About me
Elisabetta Cuccaro (Italy, *1992) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and writer, based between Italy and the Netherlands. She studied in Milano at Brera Academy of Fine Arts, then she moved to Switzerland, where she attended the Master in Contemporary Arts Practice at HKB, in Bern. In 2021, she graduated with a Master's in Arts, Cognition and Criticism from the University of Groningen, with the thesis "After-Taste of Self-Help. Towards a Possible Theory of Exhibition".
Questions concerning the epistemology and the history of the arts, and notions related to geneaolgy and structuralism - repetition, system, origin, oppositions, and also the gap between concept and matter- define the extension of her research and sustain her personal inquisitive approach.
Lately her practice is based on collaborations where she explores connections between art practices and writing. While working with artists to help them positioning their practice within broader artistic discourses, she pursues her personal investigations of contemporary art and art theory.
In 2018, she curated the exhibition series The Trilogy for the artist-run intitiative SuperEgo, and she was the second-place winner of ArtAsiaPacific’s 2021 Young Writers Contest.
Projects
- Memoriae Polarized View (2020)With Martina Dal Brollo The installation Polarized View has been developed by artist Martina Dal Brollo as her main tool for creating cinetic visual compositions based on plastic waste and other trash, which she collects through Trash-walks. The use of a polarizing filter reveals the imperfections of a material rippled by time, transforming it into an anthropogenic landscape. The Wijkfest should have been an occasion for presenting a site-specific installation based on this machine. The aim was
- EIM Performative ConcertWith Ilmārs Šterns & Maija Solovjova EIM is a project that challenges the very formats of both performance and concert, playing with their structure and breaking traditional conventions. EIM comprises both original pieces created for the conceptual concert and other works, previously composed by all of its performers, thus forming a new creation characterized by the compresence of multiple perspectives.
- De.CompositionDe.composition developed within the framework of a collaboration between the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and the Frank Mohr Institute. The paradigms of artistic research are investigated using a practical approach, which took the shape of an installation on the notion of time. The work consists of two parts: a photographic archive of the process of research itself, which shows the different experiments and reflections that formed it and the final elaboration on the concept of fungal time. De.com
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Projects credited in
- Trilogy / SuperEgoIt is an artist-run initiative, started in 2017. Its activities are based both on virtual spaces and physical ones. SuperEgo explores a horizontal and open mode to expe- rience and produce art, acting as a self-critical conscience for those who enter in its network, constantly inspired by the re ection and questioning of social standards. Its operations proceed as pop-up interventions, able to settle in speci c contexts with exibility and irony.
Work history
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Guest WriterHanze University of Applied Sciences - Groningen
- Groningen, NetherlandsFreelance
Each year, the Master students of the Frank Mohr Institute have a final graduation show. I wrote the artists' profiles, catalog introduction, and preamble of the 2022 exhibition Future. Based on remote conversations and digital research.
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Program LeaderHanze University of Applied Sciences - Groningen
- Groningen, NetherlandsFreelance
Content research and planning for the Masters' degrees Painting and MADTech (Media, Art, Design, and Technology) final study trip in Germany (10 days road trip: Munich, Essen, Ulna, Koln, Dusseldorf).
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Skills
- Painting/ Drawing
- Engraver
- Art Writing
- Artist Mentor
- Creative Writing
- Art Performance
- Music
Education
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Master in Arts, Cognition and CriticismUniversity of Groningen
- Groningen, Netherlands
The track Arts, Cognition and Criticism delves into the relations of the arts with different fields, such as cognitive sciences, sociology and the recent dvelopment of artistic research. Graduated with summa cum laude and writing the thesis After-Taste of Self-Help. Towards a Possible Theory of Exhibitions, which investigates the discourse on, and the conceptions of exhibition as art.
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Master in Contemporary Arts PracticeHochuschule der Künste Bern
- Bern, Switzerland
thesis: "Turning Salomé. A Journey between Symbolism and Conceptual Art"
pratical work:
series of 4 works "Rotations", etching and aquatint on paper, 68 x 90,5 cm.
"Judith", etching and aquatint on paper, 68 x 90,5 cm
"Salomé", etching and aquatint on paper, 68 x 90,5 cm
Exhibition in the Centre PasquArt, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, 2017
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Awards
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ArtAsiaPacific’s 2021 Young Writers ContestArtAsiaPacific
Elisabetta Cuccaro placed second in AAP's 2021 Young Writers Contest with her essay "Obsolescence and Uselessness as Ways of Resistance in the Practice of Tianyi Zheng."