Sonia D'Alto
Sonia D’Alto is a writer, curator, and educator.
Her research explores art and cosmological imagination through ecofeminist and queer-feminist aesthetics, memory politics, anthropology, and ecology. Through long-term collaborative projects, she works across moving images, performance, and archival research, investigating the intersections between superstition and modernity, folk narratives and hegemonic powers, as well as micro-histories and myth-making processes.
She has collaborated with art institutions, residencies, and academic programmes across Europe, including AWARE – Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions (Paris), Frame Contemporary Art Finland (Helsinki), de Appel (Amsterdam), Casino Display (Luxembourg), ifa Gallery (Berlin), Museo Madre (Naples), the Venice Biennale, the documenta Institute (Kassel), Villa Medici (Rome) and Marea Art Project (Amalfi Coast).
Her writing has appeared in e-flux Journal, NERO, Flash Art, Mousse, and Critique d’Art. She recently co-authored and edited the first monograph on the feminist artistic collective Le Nemesiache, published by Mousse Publishing. She also edited a publication on the poetic practice of Canadian artist Tiziana La Melia for Archive Books, and co-authored Obscure Work, a research-based publication developed through the study of witchcraft folktales in remote territories.
Previously curator at ComoArte Foundation, she curated Cosmos. The Volcano Lover (2023), Alchemic Rose (2022), and Metamorphosis (2021), commissioning new works by artists including Slavs and Tatars, Marwa Arsanios, and Alice Visentin. Between 2019 and 2021, she co-founded the collective curatorial platform Casa dei Saperi at Fondazione Pini in Milan.
She is currently a practice-based PhD candidate at HFBK Hamburg and a lecturer in Curatorial Studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (KASK).