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Théo-Mario Coppola (born in 1990 –non-binary – they/their/them) is a French-Italian curator and arts writer. They currently live and works in Paris, France.
At the intersection of empathy and activism, their curatorial practice engages with research-based, experimental, narrative and political forms. Théo-Mario Coppola has developed the concept of ‘affective communities’, both in the sense of collective experiences and situations, and within art projects and writings. The concept is informed by Georg Simmel’s philosophical legacy, in the perspective of a continuum of social and aesthetic concerns. ‘Affective communities’ could thus be defined as strategies that resist contemporary forms of domination, stand up for marginalised identities, and seek to transform values in art, governance and society.
After graduating with a double master’s degree at Sciences Po Toulouse, France in 2013, Théo-Mario Coppola undertook a PhD from 2013 to 2016 and was a teaching and research fellow in international relations, cultural studies and the history of political thought at the same institution from 2016 to 2018.
Théo-Mario Coppola founded and curated HOTEL EUROPA, an annual series of exhibitions and programmes (Vilnius, Lithuania in 2017, Brussels, Belgium in 2018, and Tbilisi, Georgia in 2019). From 2017 to late 2018, they were the director of CollezioneTaurisano, an international private contemporary art collection focused on political art and based in Naples, Italy, and was the artistic director of Primo Piano and Intermezzo, two private initiatives supporting international artists through a joint residency and exhibition programme in Paris. In 2018, they curated the third edition of the Nuit Blanche arts festival at Villa Medici in Rome, Italy. In 2021, they curated the eleventh edition of the Momentum biennale in Moss, Norway.
Théo-Mario Coppola writes regularly on artists and exhibitions and has produced a number of literary texts. They are a contributor to Flash Art, Antidote and SP–ARTE 365 Editorial.
They are vice-president of CEA, the French association of curators, a member of AICA, the international association of art critics, and a member of IKT, the International association of curators of contemporary art.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Independent curator (Since 2013)
Biennales, festivals and other international series
MOMENTUM 11 – HOUSE OF COMMONS, Curator Théo-Mario Coppola, 2021, Moss, Norway
HOTEL EUROPA : Their Past, Your Present, Our Future, (Chapter 3), Curator Théo-Mario Coppola, Associate Curator Livia Tarsia in Curia, with Apparatus 22, Aram Abbas, Babi Badalov, Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Bouillon Group, Chto Delat, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Levan Chelidze, Gaetano Cunsolo, Bady Dalloul, Aliénor Dauchez, Braco Dimitrijević, François Durif, Davit Giorgadze, Marco Godoy, Petrit Halilaj, Siri Hermansen, Gregory Hari, Karine Hoffman, Martin Hotter, Zhanna Kadyrova, Dmitri Kourliandski, Vincent Lemaire, David Liver, Lado Lomitashvili, Randa Maroufi, Sophio Medoidze, David Meskhi, Slava Mogutin, Uriel Orlow, Joanna Piotrowska, Joseph Perez, Louis Rollinde, Marinella Senatore, and Mükerrem Tuncay, 17/05/2019 – 31/05/2019, Open Space of Experimental Art and other venues, Tbilisi, Georgia
VILLA PAZZA (3rd edition of the white night), with Sasha J. Blondeau, Miguel Bonnefoy, Rebecca Digne, Frederika Amalia Finkelstein, Gaëlle Gabillet & Stéphane Villard, Hélène Giannecchini, Lola Gonzàlez, François Hébert, Pauline Lafille, Thomas Lévy-Lasne, Mathieu Lucas, Léonard Martin, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, and Riccardo Venturi, – 25/10/2018, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
