
Architectural - Curatorial Expertises
An Architect | An Exhibition Designer | A Curator
Nowadays there is no line between design works, the concept would develop the design and translate it into the reality of any form of a project; structures, objects, websites, signs, vehicle, clothing and etc., a lifestyle for that matter. Now let’s go back to the basic, who are architects; the ones who are trained in the art and science of designing your space, curate the concept for structures and turn those concepts into plans and images. You can say they develop our lifestyle.
As for her, her unique point of view on every aspect of this matter distinguishes her from the others. In 2007, she opened her own Architecture Studio, Maddalena d’Alfonso, which is characterized by a formula dealing with the compositions, from small to macro scales, in urban design, Architecture, interior design as well as museum exhibits for public institutions and private investors.
The architect acts as a curator to generate a communal sensibility on architecture as a common good. She ideates to assemble her catalogues as a generative place of reflections; where she managed to present and display cultural behaviours like interdisciplinary links between different worlds. d’Alfonso participates in numerous public architectural and urban design competitions in collaboration with other architecture studios of which with some she worked as a designer. Not just different academic disciplines but also the institutional actors and sponsors with a common ground of interest are re-conducted in her curatorial projects, which is why she is responsible for all the key points and the milestones of the projects.
2024
Project: Pallade - DcomeDesign
Location: Fabbrica del vapore, Sala delle Colonne, Milan
Date: 16 -21 April 2024
Particulars: The exhibition presents an eclectic selection of pieces created by talented architects, designers, artists: projects/products displayed both in large dimensions, which capture the attention and arouse wonder, and in very small dimensions, which invite the viewer to observe the details and grasp the value of small things.
2024
Project: Bookshop for the Vittoriale degli Italiani
Location: Vittoriale degli Italiani
Particulars: Bookshop, Library, Cafè
2023
Project: "IL RESTO DELL'ALBA" Exhibition
Location: Nuoro Art Museum
Date: 24 November 2023 - 3 March 2024
Particulars: With Patrick Tuttofuoco and Pininfarina Architecture
2023
Project: "ALMA" Exhibition
Location: Painting Accademy, Casa di Reclusione di Milano Opera, Fondazione Maimeri, Golgi Redaelli, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
Date: 24 November 2023 - 3 March 2024
Particulars: Travelling exhibition
2022
Project: "International design competition for the Egyptian Museum 2024"
Location: Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
Date: November 2022
Particulars: Third Place
2021
Project: "Human Signs Looped" Exhibition
Location: ESPRONCEDA Institute ofArt & Culture, Barcelona, Spain.
Date: 13 - 22 November 2021
Particulars: Dance curator and artistic co-director: Stefania Ballone Curator: Savina Tarsitano
2021
Project: "Il resto dell'alba"
Location: Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy
Date: December 2021
Particulars: This project is based on three very important concepts: time, dreams and nature.
2021
Project: "Aldo Rossi - Sketches and Projects" Exhibition
Location: Yarat Contemporary Art Space
Date: 25 June - 5 December 2021
Particulars: The exhibition presents Rossi's work in three chapters organised in chronological order. The design of the exhibition space respects and follows current Covid-19 standards. Flows of people and seating are designed for distancing.
2020
Project: “Fragile Frontiers” Exhibition
Location: Yarat Contemporary Art Space
Date: 22 November - 16 February 2020
Particulars: The exhibition included works by Nazgol Ansarinia, Kamrooz Aram, Dadbeh Bassir, Samira Eskandarfar, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Samira Hodaei, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Robin Mandel, Ali Momeni, Timo Nasseri, Jaleh Nesari, Navid Nuur, Leila Pazookour Nasari e Sara Rahip and Mirza Kadym Irevani.
