Artissima Meeting Point – 2015 Programme

The Meeting Point is a special area at the fair devoted to the presentation of projects, events, and initiatives by museums, public and art institutions. A number of outstanding representatives of the art world are invited to partake in the panels: museum directors, curators, critics, gallerists, collectors, and artists.

Programme:

Friday 6th November:

12.30 pm | Working Geographies: RESÒ International Art Exchange Residency Programme. Speakers: Fulvio Gianaria, president Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT; Gail Cochrane, artistic director Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte; Paolo Naldini, director Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto; Lisa Parola, a.titolo collective of curators, Artistic Director CESAC;  William Wells, director Townhouse Gallery

1.30 pm | New Patrons for a new deal between Art and Society. Speakers:  Mario Airò, artist;  Francesca Comisso, a.titolo collective of curators, representative New Patrons for Italy;  Jerome Poggi, gallerist, founder Societies, cultural mediator New Patrons programme in Paris; Anna Rowinski, Sumisura cooperative, patron of an artwork for I Laboratori di Barriera/via Baltea

3 pm | Merchants of clouds. Studio65: Fifty years of Future. Speakers:  Franco Audrito, architect and founder Studio65; Maria Cristina Didero, independent curator and freelance journalist; Marco Sammicheli, design curator Abitare;
Danilo Eccher, general advisory to the project

4 pm | Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Adrian Villar Rojas

5 pm | Promo Scalo Milano New Entries + Sardi per l’Arte Back to the Future + Fondazione Ettore Fico + Reda

Saturday 7th November:

12.30 pm |Ecological Art: Genealogy e Pedagogy. Speakers: Piero Gilardi, artist, founder PAV – Parco Arte Vivente
Ugo La Pietra, artist; Gianni Pettena, artist and critic; Marco Scotini, art critic and independent curator, Director of the Visual art Department NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti

1.30 pm | Unconventional Philantropy. Speakers: Nicoletta Fiorucci, collector and founder Fiorucci Art Trust and Volcano Extravaganza; Nadia Samdani, collector and founder Samdani Art Foundation and Dhaka Art Summit;
Diana Campbell Betancourt, Artistic Director Samdani Art Foundation;
Milovan Farronato, Director Fiorucci Art Trust.  Moderator: Andrea Viliani, Director MADRE, Naples

3 pm | The Staging of Photography. Speakers: Alessandra Spranzi, artist;
Paolo Ventura, artist. Moderator: Walter Guadagnini, curator and photography historian

4 pm | Carol Rama. The Catalogue Raisonnè. Speakers: Giuseppina Sardi, president Fondazione Sardi per l’Arte; Flavio Fergonzi, professor of History of Contemporary Art, Udine University; Maddalena Disch, art historian, Director Giulio e Anna Paolini Archive; Silvia Mascheroni, art historian; Cecilia Scatturin, art historian. Moderator: Maria Cristina Mundici, art historian, Carol Rama Archive

5.30 pm | Christian Boltanski. Dopo.  Speakers: Claudia Gioia, curator of the exhibition at the Fondazione Merz; Massimo Donà, philosopher e musician

6.30 | Sunday Painters 2015. The self portrait in the era of selfies. Speakers: Mario Calabresi, director La Stampa; Francesco Bonami, curator

Sunday 8th November:

12.30 pm | What training and professional paths for the contemporary art system?  Speakers: Arianna Beretta, founder and director Circoloquadro;
Eva Frapiccini, artist; Matteo Pessione, Arts and culture Fondazione CRT;
Andrea Viliani, Director MADRE – Museo d’Arte contemporanea Donnaregina. Moderator: Ugo Bacchella, president Fondazione Fitzcarraldo

1.30 pm | The Unreachable Artwork: Game Rules. Speakers: Fulvio Gianaria, president Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT;
Cesare Petroiusti, artist; Flavia Barbaro, head of the Education GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna; Orietta Brombin, curator of the education and training activities PAV;  Mario Petriccione, head of the Education Department Fondazione Merz; Anna Pironti, head of the Education Department Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea;  Paola Zanini, project manager, Education Department Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea

3 pm | How to build an endless apprentissage. Speakers: Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, curators Gta Exhibition;  Domenico Quaranta, curator; Marco Rainò, curator and architect; Giovanna Silva, editor Humboldt Books; Irene Crocco, gallerist.  Moderator: Gianluigi Ricuperati, writer and curator

4 pm | A Vibrant Art Scene and a New Magazine promoted by Artribune.  Speakers: Raffaella Sciarretta, Nomas Foundation; Alfredo Pirri, artist;
Riccardo Crespi, gallerist; Oren Hadar, Hezi Cohen Gallery; Eldad Golan, Culture Attaché Embassy of Israel in Italy; Serge Tiroche, co-founder Tiroche DeLeon Collection; Gal Weinstein, artist; Giorgia Calò, editor in chief Artribune Israel.  Moderator: Edoardo Sassi, journalist

5pm | Surprise! Giorgio Ciam. Gli uomini neri.  Speakers: Danilo Eccher;
Gregorio Mazzonis, curator of the exhibition in GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea;  Maria Teresa Roberto, curator of the exhibition in GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea;  Elena Re, director Giorgio Ciam Archive

6.30 pm | Sunday Painters 2015. The self portrait in the era of selfies. Awards

7 pm | Artissima behind the scenes. Mario Calabresi interviews Sarah Cosulich Canarutto