Matteo Lucchetti
Matteo Lucchetti (born 1984) is an art historian, independent curator, and critic. After completing his studies in Contemporary Art History at the University of Florence he received an MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies at NABA – New Academy of Fine Arts of Milan, with a thesis titled Enacting a Community , about the relationship between collaborative artistic practices and the urban sphere. During 2010 he has been researcher in residence at BAK, in Utrecht, with which he has collaborated as editor for the five year long project Former West . In the first half of 2011 he has been curator in residence at AIR – Artist in residence, Antwerp. His curatorial projects include: Enacting Populism (AIR and Extra City, Antwerpen, – Kadist Foundation, Paris 2011-2012); Practicing Memory – in a time of an all-encompassing present (Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, 2010; DEPO, Istanbul, 2012); Ancora ancora la nave in porto – Amoco Milford Haven Files , Michelangelo Consani (CAMeC pianozero, La Spezia, 2011); Altri Discorsi . Crossing the DOCVA Video Archive (Careof, Milan, 2009), among others. He’s co-curator with Judith Wielander of the Visible Award – Cittadellarte – Fondazione Zegna, 2011/12. He has written about the work of many artists, among which Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Rossella Biscotti, Société Réaliste, and Danilo Correale. He contributes to the magazines Flash Art , Arte e Critica , and Janus , and to the Italian online contemporary art network UnDo.net; he is also a contributing editor for the magazine No Order – Art in a Post-fordist Society . In 2009 he co-curated Everybody Talks About the Weather. We Don’t , at NABA, Milan, a forum for young curators on the relationship between curatorship, institutions, and power, and in 2008 he was invited, with other Italian curators, to participate in the Interpretation Laboratory , organized within the Manifesta 7 programme.