HOTEL EUROPA : A Continuous Land of Anecdotes (Chapter 2), with Aram Abbas, Reem Ali, Micky Backham, Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Bianca Bondi, Antoine Chapon, Gaetano Cunsolo, Marcel Darienzo, Manolis Daskalakis-Lemos, Aliénor Dauchez, Antoine Donzeaud, François Durif, Ed Fornieles, Virgile Fraisse, Pierre Graizon, Gregory Hari, Alejandra Hernandez, Karine Hoffman, Célia Honoré, Piotr Kotlicki, Yann Lacroix, Vincent Lemaire, Romain Mader, Alessio Mazzaro, Nemanja Nikolić, Joseph Perez, André Perfetti, Dimitris Rokos, Louis Rollinde, Robert Rush, Clément Salzedo, Goran Škofić, Özlem Sulak, Christophe Terlinden, and Mükerrem Tuncay, 11/01/2018 – 01/04/2018, Galerie Félix Frachon and other venues, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
HOTEL EUROPA : Europe as a concept, as a project, as a community, (Chapter 1), with Aram Abbas, Emmanuel van der Auwera, Micky Backham, Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Bianca Bondi, Michel Castaignet, Antoine Chapon & Reem Ali, Jacques Chérigié, Coraline De Chiara, Claudio Coltorti, Aliénor Dauchez, Wojtek Doroszuk, Ed Fornieles, Virgile Fraisse, Gregory Hari, Karine Hoffman, Piotr Kotlicki, Yann Lacroix, Boris Lehman, Vincent Lemaire, David Liver, Maciej Łuczak, Anna Maria Łuczak, Jonas Mekas, Filip Mirazović, Nemanja Nikolić, Joseph Perez, André Perfetti, Wiktor Polak, Dimitris Rokos, Anila Rubiku, Robert Rush, Clément Salzedo, Goran Škofić, Özlem Sulak, Christophe Terlinden, Mükerrem Tuncay, Monica Valcarcel-Saez, and Tatiana Wolska, 08/06/2017 – 11/06/2017, Art Vilnius Art Fair, Vilnius, Lithuania
Group exhibitions
Swift’s Machine, with Claude Closky, Cheryl Donegan, and Kenneth Goldsmith, 30/03/2019 – 05/05/2019, Levy.Delval at Lume Gallery (Condo), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cet autre monde qui est aussi le nôtre, with Nicolas Hermann, Amélie Labourdette, and Othman Moatassime, 27/03/2019 – 11/05/2019, Open School, École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire, Nantes, France
“absolute lights like baths of golden snow”, with Rebecca Digne, Camille Benarab-Lopez, Gaëlle Choisne, Côme Clerino, Gaetano Cunsolo, Vincent Lemaire, and Anna Ternon, 15/03/2019 – 13/04/2019, Les Grandes-Serres, Pantin, France
Les secrets du Docteur F., with David Ancelin, Martin Bachelier, Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Florian Bezu, Emmanuelle Bouyer, Romain Dumesnil, François Durif, Alice Guittard, Karine Hoffman, Kapwani Kiwanga, Yann Lacroix, Fabien Léaustic, Vincent Lemaire, Zora Mann, Rachel Marks, Côme di Meglio, Renaud Perriches, Guillaume Pinard, Christian-Louis Rollinde de Beaumont, Jeanne Susplugas, and Vincent Voillat, 23/11/2017 – 16/01/2017, Under Construction Gallery, Paris, France
Là-Bas, with Alice Allenet, Nour Awada, Marion Bénard, Elvire Caillon, Ugo Cerina, Cécile Chaput, Guillaume Duffner, Eudoxie Humblot, Paul Lahana, Pauline Lavogez, Vincent Lemaire, Enzo Mianes, Martin Monchicourt, André Perfetti, Louise Siffert, Ernst Stark, Chloé Tournoux, and Marine Peixoto, 17/05/2017 – 04/06/2017, Glassbox, Paris, France
À perte de vue, with Camille Benarab-Lopez, Fabien Léaustic, Alex Mira, Sophie Pugnet, Benjamin Rossi, and Anna Ternon, 03/03/2017 – 06/03/2017, Cité Internationale des Arts – Pont-Marie (atelier 8004), Paris, France
Freak Park, with Bianca Bondi, Lorraine Châteaux, Matthieu Cossé, Chevaline Corporation, Morgan Courtois, Claire Dubois-Montreynaud, Paul Gounon, Angèle Guerre, and François Maurin, 23/02/2017 – 26/02/2017, Villa Belleville, Paris, France
‘Cet Espace sans Ombre’, with Yann Lacroix, Guillaume Valenti, and Marine Wallon, 03/02/2017 – 25/02/2017, Galerie Under Construction, Paris, France
Romantisme Noir, Le Crépuscule des images, with Yasmina Benabderrahmane, and Vincent Lemaire 30/11/2016 – 04/02/2017, Galerie EXPRMNTL, Toulouse, France
