VENICE’S BEVILACQUA LA MASA FOUNDATION ELECTS NEW LEADERSHIP
After protests and a petition by Venice’s artistic community following the city administration’s announcement that it would take over the historic Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation and act as the institution’s executive manager, the foundation’s new board held their first meeting on October 20, near Bevilaquca la Masa’s headquarters at Palazzo Tito, reports Exibart. The foundation’s new director, Michele Casarin, chaired the meeting, including three new board members: board president Bruno Bernardi, Valentina Farolfi, and Roberto Zamberlan.
As artforum.com reported in July this year, the petitioners demanded that three members of the board of governors should be appointed by the mayor at “the designation of the provosts or directors of the three public educational institutions in Venice, which work in the field of contemporary art, art critique, curatorship, and management,” while including the Academy of Fine Arts and the Ca’ Foscari and IUAV universities–and this demand essentially has been met.
Bruno Bernardi teaches business management, cultural organization management, and accounting and analysis at the Venice University Ca’ Foscari. Since 2013, he has also served as director of the master’s program in creative development and management of cultural heritage–a collaboration between the Ca’ Foscari University and the Scuola Holden in Turin, and has been a member of the administration board of the Fondazione Musei Civici since 2015.
Valentina Farfolfi works as a consultant in public relations and has developed various projects within cultural, scientific, lifestyle, and publishing. While serving as consultant for the Altagamma Foundation, her tasks included collaborating with Codice Italia and executing initiatives such as FEST along with exhibitions on Charles Darwin and homo sapiens.
Roberto Zamberlan worked as a gallerist at Venice’s Santo Stefano Gallery until 2009, and worked with the Giorgio e Isa de Chirico Foundation in Rome. Zamberlan is known for his experience with organizing cultural events.
