Biography
Marinella Paderni (Milan, 1964) graduated in Contemporay Art at the University of Bologna (DAMS), Italy.
She is a contemporary art critic and independent curator. She teaches Contemporary Art at the IULM University in Milan and ISIA in Faenza and Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts at the Fine Arts Academy in Bergamo.
She was a correspondent for the international contemporary art magazine “Tema Celeste”, and is currently contribuing to contemporary art magazines "Frieze", “Flash Art” and "Exibart".
She has curated various exhibitions on the portrayal of contemporary landscapes, such as “Alto Impatto Ambientale”, 2003; “Suburbia”, 2004 (in collaboration with Marco Senaldi); “Ground Zero. Lo spazio di nulla”, 2005; and the site-specific exhibitions at the Botanical Gardens in Parma (Open Air from 2005 to 2008, in collaboration with Isotta Saccani).
Her activity as a curator also involves video art and photography. She has written a book dedicated to photography as part of the “Laboratorio Italia” series published by Johan & Levi (Laboratorio Italia. The photography in contemporary art, 2010).
In 2008 she curated the “Same Democracy” project (in collaboration with Elvira Vannini), the first Italian exhibition on the theme of artistic and curatorial practices, inspired by the open source model, and a public project on the theme of visionary realism in art, architecture and cultural economics, entitled “We have a dream” (Spazio Gerra, Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with Luca Molinari and Pier Luigi Sacco). In 2012 she was the curator of Celeste Network Prize "Beyondmemory" focused on the archive fever in contemporary art.
She has held various thematic conferences on contemporary art, with a particular focus on the phenomenology between different cultural sectors.
From 1988 to 1994 she worked in fashion, collaborating with the designer Jean-Paul Gaultier as director of the “Junior Gaultier” product line.
