SeaPort Visit: June 2021
Vanina Saracina Bari
Vanina Saracino is an independent curator, film programmer, and lecturer. Since 2021, she has taught at the Institute of Time-based Art (IZM), Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin, alongside Prof. Nina Fischer.
She co-curated two editions of the Screen City Biennial: Other Minds (2022) and Ecologies – Lost, Found and Continued (2019). Saracino is the co-founder of OLHO (with Alessandra Bergamaschi), a project on contemporary art and cinema initiated in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (2015–2018). From 2013 to 2017, she curated monthly selections of artists’ video works for the experimental television channel ikonoTV, including Art Speaks Out (2015), a yearly exhibition project on ecology also presented at Istanbul Modern (2015) and the Marrakech Climate Change Conference (COP22, 2016).
She has collaborated with institutions such as 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.