Gabi Scardi

Gabi Scardi is an art critic, curator, and lecturer in contemporary art. Her research explores emerging artistic practices and their relationship with social, political, and ecological change, with a particular focus on public and site-specific projects as tools for inclusion and social transformation. In 2015, she curated the restoration of Teatro Continuo by Alberto Burri in Parco Sempione, Milan. She is Artistic Director of the project nctm e l’arte; co-director of Animot. Critical Studies on Animality; and a member of research networks and centers such as Ecologies of Care, Cultural Welfare Center, and NAHR – Nature Art & Habitat Residency.
She collaborates with museums and institutions in Italy and abroad, including Museo del Novecento, PAC, Fondazione Pini, and Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice; MAXXI in Rome; the Royal Academy and Autograph in London; the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen; Pitzer Art Galleries (Los Angeles); the Venice Biennale; and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (Greek Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, 2015). She teaches at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Verona, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and IED – Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan.
Her publications include Paesaggio con figura: Arte, sfera pubblica, trasformazione sociale (Allemandi) and Il Teatro Continuo di Alberto Burri (Corraini, 2015, ITA-ENG). Her work interrogates the role of cultural institutions as places of care and multispecies coexistence, capable of fostering dialogue between communities, ecologies, and artistic languages
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