Eva Fabbris is the new director of the Madre Museum in Naples
Eve Elise Fabris is the new director of the Mother Museum of Naples. The news was announced by the Donnaregina Foundation for Contemporary Arts, an organization founded by the Campania Region in 2004 to manage the contemporary art museum. In the shortlist of finalists, released in December 2022also Lorenza Baroncelli, Maria Chiara Bertola, Antonio Cataldo and Milovan Farronato. To choose Fabbris, who takes over from Kathryn Weirarrived at a fine sent, an examining commission composed of Angela Tecce (President, Donnaregina Foundation), Maria Letizia Magaldi (Vice-President, Donnaregina Foundation), Achille Bonito Oliva (Counselor, Donnaregina Foundation), Adam Weimberg (Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art), Anna Mattirolo (Contemporary art historian).
«Eva Elisa Fabbris presented a project that stood out for its scientific value and adherence to the Madre mission. The proposal, together with the previous experience gained by Fabbris in the sector and the qualities demonstrated during the interview, we are sure will contribute to the growth of the offer and the international prestige of our institution», said Angela Tecce. «The Board of Directors shared the assessments of the examining commission, identifying you as the Director, a new figure for the Foundation after the statutory changes. I want to take this opportunity to once again thank all the members of the commission for their efforts, the Campania Region for their support of the Donnaregina Foundation, and the outgoing Artistic Director Kathryn Weir for the work done».
The selection of the new director took place through a specific public notice which, after an initial evaluation of the curricula and projects received, envisaged an interview to verify the skills and projects themselves of the five best candidates. Eva Fabbris will be hired in a short time with a three-year contract.
Eva Fabbris biography
Born in 1979, Eva Fabbris is a curator and art historian, she obtained her PhD in Literature at the University of Trento. Since 2016 you have been collaborating with the Research Department of the Prada Foundation in Milan. You have curated “Back to the Future” for Artissima in Turin, as well as solo and group exhibitions for international institutions, such as the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, the Galerie de l’Erg in Brussels, the Milan Triennale. Among the various curated exhibition projects, “Live End Dream No” at the Galerie Steinek in Vienna (2017), “Marc Camille Chaimowicz. Maybe Metaphysics” at the Milan Triennale (2018) and “Not being able to climb the clouds taken to the hills” in Valdagno (2014).
He worked in different curatorial departments of Italian museums, as assistant curator at Museion in 2008-2009 and adjunct curator at the Galleria Civica di Trento in 2009-2010. In 2021 she was guest curator of the programming of the Project Room of the Pomodoro Foundation (we talk about it in this interview).
As a guest lecturer he has held conferences and conversations in various institutions including the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Daimler Foundation in Berlin, the HEAD in Geneva, the GAM in Turin and numerous Italian universities. She is the curator of numerous artist monographs, including those dedicated to Diego Marcon (Lenza, 2021), Yervant Gianikian And Angela Ricci Lucchi (Humboldt Books 2017) e Paolo Sietsema (Mousse Publishing, 2016). Her research as an art historian focuses on figures and moments of critical heterodoxy in modernism, as exemplified by her historiographical work on Gene R. Swenson and from his study of pataphysics collected in “Ubu in the Italian theater: some stagings of Jarry’s masterpiece between transdisciplinarity and transnationality”, winner of the tenth edition of the Italian Council, in 2021.
At the Madre Museum in Naples, Eva Fabbris had already presented the personal exhibition of Diego Marcon dedicated to the film The parents’ roomco-edited with Andrea Villani. Produced as part of the seventh edition of the Italian Council (2019), the work has become part of the museum’s permanent collection. Also in the Neapolitan city, he collaborated with the Morra Foundation and Casa Morra.