O Sol de Janeiro, curator David Ancelin and curator Théo-Mario Coppola, with assume vivid astro focus, Fayçal Baghriche, Julien Bouillon, Stéphane Calais, Merlin Carpenter, Christophe Cuzin, Eric Duyckaerts, Gabriel Jones, Jacques Julien, Kapwani Kiwanga, Jarbas Lopes, Ingrid Luche, Zora Mann, Philippe Mayaux, Mathieu Mercier, Opavivara, Bruno Peinado, Guillaume Pinard, Philippe Ramette, Jérôme Robbe, Jeanne Susplugas, Xavier Theunis, Morgane Tschiember, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, Alexandre Vogler, and We Are The Painters, 14/12/2016 – 15/01/2017, Galerie dix9, Paris, France
After the big bang, with Camille Benarab-Lopez, Fabien Léaustic, Vincent Lemaire, Alex Mira, André Perfetti, Benjamin Rossi, and Chloé Tournoux, 10/12/2017 – 17/12/2017, Le Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Paris, France
Encore Heureux, with Antonin Appaix, Gaëlle Choisne, Marcel Devillers, Hélène Garcia, Rafaela Garcia-Lopez and, Kevin Senant, 03/12/2016 – 21/12/2016, Villa Belleville, Paris, France
In Translation with Micky Backham, Karine Hoffman, and Yann Lacroix, 25/11/2016 – 24/12/2016, Pracownia Portretu, Łódź, Poland
Androgyne – New Order of a Common Gesture, with Nicolas Momein, and Morgane Tschiember, produced by Camille de Bayser / Wild Project, 15/10/2016 – 25/10/2016, Les Ateliers, La Courneuve, France
Le Paradis, un peu plus loin, with Francis Almendárez, Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Aliénor Dauchez, Ymane Fakhir, Hélène Garcia, Charlie Malgat, Randa Maroufi, Annette Messager, Tracey Moffatt, Zineb Sedira, Özlem Sulak, and Mükerrem Tuncay, 19/10/2016 – 10/12/2016, Galerie dix9, Paris, France
Nowhere Beyond, with Jérôme Robbe, Tatiana Wolska, 09/09/2016 – 22/10/2016, Galerie Irène Laub, Brussels, Belgium
Espace Commun, co-curated by Andy Rankin, Born and Die, Collectif BLBC, Théo-Mario Coppola, Pierre Bouché and Point Contemporain, with Martin Bachelier, Micky Backham, Bruno Fontana, Jules Hidrot, Robin Lopvet, and Alexander Rosenkranz, 29/06/2016 – 07/08/2016, Galerie DÜO, Paris, France
Là-Bas / Down There, with Alice Allenet, Marion Bénard, Elvire Caillon, Cécile Chaput, Ugo Cerina, Guillaume Duffner, Eudoxie Humblot, Paul Lahana, Vincent Lemaire, Enzo Mianes, Martin Monchicourt, André Perfetti, Louise Siffert, Ernst Stark, and Chloé Tournoux, 05/02/2016 – 07/02/2016, Atelier La Mine and Atelier Collectif S.P.O.R.T, Montreuil, France
Gradient Power Board, Pablo Cavero, Martin Monchicourt, and André Perfetti, 11/04/2015 – 18/04/2015, NEXIALISM CENTRE OF RESEARCH, Paris, France
Solo exhibitions
Looking for the Monochrome, Gabriele di Mateo, 27/01/2019 – 01/03/2019, Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy
As if a dog sniffing a dead dog, Baha Görkem Yalım, 10/11/2018 – 15/12/2018, Primo Piano, Paris, France
Of encounters and other collective readings, Carlos Alfonso, 08/10/2018 – 23/10/2018, Galerie Paris Beijing, Paris, France
NOW HERE, Jean-Baptiste Caron, 13/09/2018 – 02/11/2018, Galerie 22,48m2, Paris, France
From Davos with Love, Romain Mader, 17/03/2018 – 28/04/2018, Galerie dix9, Paris, France
L’exagération des propriétés d’un axiome. Exaspérante !, Sara Favriau, 01/03/2018 – 21/04/2018, Galerie Florent Maubert, Paris, France
Empire of Dust, Amélie Labourdette, 09/11/2017 – 09/12/2017, Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, Paris, France
SAILING FIELDS, Gaetano Cunsolo, 19/10/2017 – 19/10/2017, Primo Piano, Paris, France
Tongue Story, Charlie Malgat, 09/09/2017 – 08/10/2017, SARDINE, New York City, The United-States
Anaxagore, Enzo Mianes, Galerie mor charpentier,12/05/2016 – 18/06/2016, Paris, France
Video screenings (selection)
