Irene Campolmi

Function: Independent curator and a scholar currently curating exhibition projects. Country: Italy Visiting period: 08 - 11 February Visiting year: 2018

Irene Campolmi is a Copenhagen-based curator, currently working on exhibitions that explore notions such as ecology, ethics, postcolonialism, queerism and feminism. She is working on upcoming institutional shows for 2018/ 2019, including “Re-Routing Nature” at SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen) and “#whatif” at Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), among others.  She has curated the artistic program “Art Reacts” of the Code Art Fair in Copenhagen in 2017. Irene is also completing her PhD on contemporary curatorial practice at the University of Aarhus with a thesis that explores the entanglement between ethics and research in curating. She has co-organised and coordinated the international symposium “Between the DISCURSIVE and the IMMERSIVE”  at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark). Irene has worked as a researcher for the Max Planck Institute- Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florence, and as an assistant curator for the Italian Embassy in Copenhagen and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. She has extensive collaborations with Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin and Frie Universitet (Germany).