Francesca Pionati

Francesca Pionati is a practitioner who collects meanings and images from the past to resignify them through process-based and collective practices. She is interested in examining the tensions between the on-stage and the off-stage through moving images, experimental theatre, performance, and publishing.

Since 2020 she is part of the artist duo VEGA with Tommaso Arnaldi. In 2021 Pionati co-founded the curatorial and research platform Iniziative di II, to explore the relationship between performativity and the public space. From this experience, she co-initiated the periodical publication II Magazine. The editorial project explores the codes and methodologies existing within publishing and its dialectic relationship with archiving, as well as the correlations to lesser visible or permanent forms of expression and dissemination. 

In 2022 Francesca joined the Dutch Art Institute, a nomadic program that stands between artistic practice and theoretical research, intending to expand pedagogical methodologies and temporary communities.

The research by Pionati has been shown at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Museo MA*GA, Triennale Milano, Galleria d’Arte Moderna of Rome, Manifattura Tabacchi, Fondazione smART, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, MEGA. She has partaken in the residency programs La Quarta Partete by Romeo Castellucci at Triennale Milano, Prender-si Cura at MATTATOIO, VISIO by Lo Schermo dell’Arte, and FONDAMENTA at Teatro India. In 2022 she won Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee and Premio Nazionale Arti Visive Città di Gallarate.