Angel Moya Garcia (Cordova, Spain, 1980. Lives and works in Florence) is a contemporary art critic and curator. He holds a degree in History of Art from the University of Cordova (Spain) and is Co-Director of Fine Arts at Tenuta Dello Scompiglio in Lucca. He is a member of ICOM Italia - International Council of Museums, IKT - International Association Of Curators Of Contemporary Art and IAC - Institute of Contemporary Art in Spain. He was recently curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the first edition of the Malta Biennial (2024) and curator of the 'Panorama' project at the Quadriennale di Roma (2022-2024). In the past, he was curator of the annual programme of the BLM - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa artistic residencies in Venice (2023) and was responsible for the programming and cultural events of the Mattatoio di Roma (2020-2022). The fundamental dimension of his research focuses on the concept of identity, the collectivisation of the individual and the deconstruction of the subject in contemporary philosophy. The fundamental dimension of his research focuses on the concept of identity, the collectivisation of the individual and the deconstruction of the subject in contemporary philosophy, while also addressing questions of transversality through the analysis of boundaries and the identification and study of convergences and intersections in the various practices of contemporary art, with particular emphasis on the languages of installation and performance.
Ilaria Gianni is an independent curator, art critic and lecturer. She is co-founder of IUNO, a research center for contemporary art and of Magic Lantern Film Festival, a research-based thematic investigation of the interstice between visual art and cinema. She has curated exhibitions and independent research projects in museums, institutions, project spaces and galleries including: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; MACRO, Rome; MAXXI, Rome; National Gallery, Rome; Matadero, Madrid; MOA, Seoul; Loop, Seoul; Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. From 2016 to 2020 she was guest curator at the American Academy in Rome. Between 2009 and 2016 she was co-director and curator of Nomas Foundation, where she was responsible for the artistic programming. She has collaborated with contemporary art fairs, including ARCOmadrid, for which she curated the section "Opening" (2018-2019), Artissima, for which she curated the section “Present Future” (2019-2021), while between 2015 and 2017 she co -founded and curated the independent art fair Granpalazzo. She is Adjunct Professor at John Cabot University, the Master of Art at Luiss Business School, IED (Rome) and at Naba (Milan). She has contributed with texts to numerous art catalogs and magazines such as: Flash Art, artforum.com, Domus, Mousse, NERO, Cura, Arte e Critica. As part of the Quadriennale d’arte 2020, she curated the project AccadeMibact: Domani Qui Oggi.
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.
Lorenzo Balbi (Torino, 1982. Lives and works in Torino) is director at MAMbo, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bologna. He graduated from Ca' Foscari University in Venice with a BA in Fine Art and Conservation of Cultural Heritage and from the University of Turin with an MA in Contemporary Art History. His texts and articles were published by several reviews and magazines, including: Il Giornale dell'Arte, Inside Art, Artribune, Mousse, La Stampa, Exibart, ATP Diary, Il Giornale dell'Architettura. He was artistic director at Verso Artecontemporanea Gallery in Turin, an exhibition space devoted to the research on emerging artists from South-East Asia. Recently he was part of the board of Nesxt, Indipendent Art Festival, curator of the Live Program for DAMA, the new experimental fair for emerging international galleries, and curator of the Pomilio Blumm Prize, prize for contemporary artists made in collaboration with Magnolia and Sky Arte HD. Assistant curator since 2007 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, he teaches Curatorial Methodology at Campo Course for Curators (www.fsrr.org/campo) and he works on the exhibition projects for the institution in both venues of Torino and Guarene d'Alba. His works is expecially focused on the exhibitions of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection abroad. Among his curated shows: Neve chimica (Casa Olimpia, Sestriere, 2012); Riikka Kuoppala. La casa di biscotti (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, 2013); Thomas Teurlai. Europium (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, 2014); Stanze/Rooms (meCollectors Room, Berlino, 2014); Pierre Michelon. Parole e angurie (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, 2015); Spin-Off (Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Quito, 2015); Daniel Frota. Irrealis Mood (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, 2016). After working for the project as an assistant to former coordinators Ilaria Bonacossa (in 2009) and Stefano Collicelli Cagol (in 2011 and 2012), in 2005 he became curator and coordinator of the Young Curators Residency Programme (www.fsrr.org/ycrp).
