Internationally acclaimed writer and curator in modern and contemporary art, film, video, photography, and new media, Alfredo Cramerotti (b. 1967, Italy) is Director of MOSTYN, Wales’ foremost contemporary art institute, and Head Curator of APT Artist Pension Trust, New York, USA. Cramerotti is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the roaming curatorial agencies AGM Culture and CPS Chamber of Public Secrets, with which he co-curated the Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Art Bienniale, Italy in 2013, Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Region of Murcia, Spain, in 2010, and the Made in Video Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2006.
Internationally acclaimed writer and curator in modern and contemporary art, film, video, photography, and new media, Alfredo Cramerotti (b. 1967, Italy) is Director of MOSTYN, Wales’ foremost contemporary art institute, and Head Curator of APT Artist Pension Trust, New York, USA. Cramerotti is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the roaming curatorial agencies AGM Culture and CPS Chamber of Public Secrets, with which he co-curated the Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Art Bienniale, Italy in 2013, Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Region of Murcia, Spain, in 2010, and the Made in Video Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2006.
Other large-scale projects he curated include EXPO VIDEO in Chicago, USA (2015), Sequences VII, the real-time festival biennial in Reykjavik, Iceland (2015), the Mauritius Pavilion at the 56th Venice Art Bienniale (2015), and the Wales in Venice Pavilion at the 55th Venice Art Bienniale, Italy (2013). Amongst the solo exhibitions he led on are those by renown artists such as Diango Hernández, Heman Chong, Bill Drummond, Jane & Louise Wilson, Daphne Wright, Xiaohui Liu, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Laurent Grasso, Marinella Senatore, Ian Breakwell, Dinu Li, Grace Ndiritu, David Nash, Anselm Kiefer, Mali Morris, Jo Longhurst, Fernando Garcia-Dory, Franco Vaccari, Annette Kelm, Dan Rees, Nina Beier, Jesse Wine, Ryan Gander, Bedwyr Williams, Broomberg & Chanarin, Irma Blank, Sama Alshaibi, Sean Edwards, Amalia Pica, Carolee Schneemann, Finnbogi Petursson, Michael Takeo Magruder, Francesco Jodice and Camille Blatrix.
Cramerotti’s scholarship includes the theory and practice of “expanded photography: the hyperimage”, which investigates digital culture’s impact on artistic and curatorial practices, and “aesthetic journalism”, a concept he created to investigate the relationship between contemporary exhibitions and elements of interview, documentary, fiction and reportage. His own publications include the book Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing (2009) and Unmapping the City: Perspective on Flatness (2010) as well as over 150 published essays in reputable international journals and books.
