Who is Luca Cerizza, the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024

Although the official announcement is still lacking, the news has already leaked out: Luca Cerizza will be the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale , despite the fact that his name has not met with the full satisfaction of Undersecretary for Culture Vittorio Sgarbi, who has criticized the system of candidate selection. In fact, the minister currently has to pronounce on three candidates who are proposed by a selection process that chooses them from ten “finalists.” Cerizza got the better of Ilaria Gianni and Luca Lo Porto, who made up the final trio, while the other seven finalists were Lorenzo Balbi, Ilaria Bonacossa, Lucrezia Cippitelli (with Davide Quadrio), Jacopo Crivelli Visconti (with Marcella Beccaria, Giovanni Carmine, Alfredo Cramerotti, and Arturo Galansino), Luigia Lonardelli, Matteo Lucchetti, and Paola Nicolin. Cerizza will propose an Italian Pavilion where the only artist present, according to what is known so far, is Massimo Bartolini, and the theme of the pavilion will be the building of community through the invitation to listen to the other.

Who is Luca Cerizza? Born in Milan in 1969, he is an art critic and curator, currently living in Turin, and in the past has resided not only in his hometown but also in Berlin and Mumbai. His research has focused mainly on Italian and international art from the early 1990s to the present, and on post-minimalist practices. He has been teaching at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan) since 2006. He has organized several exhibitions in Italy and abroad and has curated monographs of artists such as John Armleder, Robert Barry, Massimo Bartolini, Alighiero Boetti, Daniel Buren, Yona Friedman, Liam Gillick, and Daniel Roth. His works include Alighiero Boetti. Map (Afterall, London 2008/Electa, Milan 2009) and The Bird and the Feather. The question of lightness in Italian art (Et al. Edizioni, Milan 2010). Cerizza also edited Giovan Battista Salerno’s collection of texts on Alighiero Boetti (Massimo De Carlo, 2009), the anthology of critical texts by Tommaso Trini (Johan & Levi, Milan, 2016), and the most comprehensive monographs on Diego Perrone and Gianni Pettena (Mousse, Milan 2020).

As for exhibitions, among the main ones he curated the solo shows of Gianfranco Baruchello at the Raven Row exhibition center in London in 2017 and of Tino Sehgal at the OGR in Turin in 2018, and the retrospective Vincenzo Agnetti. NEG: Playing the breaks at the Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau in Bologna in 2021. He also curated the conference/exhibition Campo Umano. Public Art 50 Years Later at the Fondazione Ratti in Como in 2019, together with Zasha Colah). He also curated the major monographic exhibition Hagoromo by Massimo Bertolini (together with Elena Magini) held at Centro Pecci in Prato in 2022.

Who is Luca Cerizza, the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024

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