Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is a curatorial duo founded by Francesco Ragazzi (International Ph.D. in Philosophy of Art, adjunct professor of Aesthetics) and Francesco Urbano (Ph.D. in Film & Media Studies). Their practice explores the intersections between art and reality, expanding curatorial work beyond museums and academia into diverse physical and mediatic spaces. They have developed projects for major institutions worldwide, including the MMCA (Seoul), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo), ISCP (New York), CERN (Geneva), Bucharest Biennale, Maraya Art Centre (Sharjah), Centro Ricerca Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Reykjavik International Film Festival, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, La Loge (Brussels), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Institut Français (Paris), Ikon (Birmingham), Futura (Prague), Ruya Foundation (Baghdad), and Emirates Foundation (Abu Dhabi). In 2012, with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Equal Opportunities, they curated Io Tu Lui Lei, the first institutional exhibition on the cultural legacy of LGBTQ+ movements in Italy. From 2017 to 2022, they directed the archive of feminist artist Chiara Fumai, also organizing the first presentation of her work in the U.S. In 2021, they co-edited FUORI!!! 1971-1974, an award-winning anthology dedicated to the first LGBTQ+ magazine in Italian history. Between 2021 and 2022 they directed the 17th LIAF Biennial (Norway). In 2023 they curated Jonas Mekas 100! (Italy), the international program celebrating the centenary of the legendary filmmaker, with whom they collaborated extensively. In 2025, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi was named the first Italian Curatorial Fellows at the American Academy in Rome.

Ludovica Carbotta (Turin, 1982) lives and works in Barcelona. In her practice, she researches the urban space and the way individuals connect with their environment. Through installations, texts and performances, she reflects on concepts such as 'place', 'identity' and 'participation'. Currently, she is developing a concept termed 'fictional site specificity', reinterpreting real places in fictional contexts and emphasising the imagination as key to the construction of knowledge. Recent solo and group exhibitions have been presented in museums and contemporary art centers including Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Appel Housewarming, Amsterdam; MAMbo, Bologna; OGR, Turin; Sala Veronicas, Murcia; Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Marselleria, New York; Tecla Sala, Barcelona; MACRO, Rome; MAXXI, Rome; HangarBicocca, Milan; Palazzo Fortuny, Venice; Drawing Center, New York; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Kunstlerhaus, Graz; Swiss Institute, Rome; Les Instants Chavirés, Paris. She is the co-founder of Progetto Diogene, an International Residency Program in public space and The Institute of Things to Come, a research centre on futurological scenarios. Her work was presented at the 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice Biennale (2019). She was awarded the Ariane de Rothschild Prize (Milan, 2011), the Premio Gallarate (2016), International Fellowship Gasworks, London (2016), and the Special Mention at Premio ITALIA, MAXXI Museum, Rome (2016). In 2017 she was a fellow researcher at Jan Van Eyck Academie, in Maastricht, in 2018 recipient of New York Prize, ISCP/Columbia University. Her work is part of public and private collections such as Castello di Rivoli (Torino, IT), Macro (Rome, IT), Museo MAGA (Gallarate Milano, IT), IVAM (Valencia, ES), GAM (Torino, IT), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, (Torino, IT), Fondazione CRC Cuneo (Torino, IT), Rothschild Collection (UK), OlorVisual collection (Barcelona, ES).

Liryc Dela Cruz is a filmmaker and artist from South Cotabato, Philippines and Rome, Italy. Working across cinema, installation, and performance, his practice moves through the intersections of labor, migration, and postcolonial memory, engaging with decolonial studies and collective authorship. At the core of his work is Il Mio Filippino, his flagship project that examines the Filipino diaspora, labor, and the histories of exhaustion among Filipino care and cleaning workers in Europe. Extending from this, his current research Sindrome Italiana investigates the psychic and embodied aftermath of caregiving, a post-labor condition marked by physical depletion, emotional displacement, and fractured belonging among migrant caregivers in Italy and Northern Europe. His debut feature film Come la Notte (Where the Night Stands Still) premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival (Perspectives) and earned him the Golden Goblet for Best Director (Asian New Talent) at the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival. His works have been presented at Locarno Film Festival, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Santarcangelo Festival, Mattatoio di Roma, École du Louvre, La Biennale di Venezia, and Film at Lincoln Center, among others. Dela Cruz is also the co-founder of Il Mio Filippino Collective, a transdisciplinary platform of Filipino domestic and care workers, artists, and community organizers dedicated to fostering spaces of care, resistance, and collective imagination. Through collaborative research, performances, and workshops, the collective builds encounters that challenge dominant narratives and make visible the intertwined histories of migration, labor, and colonial legacies.

