Chiara Valci Mazzara

Chiara Alexandra Vittoria Valci Mazzara

Independent curator, author, researcher and writer

 

Current:

.2012-present:  Independent curator, critic, writer and author, based in Berlin, Germany

.2019-present: Curator for Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany 

.2018-present: Curator for Fondazione Morra , Naples, Italy

.2020-present: International Program development – Artistic Direction at K.P. Gallery and Art Center, Seoul , South Korea

 

Previous positions (selected):

.2022-2025 : Researcher  for the European Commission research and development action –  project SPACEX – Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange – A Marie  Sklodowska-Curie Research, Exchange and Innovation  Project funded by the European Commission. https://www.spacex-rise.org/chiara-valci-mazzara/

.2009-2018: Co-curator, project management and coordination Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy

.2017-2019: Artistic Director and co-founder fontaine b. / curation and advisory 

.2012-2014: Management Director and founder Alnitak Art Agency / Fondazione Morra

.2009-2011: Project manager and exhibitions coordinator  Quadriennale di Roma , Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy.

.2009-2011: Associate project management and coordination Hermann Nitsch Museum Naples, Italy and Shozo Shimamoto Foundation, Reggio Emilia and Naples, Italy

 

Education:

 She is doctor in Communication Sciences, Specialised in Institutional Communication.

.She holds a MA in Contemporary Art Management, Ara Pacis Rome – N. S. program 2009

.Post Graduate Specialisation in Business and Institutional Communications, Universita’ La Sapienza di Roma 2008

.BS in Communication Sciences, Universita’ La Sapienza di Roma 2006

.Native- bilingual proficiency: Italian, English

.Full professional proficiency: German (C1 DAF certificate)

 

Awards, Grants and recognitions (selected):

.2025 Alexander Tutsek Stiftung production and implementation fund for Henrik Strömberg installation in the frame of the release of Chronos, the new monography of the artist and to be presented in Berlin and Münich, Germany

.2025 Foundation for Polish-German Collaboration, production and implementation fund for P.OST – Mateusz Choróbski solo show at Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin

.2025 Alexander Tutsek Stiftung production and implementation fund for P.OST – Mateusz Choróbski solo show at Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin

.2024 Alexander Tutsek Stiftung production and development grant for the project Pandora’s Box with William Cody Maher and Signe Mahler Studio, Berlin, Germany

.2024 Finnland Institute Berlin, project and production grant Baking Books, Baran Caginli action, Berlin, Germany

.2023 Selected project with Daniela Comani Studio for Bangkok Biennale 2024 Nurture Gaia, Bangkok, Thailand

.2023 Kemmler Foundation investigation Grant with Studio Henrik Strömberg

.2022 Finalists (3rd) Les Récontres de la Photographie in the category Photo-Text Book Award – with the book Object amnesic: a compost manifesto by Henrik Strömberg- photography- Jens Soneryd – poetry- and Chiara Valci Mazzara -essay, Les Récontres de la Photographie, Arles, France

.2022 Stiftung Kunstfond Research Stipendium, – with Studio Henrik Strömberg – Bonn, Germany

.2021 Selected pavilion project for Vadim Zakharov Studio at Bangkok Biennale 2022 Chaos Calm, Bangkok, Thailand

.2021 Alexander Tutsek Stiftung production and implementation grant for the exhibition project Sil(h)ence for Woo Chang Won Studio, Seoul, South Korea

.2020 Winner of BUP Book Award 2020, Blow Up press Book Award with Henrik Strömberg and Jens Soneryd, Warsaw, Poland

.2020 Alexander Tutsek Stiftung (Münich, Germany) production grant with Studio Henrik Strömberg for the site specific installation at Chang Won Sculpture Biennale 2020 – Non-sculpture Light-Flexible, Chang Won, South Korea

 

Academic research engagement:

.2021/22- 2025 Researcher for the European Commission funded research and development action – project, Spacex: Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic EXchange (SPACEX) – a transdisciplinary research action that utilises secondments between academic institutions and third sector organisations in order to scope and map European spatial practices.

