Biography
Lucrezia Cippitelli, Phd, is a scholar, art historian and curator based in Brussels. Professor of Aesthetics at the Art Academy of L’Aquila,(Italy), Visiting Scholar at Cornell University (Ny, US), and founder of Mossoo in Brussels. Lucrezia has recently curated audiovisual workshops at Janaklees, contemporary art center in Alexandria, Egypt, 2014; Havana; 1st Tbilisi Triennale, curator at Addis Contemporary, 2012; Urban Scenos Ouakam/Dakar, 2012. TIME_FRAME, Art, Technology, Contemporary Culture in Latin America and Africa (Montevideo, Amsterdam), 2009-2010. As a scholar of contemporary art, Lucrezia focuses her research on post-colonial studies, non-western artistic practices and the art system in general. Lucrezia works especially with media and conceptual artists and process-oriented practices developed in social and public spaces. Lucrezia has a research curriculum, of exhibitions, of professorships and cultural co-operation projects, developed in several international biennals, exhibitions, cultural centers and universities between the US, Latin America, Africa and Europe. Lucrezia has served as curator at MLAC (Rome, Italy) between 2003 and 2007 and she writes about art for Digicult (where she is also part of the management comitee member), Luxflux and Doppiozero. She is author of 'Alamar Express Lab' (Rome, Gangemi 2007), and co-editor of 'Tania Bruguera' (Milan, Postmedia 2010), 'Connecting Havana' (Digicult Publishing, 2012), and 'Eurocentrismo, Modernismi, Arte Globale. Estetiche della resistenza' (Rome, Bulzoni 2013). In 2015 I was jury member of Celeste Prize, 7th edition.
