Federica Patti is an independent curator, lecturer and art critic. Her research focuses on contemporary art movements, with a particular interest in live media, liminal practices, digital humanities, music and science. Thanks to the support of the Italian Council IX, she is investigating “On Posthuman Performativity. For a trans-disciplinary definition of live media performance” with a distinct focus on the performing arts in the Metaverse. She actively collaborates with several institutions, galleries and festivals on the presentation and development of her research topics by curating exhibitions, and screening, talks and workshops.

Ahead of the opening of the Venice Biennale, cultural consultant and author András Szántó spoke with the curator Cecilia Alemani, on Zoom, about the ideas and process behind the exhibition and how it relates to our moment.

Chief curator at MAMBO in Bogotà, Eugenio Viola began working with Tosatti in 2016, hosting his first solo show at MADRE in Naples, where he was curator, and they have continued to work together. Waiting for the opening of the 59th Venice Biennale, in this interview Eugenio Viola talks with Gian Maria Tosatti about the project presented at the Italian Pavilion, History of the Night and Destiny of Comets, an immersive path to confront contemporary lacerations and contradictions, and in particular the correlation between pandemics and progress.

The National Pavilion UAE for the 59th Venice Biennale presents Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim: Between Sunrise and Sunset, an installation of human-sized, abstract, and organic sculptural forms inspired by the environment of Khor Fakkan, Ibrahim’s hometown in the Al Hajar Mountains on the east coast of Sharjah. Ibrahim chose Maya Allison, Chief Curator and Executive Director of NYU Abu Dhabi as the curator of the pavilion. In September 2020 Ibrahim opened a solo exhibition Memory Drum at Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai and had a conversation with Maya Allison about his practice. The 59th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2022 will open to the public between 23 April - 27 November 2022.

Valentino Catricalà in conversation with Mara Sartore about the new opening of SODA and MODAL: a real new dynamic project, unique compared to the main institutions in the world of art and education. SODA is a school for the younger generations, but also an art centre for major international exhibitions, and MODAL is the gallery linked to the art projects. Two projects in a single space to meet the challenge of the future.

"Nuova Mixage" is a project by Flavio Favelli at Bar Vittorio Emanuele in Bologna, as part of Art City Bologna on the occasion ofArte Fiera, accompanied by a text presenting a dialogue with the writer Emanuele Trevi.

The spatial dimension of Francesca Pasquali's Labirinto marks unpredictable paths where the plots intertwine in an enchanted forest.

On the occasion of Art City Bologna 2022, the Oratory of San Filippo Neri hosts the site-specific installation by artist Carlos Garaicoa.

On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna 2022, the Botanical Garden and Herbarium hosts the video installation Aedes Aegypti by Pedro Neves Marques.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer presents his solo exhibition, titled "Excuse You!", at Wilde Gallery in Basel.