Viola Leddi (1993) is an artist based in Geneva. Her practice, which moves between painting and sculpture, explores the processes of vision and their aesthetic and political implications in Western modernity. Inspired by feminist epistemologies, her works challenge the modernist canon of representation, which is based on a disembodied and dominating gaze. She completed the Work.Master program at HEAD – Genève and has exhibited at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Pace Gallery in Geneva (2023), Ordet in Milano, Triennale Milano (2023), and Liste Art Fair Basel (2022). She is a co-founder of the Altalena collective.

Camilla Paolino is pursuing a Ph.D. in contemporary art history at the University of Geneva, where she investigates, from a Marxist feminist perspective, the material nexus between reproductive and creative work emerged in Italian art practice in the 1970s. To extend and deepen the scope of her study, she recently completed a ten-month research residency at the Swiss Institute in Rome (2023-2024). Her writings have been published in scholarly journals such as kritische berichte and Revista de História de Arte / Série W, as well as art magazines such as Flash Art, MOUSSE and Brand New Life. In parallel, Camilla develops an independent curatorial practice, animating the radio-art platform Canale Milva (CH), as well as the art space Lateral Roma (Rome) and the artists’ residency RITA (Turbigo). In recent years, she has also collaborated on the curatorial project 7 Winds at Kunsthalle Bern (2022-2023) and curated the practice-based research project B-side feminism. A transcription marathon, aimed at exploring a set of audio archives from the Italian neo-feminist group Rivolta Femminile (Geneva, 2018; Bern, 2018; Lugano 2019).

Diletta “Bonnie” Bellotti is a Roman showgirl and writer. Since 2023 she has curated a weekly column on socio-political movements for L’Espresso and collaborates with Il Fatto Quotidiano. She holds an MA in International Migration from the University of Kent and in 2020 published „Pomodori Rosso Sangue“ (nottetempo). She is a showdyke, together with Viola Valéry, in the show „Buonasera Cretine“ and in „La vita segreta di Tea Stilton“ with the clown and DJ Gylos. Wearing Cupid’s wings, she formally contributes to lesbodramas at queer parties across Europe.

Pia Candinas, born in Ilanz, Switzerland, moved to Rome in 1971. As a librarian, she worked at the French Cultural Centre in Rome and later at Temple University Rome, where she founded a library specialising in art history. At the same time, she organised a series of conferences entitled “Art and Culture in Italy”, attended by numerous artists, directors, writers, and intellectuals based in Rome, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Enzo Cucchi, the Taviani brothers, Dacia Maraini, and many others. The programme also included an important section dedicated to “Women’s Studies in Italy”.
Among the many initiatives linked to her long-standing involvement in Italian feminism, the most significant is the founding of the “Virginia Woolf Cultural Centre”, also known as the Università delle Donne, which played a key role in social issues such as divorce law, abortion, women’s health centres, sexual violence, and related topics.

Marta Federici (b. 1988) is a curator and art historian. She co-directs Lateral Roma (Rome), an independent art space that expands its research beyond traditional exhibition formats towards the experimentation of critical practices of exchange and artistic production. She works as a curatorial researcher at Madre – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina in Naples. From 2022 to 2024 she co-directed the curatorial platform LOCALES, conceiving and co-curating the biennial programme of visual arts and performance If Body (2023/2024) in Rome. Her texts have appeared in specialist journals such as Flash Art and NERO magazine, as well as in publications including „Tell me stories!“ (Politi Seganfreddo, 2024).

Laura Fortini teaches Italian Literature at Roma Tre University and has long worked as a literary critic (in every sense) for the culture pages of Il Manifesto. One of the founding members of the Società Italiana delle Letterate, she has contributed to the journal DWF and is currently a member of Archivia and curator of the „Quaderni Alma Sabatini“, published since 2021 by Iacobelli for the Centro di documentazione internazionale Alma Sabatini, of which she is also a member. She wrote the preface (2023) to „La figlia prodiga“ by Alice Ceresa for the “La tartaruga” series published by Baldini & Castoldi.