Festin chez Trimalçion, with Aram Abbas, Francis Almendàrez, Martin Bachelier, Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Julien Bouillon, Coraline de Chiara, Sophie Combes, Anthony Coursier, Jivko Darakchiev & Perrine Gamot, Arnaud Dezoteux, Wojtek Doroszuk, Laurent Fiévet, Josefina Labourt, Laurent Lacotte, Konstantin Lunarine, Charlie Malgat, Côme di Meglio & Eliott Paquet, Enzo Mianes, Arash Nassiri, Pierre Pauze, André Perfetti, Annabelle Richard, Salut C’est Cool !, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Clio Simon, Mükerrem Tuncay, and Natalia Vilanueva Linares, – 02/06/2016, Atelier La Mine, Montreuil, France
Other Encounters, cura. Carlos Alfonso and Théo-Mario Coppola, with Carlos Alfonso, Francis Almendárez, Andrés Baron, Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Charlie Malgat, Kasper de Vos, – 08/11/2018, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
Performances (selection)
Untitled, by Othman Moatassime / _Solaris, Open School Galerie, École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire, – 29/04/19, Nantes, France
E IL TORO / E IL TOPO, by Jimmie Durham with Guillaume Clermont, Théo&Mario Coppola, David Liver, Frédéric Liver, Gabriele di Matteo, Giancarlo Norese, Steve Piccolo, Claudio Salerno, Gak Sato, and Gabi Scardi, 26/01/2019, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
On Parle de Nous, by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, with Sabina Grasso, 24/05/2014, NEXIALISM CENTRE OF RESEARCH, Paris, France
Overview Effect #1 Mother Earth, by and with Charlie Malgat, 10/01/2016 – 13/01/2016, NEXIALISM CENTRE OF RESEARCH, Paris, France
Project Your Desire (Here), cura. Francis Almendárez and Théo-Mario Coppola, with Josefina Labourt, Luciana Pinchiero, and Monica Valcarcel-Saez, 20/10/2016, NEXIALISM CENTRE OF RESEARCH, Paris, France
Great Expectations, with Amalia Ulman, supported by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, 07/05/2015, My Art Guide Meeting Point, Navy Officer’s Club, Venice, Italy
Neptune Titan A.E, with Amalia Ulman, Harry Burke, Jasper Spicero, Théo-Mario Coppola, cura. Charles Teyssou, Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Théo-Mario Coppola, 2014, 21 rue Pierre Leroux, Paris, France
Other curatorial projects (selection)
N° 25, E IL TOPO, cura. Théo-Mario Coppola and Antoine Davenne (autumn 2019), Milan, Italy
Interstícios, with Daniel Albuquerque, Neil Beloufa, Anna Bella Geiger, Anna Costa e Silva, Arthur Chaves, Cabelo, Pedro França, Romain Dumesnil, Rodrigo Garcia Dutra, Clara Ianni, Daniel Jablonski, Cristiano Lenhardt, Lucas Martin, Manoela Medeiros, Tiago Mestre, Gabriela Mureb, Lyz Parayzo, Rafael Rg., Guga Szabzon, and Gustavo Torres, 28/09/2018 – 28/11/2018, Rio, Brazil
Antique Future (Satellite Spirit, independent art fair), Espace marais.marais, 08/12/2016 – 11/12/2016, Paris, France
Mes Sept Lieux, screening and music live performance, with Julien Gasc, Boris Lehmann, and Thomas Pradier, 14/10/2015, Espace B, Paris, France
IDDU (Instagram take-over project), cura. Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, 17/11/2014 – 23/11/2014, 89plus
Executive and Artistic Director
Artistic Director, September 2017 – December 2018, PRIMO PIANO & INTERMEZZO, Paris, France
Executive and Artistic Director, August 2017 – November 2018, COLLEZIONE TAURISANO, Naples, Italy
Artistic Director, August 2016 – December 2016, SATELLITE SPIRIT, art fair, Paris, France
Artistic Advisor, September 2015 – January 2018, FONDATION BORIS LEHMAN, Brussels, Belgium
Other professional experiences
Project Manager, International curatorial trips and Membership benefits, 2019, C|E|A, French association of curators
Associate Curator and Producer, January 2015 – June 2015, The Internet Saga, Jonas Mekas, Palazzo Foscari Contarini and Zuecca Projects, Venice, Italy, cura. Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, in partnership with EXPRMNTL Galerie and Galerie du Jour – agnès b.
