Antonio Grulli

Antonio Grulli (La Spezia, 1979)

Antonio Grulli is an art critic and curator. Among many projects, he currently curates the Luci d’Artista public art project in Turin (lucidartistatorino.org) and has just completed the Albanian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. In the past, he has been in charge of the collection and activities related to contemporary art at Palazzo Bentivoglio (Bologna, palazzobentivoglio.org), served on the board of Viafarini (Milan, viafarini.org), and initiated and curated a number of exhibition, design, and publishing projects in collaboration with fellow curators, artists, and collectors. For the MAMbo Museum in Bologna, he conceived (with curator Davide Ferri) Sentimiento Nuevo, a research on the state of art criticism made up of meetings, lectures, lectures and performances. With artist Keren Cytter she curated in Bologna the festival entitled The First Morning Fest of Unreasonable Acts, and also together they published for Humboldt Books (Milan) the book Tel Aviv – Jerusalem Diaries. He is in charge of two non-profit exhibition spaces: Lucerna, in Milan, together with Federico Pepe, and the FBI space in artist Jacopo Benassi’s studio in La Spezia. Over the years he has curated exhibitions for public and institutional spaces such as: Ala Scaligera of the Rocca di Angera (Varese), Fondazione Carispezia (La Spezia), Fondazione del Monte (Bologna), Le Dictateur (Milan), Match Gallery (Ljubljana), MAMbo (Bologna), Museo di Castelvecchio (Verona); the nonprofits C21 (Reggio Emilia), Codalunga (Vittorio Veneto), Hamlet (Zurich), Neon Campobase (Bologna), Viafarini (Milan); and at galleries such as: 3+1 (Lisbon), Artnoble (Milan), De Foscherari (Bologna), Francesca Minini (Milan), Francesco Pantaleone (Palermo), Giovanni Rizzuto (Palermo), MAI36 (Zurich), P420 (Bologna), Raffaella Cortese (Milan), Tiziana di Caro (Naples). He has collaborated with, among others, Arte e Critica, Arte Mondadori, Artribune, ATP Diary, Boite, Cura Magazine, Exibart, Flash Art, Le Dictateur, Mousse Magazine, Studio Magazine, and written for artists such as: Andreas Angelidakis, Paola Angelini, Francesco Balsamo, Jacopo Benassi, Anna-Sophie Berger, Luca Bertolo, Chiara Camoni, Pierpaolo Campanini, Giulia Cenci, Paolo Chiasera, Cuoghi Corsello, Francesco De Grandi, Flavio Favelli, Kinkaleri, Francesco Lauretta, Iva Lulashi, Luigi Ontani, Anna Ostoya, Katrin Plavcak, Alessandro Pessoli, Concetto Pozzati, Luigi Presicce, Sissi, Nico Vascellari, Italo Zuffi.