Ilaria Bonacossa

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Residencia

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Artistas comisariados
Julieta Aranda en: If a body meet a body, 2013

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ACTIVIDAD VIGENTE
Directora en: Artissima  (Desde dic 2016)
Directora artística en: Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce  (Desde ene 2012)

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Etiquetas
Arte contemporáneo 

ENLACES OFICIALES
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Descripción del Profesional del arte

Ilaria Bonacossa is the new director of ARTISSIMA, international contemporary art fair, since december of 2016. Bonacossa will lead the Contemporary Art Fair of Torino for the next three editions, 2017–19. She is a curator and art historian. Having received a BA in Contemporary Art History from the Università Statale di Milano and an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College, NY, she worked as research assistant for the 2003 Whitney Biennial and as curatorial assistant for Manifesta 3, Ljubljana. From 2002 to 2009 she was curator at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, in Torino, where she curated major exhibitions such as ‘Subcontingent, contemporary art from the Indian Sub Continent’. Since 2012 she has been the artistic director of the Public Museum for Contemporary Art Villa Croce, in Genova, where she has successfully experimented with an innovative form of management in partnership with the Genova Municipality and Palazzo Ducale Cultural Foundation. At Villa Croce she has curated numerous shows with Italian and international artists such as 'Andy Warhol sul Comò. Works from the Barabino Collection'; 'Cosmic Jive. Tomás Saraceno The Spider Sessions'; and 'Julieta Aranda, If a Body meet a Body'. She has been a member of the technical committee for acquisitions of FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur of Marsiglia (2007–13), member of the scientific committee of PAC Milano (2013–16) and responsible for Italy of the Artist Pension Trust. In 2007 she was a member for the Golden Lion jury at the Venice Biennale, and in 2013 member of the nominating committee for the Inamori Foundation Prize, Kyoto. She is a founding member of Art@Work, a collective that develops contemporary art projects in the non-profit sector and for private collections. She has personally curated site-specific installations for Antinori Art Project and La Raia Foundation. She has also curated solo shows by Thomas Grunfelde, Zhang Enli, Tony Conrad, Julieta Aranda, Massimo Grimaldi, Alberto Tadiello and Katrin Sigurdardottir, and written on such artists as Cristof Yvoré, Kees Goudzwaard and Marlene Dumas.

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