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Irene Campolmi CV Independent Curator Head of Exhibitions, Andersen’s Contemporary Curator, Code Art Fair Artistic Program 01. 04. 1987; Emails: [email protected]/[email protected] Website: www.irenecampolmi.com Mobile: +45 28697337 Proficiency: English (C2), Danish (C1); German (B1), French (B1); Spanish (B1) Italian (Native) IT Skills: Mac proficiency, Outlook, Excel, Power point, Word, prize.com, Mailchimp, InDesign, Filemaker, Tw i t t e r, Tumbl r, Facebook, Instagram and other social media QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCES I am a qualified independent curator and researcher who worked for modern and contemporary art institutions for more than ten years. I have curatorial and managerial experience both in art museums and commercial art galleries. I have organized large-scale international conferences, talks, events and seminars in art institutions, universities and other parties. I have excellent administrative and organizational skills, and I am excellent in managing projects in time and creating networks with other curators, galleries and artists. EDUCATION 2013 -2017: PhD Fellowship in collaboration between Aarhus University and the Louisiana Museum of st Modern Art (Humlebæk, DK). PhD Thesis: The Art Museum of the 21 Century. Contemporary Curatorial Ethics and Research. 2015: J-1 Visiting Researcher and Curator at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Sponsor: Prof. Dr Claire Bishop. 2014: Visiting Researcher, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester (UK). Mentor: Dr. Janet Marstine. 2011 - 2013: Research Fellow in the Max Planck Research Group “Objects in the Contact Zones: The Cross Cultural Life of Things”, Kunsthistorisches Institute of Florence. Group Leader: Dr Eva-Maria Troelenberg. 2009-2011: MA in Art History, History of Art Collecting and Museology, University of Florence Mark: 110/110 with honors and mention for publication. 2006-2009: BA in Art History and Museology, University of Florence Mark: 110/110 with honors and mention for publication. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 2017: Head of Exhibitions, Andersen’s Contemporary Curator of Talks, Films and Performances Program, CODE 2 Art Fair, Copenhagen (August 31st- September 3rd). Editor and translator, Danish Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennial. 2016-2017: Independent Curator for the Italian Embassy in Denmark & Art Advisor for ARTVISOR. 2013-2016: PhD Researcher , Curatorial department, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (DK). 2015: Curatorial Assistant in the SPRING/ BREAK exhibition TRANSITION, ARMORY SHOW 2015, NYC, USA. 2014: Associate Researcher, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus (DK). 2009: Curatorial Assistant, Galleria CONTINUA, San Gimignano (IT). 2008-2009: Curatorial Assistant, National Gallery for Modern Art, Rome (IT). CURATORIAL TRAINING 2015: Curatorial Practicum Course, The Graduate Centre, CUNY (New York, US) As J-1 Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Center CUNY, I was a fellow in the “Curatorial Practicum Course” held by Dr. Katherine Carl and Dr. Claire Bishop and sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 2014: International Summer Academy of Art Salzburg (Austria) I was awarded a scholarship to participate as fellow curator in the Curatorial Training Course in Global Times: Curating the Boundary Condition: Encounter with the Outside, held by Indian curator Nancy Adajania. 1 2 EXHIBITIONS 2019 SUPERFLEX, tbd, Palazzo Strozzi, curated by Irene Campolmi and Arturo Galansino. 2018 -Social Experiments, collective show, curated by Irene Campolmi, March 25th- May 23rd, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. -Re-Routing Nature, collective show with Jakob Kudsk Steensen (USA/DK), Kimmo Modig (FIN), Viktor Timofeev (EST) and Alfredo Aceto (IT), Adrien Missika (FR), Rune Bosse (DK), February 2nd. March 4th, curated by Irene Campolmi, Sixty-Eight Art Institute, Copenhagen. 2017 - Marinella Senatore, Copenhagen Symphony, collective performance for Code on Sunday, curated by Irene Campolmi as part of “Art ReActs”- Code Art Fair Talks, Film & Performance Program, September 3rd. - Jacob Kirkegaard, Signals a sound performance curated by Irene Campolmi, “Art ReActs”- Code Art Fair Talks, Film & Performance Program, Copenhagen, September 2nd. - Rune Bosse & Thinking HandProduction, All Around and In Between, performative installation curated by Irene Campolmi, “Art ReActs”- Code Art Fair Talks, Film & Performance Program. -Hassan Khan, Live Ammunition! Music for Clapping, String Quartet and Live Electronics, concert/ performance curated by Irene Campolmi, “Art ReActs”- Code Art Fair. - Peter Voss-Knude, Peter & The Danish Defence, opening concert, curated by Irene Campolmi, “Art ReActs”- Code Art Fair Talks, Film & Performance Program, August 31st. -Art ReActs Code Art Fair Talks Program, Copenhagen, Denmark (August 31st- September 3rd). More info on the talks: http://www.codeartfair.dk/artreacts/ -40 Days and 40 Nights in Montecristo, by Davide Tranchina curated by Irene Campolmi and Luca Panaro, Italian Embassy in Copenhagen, Copenhagen Photo Festival 2017, Independent Exhibition, Denmark (June 1st -11th). -Apparizioni di Superfici/ Appearing Surfaces, curated by Irene Campolmi featuring Trine Søndergaard and Nicolai Howalt, CENTRALE FOTOGRAFIA FESTIVAL 2017, Fano, Italy (June 8th – 30th), in collaboration with Copenhagen Photo Festival 2017. 