The most beautiful Kunsthalle in the world

Fall 2010 – Fall 2012

Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio, 19
22100 Como – Italy
Info: +39031233211

http://www.fondazioneratti.org

The project will consist of approximately 25 public events, each dedicated to a specific problematic with the participation of specialists, invited to share a specific “case-story” and to reflect about some more general aspects of their professional experience. Therefore, the events will become concise conventions developed in an introductory talk and in the successive interventions of the other participants, but also with presentations done by a single guest, as well as dialogues or interviews.

Each event will be prepared through thematic dossiers that afterwards will be published, along with the documentation of the events, on the website of Laboratorio Como and on the new website of Fondazione Antonio Ratti (online from December 2010).

Laboratorio Como is a project of research and analysis of the Camera di Commercio. It inquiries the multiple connections that unify economic growth, innovation, urban development, culture, creativity, evaluating the role that Como and its territory can play in the current context.

The project is under the scientific responsibility of the Director of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Marco De Michelis, with the general coordination of Filipa Ramos and the collaboration of Centro ASK (Art, Science, Knowledge) of University Bocconi of Milan and of the Graduate Program in Visual and Performing Arts of the University IUAV of Venice.

PROGRAM 2010

Saturday, 23 October 2010, from 5 to 8pm
I. The centres for contemporary art and the European cities

Keynote Speaker: Nikolaus Hirsch (Städelschule/Portikus, Frankfurt)
Marta Kuzma (Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo)
Philippe Pirotte (Kunsthalle Bern)
Beatrix Ruf (Kunsthalle Zürich)
Angela Vettese (Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia)

Coordinator: Filipa Ramos

Tuesday, 16 November 2010, from 5 to 8pm
II. Art Spaces

Keynote Speaker: Dieter Bogner (Wien)
Andreas Angelidakis (Athens)
Paul Robbrecht, Hilda Daem (Robbrecht en Daem, Gent)
Simona Malvezzi, Wilfried Kuehn (KUEHN MALVEZZI, Berlin)
Frank Boehm (Milano)
Adolf Krischanitz (Wien)

Coordinator: Francesco Garutti

Saturday, 27 November 2010, 6pm
III. The most beautiful Kunsthalle in the world 1.

Marco De Michelis interviews Hans Ulrich Obrist

Friday, 17 December 2010, 6pm
IV. P.S.1 and beyond
Alanna Heiss (AIR Air International Radio, NYC)

Coordinator: Paola Nicolin

Wednesday, 12 January 2011, from 5 to 8pm
V. An Ecology of art (in collaboration with Università Bocconi, Milano)

Keynote Speaker: Stefano Baia Curioni (Università Bocconi)
Walter Santagata (Università di Torino)
Pierluigi Sacco (IULM, Milano)
Guido Guerzoni (Università Bocconi)
Angela Vettese (IUAV, Venezia)
Alberto Abruzzese (IULM, Milano)

Coordinator: Luca Martinazzoli

The events will take place in the premises of Fondazione Antonio Ratti.
Entrance is free but restricted to the number of available places.

Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio, 19
22100 Como – Italy
Info: +39031233211 [email protected]

http://www.fondazioneratti.org