Vanina Saracino (she/they) is an independent curator, film programmer, writer, and lecturer. Her work focuses on theories and art practices that question anthropocentric and binary worldviews from an intersectional perspective, with an emphasis on lens-based and time-based art. Since 2021, Saracino has been serving as an adjunct professor of Experimental Film and Media Art at Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin, alongside Prof. Nina Fischer.
She co-curated two editions of the Screen City Biennial, together with Daniela Arriado: Other Minds at Archenhold Observatory and other venues in Berlin (2022 + Oslo TBC, 2024), and Ecologies – Lost, Found and Continued (Stavanger, Norway), where she also edited the SCB Journal, Vol.2. With Alessandra Bargamaschi, she co-founded OLHO, a project about contemporary art and cinema initiated in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (2015–2018) and later shown at Palais de Tokyo and Palazzo Grassi (Teatrino). From 2013 to 2017 she curated monthly selections of artists' video works on the experimental television channel ikonoTV, being in charge of collaborations with museums and festivals worldwide. Among these, in 2015 she initiated Art Speaks Out, a yearly exhibition project on ecology also shown at Istanbul Modern (2015) and at the Marrakech Climate Change Conference (COP 22, 2016).
Saracino has collaborated with Kumu Art Museum and EKKM (Tallinn), Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi (Venice), TBA21 – Academy, Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), Cinemateca do MAM (Rio de Janeiro), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), The EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam), and Centro Párraga (Murcia), among others. Saracino has realized residencies at ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York City, June–July 2023), Artport (Tel Aviv, 2022), Q21 – MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, 2021), Fire Station Artists’ Studios (Dublin, 2019), CPR – Curatorial Program for Research (Reykjavik, Tórshavn, Tromsø, Boden, Luleå, Hyrynsalmi, Helsinki, 2018), GENERATOR – 40mcube/EESAB (Rennes, 2018), and was awarded research visiting grants by ProHelvetia (Switzerland, 2018), Goethe-Institut (NYC, 2018), The Danish Art Foundation (Copenhagen, 2018 and 2017) and Frame Contemporary Art Finland (Helsinki and Turku, 2019), among others.
Graduated in Communication Science, Saracino holds an MA in Arts Management (GIOCA, University of Bologna) and in Philosophy and Art Theory (UAB, Autonomous University of Barcelona). Since 2015, she has been a member of IKT – International Association of Curators.
CONTACT: vanina.saracino@gmail.com