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Francesca Verga: Marc Camille Chaimowicz. Here and There…
Dialogue between Francesca Verga, curator at Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano; Stefano Giovanazzi, curator, and Stefano Riba, curator and professor.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
6:00 PM
Colonna Classroom
Fondazione Caritro Trento
via Garibaldi
Contents of the meeting
The presentation is based on the artistic practice of Marc Camille Chaimowicz (1947-2024), a Polish and French artist. Inspired also by his mother’s profession, Marie Tailhardat, a seamstress, he loved to work by blending different materials in his artistic practice. His goal was to create a stage-like space, with an intimate, domestic sensibility, where artistic elements could coexist with objects from everyday life: furniture, ornaments, bric-a-brac, drawn materials, and other found objects. He enjoyed “shopping,” he said, between these two worlds: life and art, art and life.
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Francesca Verga, Biografia
Francesca Verga, Biography
Francesca Verga is co-artistic director of Ar/Ge Kunst, Kunstverein in Bolzano, and is involved in curating, writing, management, and research in contemporary arts. She served as assistant curator for the Italian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024). She holds a PhD from the Department of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam (2022). She was the curatorial coordinator of Manifesta 13 (Marseille, 2020) and the general coordinator of Manifesta 12 (Palermo, 2018).
AR/GE KUNST
Ar/Ge Kunst, Kunstverein of Bolzano, was founded in 1985 at the premises of Via Museo 29. The name Ar/Ge Kunst derives from the abbreviation of Arbeitsgemeinschaft (work community), indicating the goal of promoting an idea of collective work and also referencing something uncomfortable and unexpected (from the German word ‘arge’). The aim is to consider the kunstverein as a center for research and production in contemporary arts, where each new project is shaped within a working group composed of members from different fields, in order to reflect on social, legal, and artistic issues.