Founder and Artistic Director, April 2014 – January 2017, NEXIALISM CENTRE OF RESEARCH, not-for-profit art space, Paris, France
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, January 2011 – January 2012, CRASH MAGAZINE, Paris, France
Executive Assistant, August 2010 – January 2011, GALERIE JOUSSE ENTREPRISE, Paris, France
WRITINGS
Catalogues
Hiver austral, text written in dialogue with OSMOSCOSMOS, exhibition curated by Joerg Bader, Triennale 50 Jours pour la photographie, Geneva, Switzerland (2019)
Harmony of Chaos, Renato d’Agostin, the(m) éditions, Paris, France (2019)
Looking for the Monochrome, Gabriele di Matteo, Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy (2019)
Yann Lacroix, Casa de Velazquez residency catalogue, 2018-2019 edition, Casa de Velazquez, Madrid, Espagne (2019)
As if a dog sniffing a dead dog, Baha Görkem Yalım, Primo Piano & Intermezzo, Paris, France (2018)
Mizumoto, Pierre Pauze in Panorama 20, Pierre Pauze, 2017/2019, Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France (2018)
Transparency in RE/PRODUCTIONS, Cyril Zarcone, Galerie Éric Mouchet, Paris, France (2017)
Amélie Scotta, 2017-2018 artists-in-residency catalogue, Casa de Velazquez, Madrid, Espagne (2018)
Vendange tardive 2017, Chamalot residency catalogue, with Antoine Carbonne, Benoit Géhanne, Johan Larnouhet, Jérémy Liron, Aurore Pallet, Résidence Chamalot, France (2017)
Sailing Fields, Gaetano Cunsolo, Primo Piano & Intermezzo, Paris, France (2017)
Impressions célestes in Mes Sept Lieux, Boris Lehman, DOVfilms DVD set, catalogue published by Yellow Now, distributed by re:voir, Paris, France (2016)
(A) corps perdus, Jacques Chérigié, Éditions VRAC, Lille, France (2014)
Art magazines
Making It Heard, in Four Reads by Four Curators, Editorial, SP-Arte 365, online São Paulo, Brazil (April 2020) / The article is also available in Portuguese under the same title
MECARÕ. Amazonia in Petitgas Collection at MO.CO Montpellier Contemporain – Milano, Reviews, Flash Art International no3030 and online, and Flash Art Italia, online, Milan, Italy (April-May 2020) / The article is available in Italian under the same title
Hudinilson Jr.: the fragmented diary of a desiring and queer self, Editorial, SP-Arte 365, online São Paulo, Brazil (December 2019) / The article is available in Portuguese under the title Hudinilson Jr.: o diário fragmentado de um corpo queer e desejante
L’isola dei baci – Than Hussein Clark at Kura Fonderie Battaglia – Milano, Recensioni, Flash Art, online, Milan, Italy (June 2019)
“Gaetano Cunsolo”, Brand New, Flash Art, No. 341, Vol 51, Milan, Italy (October-November 2018)
À propos de Chantal Akerman, written with Boris Lehman, Revue Trafic, P.O.L, Paris, France (2017)
La fin de mon – du – cinéma, confessions 2 (août 2014 – septembre 2015), written with François Albera, Helena Belzer, Samuel Brussel, Boris Lehman, Revue Trafic, P.O.L, Paris, France (2016)
Other writings (selection)
Other exhibition texts
O que nos assiste, Julia Kater, Curitiba, Brazil (2019)
La dissolution de l’être dans le monde, “L’être dissout dans le monde“, Manoela Medeiros, Galerie Chloé Salgado, Paris, France (2019)
KOSMOS, Karine Hoffman, Paris, France (2018)
L’écho des murmures, Chapitre 2, with Teodora Axente, Bogdan Vlatuda, Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris, France (2017)
L’écho des murmures, Chapitre 1, with Radu Belcin, Andrei Berindan, Flavia Pitis, Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris, France (2017)
Alban Denuit, Musée Albert Marzelles, Marmande, France (2017)
Alive Fridge, Julie Polidoro, Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris, France (2017)
Interviews
