Manuela Pacella

Background

About Manuela Pacella

Art historian and critic. As a freelance curator she works on cultural exchanges between Italy and some countries of central and northern Europe. In particular, she is an expert on the Northern Ireland art scene where she has worked since 2011 and where she also attended the ICI’s Curatorial Intensive at the CCA in Derry and the International Residency at Flax Art studios in Belfast (both in 2013). As a guest curator she realized in 2017 the exhibition Lost in Narration. Riccardo Giacconi, Invernomuto e Luca Trevisani at the MAC in Belfast and led the second Curatorial Directions focused on the importance of text, narration, and story-telling in relation to exhibition making with workshops and talks in Belfast and Milan. In 2015 and 2016 she was Editorial Researcher and Coordinator at NERO (Rome). She writes regularly for “Flash Art” (Milan; Italian and International editions), for “The Visual Artists’ News Sheet” (Dublin) and for “NERO Editions” (Rome) and she edited a large number of publications and catalogues; her essay on Bertille Bak. The Fairy Tale of the Real was published (in Italian and English) in 2018 by Postmedia books, Milan. She is Adjunct Professor at IED Rome where she teaches Phenomonelogy of Contemporary Arts since 2019 and at the Rome Fine Arts Academy where she taught Journalistic Communication (2020-2022) and nowadays Management of Editorial Activities (from 2022-2023). She is the editor of the monthly online column Tell me Stories! on “Flash Art” and of the site dedicated to writing ruth.onl.