Tomaso De Luca (Verona, 1988) is a visual artist based in Berlin. His work–articulated through drawing, sculpture, installation, and video–unfolds as a set of perverse and improbable strategies that seek to imagine a “way out” from the increasingly violent consequences of modernity: gentrification, oppression, isolation, and exploitation. He has exhibited at Künstlerhaus Bremen, Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro), CAC Vilnius, SongEun Art Space (Seoul), Pori Art Museum, IIC Paris, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, MACRO Museum (Rome), and the 2022 Lofoten Biennial, among others. De Luca was Cy Twombly Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2017) and recipient of the MAXXI Bulgari Prize (2021). In 2026, he will be Artist-in-Residence at the Studio & Research Residency Program at Amant, New York.

Michela de Mattei (Rome, 1984) is an artist currently based in Milan. She works across different formats and media, often developing fictional scenarios and unusual ecosystems in which animal–human affairs are hijacked by technologies. Her works question standards of authority and control, addressing issues of animal agency and the changing dynamics of communication systems. In 2025 she presented Paraflu (co-directed with Invernomuto) at GAMeC, Bergamo; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Villa Medici, Rome; St. Moritz Film Festival; EMST, Athens, and took part in Premio Michetti and Nextones festival. Other recent exhibitions include: Belmacz, London (2024); MACRO, Rome (2024); Porto Design Biennale, Porto (2023); MAXXI L’Aquila (2022); MAAT, Lisbon (2021); Alserkal Avenue, Dubai (2019); Belmacz, London (2019); ICI, London (2018); Serpentine Galleries / ZSL London Zoo (2018); Swiss Institute, Rome (2017). In 2023 de Mattei published Brief Inventory of Animal Resistance, VOL.1 (Aniene, Rome).

Beatrice Gibson's films are known for their experimental and emotive nature. Resolutely feminist in form and content they draw on cult figures from experimental literature and poetry, from Kathy Acker to Gertrude Stein. Collapsing fiction and documentary, they range from experimental autobiography to nocturnal thriller and cast friends and influences as their characters and co-creators. Gibson is twice winner of The Tiger Award for Best Short Film Rotterdam International Film Festival, (2009 and 2013). She was the winner of the 17th Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel. She has shown her films at film festivals and in museum contexts extensively including at Cannes Film Festival (Quinzaine) New York Film Festival, TIFF Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Courtisane Film Festival, Punto De Vista, Open City Docs and many more. Her films have been the subject of dedicated screenings at Fondazione Prada, Centre Pompidou, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA London), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She has recently had solo exhibitions at Ordet, Milano (2023); Camden Arts Centre, London; Bergen Kunsthal, Bergen; Mercer Union, Toronto (2019) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018). Gibson is currently shooting her first feature film produced by BBC films, Somesuch and Norte. She is a founding member of the monthly cinema club The Machine that Kills Bad People at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, alongside Ben Rivers, Maria Palacios Cruz, and Erika Balsom. In 2021 she founded Nuova Orfeo, a collectively run roving initiative for experimental film and music in Palermo Sicily.

