Eugenio Viola\u00a0(Naples 1975) is an Italian art critic and curator. He was voted the best Italian curator for 2016 by the Italian art magazine Artribune and in 2014, British art magazine \u2018Apollo\u2019 named Viola as one “of the most talented and inspirational young people who are driving forward the art world today\u201d. He received his PhD in \u201cMethods and Methodologies of Archaeological and Historical-Artistic Research\u201d at University of Salerno, and specializes in the experiences and theories related to performance and bodily poetics. On this subject Viola most notably edited monographs devoted to Marina Abramovi\u0107, (Sole 24 Ore Cultura, Milan), Regina Jose Galindo (Skira, Milan, 2014), and ORLAN (Ed. Charta, Milan- New York, 2007) among others, and published a number of essays for international publications.<\/p>\n
Viola has been appointed the new Chief Curator of Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Colombia (MAMBO). His first project at MAMBO will be the first solo exhibition of work by\u00a0Teresa Margolles\u00a0in Colombia, which will open on March 21, 2019.<\/p>\n
2017-2019 saw Viola as the Senior Curator at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, where his curatorial practice was focused on cultivating and strengthening the Institution\u2019s relationship with the Asia-Pacific region. He presented the first Australian solo exhibition of Kimsooja (Zone of Nowhere, 2018), in which the work extended beyond the walls of PICA and into the streets of Perth, where iterations of\u00a0To Breathe \u2013 The Flags\u00a0(2012-2018) materialized as size specific installations around the city. Viola has also been instrumental in a promising partnership between PICA and Taipei Fine Arts Museum as part of the City of Perth and Taipei Residency Exchange Program.<\/p>\n
From 2009 to 2016 Viola held curatorial positions at MADRE, the Contemporary Art Museum of Naples. From 2013 to 2016, as Curator at Large, he was responsible for the research and development of MADRE Museum’s collection (Performing a collection\u00a0project) and co-curated the first Italian large-scale exhibitions of\u00a0Boris Mikhailov\u00a0and\u00a0Francis Al\u00ffs. From 2009 to 2012, he was the Curator of the Project Room, a space dedicated to the young and experimental artists organising a network residence and exhibition program in partnership with institutions and\u00a0art organizations\u00a0from the\u00a0Middle East\u00a0(Transit\u00a0project), and an annual performance festival named\u00a0Corpus. Art in Action\u00a0(2009-2012).<\/p>\n
As a guest curator Viola has worked extensively. He curated the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial (Jaanus Samma,\u00a0Not Suitable For Work. A Chairman\u2019s Tale,\u00a0Palazzo Malipiero, Venice), whose iteration at the Museum of the Occupations in Tallinn was listed by the American Hyperallergic amongst the top 15 exhibitions around the world in 2016. Other major projects include: Regina Jos\u00e9 Galindo,\u00a0Mechanisms of Power\u00a0(Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, 2016);\u00a0The Prince and Queens\u00a0by Karol Radziszewski (CoCA. Center of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland,2014); Mark Raidpere\u2019s\u00a0The Damage (EKKM- Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, 2013); Marina Abramovi\u0107\u2019s\u00a0The Abramovi\u0107 Method\u00a0( PAC – Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan, Italy, 2012); and the most comprehensive retrospective of ORLAN to date, Le R\u00e9cit (Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art moderne and contemporain de Saint Etienne M\u00e9tropole, France, 2007).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1568,"template":"","class_list":["post-1569","membri","type-membri","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casamorra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/membri\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casamorra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/membri"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casamorra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/membri"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casamorra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casamorra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}