Ass. Cult. Climate Art Project
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STAFF – Team Members 

Andrea Conte (Andreco), founder and president of Climate Art Project, director of Andreco studio (www.andreco.org), works between art, science and climate justice. A visual artist with a PhD in Environmental Engineering, Andrea Conte has conducted postdoctoral research on Nature Based Solutions for sustainable water management and Climate Change mitigation and adaptation in collaboration with the University of Bologna and Columbia University, New York. He collaborates with several research centre and is affiliate to the Ecological Art practice research group of Niche, Ca’Foscari University in Venice. His artistic research is focused on the relationship between the human and non-human; between urban environments and the landscape. At the intersection of art, science and activism, his multidisciplinary initiative, Climate Art Project (www.climateartproject.com) is exemplary of how his artistic and scientific research translates into direct forms of climate action. Andrea Conte (Andreco) has participated in and exhibited in several international festivals, museums and galleries and is a lecturer for a number of art academies and universities where he teaches courses on art theory, art and ecology, art and urban planning, environmental engineering and environmental humanities. The results of three projects — Climate Art Project, Flumen (about rivers) and Aula Verde (about art and urban forestry) — have recently been published among Nature’s Scientific Reports  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-51611-9 ). Future Environment, Andrea Conte’s research project is granted by the Italian Council program (2024) promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.  www.andreco.org

Anna Gorchakovskaya (1993) is an independent researcher, curator and cultural activist based in Rome. She holds a degree in Art History from the University of Bologna and a master’s degree in Gender Studies from the Roma Tre University. Since 2014 Anna Gorchakovskaya has collaborated among others with such Italian and international projects and institutions as Adiacenze, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, La Galleria Nazionale, MAXXI, contributing mostly to curatorial, editorial and educational projects. In 2021 Anna became one of the founders of the interdisciplinary platform On Site, a project aimed at bringing together the international realities of the city of Rome and the local Roman artistic and cultural scene. Since 2022 Anna has been teaching with American universities such as Cornell in Rome, Trinity College Rome Campus, John Cabot University and Temple University. Her research is dedicated to visual activism and to politically and socially engaged artistic and curatorial practices. She is part of Climate Art Project since 2024.

Francesca Abbado, (1994) is currently pursuing an MA in Arts Politics at NYU Tisch. She holds a BA in Politics from SOAS, London (2015). After working at the European Parliament working with the Culture and Education Committee (2016), Francesca transitioned into the performing arts, serving as Production Manager for the Romaeuropa Festival (2018-2023). Passionate about the intersection of the arts and social change, she has also worked as a Project Manager for various cultural organizations, including Spazio Griot (2024), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (2021) in support of the UN SDGs, and Climate Art Project (2020), advocating for nature-based solutions. She now aims to research the contemporary performing arts fields through anti-colonial and environmental lenses with an outlook towards effective cultural policymaking. She is part of Climate Art Project since 2019.

Daniele Cimaglia (1994) studied Photography and Audiovisual Arts at RUFA, Rome University of Fine Arts. Interested in vernacular photography and darkroom printing experimentation, he develops photographic projects involving local communities. He has worked as an assistant curator at Camera – Italian Center for Photography (Turin). Currently, he collaborates with Andreco Studio and Climate Art Project on participatory art projects and works as a freelance photographer. He is also engaged in the digitization of photographic archives. With the photographic series Storie dell’abitare (2020), he won “Refocus 2” (promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity and MUFOCO). His work La Dote di Latera (2022) was selected for “Premio Luigi Ghirri 2025 – Giovane Fotografia Italiana”. He is part of Climate Art Project since 2022.

Luisa Fioravanti, (1994), curator and art historian, graduated from the University of Rome La Sapienza. Interested in the ecological transition and the conversion of society towards greater sustainability, she developed a thesis on climate change by researching national and international artists who embrace this theme. Believing that education is the basis for this change, she collaborates with associations and schools, to direct children and young people towards greater awareness, holding educational workshops and actions on the territory, so as to generate belonging to the community and the places they live every day, but above all stimulating their creativity. For Climate Art Project, she assist the workshops for the schools and the local communities, since 2022.

