Silvana Fiorese

Silvana Fiorese currently lives between Barcelona and Florence, where she works as a curator and producer at the intersection of visual arts, moving images and sound art. Since 2008 she manages the programming and production of Lo Schermo dell’Arte (Florence), an international festival that explores the relationship between contemporary art and film through screenings and special projects including collaborations with Philippe Parreno, Peter Greenaway, Oliver Laric, Shirin Neshat, Matthew Barney and Jeremy Deller, among others. Since the beginning of 2021 she is also responsible for the programming of DART (Barcelona and Santiago de Chile), the first documentary film festival dedicated to contemporary art in Spain and Latin America. She has been co-founder and curator of Sonic Somatic (Florence), an annual event dedicated to performance and sound in urban public spaces between 2015 and 2019, in the framework of which she has collaborated with artists such as Ari Benjamin Meyers, Thomas Köner, Christina Kubisch and Invernomuto, among others. In the field of sound, she has also been responsible for special discographic editions with Michael Snow, Maurizio Nannucci / Zona Archives, Omer Fast, Schneider TM and the Andrej Tarkovskij International Institute. She has also been associate curator of the exhibition NEAR+FUTURES+QUASI+WORLDS at State Studio (Berlin) within the framework of the S+T+ARTS program of the European Commission.