New Date: Tuesday, 26.11.2024

Location: I oA Square

Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli is an architect and curator whose work encompasses technology, politics, design, and environmental practices. Formerly a partner at OMA, he founded the interdisciplinary agency 2050+ in Milan to deploy space as a medium rather than a goal. Together with 2050+ he has carried out various projects encompassing curatorial and research practices, exhibition design, scenography and architecture. These include curating ​“Open”, the 2021 Russian Federation Pavilion in Venice at the 17^th Architecture Biennale, and ​“Synthetic Cultures” at the 10^th Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam; the development of various independent research projects such as the short films ​“Riders Not Heroes” which were first presented at the 5^th Istanbul Design Biennial; conceiving the scenography and set design for: ​“Nebula” and ​“Penumbra” for the In Between Art Film Foundation in Venice, Donizetti’s opera ​“Il Diluvio Universale” (Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo), the retrospective ​“Meredith Monk: Calling” (Haus der Kunst, Munich), and the exhibition ​“Aquaria – Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea” (MAAT Museum, Lisbon); as well as completing the architectural renovation and spatial transformation of: La Rinascente’s modernist icon in Rome, and the historic concept store 10 Corso Como in Milan. 

In 2018 Pestellini co-curated Manifesta 12 ​“The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence” in Palermo. Between 2017 and 2022 Ippolito has taught at the Royal College of Arts in London ​“Data Matter”, a research and design studio exploring the entangled relationship between data and the material world. In 2023 He acted as President of the Jury of the 18^th Architecture Biennale in Venice. His work has been shown and published internationally in various media, institutions, festivals, and exhibitions.