2009 Recipients
Curator Cristiana Perella
Cristiana Perrella (Rome, 1965) is curator of the Contemporary Arts
Programme at the British School at Rome, where she has developed a series of
events focused on dialogue between the British and the Italian scene,
opening up the programme to an increasingly wider range of interests,
including music, video & film. She curated one-man exhibitions of both
emerging and established artists such as Adam Chodzko, Richard Billingham,
Martin Creed, Nick Relph and Oliver Payne, Mike Nelson, Ian Kiaer and
Douglas Gordon, to name but a few, alongside exhibitions of Italian artists like
Vedova Mazzei, Paolo Canevari and Francesco Vezzoli; big video surveys like
"Sweetie- Female Identity in British Video of the 80s and 90s" and
Videovibe-Art, Music and Video in the UK", a touring retrospective about Leigh Bowery
and a fast-moving events programme including talks, live performances and
screenings. She initiated the BSR the series of commissions "Viva Roma!",
inviting British artists to make site-specific works on Rome, inspired by
any aspect of the city. Until now she has commissioned and produced projects
by Cerith Wyn Evans, Mark Wallinger, Yinka Shonibare, Scanner, Sophy
Rickett, Jonathan Monk and Chris Evans.
She was part of the curatorial board of the 1st Biennial of Valencia, of the 1st and the 3rd edition of FotoGrafia - the International Festival of Photography of Rome, and of Videozone 2 - International Biennial of Videoart in Tel Aviv, of the Pandaemonium - Biennial of Moving Images 2001 at the LUX Centre in London.
She curated and organized numerous exhibitions internationally including, more recently, I Ka Nyì Tan: Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibè Photographers in Bamako, at the H.C. Andersen Museum, Rome; Taboo - The Art of Leigh Bowery and London Club Culture, at DA2 Museum in Salamanca, and neocon. Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art, at Apexart, New York.
She has recently been entrusted to set up and develop SACS, an Office for Contemporary Art in Sicily, Italy, part of RISO Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily.
Besides several monographs on contemporary Italian artists, she published two survey books on the Italian art scene of the '90s, Nuova Scena Artisti italiani degli anni Novanta, (A New Scene - Italian Artists of the Nineties) Mondadori, 1995, and Nuova Arte Italiana; Esperienza visiva ed estetica della generazione anni Novanta (New Italian Art - Visual and Aesthetic Experience of the Nineties Generation),Castelvecchi,1998.
She was a contributor to the Italian newspaper -"Il Manifesto" from 1998 to 2005.
From 2003, she is teaching Contemporary Art at the University of Chieti, Italy. Cristiana Perrella is part of APT Intelligence, a branch of the Artists Pension Trust which provides advisory services to collectors, financial advisors and art professionals.
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