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Gianfranco Maraniello

Tenured teacher
Gianfranco Maraniello

Department of Communication, Arts and Media
Faculty of Arts, Fashion and Tourism
Gianfranco Maraniello

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Born in Naples in 1971. He lives and works between Milan and Rovereto.

Graduated in Theoretical Philosophy from the State University of Milan.

Contemporary art critic, curator and interested in philosophical, museographic and museological practices.

 

Main assignments in progress

Director of Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto

President of AMACI - Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums

Member of the Board of Directors of the Pinacoteca di Brera

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Farnesina Collection - MAECI

Member of the Scientific Committee of MADRE - Museum of Contemporary Art Naples

 

Main tasks performed

1993-1999: Collaborator and editor of the Flash Art Magazine

1999-2001: Curator at the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena

2002-2004: Curator at MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome

2005-2015: Director of GAM - Modern Art Gallery of Bologna and (from 2013) of the entire civic system of the city called Institution Bologna Museums

from June 2015: Director of Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto

 

Other projects

2001: Blinky Palermo Award, winner with Francesco Vezzoli, Leipzig

2004: curator at the Nuit Blanche in Paris

2006: co-curator of the Shanghai Biennale

2007: The 7th Hiroshima Art Prize, winner with Cai Guo Qiang, Hiroshima

2008: organization of the exhibition "Morandi 1890 - 1964" at the Metropolitan Museum of New York in co-production with MAMbo - Bologna

2014: Author and narrator of the CDA published by LaRepubblica/L'Espresso "POP ART. E la Società di massa diventa arte" (POP ART. And the mass society becomes art)

2013-2015: Designer and curator of the project Art City Bologna (for ArteFiera and Comune di Bologna)

2016: juror in the television contest "Pomilio Blum Prize" for Sky Arte. Magnolia Production

2017: artistic curator for the project Memory and Contemporaneity, commissioned by the Palace Museum - museum of the Forbidden City of Beijing - collateral event of the 57th. International Art Exhibition. The Venice Biennale

 

Main exhibitions curated

2001: Germany. The construction of an image, (with B. Steiner), Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena

2001: Espresso. Art in Italy today, Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence

2001: The Gift. Insidia Hospitality Offer, (with A. Somaini), Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena

2002: Naples Year Zero. Here and now, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples

2003: Simon Starling, MACRO, Rome

2003: Christian Jankowski, MACRO, Rome

2005: Drive. Cars in Contemporary Art, GAM, Bologna

2006: Giovanni Anselmo, (with A. Viliani), GAM, Bologna

2007: Christopher Williams, (with A. Viliani), GAM, Bologna

2007: Vertigo. The century of off-media art, (with G. Celant), MAMbo, Bologna

2008: Ding Yi, MAMbo, Bologna

2008: Giuseppe Penone, MAMbo, Bologna

2008: Luigi Ontani, MAMbo, Bologna

2009: Bernd & Hilla Becher at Museo Morandi, Museo Morandi, Bologna

2009: Seth Price, (with A. Viliani), MAMbo, Bologna

2009: Sarah Morris, (with A. Viliani), MAMbo, Bologna

2009-2010: Gilberto Zorio, MAMbo Bologna/CGAC Santiago de Compostela

2011-12: Matthew Day Jackson Bologna, MAMbo, Bologna/Kunstmuseum Luzern/Geemente Museum, The Hague

2013: Marino Marini: the archaic, (with A. Salvadori), Civic Archaeological Museum, Bologna

2013: Giorgio de Chirico e i libri, Archiginnasio Library, Bologna

2012: Mario Ceroli, MAMbo, Bologna

2013: The Great Magic, (with Walter Guadagnini), MAMbo, Bologna

2014: Rachel Whiteread, MAMbo, Bologna

2014: Limits sem limites: desenhos e traços da Arte Povera, Fundaçao Ibere Camargo, Porto Alegre

2015: Lawrence Carroll, MAMbo, Bologna

2015: Li Song Song, MAMbo, Bologna/Staatlische Kunsthalle, Baden Baden

2016: Giuseppe Penone, Mart, Rovereto.

