Rome, Latium, Italy
Lisa Andreani is an independent curator, art historian and PhD candidate at Iuav University (Venice) and Université Paris 8 (Paris). She is currently conducting research for the project Le musée vivant, organized by Université Paris 8, coordinated by Professor Emanuele Quinz, and supported by Artec, investigating the interplay between living organisms and contemporary museum practices. She is also a fellow at Scuola Piccola Zattere with the project Drafting Coexistence: Porous Temporalities in Museum Space, which explores porous temporalities and multispecies cohabitation within museum environments. The first comprehensive monograph on Alberto Grifi, co-edited with Valerio Di Lucente, will be released soon. In 2025 she co-curated the symposium Shake Well: Before Thinking and Making in Academic Research at Scuola Piccola Zattere and Iuav University, investigating how artistic practice can function as an autonomous epistemological device in academic contexts. In the same year, she conceived MILLESUONI, a multifaceted project dedicated to sound ecologies in Berlin (Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, MONOM, Neun Kelche). In 2024 she curated the exhibition TERRENO. Tracce del disponibile quotidiano at MAXXI L’Aquila, involving a multifaceted group of artists, writers, designers, and archival materials. In 2023 she was co-curator of :After – Festival diffuso di Architettura in Sicily. From 2020 to 2022, she served as Curatorial and Editorial Coordinator at MACRO (Rome). In 2019 she was a fellow of the Global Modernism Studies research program at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum (London). Since 2018 she has collaborated with the Archivio Salvo (Turin), where she is a member of the Scientific Committee. She has collaborated with several institutions, publishing houses, and magazines including: CAC Synagogue Delme (Delme-Metz), Flash Art (Milan), Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro (Milan), Fondation Carmignac (Paris-Porquerolles), High Pitch Magazine (Germany-Italy), Humboldt Books (Milan), MAXXI (Rome-L'Aquila), Mousse Magazine & Publishing (Milan), NERO Editions (Rome), Paint It Black (Turin), PUBLICS (Helsinki), Quodlibet (Rome), Scuola Piccola Zattere (Venice), Shedhalle (Zurich), Spector Books (Leipzig), Viaindustriae (Foligno), Veii (Rome). Occasionally she works as a production manager. Among the projects: Pro tempore (2025–ongoing), an artist film by Luca Vitone; Panorama L’Aquila (2023), a city-wide exhibition realized in collaboration with Italics; Romanistan (2017–2018), an artist film by Luca Vitone.
Drafting Coexistence: Porous Temporalities in Museum Spaces proposes to consider the cultural institution as a permanent draft. The research focuses on the temporalities inhabiting museums and exhibition spaces, investigating how these shape behaviors, forms of participation, and hierarchies of knowledge. Modes of access and knowledge transmission become experimental elements rather than fixed structures, aiming to define cultural mediation as an embodied, relational practice. The research seeks to open an “off-field” of the institution, where time does not flow linearly or productively, but is distributed among human and more-than-human presences, visitors, materials, memories, and unexpected uses. Collaborative workshops, reading groups, and performative exercises will activate the project as an open program, developed in dialogue with the community of Scuola Piccola Zattere. Rather than producing a finalized outcome, the research aims to test devices of play and aggregation capable of re-embedding time—and the institution itself—to the living, imagining replicable forms of mediation and new possibilities for coexistence. The research emerges from the curatorial practice of Lisa Andreani, an independent curator and PhD candidate, rooted in the study of archives and marginal figures, oriented toward generating unconventional narratives through participatory projects and educational formats.
PhD Candidate in Visual Arts - IUAV University, Venice / Université Paris 8, Paris Topic: Art Mediation The research project is part of the reflection on the forms of cultural mediation as an increasingly relevant factor in the fruition and valorisation of contemporary art and, in specific exhibition experiences, as a set of processes and devices that are even necessary for the very possibility of access, comprehension and efficacy of the display of the arts. The project will focus on the exhibition projects realised in the exhibition venue of Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana in Venice in the time span 2013-2024 and will make use of the materials and infrastructures of the Venetian venue during the period of the research stay planned there.
Archivio Salvo is an association founded in 2016 by Cristina Tuarivoli and Norma Mangione. The association is non-profit and has as its purpose the legal protection and promotion of the work of Salvo. The Committee of Honour is composed of Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Giuseppe Coppa, Alessandro Nieri and Eva Perini. The Scientific Committee is composed of Lisa Andreani, Silvano Schivo and Elena Zonca.
MILLESUONI is a project conceived and curated by Lisa Andreani on the occasion of IT Out OFF – Berlin , an initiative promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin, in conjunction with the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (14 June – 14 September 2025) . The project involves artists Nicola Di Croce and Ramona Ponzini , together with designer Nicolò Pellarin , and will run between the end of June and the end of September 2025 through three distinct but interconnected moments: an educational programme, an exhibition project and an artistic residency, hosted at Volksbühne , Neun Kelche and MONOM . MILLESUONI is an evolving project that explores sound as a critical and performative tool , capable of generating new forms of listening and participation. Through an intersectional perspective, the project investigates the potential of sound to construct spaces of equality, renegotiating the ways in which we perceive, inhabit, and interpret our surroundings. From this perspective, sound is not just a physical phenomenon, but a trace and testimony of a presence, a signal of relationships that are activated between bodies, spaces, communities, and imaginations. MILLESUONI thus promotes an experimental and non-linear approach, one that proceeds through proximity and exchange, encouraging practices of openness and collective listening. The project is also supported by Paint It Black , which is publishing it on vinyl, conceived as an editorial and sonic extension of the entire project.