Alessia Gervasone

Alessia Gervasone is a researcher, curator, and project manager. She is currently completing a PhD in Art History at the University of Barcelona, where she is a member of the research group Art, Globalization, Interculturality (AGI) and of the project Visuality and Geo-aesthetics in the Era of the Ecosocial Crisis. Analytical Approaches (VIGEO). Her research focuses on the relationships between contemporary art, political ecology, communal care, social agency, and ethics, with particular attention to post- and anti-extractivist imaginaries, decolonial perspectives, and practices of epistemic justice.

She holds a degree in Art History from the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) and completed a two-year specialization in Communication and Valorisation of Contemporary Artistic Heritage at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Torino. She was also awarded a scholarship to attend the programme Entrepreneurial Techniques for Cultural and Creative Industries at the SAA – School of Management / Infor Elea Business Academy.

Over the past five years, she has worked in the field of artistic and cultural production as a curator, producer, and project manager at Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture in Barcelona, pursuing her interest in the dialogues between contemporary art, ecology, and science. In this context, she has developed exhibitions, artist residencies, and public programmes, and coordinated European projects funded by Creative Europe and Erasmus+, including E-ART Cocreation, Circulation and Promotion of Sustainability, WeSTEAM, PAL Konnekt, Theatre in Palm, and PMP – Professional Media Partners, among others.

From a critical and practice-based perspective, she conceives curatorship not only as aesthetic mediation, but as an ethical and political space capable of generating new narratives, as well as relational and communal care processes, symbolic repair, and institutional reconfiguration. Her recent curatorial projects include Cuerpos Errantes (LOOP Festival, 2024), Face to the Sea, Luzlíquida. Other Ways of Perceiving Relationships (all exhibition and art–science residency projects developed in collaboration with the Institut de Ciències del Mar – CSIC, Barcelona), Rendering. The Institution in Transition (Arts Santa Mònica / OnMediation), and Sustainable Views (in collaboration with PAV – Parco Arte Vivente and Fondazione Pistoletto, Turin).

She was also a producer of the project Photosynthetic Me, awarded the S+T+ARTS Prize for Social Good (2021).

Additionally, she has collaborated as a teaching assistant in the course Theory and Method of New Media at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Torino, as well as with the Interdepartmental Research Centre Cinema, Education and New Media – Cinedumedia and the Innovation Office of the University of Turin, where she worked as an assistant in the organisation and production of research projects, workshops, and academic activities.