Elisa Fantin is an art curator born in 1981 in Padua, Italy. She has a MA in Visual Arts from IUAV Venice and degrees in Cultural Management and History and Conservation of Artistic Heritage. Her work experience includes assisting galleries in Venice and independent curating. She co-founded the XENIA artist residency and curatorial collective CAKE AWAY. She has curated exhibitions in Venice, Vicenza, and Palermo on topics like journeys and their influence on art.

1. ELISA FANTIN
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Art curator

2. CURRICULM VITAE
Elisa Fantin
Born on 13th July, 1981 in Padova, Italy
Address: Fondamenta del ponte piccolo 323, Giudecca, Venezia 30133
Phone: 0039 3470305971
Mail: fantin.elisa@gmail.com
EDUCATION
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2014
_MA in Visual Arts, IUAV, Venezia, Italy
2011
_MA in MAC_Master in Cultural Management, Trentino School of Management, Trento, Italy
2009
_BA in History and Conservation of the artistic and musical heritage, Padova University, Italy
WORK EXPERIENCES
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2014
_Gallery assistant at galleria upp, Venice (see http://www.galleriaupp.com/)
2013
_Independent curator for XENIA project (see attachement n°1)
_Independent curator as member of CAKE AWAY curatorial collective based in Venezia
(see http://cakeawayvenezia.tumblr.com/)
2012
_Officer organizer, GlobalArtAffairs Foundation, Palazzo Bembo, Venezia
2010
_Assistant project manager, Stylepark (Frankfurt), Gran Scuola della Misericordia, Venezia
_Assistant officer and assistent curator (intern), Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centro di Ricerca sulla
contemporaneità di Trento, tutors: Elena Lydia Scipione and Andrea Viliani
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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2014
_XENIA Palermo, Palazzo Chiaramonte Steri, Palermo
_Walking with art 2010-2013. Evoluzione, curated by Marco Tagliafierro, Spazio Monotono, Vicenza
_XENIA Venezia, Palazzo Flangini, Venezia
_Atelier Bevilacqua La Masa mostra finale, Piazza San Marco, Venezia

3. 2013
_La materia. Premio Stonefly curated by Marco Tagliafierro, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia
_FAR FESTA / Nuove Feste Veneziane, different locations across the city, Venezia
(see http://farfestavenezia.tumblr.com/)
2012
_TRACES OF CENTURIES & FUTURE STEPS. Collateral Event of the Venice Architecture Biennial
Palazzo Bembo, Venezia (see http://www.palazzobembo.org/index.php?page=218&lang=it)
_Fine Corsa. Mostra laboratori Iuav. Selection of works by Stefano Arienti, Lewis Baltz, Marco Bertoz-
zi and Cornelia Lauf, Palazzetto Tito, Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa, Venezia
2011
_Baton Sinister curated by Bjarne Melgaard, Norwegian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennial, Palazzo
Contarini Corfù, Venezia
2010
_Audi Urban Future Awards. Collateral Event at the Venice Architecture Biennial, Scuola Grande della
Misericordia, Venezia
_Melvin Moti. From Dust to Dust. Fondazione Galleria civica di Trento, Italy
_Robert Kuśmiroski. Cosmorama / P. A. P. O. P. Fondazione Galleria civica di Trento, Italy
RESIDENCIES / WORKSHOPS
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2013
_One year residence (as CAKE AWAY) at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia
2012
_Art Labs held by Marta Kuzma and Lewis Baltz, IUAV, Venezia
2011
_Art Labs held by Cornelia Lauf, Cesare Pietro Iusti and Filipa Ramos, IUAV, Venezia
_Art Labs held by the visiting professor Bjarne Melgaard, IUAV, Venezia
TALKS / SCREENINGS
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2014
_ORIENT EXPRESS, curated by Elisa Fantin and Giada Pellicari, Atelier at S.S Cosma e Damiano,
Venezia. A series of five talks about the issue of the journey and its influences on the artistic practice
development. The artists who partecipated were Silvio Lo Russo with Claudia Rossini, Mario Ciara-
mitaro with Rytz Monet, Driant Zeneli, Elena Mazzi and the curators Marco Tagliafierro and Angela
Vettese
_STILL FRAME is a video art screening project by CAKE AWAY divided in three appointments. The
artists involved were Nico Angiuli, Sara Bonaventura, Martina Della Valle, Elisabetta Di Sopra, Roberto
Fassone, Giulia Giannola, Giuseppe Gonella, Antonio Guiotto, Dario Lazzaretto, Teodoro Lupo, Nicola
Nunziata, Giulio Squillacciotti, Caterina Shanta, Elisa Strinna, Lucia Veronesi, Video Animazioni Vive
LANGUAGES SKILLS
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Italian: mother toungue
English: good skills in spoken and written
Spanish: basic skills in spoken and written
German: basic skills in spoken and written
COMPUTER SKILLS
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Good command of Microsoft Office Tool (Word, Excel and Power Point)
Base command of others tools as: Photoshop, Indesign e Premiere

