Paola Paleari
Curator, writer & editor
Born 1984 in Italy, lives in Copenhagen (Denmark)
Education
2019 Politikens Kunstkritikerskole, Politiken, Copenhagen
2013 Masterclass in Cultural Heritage & Services Management, Il Sole24Ore Business School, Rome
2011 Masterclass in Photography, CSF Adams, Rome
2009 Master’s Degree in Service Design, Politecnico di Milano
2006 Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Politecnico di Milano
Professional activities (main)
2021 – 2022 Curator of the contemporary art program at Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
2019 – today Guest teacher in Ways of Seeing: Storytelling through Photography and Urban Exploration Photography Workshop at DIS – Danish International School, Copenhagen
2018 – today Director at JIR SANDEL, Copenhagen
2013 – 2018 Deputy editor at YET magazine, Zurich/Lugano
2011 – 2017 Curator, writer and editor at ARTNOISE, Rome
2015 – 2016 Curatorial advisor at COLLI independent art gallery, Rome
2011 – 2014 Gallery manager and curator at s.t. foto libreria galleria, Rome
2010 Gallery assistant and curator at Galerie Břehová, Prague
Curated exhibitions (selected)
2022 Mette Winckelmann, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
2022 Nanna Abell, Psychodile, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
2022 Tanja Nis-Hansen, Employee of the Month, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
2022 Birke Gorm, girl anachronism, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
2021 Stine Deja, Dawn Chorus, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
2021 Søren Engsted, If the Future isn’t Bright at least it’s Colorful, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
2021 Marie Raffn, an oval, a vowel, an e, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
2019 Kristina Bengtsson, A certain bloom, Fonderia 20.9, Verona
2019 Grass is greener. Part II, JIR SANDEL, Copenhagen
2018 Grass is greener, Matèria gallery, Rome
2018 EC1 24H Copenhagen 2018, LOKALE, Copenhagen
2018 SMK Fridays “Art in the making”, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
2017 Log Pose, Fotopub, Novo mesto
2017 Giorgio Di Noto, The Iceberg, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
2017 Vika Eksta, Snakes and Ladders, Riga Photography Biennial, Riga
2015 Massimiliano Tommaso Rezza, Sarà Tolto, Colli Independent Art Gallery, Rome
2015 Czech Fundamental, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome
2015 Fabrizio Cicero, EXIT, Asa Nisi Masa, anmgallery.com
2014 Magnus Frederik Clausen, The Tomato Syndrome, Galleria Cinica, Palazzo Lucarini, Trevi
2014 Dino Ignani, 80’s Dark Portraits, POMO Galerie, Milan
2013 Katrien De Blauwer, Where Will We Hide, Galleria 291 Est, Rome
2013 Found In Italy, Italian Institute of Culture, Copenhagen
2013 ORTICA Organic Theme In Contemporary Art, MACRO Testaccio, Rome
2012 Mario Carbone, Marina Abramovic e Ulay a Bologna, 1977, s.t. foto libreria galleria, Rome
2011 MISTO Modern Italian Storytellers, 14th Lishui International Photographic Art Festival
Published writings (selected)
2022 Not all days have nights, Not all blades have knives. On Melanie Stidolph’s Endless Reproduction
2022 Text for the duo show Spoon Spoon by Cecilie Skov and Morten Buch at Ringsted Galleriet, Ringsted
2021 Apology of the arancina, text for the due show Rough Continuity by Lazar Lyutakov & Jens Fröberg at Simian, Copenhagen
2021 Once you label me, you negate me, Provence SS21, The Scandal Issue
2021 Text for the duo show Time & Life by David Ostrowski & Magnus Frederik Clausen at Spazio Orr, Brescia
2021 Art Hub Copenhagen Newsletter #4
2020 The Evil Queen, Photographs for Illustration Purposes Only, Rostfrei Publishing
2020 You Got 30 Minutes, text for the solo show Toppings by Lasse Bruun at Classensgade 26, Copenhagen
2020 Alina Frieske, Abglanz, YET magazine #12
2020 Daniëlle van Ark, Bills, Foam magazine #57
2020 Miss Idle, text for the solo exhibition Lieber Nackt Als Gefühlsleben by David Ostrowski at JIR SANDEL, Copenhagen
2020 Pist Protta #86/87
2020 Apple Romance. Quest for an alternative theory of gravity, text for the solo exhibition Apple Romance by Tove Storch at Nils Stærk, Copenhagen
2020 Ljubljana in four acts, NERO
2020 Daniel Everett and Mårten Lange, Vantage Point, Foam magazine #56
2019 Ikke alt som glimrer er guld. Om Rugoffs Biennale, IDOART
2019 Pipilotti Rist, Åbn min lysning (Open My Glade), Flash Art #326
2019 Marianna Simnett: det andet trin til smerte, IDOART
2019 Benedetta Barzini, la donna che visse due volte, Rivista Studio
2019 Interview with Eleonora Agostini, Paper Journal
2019 Rosamarie Trockel, The Same Different, Flash Art #324
2019 Years, I don’t want to live, I don’t want to die, Mousse Magazine
2019 Tom Sandberg, Things as they are seen, Vogue Italia