2019
Project: “Icons of the italian design in Casa Fiat da Cultura” Exhibition
Location: Foundation Casa Fiat da Cultura, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Date: 13 August - 3 November 2019
Particulars: The exhibition included works by Emilio Vedova, Giulio Turcato, Pietro Consagra, Manoel Martins, Lucio Fontana, Cini Boeri, Joe Colombo, Superstudio, Archizoom and many more
Exhibition Designer | Comune di Milano
2018
Project: “The Eco Of Classic, The Valley of the Temples of Agrigento” Exhibition
Location: Studio Francesco Messina, Milan, Italy
Date: 19 July – 20 October 2018
Particulars: Curated by Maria Fratelli | Giuseppe Parello | Maria Serena Rizzo
Exhibition Designer | ANED
2018
Project: “Longoni: captivity war and freedom” Exhibition
Location: ANED, Milan, Italy
Date: 10 February – 27 May 2018
Particulars: The exhibition included 15 large and medium format paintings 60 drawings and prints by the author
Curator . Concept developer . Exhibition Designer | Comune di Milano, Casa della Memoria
2017 - 2018
Project: "The landscape of rights. photographing the Italian constitution" Exhibition
Location: Comune di Milano (Casa della Memoria), Italy
Date: 05 September 2017 – 06 January 2018
Particulars:
The exhibition received the Medal of high representation of the Presidency of the Italian Republic
Sixteen works on the articles of the Italian Constitution by the student of the History and Criticism course of Photography for Architecture of Politecnico di Milano
Participant . Content & Text Developer | The XX Chilean Architecture and Urbanism Biennial
2017
Project: “Geopolitics of hot modernity” Exhibition on Unpostponable Dialogues of Worwilde Connection of Warm Modernity
Location: The XX Chilean Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, Chile
Date: 26 October – 28 March 2017
Presenter . Content and Text Developer | Galleria MAGA, Gallarate Art musuem
2016
Project: "Portraits of monuments" Exhibition
Location: MAGA, Gallarate Art Museum, Italy
Date: 20 February - 28 March 2016
Particulars: Exhibition of Marco Introini including 30 large format photographs, with the patronage of MIBAC and the Lombardy Region
Curator | Triennale di Milano
2015 - 2016
Project: Indian Architecture Building Democracy: A Warm Modernity; an Exhibition on the Origins of Participatory Architecture and further Fortune
Location: India Pavilion of the XXI Triennale di Milano, Italy
Date: 01 April – 12 September 2016
Particulars: Ideation, Concept, and Production in collaboration with The Indian General Consulate, Milano and Indian Forum Design of Delhi
Curator | Urban Center of Brescia
2015
Project: Export the historical Center Exhibition
Location: EXPO Pavilion, Grattacielo Pirelli, Milan, Italy
Date: 1 August – 1 September 2015
Particulars: Curatored by Benno Albrecht | Anna Magrin
Curator . Exhibition Designer | Regione Lombardia
2015
Project: Syntactic Architecture Exhibition
Location: EXPO Pavilion, Grattacielo Pirelli, Milan, Italy
Date: 1 August – 1 September 2015
Particulars:
Co-curator: L. degli Esposti
Photographic exhibition within the activities of the ARCHITECTURE PAVILION of EXPO Arts of Vittorio Sgarbi, an initiative of the Lombardy Region in collaboration with Triennale di Milano
Photographs by Cyrene | Introini | Menghi | Montagna | Petronio | Poli | Ripa | Romano | Sabatino | Zerbi
The exhibition consists of 40 shots of 10 photographers related to 15 masterpieces of modern architecture built in Milan and Lombardy from the twenties to the sixties
Photography section Curator | CIVA, Brussels | Triennale di Milano
2014 - 2015
Project: AFRICA BIGH CHANCE / BIG CHANCE
Date: 14 January - 01 March 2015 | 15 October - 28 December 2014
Particulars:
The photography and film section by Benno Albrecht
The exhibition, conceived by the Milan Triennial in co-production with the CIVA, focuses on describing the architectural and urbanistic thinking in Africa from post-war period to today
