Biography
Lorenzo Bruni (born in Florence) is a critic and independent curator. In 2013, he's working on a project to be shown at the KCCC museum in Klaipeda, Lithuania, about a series of exhibitions titled "Traveling and Trip", as being curator for the archive young Sicilian artists of the Museum of Palermo RISO and have started a new collaboration with the APT Foundation. In 2012 he inaugurated the new Binnenkant21 Art Foundation in Amsterdam with the exhibition entitled "excuse me ... but where am I?". In 2011 he was one of the selected curators for the Premio Furla for young Italian artists and he began an intense collaboration with the Enrico Astuni Gallery in Bologna, for which he's working on: a collective exhibit on the modernity of the performance, one about the reason collective exhibits are made and one on the comparison on the concept of landscape. Among the many projects made abroad, a few need to be mentioned: a travel-themed exhibit titled "Sarah's Travel" for the Varna Biennale in Bulgaria in 2008; and an exhibit on the romantic aspect of conceptual art from the 70s to today, titled "What is my name?" for HISK, Ghent in Belgium. From 2006 to 2009 he plans and directs the program linked to the heritage of modernism of Via Nuova in Florence, while from 2004 to 2005 he curates a cycle of three exhibits for the Galleria Civica in Castel San Pietro Terme (BO), and from 2001 to 2004 he's a curator for the Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi, Pelago (FI). From 2000 to today he's the coordinator of the exhibition activities of the non-profit space founded by a collective of artists, called BASE / progetti per l'arte. He also writes essays for several monographic catalogues, among these the ones for the Galleria Poggiali and Forconi in Florence, he collaborates with Italian magazines Arte e Critica and Flash Art.
