archive ::: writings

  • "Everything Leads Back to Love. Charlotte Salomon," Spike, No. 76 (2023), 132–133 [click here]
  • "Kazimir Malevič e Jurij Tynjanov: assoluta ribellione e opera fluida," K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts, No. 9-2 (2022): 166–180 [click here]
  • Interview about Art and A.I. in: "In NUR 2 h zur eigenen Ausstellung: So leicht geht KI-Kunst" / WALULIS / Wie schwer kann's schon sein?, Nov. 28, 2022 [click here]
  • "The World Upside Down," in: Sergio Risaliti, ed., Emanuele Becheri. Sculptures and Drawings, exhibition catalogue (Firenze: Museo del Novecento, 2022)
  • "Schlagbilder: Invektivität durch Parodie," Kunstchronik. Monatschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Vol. 75, No. 2 (February 2022): 70-76
  • [as The Bensplainer], "A conversation with Denis Viva on a Critical Re-Reading of the Transavanguardia," porcile.org (December 2021) [click here]
  • [as The Bensplainer], "A conversation about Kunstverein München’s group show ‘Not Working – Artistic production and matters of class’" [with Magda Wisniowska and Victor Sternweiler], porcile.org (December 2020) [click here]
  • [as The Bensplainer], "Discussing the politics of Tell me about (yesterday) tomorrow @ NS-Dokumentationszentrum München" [with Post Brothers, Victor Sternweiler, Magda Wisniowska], porcile.org (March 2020) [click here]
  • [as The Bensplainer], "Why Unrealism Now? – On the Book Unrealism: New Figurative Painting,"porcile.org (February 2020) [click here]
  • "Yurij Tynjanov, un formalista con il senso della parodia," Doppiozero (December 2019) [click here]
  • "Parodying (cases of curatorial strategies of Kazimir Malevich)," Zeszyty Artystyczne, 2, 35 (2019): 151-157, academic journal of the University of Arts, Poznan [click here]
  • "Il corpo-modello in Martin Kippenberger e Maria Lassnig," Doppiozero (July 2019) [click here]
  • [as The Bensplainer], "Discussing 3 performances @ Friendly Confrontations - Festival of Global Art and Criticism of Institutions at Münchner Kammerspiele" [with Victor Sternweiler],  porcile.org (February 2020) [click here]
  • [as The Bensplainer], "Discussing the group show sensational and anti-generative successions @ Nir Altman, Munich" [with Victor Sternweiler], porcile.org (February 2020) [click here]
  • [as The Bensplainer], "On Renato Leotta's Eine Sandsammlung @ Kunsthalle Skt. Gallen, 2018," porcile.org (February 2020) [click here]
  • "Utrecht, Caravaggio und Europa. La genesi del Barocco," Doppiozero (July 2019) [click here]
  • "La bellezza è organizzazione. Wu Ming, Proletkult," Giap – Wu Ming Foundation (May 2019) [click here]
  • "Firenze e i suoi pittori," Doppiozero (December 2018) [click here] 
  • "Sem-eulogy. Tre ordini di grandezza," in: Luca Monterastelli. Graceland, exh. cat. (Lyon: Chez Néon, 2012)
  • "Torino - Tra istituzione e autogestione," Flash Art Italia, 288 (November 2010) [click here]
  • "Tactile," text for Alis/Filliol, Tactile, Cripta 747, Torino (January 2010)
  • "Is Art still an Aesthetical Choice?," in: Eva Fabbris and Trieste Contemporanea, eds., Continental Breakfast. The Pass 2009. Fourth CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators (Trieste: Trieste Contemporanea, 2009)
  • "Circular Experience," text for Daniel Barroca, The Sleepers, Qbox Gallery, Athens (October-December 2009) [click here]
  • "Killing the Time. Conversation with Emanuele Becheri," in: Sarah Bachelier, Beniamino Foschini, Haizea Barcenilla Garcia, Maud Jacquin and Vladyia Mihailova, eds., Time at Work (Milano: Postmedia Books, 2009)
  • "Sulla visibilità e sull'ambiguità," in: Anja Puntari, Pippi, Annika e Linda, exh. cat., CHAN, Genova (2009)
  • "Luca Francesconi / Adriano Nasuti-Wood," in: Andrea Bruciati, ed., L’immagine sottile 03, exh. cat. (Monfalcone: GC.AC, 2009)
  • "Come un ingegnere del tempo perduto?," in: Andrea Bruciati, ed., Michele Bazzana. Robota, exh. cat. (Monfalcone: GC.AC, 2009)
  • "Adriano Nasuti-Wood, Galleria SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy," Exibart (June 2008) [click here]
  • "Claudia Losi, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze," Exibart (April 2008) [click here]
  • "Emanuele Becheri, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy," Exibart (March 2008) [click here]
  • "…5 Minutes Later, KW, Berlin," Exibart (January 2008) [click here] 
  • "History Will Repeat Itself, KW, Berlin," Exibart (November 2007) [click here] 
  • "Jeff Wall, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin," Exibart (November 2007) [click here]
  • "Alveare Off: tre dubbi linguistici," Altrevelocità (Summer 2007) [click here]

