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Curator
Chiara Spangaro, is an art historian and independent curator in the fields of contemporary art and architecture. She is the Scientific Director of Fondazione Aldo Rossi and the curatorial consultant of Archivio Giovanni Gastel in Milan. Mentored by Germano Celant, with whom she worked from 2002 until 2020, and In collaboration with him, she curated the Art and Architecture Department of Triennale di Milano, 2009-12, with exhibitions as Frank O. Gehry. Since 1997 (2009), Disquieting Images (2010), Arte Povera (2011), and Espressioni di Gio Ponti (2012). Chiara was associate curator of exhibitions such as: Arts & Foods, 2015, Christo e Jeanne-Claude. Water Projects, 2016, Post Zang Tumb Tuuum, Art Life Politics: Italia 1918-1943, 2018, Arman 1954-2005, 2018, Richard Artschwager, 2019. |
In 2017 she curated Melissa McGill: The Campi at Carlo Scarpa’s Casa Scatturin in Venice, in 2018 Gio Ponti. Archi-designer at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. In 2019 she curated Melissa McGill: Red Regatta, a site-specific performative work featuring four regattas of 52 traditional boats in Venice waters and close-by lagoon, and organized Vera Rossi. Crepe at Nonostantemarras, Milan. The next year, she organized with Alberto Ferlenga and the MAXXI in Rome Aldo Rossi. L'architetto e la città 2020-2021, and with Francesca Alfano Miglietti Corpus Domini at Palazzo Reale in Milan. In 2022 she curated Aldo Rossi. Design 1960-1997. In Venice in 2024 she was Project Manager of the William Kentridge exhibition Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, and in New York she curated Hernán Pitto-Bellocchio's solo show The True Administration of Nature (Spring Break Art Show).
