Alessandra Saviotti
Pictonomad, 2023
Alessandra Saviotti is a curator, art educator and cultural activist who lives in Amsterdam. She is a PhD researcher at Liverpool John Moores University and a member of Art Workers Italia. She is a co-founder of the art collective Aspra.mente (2006-2016), and since 2014 she has been collaborating with the Asociación de Arte Útil founded by Tania Bruguera, especially aiming to emancipate usership around the Arte Útil Archive. Alessandra studied at IUAV, Venice (I) and she was a Jan van Eyck Academie fellow in Maastricht (NL). She curated programmes, and delivered talks & workshops at documenta15 as part of Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (CU/DE); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (US); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL); San Francisco Art Institute (US); California College of the Arts (US); SALT, Istanbul (T), The Whitworth, Manchester (UK), Chicago Architecture Biennial (US), University of the Arts Helsinki (FI), MAXXI, Rome (I), Ty Pawb, Wrexham (UK), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (D) among the others. She was the assistant curator for Visible. Office and Project Space, Brussels (BE), a tutor for Accademia Unidee 2020, international Master Artist Educator at ArtEZ – University of the Arts, Arnhem (NL) and DAS Theatre, Amsterdam (NL). She is an advisor for UNIDEE Residency programmes at Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (I).
Advisor: MFA