21.02.2020

Er mejo daa cucina

Art, Performance, Residencies, Roma

H18:00
Entrata: Via Ludovisi 48
(fully booked / join the waiting list)

Dates
21.02.2020
Location
Roma
Category
Art, Performance, Residencies
Information

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 AnaĂŻs 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.

Please note that the event is fully booked. If you wish to be placed on the waiting list, please contact prenotazioni@istitutosvizzero.it.
Natalie Portman (CH) is the collective name under which a group of friends unite to make events and performances. Using fiction’s tools, Natalie aims at creating moments of friction and contamination between worlds and people. They notably organized lectures of short stories on a ferryboat in Basel. Ferry Tales and Poems and Songs (2017-2019) emphasized the collective’s concerne to merge audiences and interlace the adjacent
fields of art and literature. Their proposals circle around the persistent question of where a story does come from and how it can be shared. The practice of inviting plays an essential role in their events, forming little by little a constellation of companions.

AnaĂŻs Wenger (Fellow, Istituto Svizzero)
AnaĂŻs Wenger (1991, Geneva) studied Art at the HEAD – Haute Ă©cole 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 GenĂšve; Kunstmuseum Langenthal; ThĂ©Ăątre du Loup/La GraviĂšre (Geneva); Espace Libre (Biel); Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva); Centre d’art NeuchĂątel; One gee in fog (ChĂȘne-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 GenĂšve awards. In 2019 she was artist resident at Project Space, Centre d’art Contemporain (Geneva).
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