Together with his practice as visual artist, Alex Urso is as well engaged in curatorial projects and critical writing. In these years Urso has been collaborating with private and public art spaces and institutions, such as: National Gallery of Art – Zachęta, Italian Cultural Institute of Warsaw, Polish Pavilion at the 16. International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche (Imago Mundi catalogue), Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Pavilion at the 22. International Exposition of La Triennale di Milano, Comicon – International pop culture festival of Naples, Treviso Comic Book Festival, SOUx – School of architecture for children of Turin.
From 2012 to 2019 he lived in Warsaw, Poland. In 2017 he was co-curator of the Biennale de La Biche (mentioned by The Guardian as “the smallest art biennial in the world”, hosted on a desert island in the Pacific). He is currently editor of the art magazine Artribune and Sky Arte. Alex Urso is the director and curator of FIUTO Art Space.
Past projects curated by Alex Urso includes:
Summer of Fear
Artist: Marta Blue
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2024
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338xDIECI. Gli artisti raccontano i Colli Ripani
Artist: Eliana Albertini, Fernando Cobelo, Giacomo Giovannetti, Marco Leoni, Elisa Menini, Virginia Mori, Giulia Neri, Antonio Pronostico, Marco Goran Romano, Andrea Ucini
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2024
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La coscienza dell’occhio venne chiamata due cuori
Artist: Paola Tassetti
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2024
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Guardare gli alberi
Artist: Enrico Pierotti
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2024
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Un giardino è cominciato, l’altro non esiste più
Artist: Virginia Mori
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2023
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Qfwfq. Storie di artisti in movimento
co-curated together with Leonardo Regano
Italian Institute of Culture, Warsaw | 2023
Artists: Elena Bellantoni, Karolina Grzywnowicz, Diana Lelonek, Claudia Losi, Jacopo Mazzonelli, Marta Nadolle, Michał Smandek, Giuseppe Stampone, Radek Szlaga, Alex Urso
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Primapersonaplurale
Artist: Giacomo Giovannetti
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2023
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La quarta fatica
Artist: Pasquale Gadaleta
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2023
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Come l’acqua soffia come il vento scorre
Sistus V Mill, Montalto delle Marche (Ascoli Piceno) | 2023
Permanent exhibition of the photography archive of the city.
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Home is the place to be
co-curated together with Roberta Minnucci, Matteo Piccioni
Chiostro maggiore di San Francesco, Ascoli Piceno | 2022
Artists: Marco Leoni, Costanza Rosi, Alberonero, Andrea Tarli, Francesca Mariani, Dafne y Selene, Enrica Pizzicori, Celina Moscuzza, Davide D’Angelo, Giulia Canala.
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The Space Program. An urban summer camp
co-curated together with Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson
Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw | 2017
Artists: Roi Alter, Thomas Berra, Paweł Brylski, Centrala, Agata Cieślak, Luca De Angelis,
Michał Frydrych, Frederik Gruyaert, Karolina Grzywnowicz, Jae Ho Youn, Olga Micińska,
Ruben Montini, Tymon Nogalski, Łukasz Radziszewski, Maciej Ratajski, Agnieszka
Szostakiewicz, Stachu Szumski, Julek Tarasiuk, Mikołaj Tkacz, Yael Vishnizki-Levi,
Stanisław Welbel, Daniel Zorzano.
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Biennale de La Biche
co-curated together with Maess Anand
Ilet La Biche, Gwadeloupe | 2017
Artists: Karolina Bielawska, Norbert Delman, Michal Frydrych, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, Maess, Ryts Monet, Jeremie Paul, Lukasz Ratz, Lapo Simeoni, Saku Soukka, Aleksandra Urban, Yaelle Wisznicki Levi, Alex Urso, Zuza Ziółkowska-Hercberg.
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Sto*Disegnando/Rysuję!!!
V9 Gallery, Warsaw | 2014
Artists (Italy): 108, Andreco, Silvia Argiolas, Felipe Cardena, Jacopo Casadei, Diego
Cinquegrana, Massimo Dalla Pola, Paolo De Biasi, Dem, Marco Demis, Pasquale De Sensi,
Nicola Di Caprio, Angelo Di Dedda, Emiliano Di Mauro, Alessadro Di Pietro, Pierpaolo
Febbo, Svitlana Grebenyuk, Agnese Guido, Massimo Gurnari, Leeza Hooper, Giacomo
Iasilli, Hyo June Lee, Maba, Luigi Massari, Silvia Mei, Yari Miele, Bartolomeo Migliore,
Elena Monzo, Isabella Nazzarri, Ozmo, Marco Pagliardi, Andrea Palamà, Federica Pamio,
Simone Panzeri, Laurina Paperina, Paolo Parisi, Emanuele Puzziello, Quadreria Romantico
Seriale, Thomas Raimondi, Michael Rotondi, Laboratorio Saccardi, Patrizia Emma Scialpi,
Raffaele Semeraro, Daniele Serra, Marcello Tedesco, Riccardo Zanotti, Luca Zedone
Nespolon, Giuliano Sale, Alex Urso, Giulio Zanet.
Artists (Poland): 1010, Antagonist, Gosia Bartosik, Karolina Bielawska, Bolesław Chromry,
Tymek Borowski, Karolina Chrust Pietrzyk, Chu-Chu, Marcin Domanski, Pawel Draus,
Agnes Dudek, Piotr Dudek, Stanisław Gajewski, Gregor Gonsior, Zuza Golinska, Goro,
Agnieszka Grodzińska, Kamila Kanclerz, Karolina Kola, Grzegorz Kozera, Sebastian Krok,
Grzegorz loznikow, Tymek Jezierski, Alicja Łukasiak, Pawel Lyjak, Mariusz Libel, Mateusz
Machalski, Adam Jastrzebski, Marcin Matuszewski, Mrufig, Ola Niepsuj, Brems Oner,
Otecki, Karol Radziszewski, Lukasz Radziszewski, Rastii, Maciej Ratajski, Flávia
Rodrigues Piątkiewicz, Bianka Rolando, Ewa Rebeka Służyńska, Mikolaj Sobczak, Stachu
Szumski, Mariusz Tarkawian, Jacek Walesiak, Wioleta Wnorowska, Magda Wolna, Monika
Zawadzki, Zuzanna Ziółkowska, Zgonowicz, Zrazik.
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