2018 The Power of Beauty, Archivio Magazine #3
2018 Danh Vo, Take My Breath Away, Flash Art
2018 pain in itself, published in xxx, JIR SANDEL
2018 The Art of the Trial, WePresent
2018 Interview with Giorgio Di Noto, Paper Journal
2018 Judith Hopf, OUT, Flash Art #321
2018 Palm Reading for Artists, part of the group show Connected by the Hand at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden
2018 Text for the solo exhibition RAL 6002 by Magnus Frederik Clausen at CGK, Copenhagen
2018 A conversation with Stine Marie Jacobsen, Trebuchet Magazine
2017 Family Stories. Interviw with Gillian Wearing, Elephant Magazine
2017 From Venus Pudica to IG-Spot, AF•ART magazine #6
2017 All Those Splashes of Color, in collaboration with Erin Murphy, http://www.7×7.la
2017 Vil & Rol, published in Maya Rochat, A Rock Is A River, Self Publish Be Happy, London
2017 The Imaginary Prisons. An exercise of freedom from G.B. Piranesi to Vik Muniz, D/Railed mag
2016 Focus On CPH, YET magazine
2016 Accumulo, ripetizione, sintesi. Le nuove estetiche del dislocamento, published in Generazione Critica #3, Danilo Montanari Editore, Modena
2016 A Day With Anouk Kruithof, YET magazine #9
2015 Text for the book This Must Be The Place by Bärbel Praun, self-published
2015 Machines of Loving Grace. The image of control at Venice Biennale, http://www.artnoise.it
2015 Text for the book ATEM by Massimiliano T. Rezza, Yard Press, Rome
2015 Text for the solo show gæst by Magnus Frederik Clausen, YEARS Copenhagen
2014 Less is a Bore. Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs Constructions, YET magazine #7
2014 A Day With Penelope Umbrico, YET magazine #6
2014 Art is Real: Scopophilia by Nan Goldin, YET magazine #5
2013 A Day With Pietro Paolini, YET magazine #4
2013 Il buon selvaggio. Interview with Mustafa Sabbagh, FAMO magazine #3
2012-2016 Regularly writing for ARTNOISE. Click here for a selection of my articles
Talks, teaching and mentorship (selected)
2021 ‘Re-visions’ symposium, in conversation with Vika Eksta at Riga Photography Biennial, Riga
2020 Portfolio reviewer at Landskrona Foto Festival
2020 “Lost & found in translation”, talk at KIBLA, Maribor
2020 Jury member at Landskrona Foto Spring Residency, Landskrona
2019 Portfolio reviewer at PortRe Portfolio Residency, Finlands Kulturinstitut i Danmark
2019 Co-organizer of The Curatorial Thing, an intensive summer program for curators at SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen
2019 Portfolio reviewer and tailor-made mentor at Portfolio Dialogue
2018 “EC1 24H”, talk at The Curatorial & Artistic Thing, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen
2018 Portfolio reviewer at Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen
2018 Jury member at Riga Photography Biennial, Riga
2017 “Independent Art Publishing in Switzerland”, talk at Impresionante Art Book Fair, Santiago de Chile
2017 “The Arab Revolt, ISIS and the representation of war: new challenges for lens-based artists”, talk at Organ Vida, Zagreb
2017 Guest tutor at KBH Film og Foto Skole, Copenhagen
2017 “The blended age of photography”, talk at IX Chobi Mela, Dhaka
2016 – 2017 Jury member at Portfolio Review, Duesseldorf Photo Weekend
2016 “Photography in magazines and on the web”, talk at Biennale dell’Immagine, Chiasso
2016 “Photography and New Media”, talk at Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
2016 Portfolio reviewer at Voies Off, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
2015 Lecturer at Punto de Fuga, Paris Photo, Paris
2015 Portfolio reviewer at ISSP – International Summer School of Photography, Kuldīga
2015 “ATEM”, artist talk with Massimiliano T. Rezza at Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
2015 “Photo Editing: the importance of the context”, lecture at Richmond University, Rome
2014 “Online art galleries”, lecture at John Cabot University, Rome
2013 Masterclass tutor in Cultural Heritage & Services Management, Il Sole24Ore Business School, Rome
Professional memberships
Member of UKK Unge Kunstnere og Kunstformidlere
Member of FSK Foreningen for Samtidskunst
Grants and residencies
2021 Det Obelske Familiefond and Statens Kunstfond, support for the contemporary art program 2021-2022 at Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon
2020 Critic-in-residence, Švicarija / MGCL International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
2018 Swiss Design Awards with YET magazine in the category Mediation
2018 Beckett Fonden, Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond and Statens Kunstfond, production support for Marianne Hesselbjerg’s first monographic work
2016 Statens Kunstfond, international research program
2010 Leonardo da Vinci, EU grant for transnational mobility
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