Museum for Preventive Imagination: Talk with Luca Lo Pinto

Museum for Preventive Imagination has been an extensive program at MACRO in Rome, a device in which to experience an elastic interdisciplinary structure putting artists and their thinking at the centre, and in which—alongside more traditional activities—experiments and projects with different spatial and temporal dimensions can coexist. The Museum for Preventive Imagination explores alternative models in which imagination can be the main driver for reflections on the purpose of artistic production and its reception.

Luca Lo Pinto is the artistic director of MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. From 2014 to 2019 he worked as curator of Kunsthalle Wien. He is co-founder of the magazine and publishing house NERO. Luca Lo Pinto produced a range of solo exhibitions with artists including Simone Forti, Nathalie du Pasquier, Jason Dodge, Tony Cokes, Cinzia Ruggeri, Camille Henrot, Olaf Nicolai, Pierre Bismuth, Babette Mangolte, Lawrence Weiner, Gelatin&Liam Gillick, Charlemagne Palestine as well as publications with Emilio Prini, Mario Garcia Torres and Mario Diacono. Other curatorial projects include 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 (H.C. Andersen Museum, Rome); D’après Giorgio (Giorgio de Chirico Foundation, Rome); Conversation Pieces (Mario Praz Museum, Rome). His essays have been published in many catalogues and international magazines. In 2012 he edited the book Documenta 1955-2012. The endless story of two lovers.

In collaboration with Konstfack and the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm.