Croy Nielsen curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Chiara Siravo
„OTHERWHEN“

Luca Lo Pinto is the artistic director of MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. From 2014 until 2019 he worked as curator of Kunsthalle Wien. He is the co-founder of the magazine and publishing house NERO. He produced a range of solo exhibitions with artists including Emilio Prini, Simone Forti, Nathalie du Pasquier, Jason Dodge, Tony Cokes, Friedl Kubelka, Cinzia Ruggeri, Camille Henrot, Olaf Nicolai, Pierre Bismuth, Babette Mangolte, Lawrence Weiner, Gelatin & Liam Gillick, Charlemagne Palestine, Lisa Ponti, Darren Bader as well as publications with Mario Garcia Torres and Mario Diacono. In 2012 he edited the book 'Documenta 1955-2012. The endless story of two lovers'. Furthermore, he has been a contributor to numerous exhibition catalogues and magazines (Flash Art, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Purple, Spike, Rolling Stone). Chiara Siravo is a curator and researcher based in Rome. She is part of the curatorial collective ‘LOCALES‘ and is currently teaching at NABA — Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Until February 2024 she was part of the curatorial department at MACRO — Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome for three years where she coordinated a number of exhibitions and curated shows by BLESS and Pauline Curnier Jardin, as well as worked on a number of publications including the first edition and Italian translation of Reba Maybury’s 'Faster Than An Erection'. From 2021 until 2023 she was part of the team of curators working on the theme of archiving at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) and between 2017 and 2020 she was associate curator of I-DEA, an exhibition project for Matera European Capital of Culture 2019. She holds an MA in the History of Material Culture and Design from the Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Her writing has appeared in 032C and Umbau. She is editor of a series of books published by Humboldt on the archives of Basilicata and her first published piece of writing was an essay on the geographies of hell printed in 'Pictures of Hell' by Mark Ruwedel.

The exhibition OTHERWHEN, curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Chiara Siravo, presents works by artists Gianna Surangkanjanajai (b. 1991), Giuseppe Desiato (b. 1935) and the independent fashion brand CORMIO (since 1990). Spanning generations, geographies and mediums, the group exhibition is a collapsed time capsule, a day in the living archive of the syncretic, opaque and dis-articulate present we inhabit, in which nothing is what it sounds like. The overall suggestion is that each work exists spatially, temporally and culturally outside of its own material boundaries, like a stream that would like to burst, but can only do so metaphorically.