Andrea Lissoni (art historian)

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Lissoni (left) with Franz Erhard Walther , 2019
Andrea Lissoni, Director of the House of Art, 2020

Andrea Lissoni (born October 13, 1970 in Milan ) is an Italian curator , editor and university professor . Since April 2020 he has been artistic director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Together with the commercial director Wolfgang Orthmayr, he forms the dual leadership in the Haus der Kunst.

Life

education

In 1994 Andrea Lissoni graduated from the University of Pavia with a degree in art history . From 1996 to 98 he received a scholarship from the Université Paris 1 , after which he worked as a research assistant at the Musée nationale d'art modern - Center Georges Pompidou (New Media Department) under the direction of Christine Van Assche . In 1999 he completed his master's degree in cultural management at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Master in gestione e management dei beni artistici e culturali). The following year he completed his postgraduate diploma specializing in the history of contemporary art at the University of Scuola di Specializzazione di Storia dell'Arte in Genoa . In 2011 he received his doctorate at the University of Udine on the topic "VariaVision - Beyond the threshold of disciplines".

Professional career

From 2001 to 2012, Lissoni taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and from 2007 to 2013 at the Università Bocconi in Milan . In 2005 he taught at the Anderson School of Arts, UCLA in Los Angeles and in 2006 at New York University . Since 2015 he has been visiting lecturer at Kingston University and at the Royal College of Art in London.

From 2011 to 2015, Lissoni worked as a curator at HangarBicocca in Milan. In 1999 he co-founded the international festival Netmage , the independent artistic network Xing (2000) and, from 2004 to 2008, the independent art space Lima. In 2012 he founded the online film screening program for artists and filmmakers Vdrome, which he has been running with Filipa Ramos since then . He is a member of the Board of Film London and advisory board member of the EYE Prize (EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam) and the two independent London non-profit art institutions AutoItalia South East and Mimosa House - both with a focus on new media , digital practices and gender .

From 2014 to 2019, Lissoni initially worked as a curator (Film and International Art) at Tate Modern , and since 2015 he has been one of the five senior curators. Andrea Lissoni was responsible for exhibitions, acquisitions and presentations of moving images, sound and media art in collections and temporary exhibitions.

Andrea Lissoni was editor of Cujo magazine and regularly publishes articles for catalogs and articles in magazines such as Mousse Magazine, Domus and Kaleidoscope. His commitment to artists of various origins and gender identities is particularly evident in the group exhibitions and film programs for which he was responsible at Tate Modern .

List of exhibitions curated by Andrea Lissoni

At Tate Modern , London

  • Bruce Nauman, overview exhibition (co-curated with Sir Nicholas Serota, 2020)
  • Pan Daijing, (Tanks, October 2019)
  • Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Tanks, October 2018)
  • Joan Jonas, extended overview exhibition (March 2018)
  • Philippe Parreno: Anywhen, Hyundai Turbine Hall Commission (2016)

At the Center for Contemporary Art, Tashkent

  • Qo'rg'on Chiroq, Saodat Ismailova (2019)

At HangarBicocca, Milan

In other places

At Tate Modern, London (group exhibitions and film program)

