Eleonora Castagna
Born in Este, Italy, in 1989, Eleonora Castagna obtained her bachelor degree in Modern Italian Art, Humanities and Literature from Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. She recently received an MFA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies from NABA in Milan, spending six months at ITU in Istanbul as an exchange student. Her field of research includes public art and the politics of commons. Her MFA thesis focused on the role of social virtual platforms for the recent revolutionary movements in Turkey. Independent curator (for La Medusa -cultural center- and for Biagiotti Progetto Arte -gallery-), free lance journalist of contemporary art (for Toylet Mag, Diorama, Droste Effect and Alfabeta2), critic and cultural communication consultant, she took part in dOCUMENTA(13) as a Student Artist Assistant for the project AND…AND…AND with Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri. At RU (Court Street 360, Brooklyn), she worked with the Special Projects curator Ayelet Danielle Aldouby. She also worked at The Still House Group (in Red Hook, Brooklyn) as an Administrative Assistant. She attended the 25th session of the curatorial training program at the École du Magasin in Grenoble. She is currently working at ChertLüdde gallery in Berlin.
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Articles by Eleonora Castagna
Days of Endless Time at the Hirshhorn Museum, WashingtonJan 27, 2015
“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, …
Geoffrey Farmer at Casey Kaplan GalleryDec 18, 2014
“Kathy Acker rang my head like a bell. It happened sometime in the spring of 1990, while she was reading out loud, a passage to our class from Gertrude Stein’s 1914 book, Tender …
Reverse interview with Alfredo AcetoOct 29, 2014
He was defined as “a young artist who wants to join the art world passing thorugh the main entrance, possibly asking for someone who can open the door for him or get him a pair …
A conversation: Chloë Bass on PRELUDE 2014Oct 24, 2014
“This year the Prelude festival is going to be different”: this is the first sentence of the Curators’ welcome to the 2014 Prelude Festival. Known as the “un-official kick off event of the fall season” …
