Veronica Valentini
Curator and founder director at E.M.M.A.
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- CHEZ EMMA
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- 2017 roaming program THE THEORY OF LEAVES + OPEN CALL
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- THE THEORY OF LEAVES ~ Program and participants
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- MYSTERY OF LOVE
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- IN HER PLACE
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- DIVERSORIUM. Live arts and a space for coexistence
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- DIVERSORIUM. Artes vivas y espacio de convivencias
Veronica Valentini is a curator, educator and researcher based in Barcelona. Her curatorial praxis promotes the production of social knowledge through the informal setting of distributed and situated learning process with social exchange on art and society based on “radical sociability, informality and itinerancy”. Valentini’s areas of interests lies on collective, institutional and feminist practices, intersectional perspective, and the conditions created by artistic and non-artistic environment by all cultural agents and practitioners.
She is founding director of E.M.M.A. and co-founding director of BAR project, two self-run curatorial organizations considered as tools for thought, imagination and action. Since is also official mediator for the Concomitentes (New Patrons/Nouveaux Commanditaires) citizen art Spain program sponsored by the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation (Madrid) that promote the creation of artworks that engage with their social context inviting civil society groups to become the citizen-commissioners of an artwork. Currently, she is working with functional diversity activists of Movement for Independent Life of Barcelona on the project Diversorium: a communal space in which to come together and celebrate human diversities and difference through cabaret, dance, workshops, talk and parties in a night club and a civic centre of the city.
She studied at PEI-Independent Study Program of the MACBA museum with philosopher Paul B Preciado and at the International Curatorial Training Program of Ecole du Magasin in Grenoble (FR); she holds a MA in Visual Arts/Historical & Artistic Heritage and graduated in Fine Arts both in Italy. During 2020, she will be attending “Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art”, a freestanding course delivered by the University of Gothenburg.
http://www.veronicavalentini.org/
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