Giulia Fornari (1995) works between Rome and Matera. Graduate in Art History with a Master’s degree in Art Economics, she is a photographer and curator specializing in writing and implementing European projects in the field of cultural and creative industries (CCI). She collaborates with Materabub in international partnerships for Erasmus + and Creative Europe projects such as Scart (2022), Steam (2022), CulturalBees (2024), GreenCCircle (2024) and has been overseeing the production of the Interdisciplinary Festival MAGMAFEST for the past three years.
Her work explores how art can be involved in pressing social issues such as urban regeneration, rural revitalization, social inclusion, and sustainable development. For Climate Art Project she is in charge of fundraising since 2024.

Elisa Rocchetti (1996) is an M&E economist and EU project manager with a degree in Management for Innovation and Sustainability. With experience in writing and managing European projects such as Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Horizon, Elisa focuses on community empowerment, environmental education and regenerative agriculture. She has coordinated projects like CHLaYdoscope, empowering youth to actively contribute to community creation and sustainability, and Off the Beaten Track, which promotes gender equality and supports women entrepreneurs. Elisa is passionate about community development and believes in participatory approaches like living labs and non-formal education to foster collaboration between urban and rural areas, driving lasting change. For Climate Art Project she is in charge of fundraising since 2024

Cecilia Daniele (1993) is an architect, researcher and a PhD in Landscape and Environment at “Sapienza” University of Rome. Her research interests focus on the potential of walking as a means to rediscover areas off the beaten track of conventional tourism, with particular attention to tools for orientation/loss, perception, and the empathetic relationships it generates. She is with Climate Art Project since 2024.

Luca Antonozzi (1980) Environmental Engineer PhD at University of Bologna, specialised in Life Cycle Assessment, sustainability and Circular Economy. Professor of science, mathematics and physics for the high school. Educator for environmental education. He is part of Climate Art Project since 2019.

Maurizia di Nata (1994) Art Historian and educator, specialised in participatory art practices and public art. For Climate Art Project she is in charge with the relations with the local communities and the schools for the co-creation and participatory workshops. She is with Climate Art Project since 2019.

Previous staff collaborators:

Sara D’Onofrio Cap (2018-2024) Sara Alberani Cap (2018-2023) Greta Trisciani Cap (2023 -2024)

Some of the people we have collaborated with:

Alfredo Jaar, Marzia Migliora, Justin Thompson, Jermay Michael Gabriel, Studio Azzurro, Dry Ocean, Stalker, Elena Bellantoni, Gianfranco Baruchello, Andrea Conte (Andreco), Teresa Macrì, Santa Nastro, Claudia Pecoraro, Laura Passatore, Andrea Lerda, Claudio Musso, Fabiola Naldi, Matteo Lucchetti, Barbara Nardacchione, Rosario Pavia, Carla Subrizi, Aria Spinelli, Ilaria Bussoni, Beatrice Merz, Agata Polizzi, Sofia Baldi Pighi, Angela Vettese, Costantino D’Orazio, Lorenzo Balbi, Roberto Ratti, Nicoletta Tranquillo, Maria Paola Zedda, Giulia Palomba, Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni, Sara Alberani, Mario Nardulli, Vittorio Parisi, Giada Pelliccari, Serena Basso, Maurizia di Nata, Diletta Bellotti, Demetrio Castellucci, Toni Cutrone, Sara D’Onofrio, Qing Li, Amanda Boetzkes, Marco Baravalle, Emanuele Braga, Sara Buraya, Gabriella Riccio, Federica Timeto, Laura Tripaldi, Bartolomeo Schirone, Lorenzo Teodonio, Angelo Massacci, Maria Cristina Tullio, Lucia Cianciulli, Donatella Germanò, Barbara Nobiloni, Lucia Spagnuolo e Ilaria Miarelli Mariani, Ines Musumeci Greco, Valentina Brinis, Alessandro Corsini, Ilaria Gaspari, Salvatore De Bonis, Simona Ceschin, Patrizia Brunetti, Giorgio De Finis, Luana Redalie’, Elvio Assunção, Jacopo Franceschet, Ondina Quadri, Laura Bisognin Lorenzoni, Luca Antonozzi, Marta Vitalini, Michael Schermi, Emilia Verginelli, Brianda Carreras, Elena Bastoggi, Chiara Caimmi, Cosimo Desii, Viviana Carlet, Francesca Abbado, Mary Lou Gialloreti, Iolanda Tambellini, Simone Galli, Lidia Angelini, Maurizio Isidori, Andrea Maffei, Marco Di Donna, Ilaria Macalpin, Isabella Picchi, Aurora Giuliani, Ivo Anzivino, Elisabetta Galgani, Sofia Balossino, Maria Grazia Ponzi, Elisa Natali, Stefania Carvisiglia, Margherita Marra, Icaro Lorenzoni, Gian Marco Micheli, Giovanni De Angelis, Giorgio Coen, Valerio Polici, Aron Greco, Mario Vigna, Sara Mignogna, Lorenzo Tomio, Chiara Piccone, Futura Tittaferrante, Cristina Ghinassi.

