GIADA OLIVOTTO - (*1990, Switzerland) Is an independent curator based in Lugano, her research oscillates between community phenomena and feminist collectives.
EMAIL olivotto.giada@gmail.com
MOBILES +41797285603 // +393454374553
LINKS www.diesonnenstube.ch
www.lumpenstation.art/canalemilva
IN THE LAST YEARS
2022 -today- founder of Souvenir Souvenir, Visual Art Residency in Lugano
2021 -today- artistic duo Fattucchiere, with Marta Margnetti
2021 -today- founder of the Association Magica Opalini, Locarno
2021 -today- founder of ACxSI, for a Regionale for Italian speakers in Switzerland
2020 -today- founder and curator for CANALE MILVA, a sound exhibition space, Radio Lumpen Station, Bienne
2020 -today- board team of PlattformPlattform, Zurich
2017 -today- founder e curator of the project Residenza La Fornace, Milan
2017 -today- co-director Sonnenstube off space, Lugano
RESIDENCIES
2021-22 Swiss Institute in Rome (9 months)
2021 Cité International des Arts, Paris (6 months)
AWARDS
2021 WINNER Swiss Art Awards (Sonnenstube Collective), Category: Art, Critic, Editions
CURATORIAL/ARTISTIC PROJECTS
2022
Curator of CE N’È E CE NE SARÀ PER TUTT3 with Lisa Lurati, Sonnenstube, Lugano
Switch the witch, with Fattucchiere, larada, Locarno
Sweet Dreams Foundation, with Fattucchiere, Curated by Lesia Kulchinska, Nida Art Colony, Nida
La casa ispirata, with Fattucchiere, Swiss Institute, Rome
Spazi Aperti, with Fattucchiere and Charlie Aubry, Romanian Academy, Rome
RⱯDURⱯ an event curated by Fattucchiere, Swiss Institute, Rome
RACCONTO GROSSO, with Fattucchiere, Spazio Lateral, Rome
2021
Curator of VITA-MINE, Sonnenstube, Lugano
Curator of Blues House, Blues House, Milan
Curator of From Submersion to Subversion with Camilla Paolino, PALAZZINA, Basel
Curator (Plattform collective) Plattform21 at MASI, Lugano
Curator of FOTOROMANZA with Camilla Paolino at Le Commun, Geneva
Curator of Regattatata with Gregory Hari, on-sight exhibition, Paris
2020
Curator of IT'S MY PARTY: DEEP END with Regaida Comensoli, Bagni Pompeiani, Arzo
Curator of UNIVERSO 25: l'odore della convivenza with Camilla Paolino at Sonnenstube, Lugano
Curator of Une histoire d’amour with Camilla Paolino at One gee in fog, Geneva
Curator of EMO at Schwobhaus, Berna
2019
Curator of CRASH TEST at Sonnenstube, Lugano
Curator of Rapsodia Botanica at Sonnenstube, Lugano
Curator of BLIND DATE#6 presso Sonnenstube, Lugano
È un momento difficile tesoro at Kunst Halle di San Gallo, a show proposed by Sonnenstube during Protect me from what I want
curated by Giovanni Carmine
Curator of INSONNE- La grande mostra di scultura at Sonnenstube, Lugano
Curator of BLIND DATE#5 at Sonnenstube, Lugano
Curator of the third leg of B-SIDE FEMINISM, with Angela Marzullo and Camilla Paolino, Sonnenstube. Lugano
Curator of BLIND DATE#4 at Sonnenstube, Lugano
2018
Founder and curator of the project Residenza La Fornace, exhibitions realized until now: LUNA CALANTE, LUNA PIENA,
LUNA CRESCENTE, LUNA NUOVA, CAPITOLO 4 (PRIMAVERA), CAPITOLO 3 (INVERNO), CAPITOLO 2 (AUTUNNO)
and CAPITOLO 1 (ESTATE)
Curator of FEDELI ALLA LINEA - Esposizione sul disegno contemporaneo at Sonnenstube, Lugano
Curator of BLIND DATE#3 at Sonnenstube, Lugano
2017
Curator of A PLACE WITH NO NAME at with Marta Margnetti, Sonnenstube, Lugano
Curator of EXI SHAPES, Spazio Morel, Lugano
2015
Curator of Facciamo ch’eravamo at Sonnenstube, Lugano
Curator of Kunstbox ATK Geneva at Topic, Picto, Geneva
INSTITUTIONAL AND WORK EXPERIENCES
2021
Logistic and set up assistant - PACE Gallery, Ginevra
2020
Curatorial assistant for Daniele Agostini - Habitat, Parco Scherrer, Morcote
2019
Assistant - Gallery Urs Meile (Luzern and Bejin) Artissima Art Fair, Torino
Assistant - Gallery Dietesheim&Maffei (Neuchatel) WopArt Fair, Lugano
Logistic and set up assistant - PACE Gallery, Geneva
2018
Assistant for the artist Arthur Duff - Lo spazio ritrovato, Morcote
2017
Assistant for the artist - Io, Luca Vitone, PAC, Milano
Assistant - New Chamber Gallery (New York and Bejing) WopArt Fair, Lugano
2016-2017
Monte Verità Foundation, Ascona: Archiving of the objects and then re-installation of Harald Szeemann’s exhibition
Le mammelle della verità. A project in collaboration with the Cantonal Archives of Bellinzona,
the Foundation, and the restorer Lorenza Mossi
2015
MASI, Lugano - 12-Month Internship (6-month contract extension)
Museo Comunale, Ascona - Paula Modersohn Becker, Berlin-Worpswede-Paris Logistics and Set up Assistant
MUSEC, Lugano - Logistics and Set up Assistant
TALKS AND PUBLIC MOMENTS
2021
Tamed love, Galleria Schiavo Zoppelli, Milano, a conversation with SARA RAVELLI, on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition Tamed Love.
Panorama, A lesson for BA - ZHDK
2019
Supercondominio 2, at Castello di Rivoli, Turin (supported by CRRI and Combo) presenting Residenza La Fornace
PUBLICATIONS, CATALOGS, AND TEXTS
2022
Fattucchiere, a series of Feminist fanzines
In-between things, captured by the reflection of pearl teeth - Text about the ARTISTIC PRODUCTION of Lisa Lurati, Ramazzotti Gallery, Basel
and suddenly I got lost online - Text about the ARTISTIC PRODUCTION of Ștefan Tănase, Ancontemporanea, Ancona
2021
Kunstbulletin - Texts on specific events about Italian or Italian-speaking artists
Down the hills a text for Blue Velvet project, Zurich
Eternally shifting dualism, DUNE - Flash Art - a collaboration with Rafael Kouto
2020
e improvvisamente scossa da una forza, Marta Margnetti and MASI, Manor Prize
Text and catalog co-curated with Francesca Benini
A secret hair garden, ISIT Magazine, Roma - a collaboration with Camilla Paolino
S t o r i e l l e - Spazio Officina, Max Museum, Chiasso - Text about the
ARTISTIC PRODUCTION of Gabriel Stöckli
2019
Monte verità in tanga - I never read, Art Book Fair Basel
