Samuele Piazza
Curator, Italy. CPR participant: Who Is Being Heard?
Samuele Piazza (Italy) is Chief Curator at OGR Torino. For the institution he has been responsible for the visual arts program and he has commissioned and curated several projects: he curated solo exhibitions by artists Mike Nelson, Maria Hassabi, Monica Bonvicini, Nina Canell, Sarah Sze as well as group shows like “Vogliamo Tutto”, “Mutating bodies, imploding stars” and “Dancing is what we make of falling”.
He is currently working on “Retinal Rivalry”, a solo show by Cyprien Gaillard and on a new publication on the work of P Staff, on the occasion of their solo show “Full Rotation”.
Piazza received a MA in Visual Arts from Iuav University in
Venice and a MA in Aesthetics from CRMEP, Kingston University in London. He was 2015-16 Helena Rubinstein Fellow of the Whitney Museum ISP.
CPR 2024: WIBH brings up to 8 international curators to Finland, Norway, and Sweden in September-October 2024 to research the regional art scene with the ambition to get a better understanding of the complex history and current political situation in the Nordics.