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ASSOCIATION CLIMATE ART PROJECT

Curriculum Vitae Association Climate Art Project

The Cultural Association Climate art Project was founded on 1 March 2018, with the intention of continuing certain cultural aspects linked to scientific and environmental dissemination through contemporary art, which had already been developed by the artist Andreco since 2008.

In particular, it wants to take charge of the popularisation part of ‘Climate’ , the artist’s project between art and science on the consequences of climate change. The Climate project, which consists of a series of interventions in different European cities, was presented for the first time in Paris in November 2015 on the occasion of Cop 21, the UN Climate Change Conference, and was subsequently continued in the cities of Bologna, Bari and Venice. Climate consists of the realisation of a series of diverse interventions in the territory that include installations in urban space, wall paintings, workshops and seminars that link the artistic discipline to the scientific one in a dialogue that is translated by the artist into works that draw inspiration from the latest scientific research on the causes and effects of climate change. The project is characterised by bringing to light the vulnerabilities̀ of the territory in which its actions take place. If in Bari the main theme was the acceleration of desertification phenomena due to rising temperatures, in Venice the artist focused on the rising sea level. In addition to the ‘Climate’ project in recent years, Andreco has created several works on environmental issues, such as PCB remediation techniques with plants in Brescia, recycling and economy circulates, for the World Recycling Day in Bologna, the problem of air pollution and more generally on the landscape as a natural element of the territory to be preserved. These projects, often based on and accompanied by accredited scientific studies, are the heritage of the cultural association, which wants to continue and expand the dissemination and didactic part.

In recent years, the cultural association Climate Art Project has carried out projects in the fields of art and the environment and art and science. including:

WATER TALKS | Conversazioni d’Acqua, a cycle of 5 meetings curated by Claudia Pecoraro, realised in collaboration with the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali and with the support of Acqua Foundation, which will take place in 5 museums of the Municipality of Rome: Centrale Montemartini; Museo di Roma, Palazzo Braschi; Museo dell’Ara Pacis; Mercati di Traiano, Museo dei Fori Imperiali; Musei Capitolini. The project, winner of the Public Notice ‘Collection of Project Proposals for the realisation of events, manifestations, initiatives and projects of interest to the Capitoline Administration of city relevance’ is promoted by Roma Capitale in collaboration with Zètema Progetto Cultura. In 2024

DISPLACEMENT, Malta Biennial 2024. Climate Art Project was in charge of managing the production of the artistic performance Displacement Malta directed by the artist Andreco, for the opening day of the Malta Biennial of Contemporary Art.

ART AND COMMUNITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION and XFARM LAND ART – the first rural art park on land confiscated from the Mafia in Apulia. Climate Art Project was a partner in these two projects together with Xfarm Agricoltura Prossima, Pigment Workroom and Mural Arts Institute Philadelphia in 2023

DROPS the large installation by Andreco for the exhibition Back to Nature, by the Soprintendenza Capitolina and curated by Costantino D’Orazio at Villa Borghese in Rome in 2020-2021. The installation recalls the importance of water and the fragility of ecosystems.

