Kevin Bellò

Kevin Bellò is a curator and researcher in the arts, food and ecology. While completing his MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art (London, 2021), he researched and promoted cognitive justice and practices of care within artistic and food systems.

Such interests converged in the founding of the pan-European art collective Sympoietic Society and joining the international food and art educational platform The Gramounce. With the first, he coordinated the project ICE * In Case of Emergency: a series of site-sensitive art residencies and public programs to research glaciers and storytelling in the Capitalocene. With the latter, they are researching food via political, philosophical and artistic lenses within and beyond academic systems.

He have also worked with museums, gallery spaces, universities, NGOs (like UNESCO), city municipalities, environmental organisations, permaculture farms, cultural associations and local communities.

Other university-level courses he took include: “Art and Business” at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art (London), “Curatorial Practices in Music” at ArtEZ (Netherlands), “Food Cosmogonies” with The Gramounce, and my BA in Economics and Management for Art, Culture and Entertainment at the UniCatt (Italy).

HICP 2024: He has departed from the mutualistic exchange between human animals, ecosystems, and living yeast to research Nordic bread-making practices and forest foraging traditions. Developing a network among local bakers, artists, storytellers and bacteria, he has reflected on ecological kinship via convivial gatherings and moments of co-creation. Additionally, a collection of poetic and curatorial field notes on bodies of water, food rituals, and more-than-human encounters accompanied his research.