Alessandro Castiglioni (1984) is an art historian and curator, since 2004 has been engaged in educational programs at the Museo MAGA, Gallarate (Milano). Since 2008, with Ermanno Cristini, he has curated the
Roaming project. He was Guest Curator at
O' Artoteca, Milan; curator of the
47th Premio Suzzara, Mantua; and of the
XXIV Premio Gallarate.
Institutions he has worked with, include: Assab One, Milan; Careof/Docva, Milan; Museo di Villa Croce, Genoa; MCA, Valletta (Malta); CIA Reykjavik (Iceland); Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (CH); MCBA, Lausanne (CH); Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Museo Riso, Palermo.
His publications include:
Two Drops of Paper Before the Sky, Mousse Publishing, 2012;
Casamatta 47° Premio Suzzara, NLF, 2011;
Nella deriva di tutte le incertezze, Sputnik Edition, 2011;
La collezione del museo MAGA, Electa, 2010;
Little Constellation, Mousse Publishing, 2010.
He coordinates the Master's Degree in
Education for the Museum, with the Aldo Galli Academy of Como where he teaches
Didactics of Artistic Languages. He’s visiting lecturer in
Phenomenology and Art Critics at the Catholic University of Milan.
He is the contemporary art correspondent for the daily newspaper
La Tribuna della Repubblica di San Marino, for which he writes a weekly column
Corrispondenze on international contemporary art.
Since 2009, with Roberto Daolio, he has been the curator of
Little Constellation.an international network on contemporary art aiming to organize and promote projects with a specific focus on the current research activity in the small states of europe: andorra, cyprus, iceland, liechtenstein, luxembourg, malta, monaco, montenegro, san marino, and in a few european geocultural micro-areas including canton ticino (ch), ceuta (e), gibraltar (uk), kaliningrad (rus).