Curator . Producer . Exhibition Designer | Politecnico di Milano
2013
Project: Alvaro Siza Drawings and Maquette Exhibition
Date: 15 October – 09 November 2013
Particulars: The exhibition represented five of Alvaro Siza’s best-known projects: the swimming pools in Leça de Palmeira, the Bouça residences in Porto, the reconstruction of the Chiado in Lisbon, the Contemporary Art Centre in Santiago de Compostela and the Casa della Musica in Lecce
Curator . Producer . Exhibition Designer | Politecnico di Milano
2013
Project: Alvaro Siza & Gabriele Basilico on Matosinhos Exhibition
Date: 15 October - 9 November 2013
Particulars:
Photographs by Gabriele Basilico | Drawings by Alvaro Siza
The exhibition compares Gabriele Basilico’s photographs with Alvaro Siza’s drawings in Portraits of Matosinhos
Curator . Exhibition Layout Designer | MIT-Museum
2013
Project: Suspended city L’Aquila After the Earthquake of 2009 Exhibition
Date: 07 February – 18 April 2013
Particulars: Photographs by Michele Nastasi
Curator . Exhibition Designer | Iberè Camargo Foundation | M.A.S.P. | Casa Fiat
2011- 2012
Project: Giorgio de Chirico: the sentiment of architecture traveling Exhibition
Date: 09 December 2011- 04 March 2012 | 22 March 2012 – 20 May 2012 | 29 July 2012 25 September 2012
Particulars: The exhibition comprised of over sixty works including paintings and sculptures from the artist’s Neo-metaphysical period of the 1960s and 1970s, and presented, possibly for the first time ever, the complete set of the 66 lithographs that the artist produced for Guillaume Apollinaire’s Calligrammes (1930)
Curator . Exhibition Designer | Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2011 - 2012
Project: Displacements Photographs of Giada Ripa
Date: 21 November 2011 – 22 January 2012
Particulars:
The exhibition presented the artist’s new works at the time, as well as works from the series Falling Icons and Beyond the Oil Route, two projects created between 2004 and 2011
Co-curator: Bogdan Mamow
Curator . Designer | CAMEC - Center for Modern and Contemporary Art | Revoltella Museum in Trieste
2010
Project: The museography of Alvaro Siza Exhibition
Date: 15 October - 21 November 2010 |
24 July - 7 August 2010
Particulars: The exhibition presents 36 photographs by Marco Introini and drawings and sketches of architecture by Alvaro Siza, plus a non-published video interview by Maddalena d’Alfonso with Alvaro Siza
Concept Developer . Exhibition Designer | Fondazione Beppe Fenoglio
2009
Project: The: Gabriele Basilico Exhibition
Particulars:
The exhibition included Video Installation Mnemonic interference with the resistance sites of Beppe Fenoglio part of the Gabriele Basilico exhibition
Curated by Michele Vianello
Curator . Exhibition Layout Designer | Galleria Belvedere
2009
Project: The Brera People Exhibition
Date: 14 May – 28 June 2009
Particulars
Photos by Enzo Nocera
The photographer has photographed the Brera bohemian, a circle of life companions. With 122 portraits, he ideally reconstructs a unique bond, reflected in their environment. In that precise context, meeting each other meant strengthening the common civic and idealistic sense and behaving as individuals aware of their political role.
Curator | Sixth Biennial of Image, Chiasso | Museum of Biellese Territory | Fotografia Festival internazionale di Roma (Comune di Roma)
2007 - 2008
Project: Inherited the Landscape” Photography Exhibition
Date: 21 September - 23 November 2008 | 16 December 2007 – 24 March 2008 | 06 April – 13 May 2007
Particulars:
Co-Curator: Giovanna Calvenzi
The Exhibition has decided to carry out specific programming on landscape photography, thus becoming part of the city's tradition, always attentive to photographic documentation. 9 masters of Italian photography such as Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Mimmo Jodice and many others, presented 18 young photographers.
Developer . Author . Producer | A.I.A.C.E.
