Irene Campolmi

Irene Campolmi is a curator and researcher currently serving as Senior Curator at MAPS – Museum of Art in Public Spaces in Denmark and Curator of the Art & Science Initiatives at DARK, The Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Her curatorial practice explores movement and time through exhibitions, performances, and festivals, often challenging colonial binaries in art history and visual power structures. Campolmi has worked extensively as a freelance curator and researcher with international and Danish art institutions. In 2021, she was awarded the Bikuben Foundation’s Vision Exhibition Award together with Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) for Yet, it Moves!, which opened in 2023 at CC and throughout Copenhagen’s urban spaces. From 2019 to 2023, she served as Head of the Art Program and Curator at Enter Art Fair, while also curating exhibitions at museums and festivals worldwide, including TANK Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai), Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), The Power Plant (Toronto), Musée d’Art de Joliette, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, MAAT (Lisbon), and Walk&Talk (Azores). In Copenhagen, she collaborated with Kunsthal Charlottenborg on major exhibitions in 2018, 2019, and 2023, as well as with Copenhagen Contemporary in 2019. As Senior Curator at Creator Projects in 2021, she co-curated the performance festival Art in a Day. Campolmi holds an MA in Art History and Museology from the University of Florence and has conducted research at the Max Planck Institute.