residencies

  • Milano Open House, organized and curated by Radical Intention (Maria Pecchioli, Aria Spinelli) and Valerio Del Baglivo, Milano, 2010. Studio Visit Program, and Concluding Lecture "Roland Barthes, Wu Ming and Socialist Realism" on November 23, 2010, at Maria Pecchioli Studio, Milano.
  • [with artist Daniel Barroca], Q-Box Gallery (Athens) Residency, Kia Island, Greece, Summer 2009.
  • CECAC, Corso Europeo per Curatori d'Arte Contemporanea (October 2008, Milano, Italy), organized by Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Roberto Pinto and Gabi Scardi), Milano's Municipality, and the European Union. Tutor Charles Esche. Foschini co-edits with Sarah Bachelier, Haizea Barcenilla, Maud Jacquin, and Vladiya Mihaylova, the final publication Time at Work (Milano: Postmedia Books, 2009).

archive ::: lectures

  • March 19, 2023: "Vom 'Fenster zur Welt' zur Collage," at Schafhof – Europäisches Kunstforum Oberbayern, Freising
  • January 31, 2023: "Kasimir Malewitsch und Jurij Tynjanow: Aufsässigkeit und fließendes Werk," at Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
  • December 5, 2019: "Uslovnost' and Parody in Kazimir Malevich's Early Work," at Institut für Kunst- und Musikwissenschaft, Technische Universität Dresden
  • November 6, 2019: "Uslovnost' and Parody in Kazimir Malevich's Early Work," at Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
  • September 19, 2019: "Uslovnost' and Parody in Kazimir Malevich's Early Work," at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany - What Is to Be Done? Discussions in Russian Art Theory and Criticism II - 7th Graduate Workshop of the Russian Art & Culture Group, September 19-20, 2019
  • February 1, 2019: "what makes a private flat a Private Flat?," Lou and Louis, München
  • November 23, 2010: "Roland Barthes, Wu Ming and Socialist Realism," Maria Pecchioli Studio, Milano, curated by Radical Intention (Maria Pecchioli, Aria Spinelli) and Valerio Del Baglivo, Milano
  • June 3, 2009: "Is Art Still an Aesthetic Choice? – A Step," Continental Breakfast: The Pass 2009 – Fourth CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators, curated by Trieste Contemporanea, Venezia
  • Press Conferences, Privat Flat #3 and #4, curated by Beniamino Foschini and Meridiano 12, Firenze (May 25, 2007, and June 20, 2008)

archive ::: curated exhibitions

  • 2021: Bildhauer*in der Sinne (Artists: Beth Collar, Emanuele Becheri), GiG Munich, München, September 26, 2020 – January 15, 20212021:
  • 2011: [Assistant Curator] Stanley Kubrick: History in Photography 1945-1950, curated by Rainer Crone, Museum for Photography and Multimedia, Moscow
  • 2011: Del povero B.B. (Artists: Saverio Adamo, Alis/Filliol, Francesco Bertelé, Manuele Cerutti, Andrea Kvas), GUM Studio, Carrara, Italy [photos]
  • 2010: All Strange Away (Artists: Luca Francesconi, Renato Leotta, Luca Monterastelli, Adriano Nasuti-Wood, Cristiana Palandri, Manuel Scano), neon>campobase, Bologna [text and photos] [booklet]
  • 2010: Tactile (Artist: Alis/Filliol), Cripta 747, Torino [info]
  • 2009-2010: Curatorial Assistance at Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rivoli, Torino, director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
  • 2009: The Sleepers (Artist: Daniel Barroca), QBox Gallery, Athens (October-December 2009) [text and photos and photos]
  • 2006-2009: Private Flat project, co-initiated with collective Meridiano 12, edition #1 to #4, Firenze [website no longer exists]

archive ::: teaching

 

@ Akademie der Bildenden Künste München

Research Assistant at Painting and Graphic Art Class, Prof. Anke Doberauer (2015-2022)

  • Seminar: "Autorship in 20th Century: Tomashevsky, Mukarovsky, Barthes, Foucault, Genette, Miller, Woodmansee" (2020)
  • Seminar: "Giorgio Agamben's Creation and Anarchy" (2019)
  • Seminar: "The 1960s: Authorship in Barthes and Foucault" (2017/2018)
  • Seminar: "Origins of Criticism (Plato, Nietzsche, Foucault)" (2016/2017)
  • Seminar: "Non-Narrative Filmmaking (Fellini, 8 1/2; Resnais, L'Année dernière à Marienbad; Bene, Nostra Signora dei Turchi; Jarmush, Permanent Vacation)" (2015/2016)
  • Seminar: "History of Exhibition Making in Early 20th Century (Malevich, Dada, El Lissitzky, French Surrealists)" (2015)
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  • Field trips to Basel, Dresden, Italy (Firenze, Mantova, Padova, Ferrara, Bologna, Ravenna, Urbino, Arezzo, 2015-2019)
  • Curatorial Assistance and Exhibition Production at the Annual Exhibition (Jahresausstellung) and at specific projects outside the Academy (2015-2020), f.i. "Freisingsing," Altes Gefängnis, Freising, Bayern (March 2017) [click here for SZ review]