Francesco Manacorda

Independent Curator based in London

Francesco Manacorda is an independent curator. Prior to this, he worked as artistic director of the V-A-C Foundation and was a visiting professor at LJMU School of Art and Design in Liverpool. He previously worked as a curator at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, from 2007 to 2009, and his freelance practice has included curating Subcontinent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2006) and national pavilions at the 52nd Biennale di Venezia (Tobias Putrih, Slovenian Pavilion, 2007 and Francis Upritchard, New Zealand Pavilion, 2009). Manacorda is also a visiting lecturer in exhibition history and critical theory in the Curating Contemporary Art department at the Royal College of Art, London. He has written extensively for Domus, Flash Art Italia, Flash Art International, Frieze, Metropolis M, Piktogram, Untitled, and Art Review. He graduated from the University of Turin and received an M.A. in curating contemporary art from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2003.

Francesco Manacorda was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2016.

Francesco Manacorda. Photo: courtesy of the curator.