Eugenio Viola Naples

Eugenio Viola is the current Chief Curator at the Museum of Modern Art of Bogota (MAMBO). From 2017 to 2019 he was Senior Curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in Western Australia. From 2009 to 2013 he has held various curatorial positions at MADRE, the Contemporary Art Museum of Naples, in Italy, where he was responsible for the research and development of the museum’s collection, and he co-curated the first Italian large-scale exhibitions of Boris Mikhailov and Francis Alÿs, as well as a complex Daniel Buren project conceived in two times.

From 2009 to 2012, Eugenio was the curator of the museum’s project room. In this role, he was responsible for presenting Transit Project (2009–11), a series of exhibitions and residencies in partnership with institutions from the Middle East, as well as an annual performance festival named Corpus. Art in Action (2009-2012). He also worked as a guest curator for several international institutions, curating amongst others solo exhibitions devoted to Regina José Galindo (Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, 2016); Karol Radziszewski (CoCA - Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland, 2014); Mark Raidpere (EKKM - The Contemporary Art Museum of Tallinn, Estonia, 2013); Marina Abramović (PAC - Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan, Italy, 2012); and ORLAN (MAMC - Musée d'art moderne et Contemporain, Saint Etienne, France, 2007).

In 2015 Eugenio curated the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Viola has written for numerous publications, he is also a scholar in theories and practices related to performance and Body Art and has published and lectured extensively on these subjects. He is a long-time contributor to American Artforum.

Eugenio Viola