Chiara Valci Mazzara

Chiara Alexandra Vittoria  Valci Mazzara is an independent curator, artistic director, researcher, author and writer originally from Rome (IT), based in Berlin, (DE).

Chiara curates for artists, collections,  foundations, institutions, festivals and biennials in Europe, East Asia and South East Asia.

.She curates  selected projects for the Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, (DE), here, additionally, she works too as researcher for the project SPACEX Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange,  A Marie Sklodowska – Curie Research,  Innovation and Exchange Action,  funded by the European Commission and developed across eight countries  through the work of  twelve research institutes and seventeen art institutions.

.She curates and liaises selected projects for Fondazione Morra, Naples, (IT), presenting international and national contemporary artistic positions ans consulting on external international relations.

.She curates for the international program of K.P. Art Centre, Seoul, (KR) where she develops the international program, working on outreach and networking for this new institution and at the presentation of Korean artists abroad and international artists in  South Korea.

Chiara worked majorly, throughout her career, in the frame of the Avant Garde artistic tendencies, particularly focusing on body art, conceptual art, performance art, Happening, Arte Povera,  contemporary informal photography and cross media expressions while expanding her interests,  in the most recent years, in spatial and time based art and its  anthropological and societal echoes and reverberations.

In her research, she engages with the exploration of the installations  site-specificity, temporality, concept, interaction, process and execution. Her focus often is on the conception and development of gestural and performative work which determine or connote ephemeral installations and gestures, the  focal point being their socio-anthropological axis and entanglements. Her research  revolves, too,  around  artistic  expressions which investigate – or happen  – as the conscious results or unforeseen symptom of  human behavioural patterns and social heritages or as the reverberation of inner elaboration/s of collective memory communication/s  and their conveyance forms. Ultimately, Chiara explores how societal paradigms and socio-political complexities with the ways hereto human interactions, expressions,  facts and artefacts manifest, articulate, coexist or hybridize, with or without hierarchical distinction or fixed determination.

Chiara collaborated to the coordination and production and more recently curated solo exhibitions, installations and performances of widely renowned artists such as Shozo Shimamoto, Hermann Nitsch, Julian Beck, Allan Kaprow, Vadim Zakharov, Ann Nöel Williams, Maurizio Elettrico, Daniela Comani, Thomas De Falco and Mateusz Choróbski among many others.

Chiara has worked and presently collaborates horizontally, sinergistically,  with many private and public institutions, collections, biennials, museums, foundations and funding institutions.

Her work as curator and writer has been reviewed and her essays published in various monographs, books, catalogues and in contemporary art and photography international and national art magazines as well as in various national newspapers.