2007
Project: The Big What; travel around the world of art, 80 minutes Documentary
Location: Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy
Date: 07 - 11 November 2007
Particulars:
Collaborators: Crippa Antonella | Delbò Matteo | D’Apuzzo Gianluca
The screening was during the 2007 Invideo Festival, on Contemporary Art including; Venice, 52nd International Art Exhibition, 38th Basel Exhibition Art, 12th Documenta, Kassel and Münster, Sculpture Projects Münster
Designer . Researcher. Author. Producer | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
2006
Project: The Deslocaçao Estrategica” Exhibition
Date: March 2006
Particulars:
The exhibition commissioned in the celebration contest for the 50th anniversary of the Foundation, on the Headquarter of the City Landscape.
Concept, production, and design of the Photographic Survey realized by photographer G. Basilico.
Curator | The University of Trento | IUAV | Politecnico di Milano
2005 - 2007
Project: The Vilanova Artigas: Brutalism and Minimalism Exhibition
Date: 16 - 26 April 2007 |
13 March - 04 April 2007 | 14 October - 10 November 2005
Particulars: The exhibition presented 7 large models, photographic panels and a series of films that document the life of the architect and the current state of his work and reflects on one of the major exponents of the architecture of the 50's-80's, founded by the São Paulo school, and designed by the Faculty of Architecture of São Paulo, Brazil.
Curator . Exhibition Designer | Politecnico di Milano | Tomie Ohtalke Foundation
2005 - 2007
Project: Vilanova Artigas - Brutalism and Minimalism
Location: Politecnico di Milano, Italy | IUAV, University of Venice
Date: 14 October – 10 November 2005 | 13 March – 04 April 2007
Particulars: The exhibition reflects on one of the leading exponents of Brazilian architecture of the 50-80s
Coordinator . Producer . Designer | Gonçalo Byrne-arquitectos Lda
2004 -2007
Project: Geografias Vivas Exhibition and Book Production
Location: The VI Architecture Biennial in São Paulo, Fundação Bienal, Brazil | The CCB-Cultural Center of Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 02 October – 08 December 2005 | 24 November 2006 – 25 February 2007
Particulars:
Curated by Gonçalo Byrne
The exhibition included 24 main images
Curator . Exhibition Designer | PAN (Palazzo delle Arti) | Triennale di Milano | F.A.U.P.
2003 - 2006
Project: The Drawing in the Cities, Architecture in Portugal Exhibition
Date: 15 March - 15 April 2006 |
20 January – 28 March 2004 | 01 September – 20 December 2003
Particulars:
Photographs by G. Basilico
Curators: Alvaro Siza | J. Soares | A. Tavares | A. Madureira
The exhibition is organized in a sequence of photographs by Gabriele Basilico, specially made for the occasion, and in the documentation of the projects by the architects Fernando Távora, Eduardo Souto de Moura, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, Gonçalo Byrne, Vitor Figueredo, Adalberto Dias, Rem Koohlas, Atelier 15, Miguel Figueira and Àlvaro Siza.
The exhibition held in Triennale di Milano was during XX Triennale The Memory and the Future
The exhibition held for F.A.U.P was held in V Bienal de Arquitectura e Design de São Paulo, Brazil
Architect | Municipality of Carbonia
July - September 1999
Project: The rule and the Garden" city of Carbonia (Title of the proposal)
Location: Carbonia, Italy
Date: 01 July – 09 September 1999
Particulars:
Architect associated with Marzia Ferrari
1 Prize ex aequo in the content for a planning restoration for the city center of Carbonia
Head of Visual Communication . Graphic Designer | Grazia Neri Photo Agency
1998 - 2001
Responsibilities:
Concept design of the coordinate identity of the Agency,
Organization of the event to present the new image of the Agency,
Concept design and realization of:
. The web site grazianeri.com
. The logo Sport shots for the department of the sport images
. The digital portfolios of the photographers
. The virtual gallery about the Grazia Neri Expositions