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), associate curator at Basement Roma (Rome), 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. She writes a series of "in conversation with" for PW-Magazine and she is editorial coordinator for CURA., where she also writes.

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She has been the 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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