Pre-Selection Board

A completely renewed group of curators will help the final jury in the final selection of the artists that will be part of the DP25 show

The pre-selection board is composed by Mistura Allison, Caroline Ellen Liou, Angels Miralda, Amantia Peza, Saverio Verini

Amantia Peza

She is a film and art producer. She graduated at the Scuola Civica di Cinema,Televisione e Nuovi Media di Milano. In 2010, she co-founded Anima Pictures, producing a diverse collection of art projects and films, including works presented at Cannes, the Venice Biennale, the Venice Film Festival, and the Academy Awards. In 2016, she co-founded Bazament Art Space in Tirana, focused on creating an independent and sustainable contemporary art scene, fostering narratives of Albanian contemporary art in dialogue with the international art scene. Since May 2024 she is board member of Albanian Visual Arts Network.

Àngels Miralda

She describes her curatorial practice as a secret politics of materiality with the belief that materials contain embedded meanings, relating to global chains of extraction, trade, and industry. She has recently organized large-scale exhibitions such as the Contemporary Biennial TEA (Canary Islands), Something Else III & IV (Cairo), Radius CCA (Delft), and the Tallinn Art Hall (Estonia). She has worked closely with artists on major solo exhibitions such as Paul Rosero Conteras at MAAC (Guayaquil), Bita Razavi at P////AKT Foundation (Amsterdam), Anastasia Mina at Garage Art Space (Nicosia), Andrea Knezović at Indebt (Amsterdam), and Andrej Skufca at MGLC (Ljubljana).

Caroline Ellen Liou

She is currently Curator at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy. Previously, she was at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), where she curated the first solo institutional exhibition of Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, and helped organize the exhibitions Scientia Sexualis and Scratching at the Moon, in addition to contributing to their catalogues. Her curatorial practice is centered on interrogating the politics of inclusion and exclusion, while exploring strategies for repositioning difference. She graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in Art History from Courtauld Institute.

Mistura Allison

She is a researcher, curator and art historian. She is the founder of ashikọ, a visually driven research platform inspired by Africa and its Diaspora. Her practice is fuelled by her interest in exploring the plurality of contemporary visual, performative and oral productions transcending in non-western canons. Currently, she serves as Curator and Project Coordinator at Villa Romana in Florence, engaging in transnational artistic practices with a focus in contemporary art and advancing methodologies of decentralised exhibition making. She is part of the curatorial collective at Archive Ensemble, where she co-curates the program Publishing Practices. She is particularly engaged with research-based artistic practices, thinking through processes of visual storytelling and movement, and how they might help us imagine new futures, and experience a different constellation(s).

Saverio Verini

He is the creator and coordinator of exhibitions, festivals, and cycles of talks related to contemporary art and culture. He has collaborated with institutions such as La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris, the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, MACRO, the Quadriennale di Roma, the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici, the American Academy in Rome, the Fondazione Memmo, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the ArtVerona fair. Since 2023, he has been the director of the Musei Civici di Spoleto. He collaborates with the magazine Artribune and is the author of critical texts, including the monograph Roberto Fassone. Quasi tutti i racconti (PostmediaBooks, 2018) and the essay La stagione fatata (Castelvecchi, 2022), which explores the relationship between childhood and contemporary Italian art.