Invernomuto is the name under which, since 2003, the duo composed of Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi has explored the mythologies of contemporary subcultures, repositioning the homogenizing processes of globalization within localized contexts. The collective operates through a perpetual remixing of media, creating research projects articulated across time and space, resulting in interconnected cycles of works. Their audiovisual and sound productions, as well as performative actions and editorial projects, often function as collaborative platforms involving musicians, artists, and authors from diverse genres and disciplines. Both artists also develop individual lines of research, with the musical projects Palm Wine and STILL. With over twenty years of career experience, Invernomuto has an extensive record of exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Among these are participations in the Liverpool Biennial (2021), the 58th October Salon – Belgrade Biennial (2021), the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Manifesta 12 (2018), Nuit Blanche in Paris (2017), and exhibitions at MAXXI, Rome; OGR, Turin; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz; MACRO, Rome; Tate, London; Villa Medici, Rome; Alserkal Avenue, Dubai; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Vleeshal, Middelburg; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, to name just a few of the most recent highlights. In 2019, Invernomuto were Cy Twombly Italian Fellows in Visual Arts, and in 2025, they were laureates of the Principal Residency Program at La Beque (Lausanne, CH).

Muna Mussie (b. 1978, Eritrea) is a Bologna-based artist whose work investigates the languages of performance and visual art, exploring the tensions that arise between different expressive poles through gesture, vision, and word. Trained under Cesare Ronconi (Valdoca Theater), Mussie began her career with Teatrino Clandestino in 1998. She later developed her own projects, including Monkey See, Monkey Do (Chapter I-II, 2011-2012), Milite Ignoto (2015), Oasi (2018), Curva (2019), Curva Cieca (2021), PF DJ (2021). Mussie has also produced site-specific installations and object-based works, such as Punteggiatura (2018) and Bologna St. 173 (2021), and released the album Curva Cieca Oblio (2024, in collaboration with Massimo Carozzi). Her work has been exhibited and performed in art institutions and festivals such as: Art Fall / PAC Ferrara; Live Arts Week Bologna; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Torino; Museo Marino Marini Firenze; MAMbo Bologna; Museion Bolzano; Rue d’Alger / Manifesta 13 Marseille; SAVVY Contemporary Berlin; ArteFiera Bologna; HangarBicocca Milan; Mattatoio Rome; Villa Romana Florence; Mucem Marseille; MAXXI L’Aquila; La Virreina / Manifesta 2024 Barcelona; and the 24th Triennale di Milano.

Raffaela Naldi Rossano (b. 1990, Naples) is a multidisciplinary artist working across installation, video, sculpture, text, drawing, and performance. Rooted in her psychology studies and an MA in Photography and Moving Images from Goldsmiths, her practice investigates memory, intergenerational transmission, desire, domesticity, interspecies kinship, and the rewriting of mythologies, often in relation to the Mediterranean context. Her research-driven, process-based artworks act as relational platforms, fostering new psychological and socio-political connections among spaces, bodies, and objects. Naldi Rossano has presented solo and group exhibitions internationally, including Lofoten Biennale, Villa Medici, Quadriennale d’Arte, Rome, Istituto Svizzero Milan, der TANK Basel, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and Manifesta Palermo. She is the recipient of the XIX New York Prize and the Special Prize for an Emerging Talent at SMAFF St. Moritz Film Festival. In 2025, Naldi Rossano presented the first iteration of her ongoing environmental installation Tentacular Bed at the Sharjah Biennial.

Natália Trejbalová (b. 1989, Slovakia) is a Milan-based visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses film, sculpture, and drawing. Her moving-image works are closely linked to her sculptural practice, which serves as a foundation for constructing cinematic imagery that explores perception and the fragility of human realities, often through surreal and speculative scenarios. She participated in various group exhibitions in institutions such as Power Station of Arts in Shanghai, Fotomuseum Winterthur, La Quadriennale di Roma, SACO Bienal, and others. Her films were screened at Palais de Tokyo, MUDAM Luxembourg, Palazzo Grassi, Matadero among others. Trejbalová was also artist in residence at Schafhof - Europaisches Kunstlerhaus Oberbayern; Kunststiftung Baden-Wurttemberg; AIR Futura Prague and a Future Earth Fellow at AFAD in 2023. Her recent solo shows include Don't Believe the Speaking Car at OGR Torino and Never Ground at Bratislava City Gallery that received the support of 13th Italian Council.