Andrea Bellini (1971) is an art historian, critic and curator. After graduating in Philosophy and specialising in the History of Art at Siena University, as a critic he has concentrated on the greatest contemporary artists, and on the younger generations in particular. He has published hundreds of articles and essays for monographs, art catalogues and specialised magazines, including Flash Art, Il Giornale dell’Arte and Sculpture Magazine. From 2004 to 2007, he was based in New York as the US editor of Flash Art International.
Andrea Bellini has worked as a guest critic for the ISCP Program, New York, and in 2005 he was a consultant to the Rema Hort Mann Foundation in New York.
He co-curated the 2007 Prague Biennale and the great solo exhibition of works by Gino De Dominicis that opened in June 2007 at the Contemporary Art Centre of Villa Arson, Nice, and in November 2007 at Fondazione Merz in Turin.
In November 2006, he became curatorial advisor to PS1 MoMA, New York.
In February 2007 he was appointed director of Artissima, the International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin.
Andrea Bellini is also a member of:
- the Public Art Commission of the City of Turin
- the Contemporary Art Council of Regione Piemonte
- the Scientific Committee of Arthub, a platform established in 2007 to support artistic
endeavors in Asia
- the Scientific Committee of the “LUM per l’arte contemporanea” award promoted by
LUM Libera Università delle Puglie
- the Scientific Committee of the Emerging Talents exhibition promoted by the
Centro Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS) in Florence.
As well as working on the 15th Artissima, he is co-curating the That Time and This Time: Flags, Weapons, Dreams exhibition at PS1 MoMA in New York, the exhibition Artists’ Places. Paolo Mussat Sartor, 1960-2008 and the regional exhibitions of FRAC – Piemonte.