Vast Enough for Search to Be in Vain, interview with Aliénor Dauchez, https://schloss-post.com/vast-enough-search-vain/, 15/03/2018, Schloss Post, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Interviews with Manish Arora, Alfonso Artiaco, Dan Fante, Isabelle Huppert, Eva Ionesco, Akram Kahn, Robert Longo, Simon de Pury, Thaddaeus Ropac, Jeremy Scott, Frédéric Torloting et Jacques Bungert, et Scott Treleaven, Crash Magazine, Paris, France (2010-2011)
Forewords
Fragments pour une préface, Sur la plage, abandonnés, no. 3, Les Éditions Extensibles, Paris, France (2019)
PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS AND PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Lectures
Curating today, introducing contemporary perspectives in curatorial field, Demain Dès l’Aube, 11/04/2017, La Paillasse, Paris, France
Public conversations
Conversation with Chantal Crousel, conducted by Frédéric Prot and Théo-Mario Coppola in Actes du colloque ‘L’atelier d’artiste, espaces, pratiques & représentations dans l’ère hispanique’, colloque international, en partenariat with le Musée Pablo Picasso, Maison de la recherche, Paris, France, Presses Universitaires de France, (2019)
El Milagro, conversation with Spanish artist Harley Martinez at the occasion of his solo show Reflections on Scale, Unveiling cura. Andrea Rodriguez-Novoa, Primo Piano, 25/05/2017, Paris, France
New ways of collecting, with Isabelle de Maison Rouge, Satellite Spirit, Espace marais∙marais, 10/12/2017, Paris, France
Public panel discussions
La tête dans les étoiles : jeunes artistes et désir d’Europe, Bénédicte Alliot (Director, Cité internationale des arts), Christiane Cadot (Lecturer and researcher, Université Paris 8), Théo-Mario Coppola (Curator and arts writer), Thomas Delamarre (Curator, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain), Nathalie Guiot (President and Founder, Fondation Thalie), Michèle Guyot-Roze (Vice-president, Fondation Hippocrène) and Gusto Zagg (artist), moderated by Anna Labouze & Keimis Henni (Founders and curators, ARTAGON), 20/10/2019, Fiac Conversation Room, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Cosmos: a conversation about “Cet Autre Monde Qui est Aussi le Nôtre“, Joerg Bader (Director, Centre de la Photographie Genève) Théo-Mario Coppola (Curator of the exhibition), Amélie Labourdette (artist), and Nicolas Hermann (artist), 29/04/19, Open School Galerie, École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire, Nantes, France
Next Generation: The Next Generation’s take on the Future of the Art Market, Moderator: Daniel Lippitsch (Director, McNamara Art Projects, Hong Kong), Théo-Mario Coppola (Director, CollezioneTaurisano, Naples, Italy) Teo Yang (Owner, Teo Yang Studios, Collector, Seoul, South Korea) and Michelle Noack (Collector, Cologne, Germany), 31/08/18, CODE Art Fair, Copenhague, Danemark
Does Art Needs Utopia? with Théo-Mario Coppola, Gino Gianuizzi, Massimo Mollo and Francesco Taurisano, moderated by Sveva d’Antonio, conducted in partnership with MADRE, fondazione donnaregina per le arti contemporanei, 22/10/2017, Residency 80121, Relais Regina Giovanna, Sorrento (NA), Italy
Pioneer collectors, with Émilie Audry, Mathieu de Bézenac, Laurent Fiévet and Laurent Goumarre, Espace marais∙marais, Paris, 10/12/2016, France
Young gallerists today, with Anne-Françoise Jumeau, Valérie Delaunay and Simon Cau, 09/12/2016, Espace marais∙marais, Paris, France
New protagonists in art, 10/12/2016, Le Silencio, Paris, France
89 plus panel conversation, curated by Simon Castets, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julie Boukobza, 04/04/2014, Google Cultural Institute, Paris, France
Radio shows
