Antonia Alampi

Antonia Alampi is an art historian, curator and writer born to southern Italy. She is the co-founder of the research-based educational project implemented in Cairo The Imaginary School Program and of the upcoming Koto Ramen Bar in Florence. She lectures curatorial studies at the MFA program of Alchimia in Florence. From 2012 to 2015 she was curator of Beirut in Cairo and art history lecturer at Azza Fahmy Design Studio. From 2009 to 2011 she co-founded and co-directed the art initiative Opera Rebis and was assistant to the director of the Studio Stefania Miscetti in Rome. In 2008 she worked as educational mediator for Manifesta7 and as head of the press office for the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento.

Past curatorial projects include Passavamo sulla Storia Leggeri for the program of Cagliari Italian Capital of Culture (Cagliari, 2015); Adelita Husni-Bey, White Paper, Beirut (Cairo, 2014); Doris Maninger, Sono qui [un esercito di donnacce nude], Studio Stefania Miscetti (Rome, 2014); fatamorgana, Galleria Astuni (Bologna, 2014); Rayyane Tabet, Here Today Gone Tomorrow, Stedelijk Museum and De Verdieping (Amsterdam, 2014); A Guest Without A Host Is A Ghost, Beirut (Cairo, 2014-2015); Malak Helmy, Lost Referents of Some Attraction, American University in Cairo (2014); Unexpected Encounters, Camera Austria (Graz, 2013); Writing with the other hand is imagining, Beirut (Cairo, 2013); You Only Fall Twice, CCA Derry-Londonderry (2013); The Real Thing?, Palais de Tokyo, part of Nouvelles Vagues (Paris, 2013); Posse Comitatus, Fondation D'Entreprise Ricard (Paris, 2013); Specters of…, 98weeks (Beirut, 2013); What is an institution? The First Meeting, Beirut (Cairo, 2013); Three Artists Walk into a Bar..., de Appel art center (Amsterdam, 2012); Why stay if you can go?, the Stedelijk Museum@de Appel arts centre (Amsterdam, 2012).

Her writings have appeared on journals such as Art-Agenda, Arte e Critica, Flash Art International, and Frieze blog, and in publications such as Journal des Laboratoires (ed. Les Laboratoires d’Aubervillers); Réalités du commissariat d'exposition (ed. C.E.A.); Palais de Tokyo Magazine (ed. PDT); Performing the Insitutional III (ed. Kunsthalle Lissabon); Active Withdrawal (ed. Guangdong Times Museum). Alampi hold a BA and MA in art history from La Sapienza University in Rome and has participated to the de Appel curatorial program in Amsterdam.