On Thursday, 11 June, at 6 pm in the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) Reading Room (Vokiečių g. 2, Vilnius), Italian curator and former artistic director of MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome – Luca Lo Pinto will give a talk ‘A few thoughts on artists, museums, exhibition making, free will, boredom and aesthetic pleasure’. The talk will explore how exhibition-making can serve as a tool for constructing situations with multiple points of entry – both visual and conceptual – and as a potentially productive response to intellectual/emotional dyslexia.

The event is free and will be held in English. Due to limited capacity, we encourage you to arrive a little early to secure a seat in the Reading Room.

Estimated duration of the event: 90 minutes.

LUCA LO PINTO is an Italian curator and editor. He was the artistic director of MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome from 2020 to 2025. From 2014 to 2019, he worked as curator of Kunsthalle Wien. He is the co-founder of the magazine and publishing house NERO. He has produced a range of solo exhibitions with artists including Emilio Prini, Simone Forti, Michel Auder, Nathalie du Pasquier, Jason Dodge, Tony Cokes, Friedl Kubelka, Cinzia Ruggeri, Camille Henrot, Olaf Nicolai, Pierre Bismuth, Babette Mangolte, Lawrence Weiner, Gelatin & Liam Gillick, Charlemagne Palestine, Lisa Ponti, Darren Bader, as well as publications with Mario Garcia Torres and Mario Diacono. 

Other curatorial projects include ‘The Screen is a Muscle’ (Gallerie d’Italia, Turin); ‘I am only the housekeeper, but I don’t know…’ (Plečnik House, Ljubljana); the 16th Art Quadriennale (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome); ‘Le Regole del Gioco’ (Achille Castiglioni Studio-Museum, Milan); ‘Trapped in the Closet’ (Carnegie Library/FRAC Champagne Ardenne, Reims); ‘Antigrazioso’ (Palais de Toyko, Paris); ‘AnderSennoSogno’ (Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Rome); ‘D’après Giorgio’ (Giorgio de Chirico Foundation, Rome); ‘Conversation Pieces’ (Mario Praz Museum, Rome). In 2012, he edited the book Documenta 1955–2012. The Endless Story of Two Lovers. He has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and magazines, including Flash Art, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Purple, Spike, Rolling Stone, All In, and Capsule.

Title image: Luca Lo Pinto by Bianca Hirata.