Démons de Minuit, with Ingrid Luquet-Gad (art critic and journalist at Artpress and LesInrocks), Katarina Stella (curator), Thomas Lévy-Lasne (artist) Théo-Mario Coppola (curator), Station Station, Radio La Station, 11/04/2018, Paris, France
Hommage à l’œuvre de l’artiste Alban Denuit, with Théo-Mario Coppola and Vincent Lemaire about Alban Denuit, Les Carnets de la création, Aude Lavigne, France Culture, 06/02/2017, Paris, France
Professional meetings
EUROPE-NESS(S), Moderator: Théo-Mario Coppola (Curator and Arts Writer, Founder and Curator, HOTEL EUROPA), with Rosa Lleó (Founder and Director, The Green Parrot, Barcelona, Spain), Denise Araouzou (Independent Curator), Francesco Urbano Ragazzi (Curator & Art Writer, Founder and Curator, The Internet Saga), Simone Frangi (Researcher, Writer, Curator and Co-director, Live Works – Performance Act Award at Centrale Fies), and Ludovica Carbotta (Artist), DOING CONTEXT(S) — Professional meetings 2019, curated by Andrea Rodriguez Novoa (Curator, Art Writer and Co-director, Bar Project, Barcelona), LOOP Studies, LOOP Fair, 19/11/2019, Almanac Hotel, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
SLOWLY GETTING INTO IT, Moderator: Daniela Arriado (Artistic Director and Founder, Screen City Biennial and Director, Art Republic), with Peippei Han (Associate Director, Photofairs, Shanghai, China), Fleur van Muiswinkel (Curator and Artistic Coordinator, Contour Biennale, Mechelen, Belgium), Pep Vidal (Artist and Mathematician, Barcelona), Mario Gutiérrez Cru (Artist, Curator and Creative, Barcelona) and Francesco Urbano Ragazzi (Curator & Art Writer, Founder and Curator, The Internet Saga), DOING CONTEXT(S) — Professional meetings 2019, curated by Andrea Rodriguez Novoa (Curator, Art Writer and Co-director, Bar Project, Barcelona), LOOP Studies, LOOP Fair, 19/11/2019 Almanac Hotel, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
DIGITAL NARRATIVES & THEIR EMPATHY WITH OTHER FORMS & FORMATS OF MOVING IMAGE, Moderator: Menene Gras (Art Critic, Curator and Director of Culture and Exhibitions, Casa Asia, Barcelona), with Théo-Mario Coppola (Curator and Arts Writer, Founder and Curator, HOTEL EUROPA), Mario Gutiérrez Cru (Artist, Curator and Creative), Esteban Andueza (Independent Curator and Cultural Manager, Beijing and Barcelona), Krisztina Szipőcs (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Ludwig Museum, Budapest), Mariella Franzoni (Independent Curator), Irit Basry (Artist), Antonella Medici (PhD Researcher and Curator), Kathrin Golda-Pongratz (Architect, Urbanist and Urban Researcher), Francesca Llopis (Artist), Gabriella Torres-Ferres (Artist and Researcher) and Francesco Urbano Ragazzi (Curator & Art Writer, Founder and Curator, The Internet Saga), DOING CONTEXT(S) — Professional meetings 2019, curated by Andrea Rodriguez Novoa (Curator, Art Writer and Co-director, Bar Project, Barcelona), LOOP Studies, LOOP Fair, 20/11/2019, Almanac Hotel, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
TEACHING
Academic courses
History and sociology of political ideas, September 2017 – June 2018, Sciences Po Toulouse (Toulouse, France)
International relations and sociology, September 2017 – June 2018, Sciences Po Toulouse (Toulouse, France)
Key concepts and ideas in sociology, September 2016 – June 2017, Sciences Po Toulouse (Toulouse, France)
Academic lectures and workshops
A brief introduction to curating, Master II Politiques et Gestion de la Culture en Europe, Institut d’Études Européennes, Université Paris 8, Paris, France (2018)
Curating today (workshop), with Nathalie Talec’s group of students, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France (15/11/2016)
JURYS, BOARDS AND COMITTEES
Jurys
