Biography
Lorenzo Benedetti (born in 1972, Rome), lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since 1 June 2014 he is director of the De Appel Arts Centre. Between 2008 and 2014 he was director of the De Vleeshal Art Centre, Middelburg, The Netherlands. In 2013 he curated the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2005 he founded the Sound Art Museum, Rome. He was director of Volume! in Rome, and curator of the Museum Marta Herford, Herford, Germany. Lorenzo was a guest-curator at the Kunsthalle in Mulhouse, France, and a teacher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. At the De Vleeshal Art Centre he curated exhibitions by Solakov, Jimmie Durham, Yona Friedman and Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Falke Pisano, Rossella Biscotti, Olaf Nicolai, Katinka Bock, Bojan Sarcevic, Marinus Boezem, Mandla Reuter, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Benoit Maire, Francesco Arena Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Dove Allouche, Fernando Sanchez Castillo. The Autumn series of Modernism; The Moon Has a Complicated Georgraphy are an investigation of the Dutch contemporary art scene. At the Kunsthalle in Mulhouse, France, he curated exhibitions - The Night, The Garden of the Forking Paths and Les scultures Meurent aussi. Recent projects include, Eurasia, Geographic cross-overs in Art, MART, Rovereto; Cabinet of Imagination was a collaboration with Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium, Der eigene Weg, Perpektiven Belgischen Kunst MMK Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany; The Third Tiger (Rossella Biscotti, Mark Manders, Olaf Nicolai) rooms, RAM, Rome. Among recent publications by the De Vleeshal: Solakov, Jimmie Durham, Yona Friedman, Falke Pisano, Rossella Biscotti, Autumn of Modernism, Olaf Nicolai, Marinus Boezem, Mandla Reuter. The publications are published by De Vleeshal Roma Publications, Amsterdam. For CURE magazine Lorenzo wrote on Alexander Dorner, Lucy R. Lippard, Seth Siegelaub, Alfred H. Barr, Willem Sandberg, Arnold Bode and Pontus Hulten. Lorenzo studied art history at the University La Sapienza in Rome and in 1998-9 he attended the Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam.