  • BMW Live Exhibition: Okwui Okpokwasili, Faustin Linyekula, Tanya Lukin Linklater (co-curated with Catherine Wood, Tate Modern 2020)
  • BIM 18 - Biennal of Moving Images Geneva (co-curated with Andrea Bellini, Center d'Art Geneve, 2018, takeover of OGR Turin, 2019): Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Fatima Al Qadiri / Khalid Al Gharaballi, Andreas Angelidakis, Korakrit Arunanondchai / Alex Gvojic, Meriem Bennani, Elysia Crampton, Pan Daijing, Tamara Henderson , Kahlil Joseph, Ligia Lewis
  • Tate Cinema Program (Tate Modern, 2016–2019) specializing in performances, performative screenings, expanded media sessions, surveys : Lawrence Abu Hamdan , Laurie Anderson , Rosa Barba, Eric Baudelaire, Neil Beloufa, Wang Bing , Melanie Bonajo, Tony Conrad , Pauline Curnier Jardin, Manon de Boer , Kevin Jerome Everson, Tamara Henderson, Lynn Hershman Leeson , Rebecca Horn , Karrabing Film Collective, Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer, Gürcan Keltek, William Kentridge , Joan Jonas, Parviz Kimiavi, Lewis Klahr, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Salome Lamas, Laida Lertxundi, Babette Magolte, Jumana Manna, Natasha Mendonca, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Bahar Noorizadeh, Trin Min-Ha, Pere Portabella, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, James Richards-Leslie Thornton, Ben Russell , Beatriz Santiago Munoz, Jeremy Shaw, Shireen Seno, Albert Serra , Cauleen Smith, Jan Svankmaier, Zhou Tao, Tsai Ming-Liang , Clemens von Wedemayer, Leilah Weinraub, Anton Vidokle and Akram Zaatari, Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schm idt, Tony Cokes, Coco Fusco, Marcia Hafif, Sky Hopinka, Jill Magid, Mox Mäkelä, Dóra Maurer, Nástio Mosquito, Nkisi, Michael Snow, Eduardo Williams, Helena Wittmann
  • BMW Live Exhibition (co-curated with Catherine Wood, Tate Modern, 2017): Isabel Lewis, Lygia Lewis, Fujiko Nakaya, CAMP, Carlos Casas, Ian Cheng, Paul Maheke, Phill Niblock, Daïchi Saïto, Lorenzo Senni, Wu Tsang and Fred Moten

Publications

  • Joan Jonas (with Julienne Lorz, Hirmer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7774-2979-3 )
  • Celine Condorelli, bau bau (with Céline Condorelli, Nick Aikens, Maria Lind, Marco Scotini, Mousse Publishing, Milan 2017, ISBN 978-8867492992 )
  • Philippe Parreno, Hypnosis / Hypothesis (with Cyril Beghin, Mousse Publishing, Milan 2017, ISBN 978-8867492251 )
  • Philippe Parreno, Anywhen (Tate Publishing, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-84976-441-4 )
  • Micol Assael, ILIOKATAKINIOMUMASTILOPSARODIMAKOPIOTITA , (with texts by Jens Hoffmann and Lucas Lo Pinto, Mousse Publishing, Milan 2015, ISBN 978-8867492053 )
  • Scrutinize, interrogate, scrape. Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi Explore Without Surrendering to History in Yervant Gianikian / Angela Ricci Lucchi, NON NON NON (HangarBicocca, Critical Notebook n.1, Milan 2012)
  • Gabriele Basilico, Architetture, città, visioni (with Gabriele Basilico, Bruno Mondadori, Milan 2007, ISBN 978-8842420484 )

Web links

Commons : Andrea Lissoni  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Greenberger, Alex Greenberger: Munich's Haus der Kunst Fills Top Spot: Andrea Lissoni Named Artistic Director, Role Previously Held by Okwui Enwezor. In: ARTnews.com. October 22, 2019, accessed July 8, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ Dr. Andrea Lissoni is the new artistic director at Haus der Kunst / Dr. Andrea Lissoni is the new Artistic Director of the Haus der Kunst. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Phillip Warnell: MA seminar by Andrea Lissoni, Head of TATE movie. In: Artists' Moving Image at Kingston University. October 18, 2015, accessed on July 12, 2020 .
  4. ^ Catrin Lorch: House of Art - Andrea Lissoni becomes the new director. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
  5. ^ House of Art: Andrea Lissoni becomes the new boss. October 22, 2019, accessed July 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Yervant and Angela Ricci Lucchi Gianikian - Non Non Non. In: Pirelli HangarBicocca. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lissoni, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian curator, editor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan