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Matteo
Lucchetti

Art historian and curator

Italian born, Matteo Lucchetti is a curator, art historian, and writer. From 2017 to 2018, he was Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. His main curatorial interests are focused on artistic practices that redefine the role of art and the artist in society. His curatorial projects include: De Rerum Rurale, 16th Rome Quadriennale, Rome, 2016; Don’t Embarrass the Bureau, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, 2014; Enacting Populism in its Mediæscape, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2012; and Practicing Memory, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, 2010. In the projects he curated, Lucchetti has worked with artists such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Rossella Biscotti, Nástio Mosquito, Marinella Senatore, Jonas Staal, SUPERFLEX, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Pilvi Takala, and Stephen Willats, among others. Since 2010, Lucchetti also has co-directed, with Judith Wielander, the Visible project, a research endeavor and the first European biennial award devoted to socially engaged artistic practices in a global context, initiated and supported by Pistoletto Foundation, Biella and Fondazione Zegna, Trivero.

Lucchetti has worked as curator in residence at Para Site, Hong Kong; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; and AIR, Antwerp. During his residency at BAK in 2010, Lucchetti worked in the frame of the Former West project to develop curatorial and discursive possibilities for the new online platform of the research—the digital archive. He has organized and taken part in several seminars, talks, and debates at various institutions, such as the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Steirischer Herbst, Graz; and the Centre for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg. He lectured as a guest professor at HISK, Gent; Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam; Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Antwerp; and Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, and contributed to magazines such as Mousse Magazine, Manifesta Journal, and Art Agenda.

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Training XVI: An Investigation into Collective Work Processes for Self-Determination

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22-26 July 2019

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18-21 September 2018

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BAK Summer School 2018

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16-20 July 2018

BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise

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5 July 2018, 19.30-21.30

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Screening

21 June 2018, 20.00-22.00

Film screening The Making of Justice (2017) & Artist Talk

Guided Tour

31 May 2018, 18.00-21.00

Evening Tour of First Person Plural

Performative Conference

19 May 2018

Propositions #5: First Person Plural

Guided Tour

5 April 2018, 18.00-21.00

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21 June 2016

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Lezingenprogramma

18 May 2016, 17.00

Strijd: Art, Activism and the University

series

11-25 April 2016

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Educatieprogramma

5-9 April 2016

Here We Are Academy

Tentoonstelling

30 January–01 May 2016

Unstated (or, Living Without Approval)

Exhibition

30 January–01 May 2016

Unstated (or, Living Without Approval)

Congress

29-31 January 2016

New World Summit: Stateless Democracy

Congress

15-16 October 2015

New World Summit, Rojava

Exhibition

24 June–12 July 2015

A Call for Drawings

Tentoonstelling

24 June–12 July 2015

A Call for Drawings

Lecture

11-12 June 2015

Digital Activism

Openbare redactievergadering

13-14 May 2015

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Public Editorial Meeting

13-14 May 2015

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Exhibition

11 April–21 June 2015

New World Academy Exhibition

Public Editorial Meeting

27-28 February 2015

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Learning

13 February–05 June 2014

Learning Place: Curating the Political

Education Program

20-22 December 2013

Alternative Learning Tank (ALT.)

Leren

18-24 March 2013

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Congress

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Congress

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Tentoonstelling

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Lecture

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Report (Not Announcement)