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Andrea Viliani was appointed as the director of the Municipal Gallery of Trento in February 2009. From 2005 to 2009 he has been a curator at MAMbo, the Museum of Modern Art of Bologna. Previously, he worked as an assistant curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art near Turin. For the series + Museum – Shows e MAMbo Practices (No Dance Lessons) – entirely based on the contemporary heritage of the institutional critique of the 1960s and 1970s, he curated exhibitions by artists including: Nico Dockx with the Building Transmissions collective, Ryan Gander, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Markus Schinwald, Adam Chodzko, Bojan Sarcevic, Guyton\Walker, Natascha Sadr-Haghighian and, in 2009, Trisha Donnelly, Seth Price and Ibon Aranberri. In 2007 he curated (together with Gianfranco Maraniello), the exhibition by Christopher Williams which marked the closure of the old headquarters of the Modern Art Gallery of Bologna after 30 years of exhibitions. In 2008 he curated the retrospective by the Dutch duo Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij. The main themes of this programme are the boundaries of curatorial work and the institutional context the (dis)adventures in exhibitions when it comes to the disappearance (multiplication) of the traditional figure of the artist. In 2005 he won the Lorenzo Bonaldi art prize for his “No Manifesto” exhibition project, which focused on gestures as a metaphor for the fluctuation between contradictory approaches which structure contemporary artistic and curatorial practice (GAMeC, Bergamo). Viliani was one of the 60 “players” at the 9th Lyon Biennial in 2007, and he is a regular contributor to art magazines such as “Mousse” and “FROG”.

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