Lorenzo Bruni is an art critic and curator, born in Florence and currently based in Rome. He is Professor of Digital Cultures at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where he teaches after having held courses in recent years at several Italian academies on art history, the history of print and publishing, the history of graphic design, and museology. He studied with Enrico Crispolti at the University of Siena, where he graduated with an experimental thesis on video art and the art of the 2000s under the supervision of Professor Luca Quattrocchi. Since 2019 he has served as Artistic Director of The Others Art Fair in Turin, a platform dedicated to emerging galleries, independent spaces, and artist residencies engaged in experimental practices within the global contemporary art context. Since 2020 he has also been a member of the curatorial board of The Phair, the international fair dedicated to photography. He is currently coordinator of the non-profit space BASE / Progetti per l’Arte in Florence, a role he has held since 2000. Over the past twenty years, Bruni has curated exhibitions and projects for numerous public and private institutions in Italy and abroad, including the Museo del Novecento in Florence, MACRO Testaccio in Rome, MAGA in Gallarate, Museo RISO in Palermo, Karst (Plymouth), HISK (Ghent), KCCC – Klaipėda, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, and the Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi (2001–2005) under the direction of Pier Luigi Tazzi. Bruni’s curatorial practice often unfolds through cycles of exhibitions conceived as research platforms, addressing themes such as the contemporary landscape, travel in the age of Google Maps, the temporality of sculpture, abstract painting after the proliferation of digital screens, and the interactions between performance, video, and sound design. His work is characterized by a dialogue between different generations and by a transversal approach to media, as demonstrated in projects developed for Via Nuova arte contemporanea (2005–2010), Manifesta 12 in Palermo (2018), the Duel exhibition cycle at the Museo del Novecento in Florence (2018–2020), and the UT35 project for the Centro Pecci (2016). Alongside his curatorial activity, Bruni maintains an intense critical and editorial practice and is the author of numerous essays and monographic catalogues.
Andrea Bruciati (Corinaldo, 1968) actively collaborates with specialized art journals as a talent scout and with various media outlets, analyzing the contemporary role of the artwork and cultural heritage as formative experiences in which preservation and enhancement are closely intertwined. Thanks to this approach, and to his roles as Artistic Director of ArtVerona (2014–2016) and of the Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean – BJCEM (2015), he has established himself as a committed advocate of emerging artistic research, for which he has conceived numerous curatorial formats. From 2017 to 2025, following an international public selection organized by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, he served as Director of the Autonomous Institute Villa Adriana and Villa d’Este in Tivoli, which he rebranded in October 2018 as Villae. Within this institutional framework he developed several formats and research platforms, including lab.it, videoREPORT, Prima Visione, 40, L’immagine sottile, Fruz, Past Forward, On Stage, Message in a Bottle, So Fresh!, studiovisit.it, Where the West Ends, Hadrianus, Adriano and Hadrian (2017), Artisans (2018) and Après le déluge: moi (2019). Among the major exhibitions and curatorial projects he has organized are: Ouverture: Art from Italy (2002), Painting Codes (2006), Arrivals and Departures Europe: A New Generation of Artists (2010), 00 ITALIA: 100 Masterpieces for a Hypothesis of History (2012), Yellowing of the Lunar Consciousness (2013), Visions for an Inventory (2014), The Rooms of Aragon (2015), Morandi and Agnetti: Difference and Repetition (2016), Versus (2016), E dimmi che non vuoi morire (2018), and Eva vs Eva (2019).
Davide Ferri (Forlì, 1974) lives in Rome. He is an art critic and curator. Since 2025 he has been the artistic director of Arte Fiera, Bologna. He teaches Museography at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. From 2020 to 2025 he curated the section “Pittura XXI” within Arte Fiera.He has collaborated regularly as a curator with Palazzo De’ Toschi – Banca di Bologna and with Fondazione Coppola in Vicenza. Since 2012 he has also been curator of the Art Section of the theatre festival Ipercorpo. Ferri has curated numerous exhibitions and projects in galleries and contemporary art museums, including: Peggy Franck, In a Naked Room, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna, 2025; Hm, He, Ha (with Elena Volpato) featuring works by Luca Bertolo, Manuele Cerutti, Pesce Khete and Michele Tocca, Fondazione Coppola, Vicenza, 2024; Patrick Tuttofuoco, Abbandona gli occhi, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna, 2024; Quadri come luoghi, a multi-venue exhibition organized on the occasion of Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023; Bettina Buck, Finding Form, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna, 2023; Italo Zuffi, Fronte e retro (with Lorenzo Balbi), Museo MAMbo and Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna, 2022; Markus Schinwald – Misfits, Fondazione Coppola, Vicenza, 2020; Le realtà ordinarie, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna, 2020; Neo Rauch – Rosa Loy, La Torre, Fondazione Coppola, Vicenza, 2019; Solo figura e sfondo / Courtesy Emilia-Romagna, Arte Fiera, Bologna, 2019; Afro. Pensieri nella mano, Musei San Domenico, Forlì, 2015; Tutta l’Italia è silenziosa, Villa Massimo – Accademia Tedesca, Real Academia de España, Brazilian Embassy, Polish Institute, Russian Centre for Science and Culture, Rome, 2015; Franco Guerzoni – Nessun luogo, da nessuna parte. Viaggi randagi con Luigi Ghirri, Triennale di Milano, 2014; La figurazione inevitabile. Una scena della pittura oggi, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, 2013; Sentimiento Nuevo (with Antonio Grulli), Museo MAMbo, Bologna, 2011.
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.
