curating spaces.connecting knowledge
Selected Curatorial Works
A few works, dating back to the epiphany that curating is less a job and more a state of mind.
BOSCO COLTO – Scientific Direction. 2025 // KULTURGELAGE: USTER MANIFESTO 2050, Uster 2025 // BASE, Caltagirone (AG) 2025 // ICE MEMORIES, Zurich 2024 // ASSEMBLEA, Caltagirone – 2024 // OTO SOUND MUSEUM – Zurich – Curatorial collaboration. 2024 //OPERA APERTA, Favara (AG) – 2023 // PERISCOPE, Zurich – Curator. Artist: Alicia Velázquez. 2022 // SCREENSAVER, Zurich – 2021 // CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNIALS: Our hegemonic machines in states of emergency 2020 // CHOREOGRAPHING THE PUBLIC, Zurich 2020 // OUT OF HAND, Zurich, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art 2020 //
GAMES. FIGHTS. ENCOUNTERS., Zurich 2020 // CHI AVRÀ PIÙ FILO TESSERÀ, Zurich . 2019 // SMALL PROJECTS FOR COMING COMMUNITIES, Stuttgart (DE), 2019
Selected Architectural Projects
A quarter-century of work won’t box itself, so here’s a handful of the fun stuff:
2023-2025 — At Meierzosso I’m turning my idea of space into healing-space projects. And yes, I’m doing a bunch of cool things there// Sud Tirolo, the quiet reconstruction of an old barn. 2025 // NACHVERDICHTUNG BOMBACH, Zurich – Year: 2021-2022| // FOODCLUSTER at Zollhaus – Architecture and Interior Architecture, Zurich 2021 // LA TARTERIE French Tart Bakery &Atelier – Interior Architecture, Zurich. 2021 //. PBZ LIBRARY, Interior Architecture, Zurich
2020 // FOGO – 2019 // DieCuisine at FOGO – 2019–2020
NOMURA BANK Swiss Head Office – Interior Architecture – Zurich 2014 and 2023//BAGELBOYS 2015 //COLT Technology Services – Architecture and Interior Architecture – Zurich 2014 // SEEBAHNSTRASSE Facade Renovation and Rooftop Extension– Architecture and
Interior Architecture – Zurich
2012–2013. // BLUE LION INCUBATOR Start-up Cluster – Architecture and Interior Architecture – Zurich. 2012 // WERKEREI SCHWAMENDINGEN – Architecture and Interior Architecture – Zurich 2012 // Calatrava Walls - Project Leading Italy - Chicago 2006-2009 //
Should I really go further back? Ask if you are curious
I write all the time. Some things I even manage to do nicely, more evidence arriving .
2025 – Scarponi, A., Fontana, B. (.ed) Assemblea. Instruction manual for Bosco Colto in process of publication.// 2025 – Fontana, B. Abitare il Mondo, in bosco Colto Campus Activities in process of publication // 2024 – Rasp, I. Fontana, B. cur, Ice Memories,Switzerland // 2019 – OnCurating Issue 41: Center/Peripheries Complex Constellation, Contributors //2020 OnCurating Issue Nr. 48, September 2020 – Zurich Issue: Dark Matter, Grey
Zones, Red Light and Bling Bling
Oh, and I won a prize: the public decided that FOGO deserved the Auszeichnung für Gute Bauten of the City of Zurich, and the Kanton even nominated it for the Architekturpreis.
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