Costantino della Gherardesca

TV presenter

Costantino della Gherardesca was born in Rome in 1977, but spent all his childhood and teen years abroad, eventually graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy in the UK. His television début occurred by chance in 2001, thanks to a guest appearance on Piero Chiambretti’s programme Chiambretti c'è on Raidue. This was the start of what could be described as the longest apprenticeship in the history of Italian television. In 2012, he took part together with his nephew Baru (Gherardo Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona) in the first season of the adventure reality show "Beijing Express" . After a one-year stint exclusively for Discovery (Hair, Tanto Vale, Il ricco e il povero), Costantino returned to RAI, where, in addition to hosting Beijing Express without interruption Beijing Express”, in 2014 and 2015 he hosted two editions of the “B programme the literary reality show 'The last year of my youth'. He deems the Ingranforma.com website - now no longer operational - to be the best thing he ever did. He is now working on a new TV project titled “Un Marito per Costa” created for Instagram TV. He also worked for the radio: at the end of the 2000s he hosted the last season of Radio2's cult programme "Dispenser"; since September 2014 he has been broadcasting every day on Radio2 "Acapulco" and since January 2018 he has been the author and host of "Safar", a travel advice programme, also on Radio2. As a music and television expert, he has collaborated with various magazines, including Black Flag, Rolling Stone, Vice, Vogue, and GQ. Since February 2018, he has started cooperating with the daily magazine Il Foglio, for which he writes a weekly column titled Deluxe Mea Luxevery Thursday. What he loves the most are television and folk music.

M¥SS KETA

Singer & Performer

Francesco Bonami

Curator

Francesco Bonami was born in Florence in 1955 he directed the Venice BIennale Dreams and Conflicts in 2003. In 1997 he curated Site Santa Fe Biennial , in 2000 Manifesta 3 and in 2010 the Whitney Biennial of American Art. In the late 80's and early 90's he was the US correspondent for Flash Art . From 1995 to 2017 he was the artistic director of the Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo in Turin. From 1999 to 2008 he was the Manilow Senior Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago. In 2010 he received the Legion of Honor of The French Republic. He curated exhibitions at the Musee d'Art Modern de la Ville of Paris , White Chapel in London , Walker Art Center in Minneapolis , Pinault Foundation in Venice , Pitti Immagine Discovery in Florence and public projects for the City of Milan and Florence. He was the curator of several surveys included Jeff Koons, Rudolf Stingel , Damien Hirst, Maurizio Cattelan and Takashi Murakami . For Palazzo Reale in Milan he curated a show of Bob Dylan's paintings. He wrote several books his last one Post is published by Feltrinelli . He is a regular contributor of La Repubblica, Vogue Italia and ArtNews . He sits in the board of GES2 a new art center in Moscow designed by Renzo Piano RPBW that will open in the fall of 2020 . Currently he 's the Director of Art Matters a new art center always designed by Renzo Piano RPBW in Huangzhou that will open also in the fall of 2020. On Instagram his commentary of the art system can be followed @thebonamist.

Guido Guerzoni

Professor Bocconi University

Guido Guerzoni is an educator, author and manager who has been dealing with collectibles and obsessive collectors for thirty years. He is one of Europe's leading experts of child prodigies, dwarfs, giants, hypertrichotics, eels, ornamental fish, fireworks, collars, dogs, wigs, hairpieces, erotic and funerary memorabilia. Since 1996 he has been teaching Museum Management at “Luigi Bocconi” University in Milan, he is a member of the Superior Council of Cultural and Landscape Heritage at the Italian Ministry of Cultural Activities and Tourism, he has been a Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow at The Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies, he won a full-time research fellowship at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and he is a visiting professor at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Christie's Education, UC Berkeley and UC Davis. He is the author of more than one hundred and twenty publications, and collaborates with RAI, Il Sole24ore, the Gedi-Espresso group newspapers and Il Giornale dell'Arte.

Carlo Antonelli

CEO, Fiera Milano Media

A graduate in Law from the University of Genoa, Antonelli is a cultural producer in various fields. From 1993 to 2003 he was artistic director of Caterina Caselli's Sugar Music (in time to invent the hits of Bocelli and Elisa). From 2006 to 2011 he was editor-in-chief of the Italian edition of Rolling Stone magazine (previously, from 2003, he was its editorial director). From August 2011 to June 2013 he directed the Italian edition of Wired and invented the Wired Next Fest festival. In July 2013, he became editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine GQ where he launched the first edition of the GQ Freak Out festival. He also has significant experience in the world of museums, as a consultant to the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa and as curator of the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa. In 2011, with Luca Guadagnino, he founded the film company First Sun (for which he is among the producers of “I am Love” in 2010 - nominated for an Academy Award - and “Suspiria” in 2018, as well as serving as general counsel for “Call Me by My Name” in 2017 - nominated in 2018 and winner of the Academy Award for Best Non-Original Screenplay). Among his various professional activities, Antonelli has published essays and articles in Italian and international magazines (including Flash Art, Domus, Abitare, Vogue Italia, the French Purple, the German O32°C and the Dutch Fantastic Man). He has also taught Sociology of Consumption at the University of Bologna and the University of Genoa. Since 2018, he has been CEO of Fiera Milano Media SpA.

Giulia Ferrari

Corporate Strategy Manager, Balich Worldwide Shows

Giulia Ferrari is corporate strategy manager for one of the leading live entertainment groups on a global scale. With an Erasmus in Maastricht and an academic path enriched by several collaborations with professors, she graduated in International Management in 2012. He has a preference for multinationals and, after passing through the Internationalisation department of Confindustria, he joined Viacom (MTV Italia) in 2013 and was in Brazil for the Calzedonia group in 2015. He returned to Italy to join the team he met in Rio for the production of the 2016 Olympics ceremonies: since 2017 he has been working at Balich Worldwide Shows and today he is in charge of coordinating the Group's strategy, working alongside the CEO.