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Vincenzo de Bellis & Bruna Roccasalva
Milan, Italy
Program YCI 2009 participants (recommended by Beatrix Ruf)
Vincenzo de Bellis (1977) and Bruna Roccasalva (1974) are curators and critics based in Milan, where they co-founded project space Peep-Hole in 2009. They are editors of Peep-Hole Sheet, a quarterly of artists' writings, which came at its second issue, featuring contributions of Liam Gillick (#1) and John Miller (#2). They are curating In Other Words a series of events exploring art practices that use writing as an inherent part, organized with Kunsthalle Zürich and Istituto Svizzero di Roma.
In 2008 Vincenzo de Bellis received an MA in Curatorial Practice at Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. From 2004 to 2006 he collaborated with the Curatorial Department of GAMeC, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo and in 2007 with Museion, Bolzano. Recent projects includes Countdown, Hessel Museum of Art and Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2008); Pietro Roccasalva - Z, Park Avenue Armory, New York (2008); Lost and Found City, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York (2007).
After receiving her MA in Curating at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Bruna Roccasalva became, in 2002, Assistant Curator at GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, where, from 2004 she is also Head of Publications. From 2003 to 2005 she was Maniging Editor of Perché/? Periodical discussions on art. In 2005 she teached History of Contemporary Art at IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) in Milan. She is currently Associate Curator at GAMeC, Bergamo.