Chiara Cartuccia is an Italian-born curator, writer and researcher based in London. She is currently engaged in long-term research into the Mediterranean as invented/inventive geography, focusing on the ramifications of practical Mediterraneanism(s) in Euro-Mediterranean contexts. 

She is the co-founder and director of the curatorial and editorial platform EX NUNC. She has held curatorial positions at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, and Manifesta Biennial, Palermo/Amsterdam, where she co-curated the Manifesta 12 Planetary Garden Public Programme (2018). She has curated exhibitions, discursive and performative programmes at The Showroom, Goldsmiths College, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, University of Paris – Diderot, Venice International Performance Art Week, ICA Sofia, TBA21, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, La Escocesa, among others. As Visiting Curator at UNIDEE – Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (2022–2024), she curated Neither on Land nor at Sea, a biennial research project that addresses the Mediterranean as an unrooted geography — a time/space of unstable negotiation and world-making — developed through residencies and public programming.

She contributes regularly to magazines, catalogues, and independent publications. Her writing has been published by ArtReview, Contemporary &, Arte e Critica, Sharjah Art Foundation, and Afterall. She is the co-editor of Manifesta 12. The Planetary Garden Reader (Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2018) and has (co-) curated volumes including EXN Journal – On Mediterraneans (EX NUNC, 2021), Place Holder (BOZAR, 2022), Neither on Land nor at Sea. Catalogue (UNIDEE, 2024), and Holding Place (Viaindustriae, upcoming in 2025), part of the international project Alexandria: (Re)Activating Common Urban Imaginaries.

Chiara studied Art History at University of Rome, La Sapienza, and was a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and Akademie der Künste Berlin. She holds an MA in Visual Cultures/Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Since 2024, she has been a tutor at DAI Dutch Art Institute,  as part of Archive Ensemble. 

CONTACT

chiara.cartuccia[at]gmail.com
chiara[at]ex-nunc.org


LINKS

www.ex-nunc.org
www.neitheronlandnoratsea.art