Attilia Fattori Franchini

Director
Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna

Attilia Fattori Franchini is a curator and writer based in Vienna. Working on the creation of experimental contexts for the production and display of contemporary practices, her work deals with technology and power structures, moving image and the cinematic, late-capitalism, and the creation of alternative forms of subjectivity and representation. She is the founder and co-director of Kunstverein Gartenhaus in Vienna, a space with a focus on film, sound and performance, and the curator of BMW Open Work by Frieze for which she has realised solo presentations by Sara Sadik (upcoming), Nikita Gale (2022), Madeline Hollander (2021), Camille Blatrix (2019), Sam Lewitt (2018), Olivia Erlanger (2017); as well as the Emergent section of miart Milan since 2017. She is currently working as a researcher at the Institut für Kunst und Kulturwissenschaften at the Academy for Fine Arts, Vienna.

Fattori Franchini frequently contributes essays and reviews to international catalogs and publications such as Mousse, CURA., Flash Art International, Camera Austria, Spike Magazine and has authored catalog essays for monographs on the work of Jakob Lena Knebl & Ashley Hans Scheirl, Hervé Guibert, Diego Marcon, Tatjana Dannenberg, Rosa Rendl, Anaïs Horn, Superflex. 

Attilia Fattori Franchini visited the Netherlands on a research trip as part of the exchange with the Mondriaan Fonds in 2023.

Attilia Fattori Franchini. Photo: Kristina Kulakova