2016 -ICE- AT THE EDGE, by Nicolaj Pennestri, curated by Irene Campolmi, Italian Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark (December 10th 2016- February 26th). -TERRITORIES, with Silvio Zangarini (IT/NL), Niko Giovanni Coniglio (IT), Carlotta Marangone (UK), curated by Irene Campolmi, Italian Embassy in Copenhagen, part of the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2016 (June 4th- July 2nd). CO-CURATED EXHIBITIONS 2009 -Palma Bucarelli and the Museum as Avant-garde, GNAM -National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, curated by Maria Stella Margozzi and Irene Campolmi, assistant curator (June 5th- November 30th). -Undercurrent red, with Mona Hatoum, curated by Alice Fontanelli and Irene Campolmi, assistant curator, Galleria CONTINUA, San Gimignano (Italy), September – December. COLLABORATION IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORKS & COMMITTEES 2017: Jury Advisor for the Artist-in-Residence Program organized by the Italian Embassy in Copenhagen. 2016 – 2019: Member Research Network Performance Art in the Art Museum, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin, (DE). 2016: Member in TAKE PART Research Network, University of Aarhus (DK). 2015-2016: Member of the Research Network for Studies on the Curatorial, University of Copenhagen (DK) 2014: Advisory committee for the Conference Museums Alive! Exploring How Museums Behave like Human Beings, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Jury for the Open call exhibition “Nervous Systems”, Kunsthal Arhus (DK). UNIVERSITY TEACHING 2014- 2015: Lecturer in the MA Course Art Curating and Museology, Aarhus University (Denmark). 2011-2013: Docent and Art Historian at Villa La Pietra, New York University Florence. 2011-2012: Docent in Art History and Art Theory and Criticism, Florence University of the Arts, Florence. 3 PUBLICATIONS (MORE AVAILABLE UNDER REQUEST) 1. Campolmi, I. (2017). “Institutional Engagement and the Role of Ethics in Contemporary Curating”, ICOM The Museum Journal, Special Issue on Museum International: The Role of Museums in a Changing Society, Vol. 68 No 269-270, pp. 1-20. 2. Campolmi, Irene. “What is sustainable museology? Sustainability discurse in the practice of art museums”, ICOM News, Vol.68, Nr. 1, 05.2015,p. 6. Online source:http://icom.museum/media/icom-news-magazine/icom-news-2015- no1/ 3. Campolmi, Irene. “The Tur n to Ethics of 21st Century Art Institutions” in Speculations on the Perfect Institution, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus. Online source: http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/the-turn-to-ethics-of-c21st-art- institutions-irene- campolmi 4. Campolmi, Irene. “Sustainability in Modern Art Museums: Management Challenges and Cultural Policies”, Il Capitale Culturale, Nr. 8, 11.2013, pp.235- 250. EDITED PUBLICATIONS 1.Campolmi, Irene, Folkerts, Henrik, Laurberg, Marie, Schavemaker, Margriet, (eds.), “Between the DISCURSIVE and the IMMERSIVE. A Symposium on Research in the 21st Century Art Museums”(Video Publication to be published onVimeo sponsored by Novo Nordisk Foundation, DK). Available online at: http://research.louisiana.dk/ 2.Campolmi, Irene, Krysa, Joasia (Eds). “Speculations on the Perfect Institution”, sponsored by Statens Kunstfond and Aarhus 2017 Foundation. Online publication, May 2015. Available on: http://kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/research#overlay=en/research/speculations-on-the-perfect- institution More on: www.irenecampolmi.com Cover Letter Irene Campolmi 4 Curator in Residence – Galería Tajámar, Santiago de Chile Copenhagen, November 6th, 2017 To the attention of Nicolás Azòcar. Herewith, I apply for the curatorial residency at Galería Tajámar in Santiago de Chile. My name is Irene Campolmi, and I work as an independent curator and head of exhibitions at Andersen’s Contemporary gallery in Copenhagen. As an independent curator, my research focuses on performance and the entanglement between art and socio-political ecology. In 2017 I curated the artistic program comprising Talks, Films and Performances at CODE Art Fair in Copenhagen. The curatorial framework I chose for the 2017 edition was titled "Art ReActs" and explored how artistic and curatorial practice reacts to social, cultural, political, ecological changes. I emphasised that art does not offer a commentary on the contingent socio-political structures but