• The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) project number 872561. H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019

 

Research based lectures, talks and workshops (selected) :

.October 2024 Workshop, The artist’s studio as an archive and how to communicate it. Intra -personal and inter-personal empathetic communication of the artistic process , gesture and work , Intermedia II – Pavla Sceranková and Dušan Zahoransky Studio, AVU Academy of Fine Arts Prague, Czech Republic

.September 2022 Guest lecturer for the class of cultural contents, contemporary art and photography of Prof. Hyun Hye-Yeon ; workshop on exhibition conceivement and planning, coordination, communication strategies and production at Joongbu University, Chungnam, Seoul, South Korea

Curation (selected projects):

.2026 – upcoming- James Prevett site specific installation for Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, in collaboration with Finland Institute, Berlin

.2026 – upcoming – Mateusz Choróbski solo show , OP-ENHEIM, Wroclaw, Poland

.2026 – upcoming – Marta Antinucci performance Honey, Blood and Milk, hosting location to be soon undisclosed

.2026 – upcoming – Florian Schmidt solo show, Lempertz Kunsthaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany

.2026 – upcoming – Henrik Strömberg, CHRONOS, public intervention,  location to be soon undisclosed 

.2026 Marco Siciliano, CIRCA,  Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

.2025  Mateusz Choróbski, solo show P.OST, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

.2025 Henrik Strömberg Strata, site specific installation and series developed for Busan International Photography Festival 2025, Busan, South Korea

.2025 Thomas De Falco performance and installation, HM – Human Mycelium, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

.2025  performance and duo show, Pandora’s box’, William Cody Maher and Signe Mahler, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

.2024 Baking Books, Baran Caginli performative action, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

.2024 Goyo – Berlin, Han Chung Shik  solo show, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

.2024 You are Mine , Daniela Comani site specific installation and urban intervention at the BACC – Bangkok Art and Culture Centre- for Bangkok Biennale 2024 Nurture Gaia, Bangkok, Thailand

.2024 YOU ARE MINE , Daniela Comani site specific installation – urban intervention (for Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz ) ; billboard at the crossroad between Torstraße and Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, Berlin  Mitte, Germany

.2024 Reading Room, Daniela Comani solo show, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin Art Week, Berlin, Germany

.2024 The Living room of the Gods, Maurizio Elettrico solo show, Sweet Dreams Project Room, Berlin, Germany

.2023 Bygones be Bygones BAR – Month of Performances and readings hosted by the installation of Henrik Strömberg for Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

.2023 Bygones be Bygones or: what’s hidden in the snow will come to light by thaw solo exhibition of Henrik Strömberg at Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

.2022  Alter Ego by Gill Gatfield, Native Tongue XR installation and VR sculpture  – public intervention , Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz public green space –  Rosa Luxemburg Strasse and Almstadt Strasse, Berlin, Germany

.2021  ‘The Muses’ by Gill Gatfield, public sculpture, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz , Berlin, Germany

.2021  Sil(h)ence by Woo Chang Won at Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

.2021  Group show open studios  with the artists: Hannah Bohnen, Thomas De Falco, Alizée Gazeau, Lucia Kempkes, Nils Köpfer, Stefan Knauf, Linus Rauch, Manuel Stehli and Henrik Strömberg , Interface Berlin, Berlin, Germany

.2021  Anna Kott ‘Hidden in Water’, Karin Trockels Architectin, Berlin Germany

.2021 Vadim Zakharov ‘George Orwell- 7 Dictators- Duchamp prostate’ at Kang Contemporary, Berlin Art Week, Berlin, Germany

.2021 Selina Baumann ‘A Garden’ ,  Å Plus Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

.2021 duo exhibition of David Krippendorff and Sun Kwan Kwon Timescapes, K.P. Gallery and Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

.2020- 2021  Maurizio Elettrico, “An ephemeral banquet for the invisible guest: waiting for the bio-aristocrat”;  in collaboration with Fondazione Morra- Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

.2020 Chang Won Woo Inner Monologue,  K.P. Gallery Seoul, South Korea

.2020  BOM Station European Launch – show and runway, Artists: Martin Zellerhoff, Kyong Lee, Sanghyeok Park,  Kunstverein am Rosa- Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany 

.2019  Refraction of Lightness , Henrik Strömberg solo show, Fondazione Morra, Palazzo Tarsia Spinelli, Naples, Italy

.2019 Daegu Photo Biennale special exhibition Morph-O isolation of (portable) pressure, artists: Ricarda Roggan, Henrik Strömberg, Woo Chang won, Jung Sung Tae,  Rosa Luxemburg Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

.2019  Junko Wada solo exhibition Heian Lights,  David Chipperfield Architects showroom, Berlin, Germany

.2019  Ann Nöel Williams, Works 1964-2019, hosted by FreeHome Berlin, Berlin, Germany

.2019   (Publication Curation) Middle Plane Magazine, Curated issue dedicated to Vadim Zakharov, with contributions by Udo Kittelmann, Dorothea Zwirner, David Elliott, London, UK

.2019 (Publication Curation) DSL Manifesto, DSL Collection, Paris, France

.2018  Group show Symbiopoiesis, artistst: Dieter Roth, Nam June Paik and Henrik Strömberg, Papillon Galerie,Paris, France

