Marco Scotini

Marco Scotini (born 1964) is an Italian curator, writer and art critic based in Milan, where he is artistic director of the FM Center for Contemporary Art and Head of the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies Department at NABA.

During his career, Scotini has curated more than two hundred solo exhibitions of artists. He has collaborated with art institutions as Documenta, Manifesta, Van Abbemusuem, SALT, Museo Reina Sofia, Castello di Rivoli, Nottingham Contemporary, MIT, Raven Row, Ludwing Múzeum Budapest, MSU Zagreb and Bildmuseet Umeå.

He curated the Albanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and co-curated three editions of the Prague Biennale, in 2003, 2005, and 2007. In 2024 he was invited by Adriano Pedrosa curator of 60th Venice Biennale Foreigners Everywhere to bring is long term project called Disobedience Archive in a special edition with 39 artists selected.

His project Disobedience Archive traveled for almost 20 years in several European countries, United States and Mexico. He was artistic director of the Gianni Colombo Archive from 2004 to 2016, organizing retrospective exhibitions of Colombo's work at the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, Haus Konstruktiv Zurich and Castello di Rivoli together with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Since 2014 he has been Head of Exhibitions Program at Parco Arte Vivente (PAV), Turin.

Scotini is also the founder of the bookzine No Order: Art in a Post-Fordist Society, published by Archive Books in Berlin. Scotini has written essays for Italian and international magazines, including Moscow Art Magazine, Springerin, Flash Art, Domus, Manifesta Journal, Kaleidoscope, Brumaria, Chto Delat?/What is to be done?, Open, South as a State of Mind, Arte e Critica, Millepiani, and Alfabeta.

Selected exhibitions

• Disobedience Archive: The Zoetrope, for Foreigners Everywhere, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy (2024)
• Starting from the Desert: Ecologies on the Edge, 2nd Yinchuan Biennale，MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China (2018)
• The Szechwan Tale: Theatre and History，1st Anren Biennale, Anren, China (2017)
• Piero Gilardi: Nature Forever, MAXXI, Rome (2017)
• The White Hunter: Memories and African Representations, FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan (2017)
• EarthRise, ecologEast and The Green Tent (Das Grüne Zelt), PAV, Turin (2015-2016)
• Non-Aligned Modernity, FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan (2016)
• The Unarchivable: Italy 1970s, FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan (2016)
• Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna (2015)
• Albanian Pavilion: A Serious of Devious Stratagems, by Armando Lulaj, Venice Biennale, Venice (2015)

Selected publications

• “Albanian Trilogy: A Series of Devious Stratagems: Armando Lulaj” (Sternberg Press, Berlin 2015)
• “Politics of Memory: Documentary and Archive” (DeriveApprodi, Rome 2014, and Archive Books, Berlin 2015);
• “Deimantas Narkevičius: Da Capo. Fifteen Films” (Archive Books, Berlin 2015);
• “Artecrazia: Macchine espositive e governo dei pubblici” (DeriveApprodi, Roma 2016),
• “Politiques de la végétation: Pratiques artistiques, stratégies communautaires, agroécologie” (Eterotopia France, Paris 2017);
• “Gianni Pettena: Not Conscious Architecture” (SternbergPress, Berlin 2017).