Studio visits Eugenio Viola

Op op 22, 23 and 24 november komt Eugenio Viola, chief curator van het Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá in Colombia een aantal atelierbezoeken afleggen bij kunstenaars in Den Haag.

Eugenio Viola beschrijft zijn interessegebied als volgt:

"As a curator, I am especially interested in socially / politically engaged practice, with a focus on performance and queer LGBTQ+ perspectives. I am especially interested in the innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary culture. I am a scholar of performance and bodily poetics, but I don't have any specific preference in terms of media. What is important to me is the how artists deal, question and challenge our uncertain contemporary reality. I have developed different trajectories, working with international and well-known artists and emerging ones. As I wrote, and my CV speaks about it, I am very socially and politically driven in my curatorial perspective. I like art that has an impact on social issues, and I prefer art that is raising questions more than giving you answers. I consider myself, quoting my friend Tania Bruguera, an "artivist."

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Als je geïnteresseerd bent in een atelierbezoek van Eugenio Viola kun je dat tot en met zondag 13 november 2022 laten weten. De binnengekomen reacties worden samen met eventuele suggesties vanuit Stroom aan de curatoren voorgelegd. Uit de lijst zullen zij een keuze maken op basis waarvan het bezoekprogramma zal worden samengesteld. Je ontvangt alleen een bericht wanneer je door de curatoren bent geselecteerd voor een atelierbezoek.

Short biography Eugenio Viola
Born in Naples in 1975 Viola lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia. He is the current Chief Curator of MAMBO - the Bogota Modern Art Museum, in Colombia. From 2017 to 2019, he was the Senior Curator of PICA - The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in Perth, Western Australia. From 2009 to 2016, he was Curator at the MADRE Museum in Naples, where he was involved, since 2013, in developing the museum's collection. Here he co-curated the first major institutional exhibitions in Italy of Boris Mikhailov and Francis Alÿs, a site-specific installation of Daniel Buren and, retrospective exhibitions devoted to Vettor Pisani and Giulia Piscitelli.

He has collaborated with numerous Italian and international institutions, curating exhibitions devoted to, among the others: Regina José Galindo (Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 2016); Karol Radziszewski (CoCA - Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, 2014); Mark Raidpere (EKKM - The Contemporary Art Museum of Tallinn, 2013); Marina Abramovi? (PAC - Milan, 2012); Francesco Jodice (MSU - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2011), ORLAN (MAMC - Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint Etienne, 2007). In 2015 he curated the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, and in 2022 the Italian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, both critically acclaimed. He has curated over 70 exhibitions in Italy and abroad, over 50 catalogues and books, and contributed to numerous international publications.

Viola has a Ph.D. from the University of Salerno on "Methods and Methodologies of Archaeological and Art Historical Research" and is a scholar of the experiences related to performance and the body. On this subject, he has edited the monographs dedicated to Teresa Margolles (Edizioni MAMBO, Bogotà, 2019); Regina Jose Galindo (Skira, Milan, 2014); Hermann Nitsch (Morra Editions, Naples, 2013); Marina Abramovi?, (Sole 24 Ore Cultura, Milan, 2012); ORLAN (Charta, Milan-New York, 2007).

He has collaborated for many years with the American magazine Artforum and Italian Arte. His writings have also been published in Flash Art, Segno, Exit Express, Arte e Critica, Enciclopedia Treccani and many other Italian and international magazines and publications.