.2018 Group show  Umbruch These/Upheaval .Artists: Maya Attoun, Lindy Annis, Nati Cerutti, Daniela Comani, Arnold Dreyblatt, Lucio Fontana, Vanessa Enriquez, Malcolm Green, Elana Katz, Hermann Nitsch, Jacopo Rinaldi, Serge Stephan, Mariana Vassileva ; FreeHome Berlin, Berlin, Germany

.2018 Group show: Ich bin überfordert / I am overwhelmed, presenting Vito Acconci’s work: Biting myself:biting as many parts of my body as my mouth can reach – in the frame of the exhibition project conceived to present various participant artists, art historians, architects, curators, composers, editors, opera and film directors, journalists, photographers, philologists and writers:Vito Acconci, Yuri Albert, Rob Blake, Barbara Breitenfellner, Safia Dickersbach, Kane Do, Maurice Doherty, Shahram Entekhabi, Susanne Frank, Moritz Frei, Jan Glisman, Pierre Granoux, Silvia Guerra, Doreet Levitte, Harten Jürgen, Harten Rudolf Herz, Patrick Huber, Yaroslav Schwarzstein, RenataKaminska, Klaus Killisch, Yuri Leiderman, Colette Lumiere, Martin Maeller, Nicolas Manenti, Contanze Musterer, Mascha Pörzgen, Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Matthias Reichelt, Vincent Rischer, Michal B Ron, Eike Schmitz, Karin Sander, Semra Sevin, Anatoly Shuravlev, Alexander Skorobogatov, Noemi Smolik, Vladimir Sorokin, Sven Spieker, Michael Staab, Sergei Tchoban, Anja Teske, Asako Tokitsu, Lukas Troberg, Timm Ulrichs, Meyer Voggenreiter, Brigitte Werneburg, Stephan Wiese, Miriam Wiesel, Daniel Zakharov, Ireen Zielonka; Hosted by Free Home Berlin, Germany

.2017  Group show Intuition to fill Emptiness, artists: Joseph Beuys and Luca Gioacchino Di Bernardo, Mia Gourvitch, Hans Peter Kuhn, Sebastian Kusenberg, Milovan Markovic, Jacopo Rinaldi, Henrik Strömberg, Vadim Zakharov, Free Home Berlin, Berlin, Germany

.2017 MB half – full MD, with works by Marcel Duchamp, hosted by Free Home Berlin in collaboration with Pierre Granoux,  (LAGE EGAL) & Michal B. Ron. Works by Marcel Duchamp,Alexei Kostroma, An Paenhuysen, Andreas Burger, Andrei Monsrtyrski, Angel Vergara, Anonym, Antoine Lefebvre, Aurélie Noury, Bruno Nagel, Daniel Bozhkov, Daniel Malone, Frank David, Frank Hesse, Hannah Bruckmüller, Ioana Alexe, Jofroi Amaral/Cédric Bostyn, Julian Wasser, Klaus Killisch, Man Ray, Marcel Broodthaers, Marcel Duchamp, Marie von Heyl, Mathieu Mercier, Michael Behn, Michal B. Ron, Moritz Frei, Patxi Bergé, Pierre Granoux, Roland Fuhrmann, Saâdane Afif, Serge Stephan, Vadim Zakharov, Wolfgang Müller, Yuri Albert, Yuri Leiderman, Yusuke Suga, Free Home, Berlin, Germany

.2017 Echoes in dust solo show of Henrik Strömberg in collaboration with Ä plus Berlin,  selected special works by Man Ray and Jannis Kounellis and Henrik Strömberg, ÄPlus Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

.2017  Fabian Albertini, Bianco Deserto, Fotografia Europea Circuito OFF, Reggio Emilia, Italy 

.2016  WAS Biennale Berlin , Layover Dreams,  solo show of Mia Gourvitch, Stresemann Strasse, Berlin, Germany

.2016 Solo show and performance Silence Unravelled, Vanessa Enriquez, Agora’ Project Space – Alte Wasserturm, Berlin, Germany

.2016  Mein Blau, Buffet D’Art, group show,  artists: Jo Addison, Phil Allen, Louise Ashcroft, Peggy Atherton, Maria Bartolo, Renata Bandeira, Keith Bowler, Jörn J. Burmeister, David Cotterrell, Stuart Cumberland, Annie Davey, Judith Dean, Dolanbay, Marcia Farquhar, Kitty Finer, Doug Fishbone, Luke Gottelier, RJ Hinrichsen, Des Hughes, Anja Ibsch, Ben Joiner, Sharon Lifschitz, Brendan Lynch, Pete Owen, Sarah Pucill, Robert Rush, Raine Smith, Kerry Stuart, Pip Thompson, Demelza Watts, Mark Wiltshire, Keith Wilson, Mein Blau, Berlin, Germany

