Nicola Ricciardi appointed new Artistic Director of Miart

Outgoing director of OGR in Turin, Nicola Ricciardi has been appointed new Artistic Director of Miart – the international art fair set in Milan – for the three-year period from 2021–2023. Ricciardi will take office in October 2020 to start preparing the new fair’s edition, to take place from April 9–11, 2021. Appointed by Fiera Milano, the institution organising the event, Ricciardi follows in the footsteps of Vincenzo de Bellis (2013 – 2016) first, and Alessandro Rabottini after, who guided the event for the past three years (2017–2020).

Curator and contemporary art critic, Ricciardi was born in 1985. His academic education took place in international institutions: after the degree at Università Cattolica in Milan, he achieved a master in curatorial studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies of the Bard College in New York, with an academic dissertation about Matthew Barney. He curated several exhibitions dedicated to Italian and international artists such as Diego Perrone, Alessandro Pessoli, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Mark Horowitz, Kour Pour, and Frank Hulsbomer, among the others. He was a curatorial assistant for Vincenzo de Bellis for the Ennesima project, collaborated with Massimilano Gioni and the entire curatorial team to the 55. International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2013), and participated in the seventh Berlin Biennale (2012) with a collective project.

From 2016 to 2020, he has been the Artistic Director of OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin, building its cultural identity and turning the place in one of the main European centres for visual and performative arts’ production and promotion. Under his guidance, OGR hosted major exhibitions dedicated among the others to Tino Sehgal, Susan Hiller, Mike Nelson, Pablo Bronstein, Monica Bonvicini, and collective exhibitions in collaboration with important cultural institutions such as Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Castello di Rivoli, La Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, The Sound of Screens Imploding, in collaboration with the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève.

The 2020 edition of Miart is now open to the public in a digital version, from September 10–13.