ARNO, a large mural to raise awareness of rivers at the Manifattura Tabacchi and NAM in Florence. 2018 e 2023.

FLUMEN a three-year project 2020-21-22 on scientific and environmental awareness through art on the theme of rivers in the city. Financed by the Eureka! call for proposals of Roma Capitale and realised in collaboration with: CNR, MAXXI, ARPA Lazio, PALAEXPO, Università La Sapienza, Università Roma Tre, Insieme per l’Aniene Onlus, CSA semi di comunità, Contratto di Fiume Tevere and others.

La Parata Tiberina degli Inizi, a collective performance on the preservation of the Tiber River, commissioned by the Fondazione Romaeuropa and realised in collaboration with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia, and the Studio Andreco for the Roma Capitale festival.

Remediation, a project of scientific and environmental dissemination through art on Nature Based Solutions. Financed by the Eureka! 2019 call for proposals of Roma Capitale and realised in collaboration with: CNR, Sapienza, Auditorium Parco della Musica, University of Tuscia, Roma Tre, Insieme per l’Aniene.

In May 2018, the association Climate Art Project won the Eureka! Announcement of the Municipality of Rome with the PLANTAE Project, a reflection on greenery in Rome starting from the manuscripts preserved in the Angelica Library in Rome. The project includes conferences, guided tours and art exhibitions.

In July 2018, the Association Climate Art Project, won the Bando Estata Romana of the Municipality of Rome, with the AQUAE Project, consisting of performances urban crossings and research on the city of Rome and its waters from Villa Sciarra to the Aniene Park.

This was followed by a series of projects created by Andreco that were relevant in terms of content and relevant to the Contemporary call for entries:

‘The Plants are Revolutionaries”– Museum of Science and Art – Palazzo Poggi – Art City Polis – Artefiera Bologna Feb. 2018 – Curated by Angela Vettese

‘Climate 04 Sea Level Rise’, Grand Canal, adjacent to Santa Lucia Station in Venice. Realised thanks to the collaboration of Andreco, m.a.c.lab – Ca’ Foscari, IUAV University of Venice, CNR-ISMAR, Studio La Città, One Contemporary Art, ASLC progetti per l’arte, Regione Veneto, Grandi Stazioni, De Castelli srl, Spring Color srl and Platform Green. 2017/2018

Coltivare Utopie – Cultivating Potential – Permanent sculpture – show and installation Teatro Massimo and CARTEC – Musei Civici, Cagliari, Sardinia. Simposium and Show – ‘Camposud’. Curated by Maria Paola Zedda and Giulia Palomba. 2017

Portugal, ÁRVORES – collective performance. dedicated to the tree burned by the wild fires, due to Climate Change Vila Nova de Gaia – Portugal. 2017

Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci – Prato, ‘Parade of the End’, collective performance curated by Giada Pellicari, Produced by Centro Pecci, Studio la Città, Traffic Gallery, 28 February 2017

Phytoremediation – Show, wall painting and workshop for young students of Istituto Razzetti in Brescia, curated by Infact and In fiction. 2017

Double Landscape, Installation for Estate Romana, Villa Ada, Rome. 2017.

‘Back to the Land’ Studio La Città, Verona curated by Andrea Lerda and Platform Green 2016

CLIMATE 03 – Desertification, Bari and Bitonto, Puglia curated by Pigment workroom and Poetry in Action. 2016

CLIMATE 02 – Emissions, curated by Cheap Festival and the Municipality of Bologna. 2016

CLIMATE 01 Public Art Project about Climate Change consequences, curated by GFR and Pigment Workroom. The Project is in Two Parts Climate 01 Sculpture and Climate 01 Mural. Paris, France, 2015

Landmark, iron sculpture with climber plants for the ‘Le Serre dei Giardini Margherita’ Park in Bologna 2015

Bad Grass Never Die – L’Erba Cativa (L’An Mor Mai) Parade, collective performance made with Motus for Santarcangelo dei teatri 2015

‘Living Mural’ Installation composed of a mural painting with a vertical garden, at Forndazione Pistoletto, Biella. 2015