Er mejo daa cucina
H18:00
Entrata: Via Ludovisi 48
(fully booked / join the waiting list)
H18:00
Entrata: Via Ludovisi 48
(fully booked / join the waiting list)
The Friday afternoons at Istituto Svizzero are dedicated to our residents. It is an opportunity for the public to learn more about the projects they are working on during this year’s residency.
„Er mejo daa cucina“ is a one night exhibition and dinner curated by the collective Natalie Portman on the invitation of Anaïs Wenger, artist and fellow at Istituto Svizzero, Roma 2019/2020.
For one evening, Natalie Portman will display a selection of paintings and images gathered from restaurants in Rome. While wandering through the streets and meanders of the city, they searched for artworks carrying particular and intimate stories. Specific skills such as an acute observation, intuition, and empathy were needed in assembling this collection, far beyond the more commonly used concepts of beauty, artist’s recognition or economic value.
Borrowed from highly pregnant places, each selected work has a strong connection with the social act of eating and sharing. With the wish of remaining true to their respective environments, the works will be on view throughout the course of a dinner, in the historical dining room of Villa Maraini.
Anaïs Wenger (Fellow, Istituto Svizzero)
Anaïs Wenger (1991, Geneva) studied Art at the HEAD – Haute école d’art et de design in Geneva, where she obtained an MA degree (Work.Master) in 2017. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in 2018 at the LIYH & Art Genève; Kunstmuseum Langenthal; Théâtre du Loup/La Gravière (Geneva); Espace Libre (Biel); Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva); Centre d’art Neuchâtel; One gee in fog (Chêne-Bougerie); FriArt (Fribourg); Tinguely Museum/Kaserne (Basel); 3353 (Carouge); Alienze (Lausanne); in 2017 at the Solstice Art Center (Navan); Badenfahrt (Baden); Zabriskie Point (Geneva). She won the grant of the City of Geneva in 2018 and the Studer/Ganz Stiftung Prize in Zurich in 2017, and has been nominated for the Swiss Performance Prize, Tinguely Museum/Kaserne (Basel), New Heads – Fondation BNP Paribas Art Awards, LIYH/Art Genève awards. In 2019 she was artist resident at Project Space, Centre d’art Contemporain (Geneva).