Alessandro Vincentelli

Alessandro Vincentelli is a curator and writer based in the UK and in Athens, Greece. He is former Curator of Exhibitions & Research at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead where he worked up until recently, for more than 15 yrs and curated exhibitions with many international artists including Steve McQueen, Yoko Ono, Ed & Nancy Kienholz, Sam Taylor Wood, Elizabeth Price, Lindsay Seers, RAQS Media Collective, Bani Abdi, Martin Boyce, Rodney Graham, David Maljkovic, Bharti Kher, John Akomfrah and hundreds of others.

In 2021 he is Artistic Director and Curator for a new international eco triennial in Maribor, Slovenia in a project titled EKO8 A Letter to the Future, to take place in the now empty MTT textile factory in the city of Maribor Slovenia, with presentations by more than 20 international artists including Kara Chin. He retains a strong interest in the work of contemporary artists and video installations, but is now focusing on questions of democracy, ideas around assembly in contemporary art and the role of ecology & transnationalism.