Hi! My name is Paola and I am an Italian curator, writer, editor and educator based in Copenhagen.

I hold a Master’s degree in Design from Politecnico di Milano, followed by a Masterclass in Contemporary Photography at CSF Ansel Adams and a Masterclass in Cultural Heritage & Services Management at Il Sole24Ore Business School. In 2019, I was among Politikens Kunstkritikerskole’s selected participants.

I am a Member of Udvalg for Nye Perpektiver at Akademiraadet, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 2021 and 2022 I curated the contemporary art program at Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, and since 2019 I have been a guest lecturer in Photography at DIS Danish International School. I have run the exhibition platform JIR SANDEL since 2018 and was deputy editor of the Swiss publication YET Magazine from 2013 to 2018.

I am concerned with the intersection between critical and creative writing and often interweave art criticism with other forms of storytelling. I believe that curating is a practice that goes beyond making exhibitions and creates new creative methods to generate, convey and reflect knowledge in a transdisciplinary and transcultural context. As a freelance curator, I have an ongoing “self-educational agenda” that aims towards a more exhaustive definition of my profession and a clearer determination of its needs and actions.

Expertise and areas of work
Curating and concept development
Communication and writing (content & creative)
Editorial coordination
Project & event management
Mediation and interdisciplinarity
Counselling, mentoring and teaching

See my CV