.2014-2016 Ongoing exhibition and performance project, Shoshanah’ Ciechanowski, My Name Is, Berlin,  Germany  – Florence (Villa Poggio san felice), Italy – Andel’s Art Program, Lodz, Poland

.2013 Hermann Nitsch installation and performance in the frame of ABC Contemporary Art Fair Berlin, in collaboration with Morra Foundation, Hermann Nitsch Museum,Naples, Italy

 

Coordination and organisation (selected):

.2010-2011 Exhibitions Cycle: Artista chiama Artista,  Quadriennale di Roma, artists: Mario Airo’ and Marcello Spada, Bruna Esposito and Anja Puntari, Loris Cecchini and Margherita Moscardini, Sala delle Colonne, Villa Carpegna, Quadriennale di Roma, Roma, Italy.

.2010 Hermann Nitsch, Opere Napoletane Museum permanent collection new set up, Hermann Nitsch Museum , 14 September 2010 – 1 August 2014, Museo Nitsch, Naples, Italy.

.2010  “Encounters between Caravaggio and the contemporary”, Museo Hermann Nitsch, Naples, Italy.

.2010 Hermann Nitsch & Caravaggio, Sagrestia Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples (Hermann Nitsch – Caravaggio , “Hermann Nitsch, installation Caravaggio,Sette Opere di Misericordia 1606-1607”  Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples, Italy.

.2010 Hermann Nitsch, “Concert, Quintetto d’Archi” Saturday May  22, 2010 Pio Monte della Misericordia,Salone della Quadreria, Naples, Italy.

.2010 Hermann Nitsch,  “130.AKTION.Festa di Pentecoste”(Aktion .130) , Hermann Nitsch Museum Naples,  and Morra Foundation, Naples, Italy.

.2009 Production and coordination, Shozo Shimamoto, La pittura e’ la durata dell’azione 1950-2008 curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Hofficina d’Arte Gallery, Rome; in collaboration with Morra Foundation Naples, Italy and Archivio Pari e Dispari, Susanna Chiessi, Reggio Emilia, Italy

.2009 Production and coordination, Hermann Nitsch, Installazione Roma 2009, curated by Prof. Francesco Villari and Prof. Duccio Trombadori, Hofficina d’Arte Gallery, Rome; in collaboration with Hermann Nitsch Museum, Naples, Italy

 

.Publications (selected):

.2026 – upcoming – Essay for Henrik Strömberg Chronos, with texts by Cedar Lewisohn and Susanne Prinz, published by Edizioni Morra, Morra Foundation, ISBN: 978- 88-7852-047-9

.2026 – upcoming – Comparative essay on the work of Sofia Hulten and Louise Nevelson, On Accumulation, Convergence, and the Reconfiguration of Narratives, HUS Magazine , ISSN: TBS

.2026  Essay i+you=us – For Ann Nöel survey solo show, and foreword to Free Home 2016-2020 by Vadim Zakharov & Maria Porudominskaya, © Freehome, Berlin , published by © 2026 ciconia ciconia, Berlin ISBN 978-3-945867-59-4

.2024 Essay The innermost room for Erik Smith monograph Substrata with texts by David Komary, Christian Teckert, Bettina Klein and Jeremiah Day, co-published by Permanent Verlag, Counterpath New York and and U. Porto-i2ADS, ISBN 978-3-910541-11-5

.2023 Essay A sense of place. The rift, the removal, to re-stitch for David Krippendorff  monograph Interpretations, with interviews and essays from Kathrin Becker, David Elliott, Mark Gisbourne, Andrea Scrima and Matthias Reichelt,  Published by Distanz Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-95476-612-3

.2023 Essay on the  research methodology on the occasion of Thomas De Falco research residency at MET Museum, NY – online-

.2022 Photo Art, Photography Art Magazine since 1989; Interview Limbs Strata and Edible seeds – solo show by Henrik Strömberg  K. P. Gallery and art Centre, Seoul, 2022; Vol.404, ISSN: 1739- 5844

.2021 Essay ‘Viscosity’ for  Object Amnesic: a compost manifesto , by Henrik Strömberg and Jens Soneryd, published by  Blow UP Press, December 2021, ISBN: 978-83-952840-8-3

.2021 Elle Korea, October 2021, vol.349,  The faces of Silence on Woo Chang Won solo show sil(h)ence , ISSN: 1228-0798

