SARA BENAGLIA
Living and working in in Bergamo, Italy.
I am an artist with a practice based on the critic of the ideo-logics in visual disciplines.
I am a writer of essays and interviews with a focus on the relation between art and politics. I write for ATPdiary, Doppiozero and Art&Dossier.
I run the no-profit space BACO_BaseArteContemporaneaOdierna together with Mauro Zanchi since 2016.
I completed my training with an MA in Art Praxis at the DAI Roaming Academy. The thesis I wrote, The Mobility of the Matrix, was written with the mentorship of Ana Teixeira Pinto.
Education
| 2018-20 | Art Praxis (MA), DAI Roaming Academy – ArtEZ University, Arnhem |
| 2010-12 | Fine Arts (BA), Brera Academy, Milan Visiting student, Academia de Bellas Artes, ULL, Tenerife |
| 2007-09 | Theory and technics of contemporary art, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo |
Selected Curated Exhibition in BACO (BaseArteContemporaneaOdierna)
| 2020 | Metafotografia(2). Le mutazioni delle immagini |
| 2020 | XYZ |
| 2019 | Stasis, Maya Watanabe (video screening) |
| 2019 | Metafotografia. Dentro e oltre il medium nell’arte contemporanea |
| 2018 | Infrasottile. With Elio Grazioli |
| 2018 | Simone Schiesari. Prototipi |
| 2018 | Irene Fenara. Supervision |
| 2017 | Campi (video exhibition) |
| 2016 | Il cinema sperimentale di Marinella Pirelli |
| 2016 | Lo Specchio Concavo |
Public Panels
| 2020 | Lecture, LABA, Brescia [invited by Francesca Lazzarini] |
| 2019 | Lecture Metafotografia, with Mauro Zanchi, Accademia di Belle Arti G.Carrara [invited by Claudio Musso] |
| 2019 | Lecture L’Africa in giardino, with Mauro Zanchi, MACRO, Roma |
| 2017 | The Book is on the Screen, curated by Valeria Raho, SPRINT, Milano |
| 2016 | Contribution for I Femminismi e i Postumanismi with M. Zanchi, S.Frangi and V. Broggini, Via Farini, Milano |
| 2015 | Casting the Circle, Artissima Fair, Torino |
| 2012 | Effetto Venturi, invited by Eva Marisaldi, Peep-Hole, Spazio Oberdan, Milano |
| 2012 | “Barbara”, Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
Selected Solo Presentations
| 2019 | Pink Rust, CCA Kitakyushu, Fukuoka |
| 2015 | Il Bagno di Diana, Cripta della chiesa di S. Michele al Pozzo Bianco, Bergamo, curated by M. Zanchi |
| 2014 | Reverse running, BACO, Bergamo, curated by S. Raimondi and M. Zanchi |
| 2012 | Barbara, Galeria Espacio F, Madrid |
Last Selected Group Presentations
| 2020 | LVNATICA (video essay), Radio Kootwijk |
| 2018 | Human Capital (performance lecture), Arnhem |
| 2016 | Fine con fine, Fondazione Merz, Torino, curated by S. Riba Open Studio, PROGR, Bern |
| 2015 | Mayo 2015, La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires Art@Tell, HSG, St. Gallen Biennale di Monza, Palazzo dell’Arengario, Monza, invited by E. Grazioli |
Residencies
| 2016 | PROGR, Bern |
| 2015 | Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte |
| 2014 | CCA Kitakyushu |
| 2013 | V.I.R. Via Farini In Residence, Milan Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi |