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Vanina Saracino

1984

Vanina Saracino
Vanina Saracino

Vanina Saracino (she/they) is an independent curator, film programmer, writer, and lecturer.

Her work focuses on theories and art practices that explicitly question anthropocentric and binary worldviews from an intersectional perspective, with an emphasis on lens-based and time-based art. Her latest project, Other Minds, is the fourth edition of the Screen City Biennial (curated with Daniela Arriado), which took place at the astronomical observatory Archenhold Sternwarte and other venues in Berlin in 2022.

Since 2021, Saracino has been teaching at the Institute of Time-based Art – IZM, Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin, with Prof. Nina Fischer. She has collaborated with Kumu Art Museum and EKKM (Tallinn), Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi (Venice), TBA21 – Academy, Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), Cinemateca do MAM (Rio de Janeiro), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), The EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam), and Centro Párraga (Murcia), among others. Saracino has realized residencies at ISCP (New York, 2023), Q21 – MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, 2021), Fire Station Artists’ Studios (Dublin, 2019), CPR – Curatorial Program for Research (Reykjavik, Tórshavn, Tromsø, Boden, Luleå, Hyrynsalmi, Helsinki, 2018), and GENERATOR – 40mcube/EESAB (Rennes, 2018). Graduated in Communication Sciences, Saracino holds an MA in Arts Management (GIOCA, Università di Bologna) and in Philosophy and Art Theory (UAB, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona). She has been a member of IKT since 2015.

 

Last update: 17th November , 2023