Biographies

Baan, Iwan

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Baldi, Pio

Pio Baldi, architect and the author of essays, books and specialist publications regarding cultural heritage and contemporary art and architecture, has served as chairman of the foundation managing MAXXI –...

Barba, Rosa

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Barbieri, Olivo

The focus of the work of Olivo Barbieri (1954, Carpi, MO) is the analysis – and the questioning – of the concept of perception, that is to say, our ability to see and interpret reality. From the 1990s,...

Barreca, Laura

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Bartolini, Massimo

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Basilico, Gabriele

Gabriele Basilico (Milan, 1944 - 2013) is internationally known for his research into landscape and architecture. An architect by training, Basilico abandoned the practice of architecture as it is...

Basualdo, Carlos

Since 2005, Carlos Basualdo has served as the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He oversees the Museum's contemporary collection while also developing...

Battaglia, Letizia

The work of Letizia Battaglia is distinguished by her impassioned social and political commitment. For 30 years she has photographed her land, Sicily, with crude and painful images in black and white,...

Battaglia, Nunzio

Born in Gela (1958, after graduating in architecture Nunzio Battaglia moved to Milan to devote himself to artistic research and photography. "In 1992 I began investigating the trail that Ghiri had blazed. I...

Berengo Gardin, Gianni

One of the greatest photographers of social documentation, Gianni Berengo Gardin (Santa Margherita Ligure, 1930) “has documented social events of great import with constant and limpid civic duty, he has...

Bernadò, Jordi

The Catalan architect and photographer, Jordi Bernadò (Lleida, 1966) uses photography as a means of considering the city and architecture. His investigations of the great metropolises highlight the...

Berruti, Massimo

A keen documentary eye characterises the style of Massimo Berruti, a young Roman reporter (class of ’79). The photography this front-line correspondent engaged in many of the planet’s hot-spots, is...

Biamino, Bruna

A photographer of architecture and landscape, Bruna Biamino (Turin, 1956) furthered her studies with Nathan Lyons in New York, frequenting courses in black and white technique and psychoanalysis and...

Biasucci, Antonio

In the photography of Antonio Biasucci (Dragoni, CE 1961) the Campania region is a revelatory microcosm, a reservoir of images that allude to the complex structures of memory and tradition, a research that...

BiCuadro

BiCuadro is an emerging architecture firm based in Rome and internationally recognized. After receiving in 2007 the 3rd prize in the international contest for the Italian Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo,...

Blanco, Manuel

A member of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums (ICAM), Manuel Blanco is a curator and designer and teaches at ETSAM in Madrid. In 2006 he curated the exhibition España [f.]...

Bonanzinga, Patrizia

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Bonito Oliva, Achille

Since 1968 he lives in Rome where he started his adventure as art critic. He teaches History of contemporary art at the faculty of Architecture of Università “La Sapienza”. Among is publication: ll...

Botto, Andrea

Andrea Botto was born in Rapallo (GE), where he lives and works, in 1973. Graduate of photography at the IED of Turin, he is interested...

Brown, Trisha

Trisha Brown (1936, Aberdeen, Washington) was educated at Mills and subsequently studied with Merce Cunningham together with other dancers such as Steve Paxton and Yvonne Rainer, with whom between 1962 and...

Burden, Chris

Chris Burden was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946. He received his BFA from Pomona College in Claremont, California and his MFA from the University of California at Irvine. Burden’s solo exhibitions...