.2021 Curation of the editorial and essay  for  DOC!Photo Magazine, section Contra DOC!, Curation of the section  Artists in Dialogue: Urs Lüthi and Mia Gourvitch and author of the  text 3 t(w)o 1  on Urs Lüthi and Mia Gourvitch, Issue #47, ISSN: 2299-2855

.2019 Text to the exhibition Refraction of Lightness, Henrik Strömberg solo exhibition for Morra Foundation, Il Giornale dell’Arte, Monthly National Art Journal, Issue November 2019 – online –

.2019 Photo Dot, Photography Art Magazine, essay Morpho- isolation of (portable) pressure, Daegu Photo Biennale Special Exhibition Berlin, Issue September 2019, vol.59, ISSN: 2288-6109

.2019 Sajinyesul, The Monthly Photo art Magazine, since 1989, interview on the occasion of the curated biennale exhibition and publication of the essay to the show Morph-O isolation of (portable) pressure, Daegu Photo Biennale Special Exhibition Berlin; October 2019, vol.366,  ISSN: 1739-5844

.2019 Elle Korea, October 2019, review to the curated biennale exhibition and publication of the essay to the show Morph-O isolation of (portable) pressure, Daegu Photo Biennale Special Exhibition Berlin vol.324 , ISSN:12280798

.2019 Harper’s Bazaar Korea, Art and Culture, – online-  review to the curated biennale exhibition and publication of the essay to the show Morph-O isolation of (portable) pressure, Daegu Photo Biennale Special Exhibition Berlin; October, 2019 – online-

.2019 Publication of the foreword and curatorial text on the catalogue of Daegu Photo Biennale Special Exhibition Berlin Morpho- isolation of (portable) pressure, with the artists: Ricarda Roggan, Henrik Strömberg, Woo Chang won, Jung Sung Tae, hosted by Rosa Luxemburg Kunstverein, Berlin; in collaboration with Daegu Arts center,  supported by the Ministry of Culture of Korea, organised by Botschaft der Republik Korea in des Bundesrepublik Deutschland and Koreanisches Kulturzentrum

.2019  Text “I+you=us” to the solo show of Ann Nöel Williams, Works 1964-2019,  FreeHome Berlin, Germany –  (review in Tagesspiegel, February 20th, 2019) – online-

.2019 Curation,  of  Middle Plane Magazine, Issue dedicated to Vadim Zakharov, with the contribution of  Dorothea Zwirner, Udo Kittelmann and David Elliot; Issue #1, 2019, ISSN: 2631-388X

.2019  Manifesto for  DSL Collection, Paris  –  online-

.2018 DOC!Photo Magazine, Curation of the section and author of the interview to Prof.Hans Peter Kuhn, Stage and Meta-Stage, the superimposed subject matter, presenting Shozo Shimamoto, Zhang Huan; Signed interview with Prof. Hans Perter Kuhn That’s when Photography makes sense in my eyes ; vol.Q10,#45, Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS, ISSN: 2299-2855

.2018 Essay and curation of the section: The State of flux of the movable content: Henrik Strömberg in reference to Man Ray , DOC! Photo Magazine, Section Contra DOC!; curatorial text presenting Henrik Strömberg in reference to selected pieces of Man Ray ; vol.Q8, #43, Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS, ISSN: 2299-2855

.2017 DOC!Photo Magazine, Section Contra DOC!, curation of the section, text and interview to Fabian Albertini,  Bianco Deserto;  vol.Q3,#38,Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS ISSN: 2299-2855

. Artists  – collaboration with, curated, published -selection-  :

Shozo Shimamoto, Hermann Nitsch, Vettor Pisani, Jannis Kounnellis, Dieter Roth, NamJune Paik, Emmet Williams, Joseph Beuys, Man Ray, Lucio Fontana, Vito Acconci, Marcel Duchamp, Alighiero Boetti, Tano Festa, Sol LeWitt, George Brecht, Zhang Huan, Ricarda Röggan,  Jung Sungtae.

 

. Artists  – present collaboration – selection- :

Vadim Zakharov, Ann Nöel Williams, Hans Peter Kühn, Junko Wada, Urs Lüthi, Henrik Strömberg, Maurizio Elettrico, Thomas De Falco, Daniela Comani, Woo Chang Won, David Krippendorff, Mia Gourvitch, Sun Kwan Kwon, Marta Anti, Erik Smith, Han Chung Shik Estate, Baran Caginli, Willian Cody Maher and Signe Mahler, Mateusz Chorobski, Florian Schmidt, Marco Siciliano.