2016: Robert Morris, Mart, Rovereto

2017: Orhan Pamuk/Grazia Toderi, Mart, Rovereto

2017-2018: Mimmo Jodice. Mediterranean, Farnesina - Rome and touring in various Italian Cultural Institutes

2018: Carlo Alfano, Mart, Rovereto

2018: Gianfranco Baruchello, Mart, Rovereto

2018: Nathalie Djurberg - Hans Berg, (with Lena Esslig), Moderna Musset Stockholm, Mart Rovereto, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

2018: All the Isms of Armando Testa, Royal Museums, Turin

 

Teaching and academic lessons:

From 2001 to 2005, he was a contract professor of "Aesthetics of New Media" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera, where he also regularly held courses for the master's degree "Organization and Communication of Visual Arts".

From 2010 to 2013, he was a lecturer at the LUISS University in Rome for the master "Museum Curatorship", of which he is still a member of the Scientific Committee.

He has given numerous lectures at universities, academies and museums in Italy, France, Germany, Brazil, China and Japan.

In 2017, he held the lectio magistralis Museo. luogo di apparizione delle arti in the context of the Festival della Filosofia di Modena (Modena Philosophy Festival)

In 2018, he was lecturer in La Storia in Piazza/Rivoluzioni, Genova

 

 

 

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2000: L’immagine in sospeso, in Espresso. Arte oggi in Italia, a cura di G. Maraniello/L. Cerizza/S. Chiodi, Electa, Milano

2001: Strategie del dono, in Il Dono. Offerta, ospitalità, insidia, a cura di G. Maraniello/A. Somaini, Charta, Milano

2002: Arte in Europa 1990-2000, Skira, Milano

2002: Économie du Présent. Notes et Répétitions, in Sonic Process, a cura di Christine van Assche, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2002: Tatjana Trouvé, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2002: Detail by Detail: Time Regained, in The needleworks of Francesco Vezzoli, a cura di Jan Winkelmann, Hatje Cantz

2003: Pittura e scultura degli anni ’80, in Arte Contemporanea, a cura di F. Poli, Electa, Milano

2004: L’arte contemporanea e i “limiti” dell’architettura, in Arti e Architettura 1900-1968, a cura di G. Celant, Skira, Milano

2006: De-sign of the Time, in Hyperdesign, Shanghai Biennale

2007: Margini di infinito. L’opera di Giovanni Anselmo: introduzione ed esodo, in Giovanni Anselmo, a cura di G. Maraniello/A. Viliani, Hopefulmonster, Torino

2007: Il soggetto dei media, in Vertigo, a cura di G. Celant/G. Maraniello, Skira, Milano

in Hyperdesign

2008: Instants and Apocalypses. The “Explosions” of Cai Guo Qiang, in Cai Guo Qiang, The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

2009: Prefazione agli scritti di Giuseppe Penone, in Giuseppe Penone. Scritti/Writings 1968-2008, a cura di G. Maraniello/J. Watkins, MAMbo, Bologna/IKON, Birmingham

2009: Alibi e lapsus. L’aleph di Luigi Ontani, in Luigi Ontani. Gigante3RazzEtà7ArtiCentAuro, a cura di G. Maraniello, MAMbo, Bologna

2009: Bernd & Hilla Becher at Museo Morandi, Museo Morandi, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich

2010: Due Mostre di Gilberto Zorio, in Gilberto Zorio, MAMbo Bologna/CGAC Santiago de Compostela

2011: Scriverne: appunti per una storia dell’Arte Povera, in Arte Povera 2011, a cura di G. Celant, Electa, Milano

2013: La Grande Magia. La struttura di un’indagine, in La Grande Magia, a cura di G. Maraniello/W. Guadagnini, MAMbo, Bologna

2014: Desenhos e traços da Arte Povera, in Limites sem limites, a cura di G. Maraniello, Fundaçao Ibere Camargo, Porto Alegre

2016: Giuseppe Penone: la possibilità della scultura, in Giuseppe Penone. Scultura, a cura di G. Maraniello, Electa, Milano

2017: Arte Memoria e Contemporaneità, in Memory and Contemporaneity. China Art Today, a cura di G. Maraniello/D. Rampello, The Palace Museum Beijing/57. Esposizione Internazionale di Venezia

Alfano

2018: Tra i Dormiveglia di Baruchello, in Gianfranco Baruchello, a cura di G. Maraniello, Mart, Rovereto.

2018: Mimmo Rotella: gli anni Ottanta e la questione della pittura, in Mimmo Rotella Manifesto, GNAM, Roma

 

 

 

 

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