He is Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Museo MAGA, Gallarate, Varese (www.museomaga.it) . Between 2011 and 2022 he has been also General Co – Secretary of the Premio Nazionale Arti Visive Città di Gallarate.
Institutions he has worked with, include: Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, Egypt; Ca' Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venezia; Istituto Italiano di Cultura of London; Fashion and Textile Museum, London, La Triennale, Milano; Viafarini/Docva, Milan; Museo di Villa Croce, Genoa; MCA, Valletta (Malta); National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland); Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (CH); MCBA, Lausanne (CH); Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Museo Riso, Palermo.
His projects won grants such as: Italian Council (2020), PAC (2021), Strategia Fotografia (2022), Promozione Fotografia Contemporanea (2024-2025) .
Since 2024 he is member of the Board of Directors of Fondazione A. Pini, Milano.
Since 2024 he is member of Archivio Chiara Dynys, Milano and he is member of the scientific commission of Archivio Mario Schifano, Rome.
He has collaborated with Archivio Vittorio Tavernari, Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Archivio Paolo Scheggi.
Between 2022 and 2024 he has been member of the Scientific Committee of DeaRe - Creative Europe Network Project.
In 2022 and 2023 he has been member of the Board of research advisors of "We Are the Flood, MUSE, Science Museum, Trento, Italy.
https://wearetheflood.muse.it/
With Simone Frangi between 2019 and 2021 has been Artistic Director and Senior Curator of School of Waters - Mediterranea 19.
In 2019 he has been co-curator of the San Marino Pavilion for 58° International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
Special Project National Gallery San Marino.
With Emma Zanella he curated the re-opening of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Republic of San Marino (July 2018).
With Simone Frangi he is director of A Natural Oasis, Transnational Research Program (1ed. 2014-2015 / 2ed. 2016-2017 / 3ed. 2019-2021/ 4ed. 2022-2024), across San Marino (Cultural Institutes), Italy (Viafarini/DOCVA), Gibraltar, Malta, Kosovo (Stacion, Center for Contemporary Art), Montenegro (Institute for Contemporary Art, Cetinje) and Albania (National Gallery of Tirana). A Natural Oasis (3rd edition) has been part of the collateral events of Manifesta 12, Palermo.
In 2013 he has been curator of Mediterranea 16 - XVI Young Artists Biennale.
Between 2008 and 2014, with Ermanno Cristini, he curated the Roaming project (www.roaming-art.it). He was Guest Curator at O'Artoteca, Milan; curator of the 47th Premio Suzzara, Mantua; and of the XXIV and XXV Premio Gallarate.
He wrote monographies dedicated to: Michele Ciacciofera (johan & Levi, 2024); Chiara Dynys (Skira, 2022), Martina Conti (Postmedia Books, 2019), Stefano Cagol (Tokyospace, 2019), Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro (Humboldt Books, 2017), Giovanni Ferraio (Corraini Edizioni, 2015), Mario Cresci (Nomos Edizioni, 2014), Dustin Cauchi (Mousse Publishing, 2013).
Among his books and essay writings: Theories of Climes, Postemdia Books, 2023-24; Let us say this again, opaquely, Postmedia Books,2017; Urban Mining, Corraini Edizioni, 2016; Isolario, Postmedia Books, 2014; Errors Allowed - Mediterranea 16, Quodlibet, 2013; Subjective Maps/Disappearances, Mousse Publishing, 2013; Roaming, Postmediabooks, 2013; The Land Seen from the Sea, Mousse Publishing, 2012, LONG PLAY – XXIV Premio Gallatate, Mousse Publishing, 2012; Two Paper Drops Before the Sky, Mousse Publishing, 2011; La collezione del museo MAGA, Electa, 2010; Little Constellation, Mousse Publishing, 2010.
He also focused his research on the relationship between visual arts and literature working with Franco Buffoni (Ritmo Sopra Tutto, MA*GA, 2016), and writing monographs on: Jack Kerouac (Kerouac Beat Painting, S. Bandera, A. Castiglioni, E. Zanella, Skira, 2017), Eugenio Montale (Humboldt Books, 2017, Museo della Carale, Ivrea, 2017), Giovanni Testori (Casa Testori, 2019), Italo Calvino (Museo MA*GA, 2020).
Since 2012 he has been teacher of History of Art and Design in the Istituto Marangoni, Milano. Between 2011 and 2013 he has been coordinator of the Master's Degree in Education for the Museum, with the Aldo Galli Academy of Como where he was teacher of Contemporary Aesthetics. He has been visiting lecturer in Phenomenology and Art Critics at the Catholic University of Milan (2012-2015). He has been visiting lecturer of History of Design in the course of Business Services Design and Measurement - LIUC, Università Carlo Cattaneo.
Since 2009, with Roberto Daolio (1948-2013), he has been the curator of Little Constellation Network (www.littleconstellation.org), project by Rita Canarezza and Pier Paolo Coro and an international network on contemporary art aiming to organize and promote projects with a specific focus on the current research activity in the small states of europe: Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, and in a few european geocultural micro-areas including Canton Ticino (CH), Ceuta (E), Gibraltar (UK), Kaliningrad (RUS).
With Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro, between 2014 and 2015 he is founder and curator of Listen to the Sirens | Space for contemporary art, Gibraltar, first institution for contemporary art in Gibraltar where he curated solo shows of artists such as Miki Tallone, Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir, Nina Danino.
In 2015 he is commissioner for 17th edition of "MOVIN'UP, programma di sostegno alla mobilità degli artisti italiani nel mondo" invited by MiBACT - MINISTERO DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITA’ CULTURALI E DEL TURISMO, Direzione Generale Arte e Architettura contemporanee e Periferie urbane (ex DG PaBAAC) and GAI - Associazione per il Circuito dei Giovani Artisti Italiani.
He has developed research programs for the Ministry of Culture, Cultural Institutes (2013 - 2015), San Marino; WEYA (2012) Nottingham Trent University, UK; Garrison Library, GBZ (2012-13).
His projects has been recipients of grants such as PAC - Piano Per l'Arte Contemporanea (2021 - 2023); Strategia Fotografia (2022) by Italian Ministry of Culture.
