Marcello Pisu is an Italian curator and editor who has worked on numerous interdisciplinary cultural projects around the world. These include curating science conferences, digital art festivals, and public talks on urban innovation. He currently writes about culture and innovation for publications like The Creators Project and Il Sole 24 Ore. Some of the projects he has worked on include curating the opening show at LAMB art in London, a series of talks on art collecting in Sao Paulo, the digital art project Moon by Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson, and the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin from 2010 to 2013.

1. curator | writer

2. Marcello Pisu is an Italian curator and editor working internationally, exploring the relationship
between culture, individual transformation and collective innovation. After his studies in
cultural management at the Bocconi Business School and at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, he
worked in marketing, pr and production for the likes of Sundance Film Festival, Google, Film
Society of Lincoln Center. He curated interdisciplinary cultural projects like the science
conference Falling Walls in Berlin, the festival of digital and public art Hybrid Art in Moscow, a
series of summer public talks for the Strelka Institute in Moscow about urban innovation, the
digital project Moon by Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson, the performance art installation
Carousel at the Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires. He currently writes about culture and
innovation for the Creators Project and the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.

3. curator

4. LAMB Projects is the new space opened by young gallerist Lucinda Bellm in Mayfair, London,
dedicated to the exchange with Latin American artists, curators, institutions. I curated the
opening show in November 2014, focusing on Brazilian artists working on different media, and
selecting their works that deal with the balances, equilibriums of our age.

7. LAMB art is the new space by young gallerist Lucinda Bellm in Mayfair, London, dedicated to
the exchange with Latin American artists, curators, institutions. I curated the opening show in
November 2014, focusing on Brazilian artists working on different media, and selecting their
works that deal with the balances, equilibriums of our age.

8. NEW COLLECTORS ACADEMY
São Paulo, 2014
As resident curator of Tofiq House, a new art club and cultural incubator in São Paulo, I've
started a new series of talks, workshops, visits dedicated to those who want to be involved in
arts and culture as collectors, supporters. The topics touched included the independent
cultural spaces of Sâo Paulo with Phosphorus, a visit to the Barbosa collection, a meeting with
Carbono Art Gallery about collecting editions, a talk with artist Frank Thiel on occasion of his
opening at Galeria Leme, and an art salon with Danish curator Tanya Toft.

9. MOON
by Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson, 2013
With this digital platform, Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson start to explore the creative
possibilities of the web as a place for artistic collaboration and experimentation. Everybody is
invited to contribute to a new planet with their drawings, that should visualize their most
important messages. A testament to freedom of expression beyond boundaries. The
interactive design is by Lucas Werthein and Shahar Zaks. Video documentary by The
Creators Project.

10. Falling Walls Conference, Berlin
2010 - 2013
The Falling Walls Conference puts together 20 top researchers from the most diverse fields of
science, to celebrate every 9 November the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. It’s a
cultural happening for the symbolic meaning of the day, but most of all a big contribution to
the promotion of science in society, the dialogue between different disciplines, the facilitation
of innovation. Until 2014 I edited their texts for the print catalogue, and until 2013 I co-curated
the programme and the digital presence (videos, website, social media, webcast).

11. LAMB art is the new space by young gallerist Lucinda Bellm in Mayfair, London, dedicated to
the exchange with Latin American artists, curators, institutions. I curated the opening show in
November 2014, focusing on Brazilian artists working on different media, and selecting their
works that deal with the balances, equilibriums of our age.

12. The performance art project conceived by artist Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevic, and curated by
me, is an unprecedented way to present multiple performance art pieces as a unique living
installation, but also as individual works. Presented for the first time at the leading home for
contemporary art in Buenos Aires, the Faena Art Center, Performance Carousel is a revolving
installation hosting 10 artists with different pieces about a central theme.
The project will travel around the world.

14. LAMB art is the new space by young gallerist Lucinda Bellm in Mayfair, London, dedicated to
the exchange with Latin American artists, curators, institutions. I curated the opening show in
November 2014, focusing on Brazilian artists working on different media, and selecting their
works that deal with the balances, equilibriums of our age.

15. Lexus Hybrid Art is a major extravaganza dedicated to art and technology taking place every
year in Moscow. A public art section dedicated to achieved and upcoming artists, a popular
exhibition focusing on interactive art, talks, performances. I had the pleasure to be the curator
for the edition 2013 with the great team of the cultural organization marka:ff.

20. Daniel Libeskind and Tomás Saraceno
at MADE (2012)
Moderated by Berlin-based curator Lukas Feireiss, the cross-generational and
interdisciplinary discussion investigated the interface of art, architecture, design, literature
and science. It aimed to seek out common areas between differing creative spatial practices
and highlight the multitude of ways to approach seemingly familiar problems in radically new
ways, and thereby break original and untouched grounds.

21. Art&Society at Soho House Berlin
2012 - 2013
This is a new series of talks I started at Soho House Berlin, to discuss with international
curators/artists from “culturally booming” cities the local art scene in relationship with politics,
media, society. The first event focused on Russia, featuring artist, museum director and writer
Fyodor Pavlov Andreevich, about freedom of speech, the new importance of performance art
in Russia, and the impact of the Pussy Riot case. The second features the filmmakers behind
the documentary "Creative despite War", revealing the new Afghan art scene and society.

22. writer/editor
(selection)

23. #Artrevolution, Il Sole 24 Ore
2014
Il Sole 24 Ore is the most important financial Italian newspaper, that has kept over the
years a political independence and a content quality comparable to the main
international outlets. Since 2014 I started collaborating with them as expert in the topics
of the relationship between arts/culture and innovation. I write in Italian for their print and
web version, and in English on my blog #artrevolution. Some examples:

27. Falling Walls Conference
2010 - 2014
The Falling Walls Conference puts together 20 top researchers from the most diverse
fields of science, to celebrate every 9 November the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin
wall. It’s a cultural happening for the symbolic meaning of the day, but most of all a big
contribution to the promotion of science in society, the dialogue between different
disciplines, the facilitation of innovation. Until 2014 I edited their texts for the catalogue
and website. Some samples to follow.