Including travel and accommodation to Verona and promotion on PHmuseum
Intersection - PHmuseum Exhibition Prize is the new proposal of PHmuseum aimed at giving visibility to authors while developing new connections between them and artistic institutions.
For this first edition, we will work in close collaboration with Fonderia 20.9, a dynamic Italian photography organization. Our respective teams will work together to select a project to exhibit in their gallery in Verona, Italy, in June 2021. A budget of 1000 euro will cover the production, curatorial, and travel expenses, while accommodation and food will be provided during your stay in Verona.
To apply, we invite you to submit one or more projects dealing with a specific theme, narrative, or concept. You can submit your first entry for free, while a £20 fee will be necessary for the following submissions. The final deadline is set for 15 December 2020 while the selected project will be announced in February 2021.
Our grants program is the main channel through which we discover new projects and generate connections. We hope that this initiative will represent another opportunity to share your work with an international audience, collaborate with our teams to present your project while developing new strategies of promotion, and make a relevant personal experience.
I have a few years-long relationships with Fonderia 20.9. We collaborated on various platforms, from exhibiting and curating to visual education. Coming back there is like coming back home where I know that a fully dedicated gallery crew will do their best for art to be taken care of. You can’t be in arts if you don’t have passion for it. Fonderia 20.9 is the place that certainly has it. Rafał Milach, Visual Activist, Photographer, Curator, and Educator
A jury composed by Argentinian photographer Mariela Sancari, Fonderia 20.9 Co-Founders Chiara Bandino and Francesco Biasi, PHmuseum Director Giuseppe Oliverio and Curator Rocco Venezia will select a project to be exhibited in Verona, Italy in June 2021. Fonderia 20.9 will provide a budget of €1000 to cover exhibition and travel expenses. Additionally, PHmuseum will offer up to €500 if the prize recipient resides outside of EU. Food and accommodation will be further provided by Fonderia 20.9.
Visual Artist and Educator
Mariela Sancari was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1976. She lives and works in Mexico City since 1997.
Her work revolves around truthfulness and fiction in images, using personal narratives to explore the boundaries of the scope of photography as a means of representation. It refers to the affective dimension, yet not sentimental, of autobiographical work, as well as formal explorations of the medium, through questions related to staging and self-referentiality in photographic practice.
Her first book Moisés (La Fábrica) was selected by several curators and reviewers as one of the best photobooks published in 2015. In 2017, she published her second book in collaboration with writer Adolfo Córdova: Mr. & Dr. (This book is true) a photobook aimed for children and youngsters that explores the notion of the unknown through images and text. In 2021 she will release The two headed horse. Reenactment in ten acts (Asunción Casa Editora), an investigation of the transit of the fixed image to the performed image.
She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Sao Paulo, Athens, Barcelona, Belfast, Bratislava, Busan, Houston, Jaipur, Londres, Los Angeles, Madrid, among others.
Co-founder and coordinator of FOLIO, Centro de la Imagen’s photobook public library and program.
Project Manager and Curator Fonderia 20.9
Francesco Biasi (Verona, 1976) is working in the field of photography since 2008.
After studying photography in Rome and then specializing in documentary photography at the Luz Academy in Milan, he co-founded Fonderia 20.9 in 2015, where he now serves as a project manager, curator and head of fine-art printing. He also deals with the research and acquisitions of the library collection of the gallery which currently is composed of about 400 books.
Since 2018, he is also co-founder and curator of SÅM Visual Exploration of Lessinia, a residency program in collaboration with the Lessinia Film Festival that has led curators and artists from all over Europe to collaborate in the creation of a visual archive of the Veronese pre-alpine areas.
Visual Artist and Curator Fonderia 20.9
Chiara Bandino (Rome,1985) began her photographic research in 2010.
After studying Marine Biology, she graduated in photography in Rome and then specialized in Milan at the Luz Academy. As an artist, she is mainly interested in using the archive as a narrative tool. While working on her 4-years project "Life is a song" - based on a prison’s diary she founded - she discovered a strong interest in the multiple printing and binding techniques related to the publishing field.
