Antonio Cataldo

 BIOGRAPHY

Antonio Cataldo is a writer, curator, and Artistic Director of Fotogalleriet, the Nordic countries’ oldest kunsthalle dedicated solely to photography as a critical artistic practice. His edited book Conversations on Photography (2021) retraces the waves that gave rise to art photography in Scandinavia through dialogues with notable local and international practitioners. Cataldo obtained a Master of Arts in 2006 under the supervision of philosopher Giorgio Agamben in Venice, Italy. Cataldo sits on the board of the Kunsthalles of Norway and the Sandefjord Kunstforening Art Award jury and is a member of the steering committee of the European Assembly of Contemporary Art Centres. Over the last two decades, Cataldo has held curatorial and other positions at OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo; La Biennale di Venezia, where he also co-curated the Nordic Pavilion in 2015; and Iuav University of Venice. Cataldo holds a PhD in curatorial studies and his doctoral dissertation, Curating Labour (2022), is a book in OnCurating’s catalog, Zurich.

 
 

CONTACT

antonio@fotogalleriet.no