Selection Panel #09

Alberta Whittle


Alberta Whittle
(b. 1980 Bridgetown, Barbados) lives and works in Glasgow. Alberta received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2024 and is currently a Research Associate at The University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Her extensive range of exhibitions include solo presentations at Nicola Vassell, New York (2025), Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute (2024), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2024, with Dominique White); Temporary Gallery, Cologne (2024); Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2023); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2023); Holburne Museum, Bath (2023); Scotland + Venice, La Biennale de Venezia (2022);  Glasgow International (2021); Grand Union, Birmingham (2020); and Dundee Contemporary Arts (2019). Selected group exhibitions include Reverb, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2024); Fragments of Epic Memory, The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (2024); Flow States, El Museo del Barrio, NYC (2024); Conversations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2024); Keeping Time, Gallery 1957, Ghana (2024); Sunlight on the SeaFloor, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, MAC SAN JUAN (2024); Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Soft and weak like water, 14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2023); Moving Bodies, Moving Images, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); and Life between islands: Caribbean British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain, London (2021). Alberta has received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award (2022), a Turner Bursary (2020), Frieze Artist Award (2020), a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award (2020), and Margaret Tait Award (2018–19). Her work is included in the permanent collections such as the Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow; Arts Council Collection; Art Gallery of Ontario; The Contemporary Art Research Collection, Edinburgh College of Art; Glasgow Museums Collection; Government Art Collection; The McManus, Dundee; National Galleries of Scotland; and the University of St Andrews.

Ana Vaz


Ana Vaz is an artist and filmmaker born in the Brazilian midwest inhabited by the ghosts buried by its modernist capital: Brasília. Originally from the cerrado and wanderer by choice, Ana has lived in the arid lands of central Brazil and southern Australia, in the mangroves of northern France and in the northeastern shores of the Atlantic. Her filmography activates and questions cinema as an art of the (in)visible and instrument capable of transforming human perception, expanding its connections with forms of life — other than human or spectral. Her film-poems are marked by a constant experimental defiance to the poetic forms of contemporary cinema, highlighting the profound contradictions of our time and questioning, above all, the destructive practices of colonial modernity. Consequences or expansion of her cinematography, her activities are also embodied in writing, critical pedagogy, installations or collective walks. 

Paola Ugolini


Paola Ugolini lives and works in Rome and London.She is an Art critic and curator at In Between Foundation. She has been curating in international and italian venues such as Galleria Nazionale Arte Moderna Roma, Museo MAXXI Roma, Museo MACRO Roma, Museo delle Civiltà Roma, Museo Madre Napoli, Museo 900 Firenze, Moma e Ps1 New York, various shows and artistic projects based mostly on the work of female artists, Videoart, Body Art, Performance Art and the relationship between Art and Feminism. She is visiting professor of curatorial practices and gender studies at Roma Tre University, John Cabot University in Rome, Naba in Rome, Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milano, and Rome Fine Art Academy Accademia since May 2021 she is visiting professor at the master’s in management in communication practices and cultural politics at IUAV University in Venice. She published for Christian Marinotti Editore the volume Artists and feminism in Italy. A non-hegemonic way to look at Art History.

Saverio Verini

Saverio Verini is a curator of exhibitions, festivals and events related to contemporary art and culture. He has collaborated with institutions such as La Galleria Nazionale, Rome, the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris, the Center for Contemporary Art - Luigi Pecci in Prato, the MACRO Museum, Rome, the Rome Quadrienniale, the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici, the American Academy in Rome, the Memmo Foundation, Rome, the Pastificio Cerere Foundation, Rome, the Ermanno Casoli Foundation, Fabriano, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, the ArtVerona fair, Verona. Saverio Verini is currently director of the network of municipal museums in the town of Spoleto. He regularly collaborates with Artribune magazine and writes critical texts for solo and group exhibitions in museums, private galleries and other exhibition spaces. In 2018 he published for PostmediaBooks the monograph Roberto Fassone. Quasi tutti i racconti; he is also the author of La stagione fatata (The Enchanted Season), published by Castelvecchi in 2022, an essay on the relationship between childhood and Italian contemporary art.

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