Notte Bianca 2023

Installations, screenings, performances
Curator of the Notte Bianca: IUNO (Ilaria Gianni and Cecilia Canzani with the collaboration of Giulia Gaibisso)

Thursday 23 November 2023
6 pm – midnight

Free event, advanced booking required
Gardens and historical spaces of Villa Medici

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PROGRAM

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The Notte Bianca returns to Villa Medici on Thursday 23 November to present the work of the current fellows in residence at the French Academy in Rome.

The Notte Bianca offers the Roman public the opportunity to discover the fellow’s research and experimentation in the fields of visual arts, music, literature, restoration, art history and curatorship. In the framework of Villa Medici, a dialogue is established between contemporary creation, history and landscape.

Performances, readings, concerts, installations and screenings unfold in the spaces of Villa Medici: these encounters mark the time of the visit and weave a reflection with the architecture and nature of this place. They give the experience of the multiplicity of research that animates the French Academy in Rome and that, starting from this place, is linked to the city. Conceived as a promenade between historic edifice and gardens of Villa Medici, the 2023 edition of the Notte Bianca opens for the first time the doors of some of the studios of the fellows, workspaces that have hosted artists and academics in residence over the centuries.

The exhibition itinerary, articulated as a choreography of sounds, shapes, lights and voices gives back, through the alternation of private and public spaces, the scenario in which the different researches take shape.

Accompanying the event are artifacts created during a didactic workshop designed for the younger public, invited to observe, visit, and actively participate in the Notte Bianca, as well as a lighting installation that guides visitors in discovering the artworks while also providing a personal interpretation of Villa Medici.

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THE ARTISTS

With the fellows 2023-2024:

Pierre Adrian, Mali Arun, Ismaïl Bahri, Séverine Ballon, Hélène Bertin, Alix Boillot, Madison Bycroft, Laure Cadot, Céline Curiol, Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Ophélie Dozat, Hamedine Kane, Kapwani Kiwanga, Laure Limongi, Morad Montazami, Justinien Tribillon

With the participation of: Luca Di Giovanni, Bianca Friscelli, Martin Planchaud, Clémence Quélennec and Valentina D’Angelo

Lights: Rä di Martino
Workshop: Andrew Iacobucci

→ Enter the fellows’ studios to discover their projects in 16 video capsules:

THE CURATORS

Exhibitions, seminars, performance programmes and publishing formats are the tools through which it seeks a non-systematic and convivial approach to artistic production and its theoretical debate.

Recent Curatorships: Rome, a Portrait, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2023); Una felice corsa, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, Bologna (2023); Sara Basta: La prima madre, with C. Meli, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (2022); In Metamorfosi, Marta Roberti, sZo Rome (2022); Io dico io, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Rome, with Lara Conte and Paola Ugolini (2021); Anastasia Potemkina, MAXXI Aquila (2021); La giusta misura, with Chiara Camoni, Palazzo Bentivoglio, Bologna, and Murate Art District, Florence (2018-on going); Società delle api (France, MOSTYN, UK, GAM, Turin); Autoritratto. Bettina Buck, Chiara Camoni (2019); Shape, colour, taste, sound and smell. Adelaide Cioni /Guy Mees, P420, Bologna (2019).

She has curated exhibitions and independent research projects in museums, institutions, project spaces, and galleries, including: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; MACRO, Rome; MAXXI, Rome; Galleria Nazionale, Rome; Matadero, Madrid; MOA, Seoul; Loop, Seoul; Museo d’arte contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa; GAMec, Bergamo; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.

From 2016 to 2020 and then again in 2023, she served as a guest curator at the American Academy in Rome. Between 2009 and 2016, she co-directed and curated, along with Cecilia Canziani, at the Nomas Foundation, where she was in charge of artistic programming. She has collaborated with contemporary art fairs, including ARCOmadrid, for which she curated the Opening section (2018 and 2019) and Artissima, for which she curated the Present Future section (2019-2021). She co-founded and curated the independent art fair Granpalazzo (2015-2017).

She is an adjunct professor at John Cabot University, IED (Rome), RUFA (Rome), and Naba (Milan). She regularly collaborates with Flash Art and has contributed texts to numerous art catalogs and magazines such as: artforum.com, Domus, Mousse, NERO, Cura, Arte e Critica. She is the co-curator with Lorenzo Giusti of Radio GAMeC 30 for the year 2022-2023

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

• Thursday 23 November 2023 from 6pm to midnight (last entry at 11.30 pm)
• Free entrance, booking here
• Free visit through the gardens and interior spaces of Villa Medici
• Access to the performances subject to availability
• Bar and snack area throughout the evening
• The following are not allowed in the spaces: motorbike helmets; bulky bags and suitcases; animals, with the exception of guide dogs
• Villa Medici does not have a cloakroom

PREVIOUS EDITIONS

Notte Bianca 2022

Curator: Saverio Verini

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Notte Bianca 2021

Curator: Saverio Verini

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The Notte Bianca 2023 is made possible thanks to the support of:

And of:

ACADÉMIE DES BEAUX-ARTS

FONDATION LOUIS ROEDERER

FONDATION BANQUE POPULAIRE

Media Partner:

INSIDE ART

Cover image: © Daniele Molajoli
Fellows 2023-2024: © Daniele Molajoli
Potrait of Cecilia Canziani: © Cecilia Canziani
Potrait of Ilaria Gianni: © Ilaria Gianni
Notte Bianca 2022: © Daniele Molajoli
Notte Bianca 2021: © M3 Studio