Iolanda Pensa
Biography:
Art critic, researcher and cultural producer, scientific director of lettera27 Foundation and curator of Mobile A2K in collaboration with Roberto Casati. Founding member of iStrike Foundation, she worked as a strategic consultant for doual’art and the Africa Centre. Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale in Paris and in urban planning at the Politecnico of Architecture in Milan. She accomplished researcheson the cultrual system in Dakar, Cairo, Douala, Cape Town, Minsk, Tehran, Siberia, Far Eastern Russia, Europe and the US. She collaborated with the magazines "Domus", "Flash Art", "Africa e Mediterraneo", "Tema Celeste", "Nigrizia", "Artthrob".
Bibliography:
I. Pensa (ed.), "Ars & Urbis", monographic issue of Africa e Mediterraneo, n. 50, 2005. I. Pensa, "Les biennales et la géographie: Les biennales de Venise, du Caire et de Dakar", in Jocelyne Dakhlia (ed.), Créations artistiques contemporaines en pays d’Islam: des arts en tension, Paris, Kimé 2006. I. Pensa, "Make it sexy. La promozione dell’arte contemporanea africana", in Guido Candela, Maurizio Biordi (eds.), L’arte etnica tra cultura e mercato, Skira, Milano 2007, pp. 93-131. I. Pensa, S. Federici (eds.), "Industria culturale in Africa", monographic issue of Africa e Mediterraneo, n. 47-48, 2004. I. Pensa, S. Federici (eds.), "Import-Export: History of the History of Contemporary African Art", monographic issue of Africa e Mediterraneo, n. 55, 2006.