October 2019 – Jury member, ARTAGON V Edition – International exhibition of art school students, (L’exposition internationale des étudiants en école d’art), Les Magasins Généraux, Paris, France
October 2018 – Jury member, Widiba Prize – Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Art Verona Art Fair, Verona, Italy
July 2018 – Jury Member du Diplôme National Supérieur d’Arts Plastiques (master’s degree in visual arts), Section Art & Espace, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
January 2017 – Jury Member of Grand Oral (final oral exam), Diplôme de l’IEP (degree in political and social sciences), Sciences Po Toulouse, Toulouse, France
January 2018 – Jury Member of Grand Oral (final oral exam), Diplôme de l’IEP (degree in political and social sciences), Sciences Po Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Acquisition Committees
CollezioneTaurisano, 2017 – 2018, Naples, Italy
Professional associations, councils and boards
Since 2020 – President, New Media and Visual Arts Board (‘commission 3D’), AFDAS, National Training Agency for Art Professionals Paris, France
Since 2019 – Member, AICA France, Paris, France
Since 2019 – Board Member, Patrons Circle, Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, Rouen, France
Since 2017 – Vice-president at CEA, national French association of curators, Paris, France
Since 2018 – Board Member, CIPAC, contemporary art professional federation, Paris, France
Since 2018 – Council member for CEA, national French association of curators at SODAVI, French strategic council in visual arts, Paris, France
Editorial boards
Since 2017 – Member of the editorial board, E IL TOPO, Milan, Italy
Since 2017 – Member of the editorial board, Demain Dès l’Aube, Paris, France
2010 – 2012 – Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Member of the editorial board, Crash Magazine, Paris, France
Nominated artists in prizes and competitions
Presentation of Italian artist Gaetano Cunsolo, preselected, Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo 2019, (Palais de Tokyo’s friends association prize 2019), Paris, France
Presentation of French artist Yasmina Benabderrahmane, finalist, Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo 2018, (Palais de Tokyo’s friends association prize 2018), Paris, France
Executive boards
President, LA CAGE, theatre company (https://www.lacage.org/fr/compagnie/), Paris & Berlin
PERFORMANCES (selection)
Other Encounters and Other Collective Readings, with Carlos Alfonso, Galerie Paris-Beijing, 09/09/2018, Paris, France
10 WORDS // 10 NOISES // 10 PLACES, with Gaetano Cunsolo, Primo Piano, 16/11/2018, Paris, France
Manifeste anti-ontologique pour une Europe du métissage, Cité Internationale des Arts (Pont-Marie), 03/03/2017, Paris, France
CURATOR RESIDENCIES
Coleção Moraes-Barbosa, 01/07/2019 – 29/07/2019, Sao Paulo, Brazil
PRIZES
2017 FILAF Prize for the best art book 2016-2017, Re/Productions, Cyril Zarcone (collective book), Édition Galerie Éric Mouchet, Paris, France
INTERVIEWS
From Naples to Utopia: Why Togetherness is Not Only a Theory, conversation with Théo-Mario Coppola and Francesco Taurisano, Larry’s List (2018)
Contemporary Photography looked on by curators, “Grand Angle”, conversation with Théo-Mario Coppola, conducted by Clément Thibault, Art Media Agency, Special Issue, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France (2018)
EDUCATION
2013 – Master’s degree, Cultural Expertise and Political Sociology of Representations (Expertise Culture et Sociologie Politique des Représentations) Sciences Po Toulouse, Toulouse, France
2013 – Political Sciences Degree, Sciences Po Toulouse, Toulouse, France
2007 – 2008 – Bachelor’s degree, Literature – Latin & English specialisation, with distinction, Lycée Paul Hazard, Armentieres, Hauts-de-France, France