Marco Scotini


Marco Scotini is an Italian curator, writer and art critic based in Milan.
He is Artistic Director of the FM Center for Contemporary Art in Milan. Since 2004, he has been Head of the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies Department at NABA, Milan. Since 2014 he has been Head of Exhibitions Program at , Turin.
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 three editions of the Prague Biennale, in 2003, 2005, and 2007, among other biennales in Europe and Asia.
His project, Disobedience Archive, traveled for 10 years in several European countries, in the United States and Mexico.
He was Artistic Director of the Gianni Colombo Archive from 2004 to 2016, organizing several retrospectives devoted to Colombo's work at Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, Haus Konstruktiv Zurigo and Castello di Rivoli together with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
His most recent exhibitions include:
He is author/editor of the books
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.