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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