Adriana Polveroni.
Journalist and essayist and, since january 2012, She is the director of Exibart.
She has worked in the Espresso group and she has collaborated for other newspapers: Il Sole 24Ore e Uomo Vogue. She teaches Museologia del Contemporaneo at the Accademia of Brera of Milano and Metodologie e Pratiche della Comunicazione at the Accademia of belle arti of Rome. She has also taught in many masters among which: the Luiss Master of Arts, the IED of Roma and Venezia, and at the Naba of Milano. She also carries out/performs the curatorial activities and in her latest exhibitions include: Where is Abel?, at the no-profit space AlBumArte in Rome (2015), and Stella, at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna of Roma (2014).
She has dealt with Enviromental and Public art, curing some site specific projects as Xenia of Vittorio Corsini at The Macro Museum of Rome (2011) and Eric during Artissima 2011.
She is the author of the voice “Art and Landscape” to the Encyclopedia Treccani XXI.
She has published This is contemporary! Come cambiano i musei d’arte contemporanea (Franco Angeli, 2007); Lo Sboom. Il decennio dell’arte pazza tra bolla finanziaria e flop concettuale (Silvana Editoriale, 2009) as well as numerous essays in collective volumes and catalogues.
In February 2012, it was published her book l piacere dell’arte. Pratica e fenomenologia del collezionismo contemporaneo in Italia (Johan & Levi).
Antonello Tolve.
Scholar of artistic experiences and critical theories of the twentieth century, with a particular attention to the relationship between art, art criticism and new technologies, he has published numerous papers in this field. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata and Ph.D in “Metodi e metodologie della ricerca archeologica e storico artistica” (University of Salerno) It has been a visiting professor at several universities, among them, the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University - Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi (Istanbul, Turkey), the GDUT University - Guangdong University of Technology / Guangdong Gongye Daxue ( Guangzhou, China ) , the ' BLCU universities - Beijing Language and Culture University / Beǐjin̄g Yuyan Daxue ( Beijing , China) and the Universitatea de Arta is Design ( Cluj - Napoca , Romania). Art critic and independent curator, he was commissioner in several international juries and he plans exhibitions that investigate the present of the art and the life with a visual and thoughtful attitude of multidisciplinary and babelic nature. Among his books: Giardini d’utopia. Aspetti della teatralizzazione nell’arte del Novecento (2008), Gillo Dorfles. Arte e critica d’arte nel secondo Novecento (2011), Giuseppe Stampone. Estetica neodimensionale (2011), Bianco-Valente. Geografia delle emozioni (2011), ABOrigine. L’arte della critica d’arte (2012) and Esposizione dell’esposizione (2013), Ubiquità. Arte e critica d’arte nell’epoca del policentrismo planetario (2013) and La linea socratica dell'arte contemporanea (2016).
Cristiana Perrella.
Critic and curator, Cristiana Perrella (Rome, 1965) has manage since 1998 to 2008 the Contemporary Arts Programme di The British School at Rome. Since 2007 to 2009 sha has conceiveded and initiated for RISO - Museo d'arte Contemporanea della Sicilia an agency for the young art development (SACS-Sportello per l'Arte Contemporanea in Sicilia), being the curator during the first two years and once again in the 2012-2013.
Since 2010 she cures the artistic part of the Fondazione Gonelli activity, in Bologna. As indipendent curator, she has collabrated with international and italian institutions, among wich MAXXI, for wich she has curated in 2010 one of the exibhition whereby the museum has been inaugurated, continuing the collaboration for others three projects.
Since 2004 to 2010 She has taught "Fenomenologia dell'arte contemporanea" at the Università of Chieti. Actually she is professor at the IED of Rome. She has published numerous volumes and monographs, among which the latest dedicated to Francesco Vezzoli, published in february 2016 for Rizzoli International. She is one of the curators of the 16ˆQuadriennale di Roma.
Francesca Baboni.
Lives in Correggio (Re). Graduated in classical studies with art history program from the University of Bologna, she is an art critic, art historian and independent curator. For several years she has been curating solo and group exhibitions of contemporary artists for private spaces, with a particular focus on painting and photograph. She has been a contributor to many art periodicals and she is currently editor for Artribune magazine. She collaborates with Correggio Art Home, a study center dedicated to the painter Antonio Allegri known as Correggio, and she is a member of the board of directors of Fondazione Il Correggio, which oversees its activities.
Ilaria Bonacossa.
Curator and critic, she was senior curator at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo di Torino since 2002 to 2009, since 2012 she manages the il Museo di Villa Croce of Genova: Foundator of Art@Work, a group who commissions and develops contemporary art projects in private and no-profit contests. She has curated solo exhibitions of Nick Devereaux, Ian Kiaer, Zhang Enli, Tony Conrad, Julieta Aranda, Massimo Grimaldi, Alberto Tadiello, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Thomas Grunfeld, Tomás Saraceno and she has written about the work of Cristof Yvoré, Kees Goudswaard, Marlene Dumas e A Constructed World. Among the collectives exhibitions, she has curated: Subcontingent. Art from the Indian Subcontinent and Greenwashing. Art Perils and Proposals. Since February 2014 she is one of the five members of the Comitato tecnico per le acquisizioni del Frac de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur of Marsiglia. In 2007 She has been member of the Giuria per il Leone d'Oro della 52ma Biennale d'Arte di Venezia and in 2013 She was member of the Giuria per l'Inamori Foundation Prize di Kyoto. She has a degree in contemporary art history at Università Statale of Milano and she has a master’s degree in Curatorial Studies at the Bard College of New York.
Luca Panaro.
Art critic and curator. He teaches “Storia della critica fotografica” at the Accademia of Belle Arti of Brera and “Iconografia fotografica” at the Politecnico di Milano. Among his books: L’occultamento dell’autore. La ricerca artistica di Franco Vaccari (2007), Tre strade per la fotografia (2011), Conversazioni sull’immagine (2013), Casualità e controllo. Fotografia, video e web (2014), Visite brevi (2015), Photo Ad Hoc (2016). He has published on the Treccani Encyclopedia XXI the essay Realtà e finzione nell'arte contemporanea (2010) and co-curated the volumes Generazione critica (2014-2016).
Stefano Taddei.
Born in Vignola (MO) and he lives in Albinea (RE). He gained a degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage - Contemporary Field from the University of Parma. He is an art critic and an independent curator.
