Attention: this lecture takes place in M HKA!

About the speaker

Lorenzo Bruni (born in Florence) is a critic and independent curator. Currently, he's working for the KCCC museum in Klaipeda, Lithuania, on a series of exhibitions titled "Traveling and Trip". He is also curator for the archive of young Sicilian artists of the Museum of Palermo RISO and  started a new collaboration with the APT Foundation. In 2011 he was one of the selected curators for the Premio Furla for young Italian artists and he initiated an intense collaboration with the 'Enrico Astuni Gallery' in Bologna, for which he's working on several projects, amongst other: on a collective exhibition on the modernity of performance, on a research project about the reason collective exhibits are made and an exhibition on the comparison on the concept of landscape. Among the many projects he made abroad, a few need to be mentioned: a travel-themed exhibition titled 'Sarah's Travel' for the Varna Biennale in Bulgaria in 2008; and an exhibition on the romantic aspect of conceptual art from the 70s to today, titled 'What is my name?' for HISK, Ghent in Belgium. From 2006 to 2009 he planned and directed the program linked to the heritage of modernism of the Via Nuova in Florence, while from 2004 to 2005 he curated a cycle of three exhibits for the Galleria Civica in Castel San Pietro Terme (Bologna). From 2001 to 2004 he was a curator for the Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi, Pelago (Firenze). From 2000 onwards, he is the coordinator of the exhibition activities of the non-profit space BASE / progetti per l'arte, founded by a collective of artists. He also writes essays for several monographic catalogues, among these the ones for the Galleria Poggiali and Forconi in Florence, he collaborates with Italian magazines Arte e Critica and Flash Art.

About Extra Academy

Extra Academy is the spontaneous alliance of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and the two art schools of the city, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Sint-Lucas Antwerpen. It involves close collaboration with a network of guests and students.

Extra Academy is a structural service ‘in progress', offering different tools and trajectories as a supplement to - or disturbance of - academic models and reflexes. Its open program of lectures, performances, workshops, exhibitions and screenings is designed to trigger alternative questions about modes of knowledge production, of research and practice. It probes gaps and unexpected solutions, teasing out the point where ideas materialise, where they are confronted with their palpable consequences. It believes that theory is not an allegory of practice.

Extra Academy listens, looks, asks and wonders. It collects and distributes conversations, it inquires about the educational turn in the arts and about the turn that will dislodge it, while providing time and space for a plasticity of ideas to manifest themselves.

Language English