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Caterina Avataneo is an independent curator whose practice emphasises creative confabulation and methodologies of intimate exchange. In 2019 she founded KISS: a series of shows experimenting with collaborative formats. On the same year, after having been involved in a research group around the topic of "evil", she gradually developed an interest for the aesthetics of the dark in contemporary art practice; the role of darkness, destruction, negativity, transgression and evil (intended more in its original etymology of exceeding limits); Gothic recurrence and its temporal and historical implications. She is curator at Cripta747 (Turin), and she co-curates the Digital Fellowships of Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters - the first long-term, contemporary art programme established by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. 

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She has been editorial coordinator for CURA. 2023 -2025; curator of the VII Edition of the Club GAMeC Prize (Bergamo) in 2022; and curatorial consultant for the New Entries section for emerging galleries at Artissima (Turin) in 2022 and 2023. In 2019 she was Assistant Curator of Sun & Sea (Marina), the Lithuanian Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale - winner of the Golden Lion. From 2018-2021 she worked as Associate Curator at Arcade Gallery (London & Brussels) and as Assistant Curator on assigned projects at Serpentine Gallery (London).

 

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Her curatorial projects have appeared in institutions and galleries including: Factory International (Manchester); Kunstraum, Austrian Cultural Forum, Zabludowicz Collection, White Crypt, Open Space, and Gossamer Fog (all London); HAUS, and Pina (Vienna); Britta Rettberg (Munich); Almanac Inn (Turin); DEMO Moving Image (online); SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen); Mare Karina (Venice); La Tolerie (Clermont-Ferrand). She has been invited as Curator in Residence at a number of international institutions, including: NEON (Athens); Danish Arts Foundation (Copenhagen); Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg); RUPERT (Vilnius); 40mcube (Rennes) and FRAME (Helsinki).

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She has been commissioned to write texts for catalogues and exhibitions at Kunstverein Freiburg; GAM (Turin), Austrian Cultural Forum (London), Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao), among others, and her texts appeared in Vogue Italia, CURA., Flash Art, Nero, ATP Diary and PW-Magazine.

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She holds an MA in Architecture from Politecnico of Turin (2014) and an MA in Curating from London Metropolitan University and Whitechapel Gallery (2017).

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She was awarded the 2017 NEON Curatorial Award by The Neon Foundation and Whitechapel Gallery.

ARTISTS SHE WORKED WITH:

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Helene Appel

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Pietro Agostoni

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Ed Atkins

 

Sophia Al-Maria

 

Salvatore Arancio

 

Miriam Austin

 

Anna Barham

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Alvaro Barrington

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Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė

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Tosh Basco

 

Chiara Camoni

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Jeremiah Day

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Caterina De Nicola

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Diego Delas

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Olivia Douglass

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Anna Engelhardt

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Lara Favaretto

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Cao Fei

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Formafantasma

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Keira Fox

 

Anna Franceschini

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Lee Fraser

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Ryan Gander

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Vaiva GrainytÄ—

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Heith

 

Julius Heinemann

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Deborah-Joyce Holman

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Irati Inoriza

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Liliane Lijn

 

Invernomuto

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Karrabing Film Collective

 

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Barbara Kapusta

 

Lina LapelytÄ—

 

Rebecca Lennon

 

Eleonora Luccarini

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Jonas Mekas

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Miao Ying

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Jota Mombaça

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Shana Moulton

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MRZB

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Hannah Neckel

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Jim C. Nedd

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Rolf Nowotny

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Paul Pfeiffer

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Rory Pilgrim

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Ruth Proctor

 

Giuliana Rosso

 

Rose Salane

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Barbara Sanchez-Kane

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Leonor Serrano Rivas

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Marianna Simnett

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Anastasia Sosunova

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P Staff

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Alan Stefanato

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Slavs and Tatars

 

Jenna Sutela

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Emilia Tapprest

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Sissel Tolaas

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Visio

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Zoe Williams

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