Massimiliano Gioni Biography
Massimiliano Gioni (1973 - ) was born in Busto Arsizio in 1973 and is an Italian contemporary art critic and curator. He currently resides in New York and is the artistic director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NY (2007 - ) and of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan (2003 - ). He graduated from the DAMS of the University of Bologna and began as a writer, first founding the online magazine Trax together with Fabio Paracchini, and subsequently working as editor-in-chief of Flash Art in Milan and later in New York from 2000 to 2002. In 2003 he was invited by Francesco Bonami to curate the exhibition “La Zona” within the 50th Venice Biennale. In 2004, together with Martha Kuzma, he curated the fifth edition of the traveling contemporary art biennial Manifesta in San Sebastian. At the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan he organized solo shows by Pawel Althamer, John Bock, Maurizio Cattelan, Martin Creed, Elmgreen & Dragset, Tacita Dean, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Urs Fischer, Paul McCarthy, Paola Pivi, Pipilotti Rist, Anri Sala , Tino Segal. He was also involved in the creation of several projects in collaboration with Maurizio Cattelan and the curator Ali Subotnick, including the fourth Berlin Biennial in 2006. He created the Charley magazine and the traveling mini gallery The Wrong Gallery, initially set up in 2002 in New York and later relocated to the Tate Modern in London in 2005. Among the exhibitions organized at the New Museum in NY include Urs Ficher, Marguerite De Ponty, "The Generational" and "After Nature". In 2010 he was the director of the VIII Biennial of Gwangju, South Korea entitled 10,000 Lives. He has collaborated with the magazines Artforum, Domus, Frieze, Parkett, Rolling Stone, Wired and with the publishing houses Charta, Mondadori, Phaidon, Les Presses du Reel and Rizzoli. In January 2012 he was appointed director of the Visual Arts sector of the 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which took place in 2013.
