His past positions include director of the advanced course in visual arts at Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como and consultant for the Premio Furla-Querini Stampalia per l'Arte. He has also been a committee member of the 2005 Rome Quadriennale, the Province of Milan's Department of Culture - Spazio Oberdan, Budapest's Kogart Foundation and the Prato Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Luigi Pecci. In 2008 he received a career achievement award from the rector of Bologna University under a scheme promoted by the Associazione Almae Matris Alumni (AMA).

Luca Cerizza

Born in Milan in 1969, Luca Cerizza graduated in art history and criticism at Milan State University. After completing the course for curators at the De Appel Foundation in Amsterdam (1997-98), he was one of the curators of the collective exhibition Seamless. He has organized exhibitions in the most diverse settings in Italy and abroad, and has a particular interest in the latest generation of Italian and international artists, with a focus on analyzing the relationship between contemporary art and electronic music, architecture and urban planning.

The exhibitions he has organized include Clues (Montevideo TBA, Amsterdam, 1999), Post-tragi-KoMik (Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, 1999), Perspectives (via Ventura, Milano, 2001), Strategies against Architecture II (Fondazione Teseco, Pisa, 2001), Manfred Pernice-Sean Snyder / The Banana Project (Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, 2003), On Air (a one-man exhibition of Tomas Saraceno, Galleria Pinksummer, Genoa, 2004), Reception (Buero Friedrich, Berlin, 2005) and Leftovers (Micamoca, Wedding, Berlin, 2008).

More recently, his work has focused on issues relating to the history of conceptual art and its most recent ramifications. This has taken the form of exhibitions (with Robert Barry, Tino Sehgal and Ian Wilson) and writing (papers and interviews with Robert Barry, an essay on Jonathan Monk, and an essay for the Baltic Countries Triennial 2005 catalog).

He has worked with Flash Art (1996-98) and on the Artforum website (2002-03). He founded Cross magazine and edited the first three issues (1999). He has also edited numerous publications related to collective exhibitions and individual projects, and written a string of essays on Italian and international artists for catalogs and magazines: Carla Accardi, Massimo Bartolini, Roberto Cuoghi, Thomas Demand, Liam Gillick, Jeppe Hein, Marcello Maloberti, Carsten Nicolai, Luca Pancrazzi, Florian Pumhoesl, Daniel Roth, Tomas Saraceno, Tino Sehgal, Mario Garcia Torres, Luca Trevisani, Patrick Tuttofuoco, and many others.

He has also edited monographs on John Armleder, Robert Barry, Massimo Bartolini, Daniel Buren, Liam Gillick and Daniel Roth, and the collection of essays by Giovan Battista Salerno on Alighiero Boetti (Basilea, marzo 1978, e nel solstizio d'estate del 2003, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, 2008). He wrote Mappa, a monograph on Alighiero Boetti (Afterall, London, 2008).

Currently Cerizza teaches curating at the NABA specialized biennial in Milan and is curator at Como's Fondazione Ratti. Since 2004 he has also been curator of the BSI Art Collection, Lugano. He lives in Berlin.

Laura Garbarino

Lara Garbarino graduated in architecture at the Milan Polytechnic and completed postgraduate studies in arts management at Milan's Catholic University. She will be contact person for Italian and international collectors. Garbarino is a senior specialist in contemporary art for auctioneers Phillips De Pury & Company in Italy.

She has curated numerous exhibitions, including Defrag at Suite 106 Gallery in New York, Assab One at the venue of the same name at Milan's Fabbrica Dimessa with a collective of 25 artists. In 2000 and 2001 she worked at Galleria Giò Marconi in Milan as assistant to Giò Marconi, after working in London at Faggionato Fine Arts, Sotheby's and Christie´s International.

She is a regular contributor to Flash Art, and is currently writing a series of articles that analyzes the European contemporary art market.

Garbarino curates a private collection. In 2004 and 2005 she was a consultant with the Domus Academy for a series of workshops with artists such as Rirkrit Tiravanija, Christian Marclay, Carsten Nicolai and Olafur Eliasson.