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XENIA
The project, started in 2014, is curated by Elisa Fantin and Maria Giovanna Virga and designed by the
same with the collaboration of the artists Valerio Nicolai and Thomas Braida.
Xenia is an artist residency that aims to bring together two geographically distant Italian cities (Pa-
lermo and Venice) by discounting the ancient Greek custom of hospitality, the xenia (ξενία), through
the involvement of some of the foundations, public institutions and private galleries active in their
respective cities. Born from the meeting of different people, for backgrounds and expertise within the
workshops offered by the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice during 2013, the authors of the
project are: the artists Thomas Braida (Gorizia, 1982) and Valerio Nicolai (Gorizia, 1988), the curator
Elisa Fantin (Padua, 1981) and Maria Giovanna Virga (Palermo, 1988). Thanks to the support of the
Academy of Palermo, the curators chose to involve the Sicilian artists CAMPOSTABILE artistic duo
- made up of Mario Campo (Alcamo, 1987) and Lorena Stabile (Alcamo, 1989) - and the artist Gian-
fran- co Maranto (Petralia Sottana, 1983). The project will be repeated annually.
At the end of the residences there are two final exhibitions in their respective cities with the participa-
tion of all the selected artists both in Venice and Palermo.
The institutions involved for this first ediction are:
_Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa
_Università IUAV, Venezia
_Accademia delle Belle Arti di Venezia
_Spazio Rolak, Venezia
_Art Events (Palazzo Flangini), Venezia
_Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo.
_Galleria Francesco Pantaleone, Palermo
_Fondazione Sambuca, Palermo
_Spazio Caravanserai, Palermo

5. _Thomas Braida, I paurosi contorni della nostra cultura, installation, various dimensions, variuos
material, installation view, Palermo, 2014
_CAMPOSTABILE, main room view, Palermo, 2014

6. _Valerio Nicolai, Lingua di mantello, particolare, acrilico, 2014
_CAMPOSTABILE, installation view, Venezia, 2014

7. _CAMPOSTABILE, Monodom, installation view, Venezia, 2014
_CAMPOSTABILE, Untitled, installation view, Venezia, 2014

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FAR FESTA _ Nuove Feste Veneziane
FAR FESTA / Nuove Feste Veneziane is an ongoing independent research and curatorial project on
contemporary civic rituals by curator and IUAV guest professor Claire Tancons and curatorial collecti-
ve and Bevilacqua La Masa 2013 studio residents CAKE AWAY.
For his first released in 2013 the project was developed, in two different events called CORTEO DE
CASTEO I and CORTEO DE CASTEO II, by artistic performances and interventions, discussions and
events embedded within the community and throughout the Sestiere of Castello during the 55th Veni-
ce Biennale.
FAR FESTA / Nuove Feste Veneziane is a series of popular public performances spread throughout
the city of Venice and spanning the duration of the 55th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale
di Venezia. The aim of Far Festa is threefold: to build bridges between all Venetians, permanent and
temporary residents, by creating new common rituals; between local and international art communi-
ties by bringing visibility to local artists and arts organizations during the Venice Biennale; between Ve-
netians and the local and international artistic community and its means are unique: to bring together
the legacy of the Venetian Republic’s civic rituals, popular festivals and carnival with an alternative
history of performance based on parades and processions.
Taking an expansive view of the notion of Venetian citizen that includes not just local residents but
also foreign residents, commuters, migrants, tourists and students as in the best days of the Venetian
Republic and looking at artists as agents for social change, Far Festa seeks to renew the city’s sense
of self and indeed self-representation, through performance/rituals that are historically-rooted, cultu-
rally-specific and, ultimately, universal.
Artists and artistic collectives invited to participate are: Riccardo Banfi, Bruna Esposito, NEOLA ON-
LUS, Marta Grasso, IOCOSE, Elena Mazzi, Maria Morganti, Claudia Rossini, Chiara Trivelli and Emilio
Vavarella, Viaindustriae
_CORTEO DE CASTEO I took place on Saturday June 1st on the official opening day of the 55th Venice Biennale. A day
long, ongoing program.
_CORTEO DE CASTEO II unfolded the week of June 25 – 30 during Sagra di San Piero de Casteo, the popular festival of
the Castello neighborhood. CORTEO DE CASTEO II was organized in close collaboration with Sagra organizer Comitato
San Piero and Director Paolo Basili.

9. _Riccardo Banfi, 100 ballerini in un angolo, detail, Venezia, 2013
_Riccardo Banfi, 100 ballerini in un angolo, installation view, Venezia, 2013

10. _Maria Morganti, Il perdigiorno, workshop, Venezia, 2013
_Maria Morganti, Il perdigiorno, workshop, Venezia, 2013

11. _Maria Morganti, Il perdigiorno, workshop, Venezia, 2013
_Emilio Vavarella, Il ponte pirata, Venezia 2013

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Elisa Fantin
0039 3470305971
fantin.elisa@gmail.com