[artinfo] GAMeC. The meeting point for a whole generation of young curators

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GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo

QUI. ENTER ATLAS – INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF YOUNG CURATORS
June 4 – 5 - 6, 200
from 10:00 am to 19:00 pm

PREMIO LORENZO BONALDI PER L’ARTE – ENTERPRIZE, III edition
PRIZEGIVING
Monday, June 6, 2005 at 6.30 pm

GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
Via San Tomaso, 53, 24121
Bergamo (Italy)
tel. +39 (0)35 399528
fax +39 (0)35 236962
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For three days GAMeC will be the meeting point 
for a whole generation of international young 
curators: meetings and debates between more than 
thirty curators from all over Europe to mark the 
award of the third Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per 
l’Arte - EnterPrize.


QUI. ENTER ATLAS – INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF YOUNG CURATORS

As part of the third Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per 
l’Arte – EnterPrize, GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte 
Moderna e Contemporanea organizes Qui. Enter 
Atlas – International Symposium of Young Curators 
on Saturday 4, Sunday 5 and Monday 6 June 2005.

The symposium will focus on the opinions, views, 
difficulties and future of the curating 
profession in Europe. In these three days thirty 
curators below the age of 35 and from across 
Europe, who work for public institutions, 
nonprofit associations or as independent 
curators, will share their experiences and 
theoretical and methodological ideas, analysing 
the possible paths for professional growth, and 
exchanging their thoughts and insights between 
themselves but also with the public.

The idea for the symposium is the result of 
GAMeC’s interest in the figure of the curator, a 
concern that has already been reflected by the 
institution of the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per 
l’Arte – EnterPrize in 2003 and the seminar Qui. 
New release – Paths, plans and thoughts of the 
new generation of Italian critics and curators, 
which was held last year in collaboration with 
UnDo.Net and Synapser. The common thread between 
these initiatives is the increasingly important 
role that the curator plays in the world’s 
cultural economy, and the intent of the programme 
is to offer the emerging generation of 
professional curators the possibility to meet and 
exchange ideas. This year GAMeC is giving the 
symposium an international flavour by extending 
the invitation to curators throughout Europe.

It is GAMeC’s intention that the competition (the 
Prize) is also a time for an entire generation of 
curators to meet, get to know one another and 
take the bearings of the profession’s 
development. The emphasis is now shifting from 
just Italy to Europe as a whole: not the 
political European entity but the Europe 
reflected by a cultural and human unity that goes 
beyond the continent’s legal borders.

Qui. Enter Atlas – International Symposium of 
Young Curators is supported by Bonaldi Motori 
Concessionaria Audi.

The symposium is organized in collaboration with: 
Austrian Forum of Culture in Milan, CCS Swiss 
Cultural Centre Milano, Cultural Service of the 
Embassy of France – BCLA, Goethe-Institut in 
Milan, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the 
Netherlands, the Lithuanian Institute in Vilnius, 
the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.

The complete convention programme will be 
published on the website 
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During the symposium GAMeC has been organized a 
CONFERENCE, open to the public, with the three 
members of the jury for the Prize 2005

Sunday 5 June 2005, 6.30 pm

Bob Nickas, Curatorial Advisor, PS1 Contemporary 
Art Centre / A MoMA Affiliate, Long Island- New 
York
Beatrix Ruf, Director, Kunsthalle, Zurich
Moderator: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Director, GAMeC, Bergamo


PREMIO LORENZO BONALDI PER L’ARTE – ENTERPRIZE, III edition

The Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’Arte – 
EnterPrize, inaugurated in 2003 by the GAMeC - 
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di 
Bergamo and funded by the Bonaldi family to 
commemorate Lorenzo Bonaldi’s passion for art and 
collecting, has reached its third year.

This prize, the only one of its kind, is intended 
to support the work of a young curator under the 
age of 30 and his or her exhibition project. The 
purpose of this recognition is to highlight the 
significance of the key role recently assumed by 
curators on the international art scene, as well 
as encourage and support the talent of a young 
curator at an extremely critical stage in his or 
her professional development.

The second annual prize was awarded to Andrea 
Viliani last 2004 for his project No Manifesto, 
which is on show at GAMeC till July 3, 2005. The 
exhibition is comprised of a selection of works 
by Stefano Arienti, Massimo Grimaldi, Mike 
Nelson, Florian Pumhösl, Anri Sala, and Richard 
Wright that are being presented in Italy for the 
first time or executed specifically for No 
Manifesto.

Once again, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (Director of 
the GAMeC di Bergamo) invited five international 
advisors to nominate each one a young curator: 
Saskia Bos, Director, De Appel Foundation, 
Amsterdam; Yuko Hasegawa, chief curator, 21st 
Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 
Japan; Joseph Kosuth, artist, Rome/New York; 
Viktor Misiano, independent critic and curator, 
Moscow; Polly Staple, Editor at Large, Frieze 
Magazine, London.

The curators chosen to present an exhibition 
project are: Cecilia Canziani (Italy), Mizuki 
Endo (Japan), Anna Matveyeva (Russia), Natasa 
Petresin (Slovenia) and Elena Tzotzi (Sweden).

The young candidates’ exhibition projects, that 
have to take into account many different aspects 
critical, theoretical, thematic, as well as 
practical and economic criteria, will be assessed 
by a jury comprised by: Bob Nickas, Curatorial 
Advisor, PS1 Contemporary Art Centre / A MoMA 
Affiliate, Long Island - New York; Beatrix Ruf, 
Director of Kunsthalle, Zurich; Giacinto Di 
Pietrantonio, Director of GAMeC, Bergamo.

The prize consists in execution of the winning 
project in a specially dedicated space at GAMeC 
in 2006 and publication of a bilingual catalogue 
that illustrates all the other competing projects 
in addition to the winning one.


The prizegiving will be followed at 7.30 pm by the
OPENING of the solo exhibition
SIMONE BERTI
Curated by Alessandro Rabottini


For information:
GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo
Via S. Tomaso, 53 - 24121 Bergamo
Tel. +39 (0)35 399528/ Fax. +39 (0)35 236962
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