After moving to Verona in 2015 she co-founded Fonderia 20.9 where she is producer, curator and head of the editorial line. For the gallery, Chiara is in charge of the catalogues editing and design. As the result of a workshop held by Red Lab in the Bajed Kandala refugee camp in Iraq, she curated the book "This picture is a normal picture", which will be published in 2021. She is the co-founder and curator of the project SÅM Visual Exploration of Lessinia.
Director & Curator
Giuseppe Oliverio - Giuseppe (Bologna, 1985) is an Italian cultural entrepreneur. In 2012 he launched phmuseum.com, an international platform dedicated to contemporary photography He has been in the jury of international awards like Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward, Gomma Grant, United Photo Industry’s The Fence, San Jose Foto Award, and Happiness On the move. He regularly works as a portfolio reviewer at international festivals like Photo Vogue Festival, Unseen, and Visa pour l’Image, gives talks and writes for TIME magazine and L'Uomo Vogue. His first documentary, A Conscious Dream, has been selected to 12 film festivals and awarded the best documentary short at 2016 Manchester International Film Festival. Recently he opened the PHmuseum Lab, an exhibition and education venue in Bologna, Italy.
Rocco Venezia - Rocco (Bari, 1991) is an Italian visual artist working mainly with photography. He holds a first-class honours degree in Documentary Photography from Newport, University of South Wales. The subject of his works originates from a personal interest in literature as well as a certain awareness of European political and economic situations. In his work is part of the collection at the National Art Library of Victoria & Albert Museum in London and Colección FOLIO at Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City and has been supported by Parallel Platform, a Europen founded program where he has been select as emerging artist in 2018. Next to his personal practice, Rocco is working as a curator and producer for PHmuseum since 2017. He is also co-founder of PHmuseum Lab, the offline hub of the platform, which opened in Bologna in September 2020.
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I have been invited to curate a few exhibitions at Fonderia and I found courtesy, exchange and professionalism, both in the project development and production phases. The gallery space is beautiful and well-kept and the possibility to follow the printing and assembly internally is a rare advantage! Fiorenza Pinna, Book-designer and Curator
Launched in 2015 in Verona, Italy, Fonderia 20.9 is an artist-run space dealing with contemporary photography co-founded by Chiara Bandino, Francesco Biasi and Emanuele Brutti.
Fonderia 20.9 complements the exhibitions of emerging and established artists with site-specific projects where people with an interest in visual arts can gather and share ideas. Its spaces in downtown Verona, featuring also a selected art library, a projection room and fine-art printing facilities. In the 5 years of its life, the gallery has hosted 22 exhibitions showcasing artists such as Carlotta Cardana, Piergiorgio Casotti, Giulia Bianchi, Mattia Balsamini, Rafal Milach, Mariela Sancari, Giulia Flavia Baczynski, Bianca Salvo, Achille Filipponi, Massimiliano Trezza, Cesare Ballardini, Olga Bushkova, Helene Bellenger and Massimo Mastrorillo.
Fonderia 20.9 has collaborated with various festivals, galleries and museums such as Cortona On The Move, SI Fest, Fotoforum, Museo del Paesaggio Verbania, Landscape Stories, T14 Contemporary, DOOR, Spazio 1929, Le Bleu du Ciel-Centre de photographie contemporaine, Gallerie Intervalle, LeBoudoir. Fonderia 20.9 is also part of the curatorial board of SÅM, a cultural project in collaboration with the “Film Festival Della Lessinia”, which includes talks, exhibitions and a residency program for artists.
I was fortunate to have my first solo exhibition at Fonderia. It was the first show after the summer 2020 lockdown. Due to travel restrictions, I had to stay in Zurich, yet it was extremely easy to work and plan remotely with Francesco and Chiara. I had 100% trust in them and their team and I knew that all the aspects were managed in the best possible way. The process was very direct and transparent. Olga Bushkova, Visual Artist
