Curatorial
Alongside his practice as a visual artist, Alex Urso is also involved in curatorial projects and critical writing. Over the years, he has collaborated with a wide range of public and private art spaces and institutions, including the National Gallery of Art – Zachęta; the Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw; the Polish Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia; Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche (Imago Mundi catalogue); the Adam Mickiewicz Institute; the Polish Pavilion at the 22nd International Exhibition of La Triennale di Milano; Comicon – the International Pop Culture Festival of Naples; the Treviso Comic Book Festival; and SOUx – the School of Architecture for Children in Turin. From 2012 to 2019, he lived in Warsaw, Poland. In 2017, he was cocurator of the Biennale de La Biche – described by The Guardian as “the smallest art biennial in the world” – hosted on a desert island in the Pacific Ocean. He is currently an editor for the art magazines Artribune and Sky Arte. Alex Urso is also the director and curator of FIUTO Art Space.
Selected past projects curated by Alex Urso include:
Dove il cervo sogna
Artist: Steve Negrón
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2025
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Provincia Cosmica
Artist: Ricardo Aleodor Venturi, Elena Bellantoni, Deriva, Giovanni Gaggia, Adinda‐Putri Palma, Alicya Ricciuto, Elena Ricciuto, Marco Rossi, Giuseppe Stampone
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2025
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308xDIECI.Gli artisti raccontano i Colli Ripani
Artist: Luca Caimmi, Nicolò Canova, Marie Cécile, Mara Cerri, Francesco Cattani, Alessandra Di Girolamo, Lavinia Fagiuoli, Maicol & Mirco, Vitt Moretta, Elisa Talentino
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2025
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La notte più lunga
Artist: Luca Caimmi
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2025
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Greatest Hits
Artist: Radek Szlaga
FIUTO Art Space, Ripatransone (Ascoli Piceno, Italy) | 2024
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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
Artists: Elena Bellantoni, Karolina Grzywnowicz, Diana Lelonek, Claudia Losi, Jacopo Mazzonelli, Marta Nadolle, Michał Smandek, Giuseppe Stampone, Radek Szlaga, Alex Urso
Italian Institute of Culture, Warsaw | 2023
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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
Artists: Marco Leoni, Costanza Rosi, Alberonero, Andrea Tarli, Francesca Mariani, Dafne y Selene, Enrica Pizzicori, Celina Moscuzza, Davide D’Angelo, Giulia Canala
Chiostro maggiore di San Francesco, Ascoli Piceno | 2022
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The Space Program. An urban summer camp
co-curated together with Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson
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
Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw | 2017
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Biennale de La Biche
co-curated together with Maess Anand
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 Ilet
La Biche, Gwadeloupe | 2017
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Małe Limbo
Artist: Pasquale de Sensi
Italian Cultural Institute, Warsaw | 2015
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Sto*Disegnando/Rysuję!!!
Artists (Italy): 108, Andreco, Silvia Argiolas, Felipe Cardena, Jacopo Casadei, DiegoCinquegrana, 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, GiacomoIasilli, 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 RomanticoSeriale, Thomas Raimondi, Michael Rotondi, Laboratorio Saccardi, Patrizia Emma Scialpi,Raffaele Semeraro, Daniele Serra, Marcello Tedesco, Riccardo Zanotti, Luca ZedoneNespolon, 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, MateuszMachalski, Adam Jastrzebski, Marcin Matuszewski, Mrufig, Ola Niepsuj, Brems Oner, Otecki, Karol Radziszewski, Lukasz Radziszewski, Rastii, Maciej Ratajski, FláviaRodrigues Piątkiewicz, Bianka Rolando, Ewa Rebeka Służyńska, Mikolaj Sobczak, StachuSzumski, Mariusz Tarkawian, Jacek Walesiak, Wioleta Wnorowska, Magda Wolna, MonikaZawadzki, Zuzanna Ziółkowska, Zgonowicz, Zrazik
V9 Gallery, Warsaw | 2014
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