Simone Frangi

Researcher, writer, and curator. He holds a French-Italian Ph.D. in Aesthetics and Theory of Art. From 2013 to 2017 he has been the artistic director of Viafarini – Nonprofit Organization for Contemporary Artistic Research (Milan, IT). He currently co-directs Live Works – Performance Act Award at Centrale Fies (Trento, IT) and  A Natural Oasis? Transnational Research Programme organized by Little Constellation – Network of Contemporary Art focused on Geo-cultural Micro-areas and Small States of Europe. He’s Professor of Theory of Contemporary Art at Fine Arts and Design Academy in Grenoble (FR) – where he founded the workshop and residency-based research program Pratique d’Hospitalité . In 2016 he was one of the ten curators of the 16th edition of Quadriennale of Rome and in 2018 he was a guest curator at Museion (Bozen) where he presented the program Somatechnics. Transparent travelers and obscure nobodies. In 2020 he will be co-directing the 19th edition of the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, dedicated to artists, practitioners and researchers coming from or based in Euro-Mediterranean Countries, Balkans, Arab Countries, and the Middle East.

Last update: November 11th,  2019