Allison Grimaldi Donahue (Middletown, Connecticut, USA) is the author of „Comporci“ (edizioni ensemble, 2026) and „The History of Breathing“ (Diaphanes, 2025), and the translator of „Self-portrait“ by Carla Lonzi (Divided, 2021). She has recently presented poetic performances, installations, and collective actions at the Guggenheim Foundation Venice, Luci d’Artista Turin, MACTE Termoli, Museo Madre Naples, Kunsthalle Bern, Sonnenstube Lugano, Short Theatre Rome, and Prosopopoeia Vienna. She is the recipient of the 14th edition of the Italian Council Award for Talent Development and the 2026 Premio Gallarate. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the European Graduate School and lives in Bologna.

Viola Lo Moro, a lesbian feminist and poet, is a member of the women’s bookshop Tuba in Rome. She has published two poetry collections, „Cuore Allegro“ and „Luoghi Amati“ (Giulio Perrone Editore, 2020–2022). Two previously unpublished poems appeared in the anthology Incantamenti (Vydia Editore, 2023). Her work has been translated into Catalan, Polish, Greek, and French. She is part of the collective ____GSV with illustrator Michela Rossi (Sonno) and composer Flavio Michele (Grosso Bernardo), with whom she researches and performs sound/poetic/visual objects. She co-curates „Le Campane“, a laboratory of individual and collective memory through poetic reading, together with Alma Spina, and has curated the literary dialogues of the Spazio Kor theatre season in Asti for the past four years.

Ginevra Ludovici is an independent curator and art historian, currently a PhD candidate at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, where she is developing her dissertation Self-initiated Institutions: The Case of Artists-Run Educational Platforms. She co-founded the multidisciplinary collectives CampoBase (2018–2022), dedicated to creating processes of shared knowledge through discursive practices and experimental approaches, and vieni fortuna (since 2023), focused on experimentation between sound and text. In 2025 she also co-founded, together with Flavio Michele, 10 documents, a research platform and exhibition space based in Rome.

Giovanna Olivieri was born in Rimini and has lived in Rome since 1985. One of the founders of Archivia in 2003, she is currently the coordinator of its activities. Passionate about photography, art, and women’s history, she has conceived and produced exhibitions and multimedia projects for Archivia and conducted research aimed at enhancing the Archives and Library.

Giulia Crispiani (Ancona, 1986) is an editor and translator, writer, and visual artist living and working in Rome. She collaborates with Nero Editions, bruno, Dutch Art Institute, and teaches at NABA Roma. Her work has been presented at numerous institutions and non-profit spaces, including Istituto Svizzero; Bulegoa; MAXXI and MAXXI L’Aquila; Romaeuropa Festival; Center for Book Arts; Almanac Inn; Centrale Fies; Short Theatre; MACRO; Quadriennale di Roma 2020; Il Colorificio; and Framer Framed. She is the author of Meetings at Remarkable Places (Nero Editions, 2020), What if Every Farewell Would Be Followed by a Love Letter (Union Editions, 2020), What if I Can’t Say Goodbye (Union Editions, 2021), and Petra (Rerun Books, 2018). She is also co-author of غم/Tristezza/Sorrow (with Golrokh Nafisi, Oreri, 2021) and Albe e Tramonti di Praiano (with Michele Bertolino, Oreri, 2022).

Daniela Colombo graduated in Political Science from the University of Padua and specialised in socio-economic development at University of California, Los Angeles. In the 1970s, she was among the founders and later director of the magazine effe, and co-producer of the Si dice donna television programme on RAI2. In 1981, she founded AIDOS (Italian Association for Women in Development), serving as its President until December 2014. Throughout her career, she has worked in Italy and internationally to promote women’s rights, dignity, and freedom of choice, directing research and training programmes. She has collaborated with various United Nations agencies, the World Bank, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, and was the first co-director of the Aspen Institute Italia. She has also been a member of the Editorial Advisory Group of the journal Gender and Development, and has been active in ASviS, the CIDU, and the Women’s Major Group, the leading international advocacy body for women’s organisations.