Curatorial
2025 - ongoing
Curatorial Matters is an ongoing curatorial research platform and international symposium series conceived by Patrizia Costantin and Marianna Tsionki. Positioned at the intersection of curatorial practice, critical theory, and research methodologies, the project examines the curatorial as a situated, relational, and knowledge-production practice. The inaugural edition, Curatorial Matters: On Research Methodologies (2025), hosted at PUBLICS (Helsinki), explored questions of environmental infrastructures, extractivism, decolonial curatorial practices, systems of resistance, and alternative archives.
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Helsinki Biennial Art Mediation Forum 2023
12 June – 17 September 2023
Vallisaari Island and Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (Finland)
The Helsinki Biennial Art Mediation Forum 2023 is a collaboration between ViCCA (Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art) at Aalto University’s School of ARTS and the Helsinki Biennial 2023. Helsinki Biennial 2023 Head Curator Joasia Krysa initiated the collaboration and invited ViCCA faculty Bassam El Baroni and Patrizia Costantin to develop and lead it. The project focuses on mediation as an articulation space for the biennial’s themes and artistic contributions.
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December 2019
Paradise Works, Salford (UK)
Proximity Collective was formed by seven practice-based PhD researchers following their participation in a series of workshops relating to the research exhibition that I facilitated. Throughout 2019, these students engaged in a series of short residencies and workshops in artist venues across Manchester and Salford. The project ended its first instalment with an exhibition at Paradise Works in Salford in December 2019.
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Tate Exchange - What Is Your Stance?
6-12 May 2019
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (UK)
What Is Your Stance? was a programme of events and activities at Tate Liverpool, which asked how art can inspire change in our everyday lives and help us understand who we are. Selected as one of the Tate Exchange programmes, What Is Your Stance? was developed by BA (Hons) Art History and Curating students at Manchester School of Art, Dr Rosemary Shirley (Associate Professor of Museum Studies at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester), Georgia Burns (Senior Graphic Design Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University) and myself.
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machines will watch us die
9 April - 11 May 2018
Holden Gallery, Manchester (UK)
The fascination with immateriality defines our day-to-day interaction with digital technology. Due to the growing popularity of augmented-reality headsets and the rising urge to live an idealistic social media existence, it appears that our attachment to the natural world is becoming increasingly compromised. On the surface, the digital is about information exchanges and technological advances, but what lies beneath the shiny interface of digital culture? machines will watch us die explores digital decay as a process that encompasses different timescales and materialities.
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creation/destruction
12th April - 23rd May 2013
Holden Gallery, Manchester (UK)
Often, creation and destruction are taken as polar opposites, elemental forces which are permanently in conflict. Rather than following this line of division and disconnection, the exhibition looks to examine more imaginative approaches, the ways in which creation and destruction might merge, overlap and cross over. The process of making something new can be as much about removal as it is about production - the ways in which ideas, images and perceptions have to be cleared away before anything useful can begin.
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2011-2013
Manchester School of Art, Manchester (UK)
Pavement Gallery was a 24/7 window space situated on the corner of the Righton Building at Manchester School of Art. mWith the window as its sole point of public access, Pavement functioned as a striking platform for international contemporary art, sparking engagement across a broad range of perspectives and settings.
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