop with the University of Ascoli Piceno, Faculty of Architecture and related exhibition Private in Rome. Curator.

since January 2006 1:1projects, platform for cultural production based in Rome and London, devoted to promote art projects, artists and artistic practices. Founding member.

since April 2006 www.curating.it, an ongoing online forum, developed in collaboration with NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano), that investigates Italian specificities in curatorial practice. Co-curator.

since November 2005 Tema Celeste, Rome, contemporary art magazine. Correspondent.

2005

WPS1 Feeds, online project at WPS1/MoMA, New York. Member of the curatorial staff, responsible of the section "What about...".

2004

Fondazione Baruchello, Rome, Italy. Assistant curator. Organizing exhibitions, seminaries and conferences. Coordination of workshops, responsible for the display, press office assistant. Organization and coordination of Gianfranco Baruchello’s works archive.

Festival dei Latini, in the archaeological site of Malborghetto, near Rome. Organization in collaboration with Aurelio Gatti, Pentagono Produzioni Associate, CDL Circuito Oanza Lazio, CapuAntica Festival, Ecovanavoce, Borgotsunami.

Progetto GARBA, artists’ residence in Basilicata, Italy. European project with 8 countries involved (Finland, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Siovenia, Siovak Republic): coordination of artists and projects.

2003

Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy. Assistant curator. Concept and realization of the exhibition Michelangelo Pistoletto & Cittadellarte &, at the Muhka Museum, in Antwerp, Belgium. Coordination of the catalogue. Responsible for the Cittadellarte Communication Office in Antwerp and coordination of projects between Italy and Belgium.

AIDS RIOT project, bilingual publication (English/French) written within the Curatorial Training Program at the Magasin, Contemporary Art Centre of Grenoble. The project deals with the activity of four artistic collectives reacting to the AIOS crisis in New York during the 80’s (General Idea; Group Material; Gran Fury; Gregg Bordowitz). It contains interviews and texts written during the 1980’s and 90’s, and original interviews by the 12^th session of the curatorial program. The book is edited by the MAGASIN.

2002

Press office at the Fondazione Baruchello, Rome.

2001

Italian Studio Program 2000-2002 P.S.1MoMA, graphic project, display, assistant to logistics and coordination for the exhibition at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. The exhibition showed Italian finalists at the PS1/MoMA Studio Program. It was organized by the ITALRE Group and ILL Y caffè.

1999 – 2001

Collaboration with the Fondazione Baruchello in Rome, for exhibitions and other activities.

1999

YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization), organization of the Italian journey for young presidents and international leaders. Collaboration with the cultural section: museums and monuments visits in Rome.

1997

FAI (Fondo per l’Ambientale Italiano), tourist guide at the archeological site of the Isola Farnese in the Parco di Veio, close to Rome.

Lectures et jury

2006

Massenzio 2006, Il cinema è indipendente, invited talk in the context of the meeting MUL TIPLICITY OF SCREENS AND VISIONS. Recent diffusion and distribution of Cinema in unusual contexts. Rome, Italy.

NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti - New Art School), invited talk together with Cecilia Canziani for the presentation of curating.it, and introduction of the project Curating ­Degree Zero Archive by Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richete. Milano, Italy.

2005

Written City, workshop with young artists involved in the project. Introducing the work of Gea Casolaro, Stefania Galegati, Liliana Moro, Federico Pietrella, Luca Vitone. Frascati, Italie.

Milano, panel member to select an Italian artist for the residency program Location One in New York, sponsored by Artegiovane, Milano and Anima SGRPA.

From the space of the object to the space of the discourse, lecture at the University of Ascoli Piceno, Faculty of Architecture.

14th Session of the Curatorial Training Program, meeting at the MAGASIN, Grenoble, France.

2004

Final round table on the young artists’ show Textures. Invited talk at the Primo Municipio, Rome, Italy.

"QUI. News release - Percorsi, progetti, pensieri della nuova generazione di critici e curatori italiani", invited talk at the GAMEC (Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea) conference in Bergamo for a meeting on the last generation of Italian curators.

Panel member for selecting artist for the Visual Arts Section of Frammenti, a multidisciplinary Festival in Frascati (Rome). Panel composed by Lorenzo Benedetti (curator), Matteo Boetti (gallerist), Cecilia Castrati (critic, curator, visual art teacher at the Arts Academy), Fabrizio Del Signore (collector), Daniele Perra Journalist for Tema Celeste, critic), Giuliana Stella (curator).

2003

Workshop on theatre conducted by the Spanish director José Sanchis Sinisterra. Invited talk as expert of contemporary art. The workshop was focused on the interaction between different subjects: visual arts, physics, music, architecture, philosophy, biology, astronomy.