This is who the curators of Biennale Gherdëina 2022 will be.

Curators of the eighth edition of Biennale Gherdëina, a major festival founded by Doris Ghetta in 2008 in the heart of the Dolomites, will be Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos. The event will be held from May 20 to September 25, 2022, in Ortisei Urtijëi St. Ulrich and the surrounding areas of Val Gardena Gherdëina Gröden, South Tyrol.

Theme of the 2022 edition will be Persons Personen.

The Biennale Gherdëina commissions and produces contemporary artworks, which are exhibited during the festival in Ortisei and surrounding places, fostering a dialogue between innovation and the renowned tradition of woodcarving, the starting point of the event.

PersonsPersonen will move along two directions. The first considers the legal and non-legal personhood forms of nature and landscape, reflecting on how artistic expressions can contribute to the recognition of Earth rights and the reduction of barriers. The other deals with ancient and future memories of the paths of people, animals, plants and materials through systems of migration, seasonal displacement and transhumance in the region and its landscapes. And how they form and constitute each other in an ongoing process of influence and attunement.

“We want to talk to you about this person who is a tree, who is a lake, who is a stone, who is you and who is me. About this person who is a star and who is young because they are old; who speaks the language of minerals, sings the song of rivers and howls at dawn, because they are also a dog. We want to tell you about their dreams, their pains and their desires. About their bodies, their giving hand and their taking hand, their eyes that feel and their tongue that paints; how their roots walk and their fur travels,” the curators say. "We want to tell you about Personen Personen. Dialoguing with the alpine valleys, mountains and skies of Ladinia, in the Dolomites, and celebrating the multitude of living forms-human, animal, plant, mineral, mycological-that populate them. The stories of Persons Personen are told in many ways. Through exhibitions, meetings, performances, songs, stories, hugs, books and other streams of exchange."

“We are happy to announce Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos as curators of the eighth edition 2022,” added Biennale Gherdëina director Doris Ghetta. “Together they will bring their vast experience to bear; we expect a thoughtful and insightful program that considers the Earth around us at this time of uncertainty and brings together many female artists from the region and internationally. We look forward to supporting Lucia and Filipa in developing their program and welcoming our audiences in 2022.”

Lucia Pietroiusti is a London-based curator who works across disciplines that intersect art and ecology, especially outside the exhibition format. Pietroiusti founded and runs as curator General Ecology at the Serpentine in London, a strategic effort to activate environmental themes and methods in all gallery products and networks, and co-curates Back to Earth, which brings together more than 65 artists’ environmental campaigns. She co-founded and currently co-curates and co-presents the Serpentine Podcast. In addition to the Serpentine, Pietroiusti is the curator of Sun & Sea (Marina) by Rugile Barzdziukaite, Vaiva Grainyte and Lina Lapelyte, the Lithuanian pavilion featured at the 58th Venice Biennale that won the Golden Lion. She is the curator of POWER NIGHT at the E-Werk Luckenwalde (2021) and one of the curators of the Shanghai Biennale 2021 (with Marina Otero Verzier, Filipa Ramos, You Mi and Andrés Jaque as chief curator). Her publications include More-than-Human (with Andrés Jaque and Marina Otero Verzier, 2020), and Microhabitable (with Fernando García-Dory, 2021).

Filipa Ramos, born in Lisbon, is a writer and lecturer living in London. Her research focuses on how art and culture address ecology and in particular the ways in which contemporary art promotes interspecies relationships between humans, non-humans and machines. Ramos is curator of Art Basel Film and curator and founder of Vdrome, a program of film screenings by visual artists and filmmakers. She is a lecturer at MRes Art:Moving Image, Central Saint Martins, London, and at the Arts Institute’s Master Program of the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Basel, where she leads the Art&Nature seminars. She is co-curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2021). Previously, she was Associate Editor of Manifesta Journal and contributed to Documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). She curated “Animalesque,” at Bildmuseet Umea, Sweden (summer 2019) and BALTIC Gateshead (winter 2020). She is the author of Lost and Found (Silvana Editoriale, 2009) and curated Animals (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2016). Her next book, The Artist as Ecologist, will be published by Lund Humphries in 2022. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Philosophy at Kingston University London.

Pictured are Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos (2021). Ph.Credit Thaddäus Salcher

This is who the curators of Biennale Gherdëina 2022 will be.

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