The Curatorial Roundtable: Lorenzo Balbi (Bologna)

The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Lorenzo Balbi has been the artistic director of MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna since 2017, when he took on the role of Head of the Modern and Contemporary Art Area of the Istituzione Bologna Musei, including MAMbo, Villa delle Rose, Museo Morandi, Casa Morandi, Museo per la Memoria di Ustica, and Residenza per artisti Sandra Natali. After his studies in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, he earned an MA in Contemporary Art at the University of Turin. For four years, he was the artistic director of the Verso Artecontemporanea gallery in Turin. From 2006 to 2017, at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, he taught Methodology of Curating at Campo, a course for curators, and was responsible for the organization and development of exhibition projects in the spaces of the institution in Turin and Guarene d’Alba, as well as the exhibitions of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection abroad. He followed as assistant curator for the project Residenza per Giovani Curatori Stranieri from 2009 until becoming the curator for three editions, from 2015 to 2017. Since 2018, he has taken over the artistic direction of ART CITY Bologna, a series of exhibition events in the city promoted on the occasion of Arte Fiera. Professor of Art Systems at the DAMS of the University of Bologna, he is a member of the board of directors of AMACI – Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums and of the coordination of the Forum of Italian Contemporary Art.

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