FMSchool at Santa Maria della Scala: a month of training and research

The Santa Maria della Scala hosts the first month of FMSchool, the training and artist residency program promoted and organized by Fondazione Musei Senesi, which from February 4 welcomes to Siena the ten participants selected for the artist residencies Water that heals and Water that works.

The first phase of the program, lasting one month, takes place within the rooms of the museum complex and is dedicated to training. The program, led by male and female experts, has a practical focus and addresses topics and tools related to contemporary art and research practices: curatorship, methodologies and creative processes, environmental art, museography, work and communication tools, as well as guided tours of the city.

The ten protagonists

WATER THAT HEALS
Curator: Szonja Szurop (Budapest, 2000)
She lives in Venice and has worked in several art institutions dealing with mediation, programming and exhibition organization. She also pursues independent curatorial projects.

Artists:

Indiara di Benedetto (Naples, 1994)
Multimedia artist based in Italy, she trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara and the Kunstuniversität Linz, where she obtained her master’s degree in 2023.

Carola Gatto (Biella, 2001)
Illustrator and graphic designer graduated from the Istituto Superiore Industrie Artistiche in Urbino. Her research develops around the blending of different visual languages, including illustration, graphic design and comics.

Luca Gori (Montepulciano, 1998)
Born in Tuscany and raised between Trentino and Sardinia, he frames his artistic research through the use of sound as a contemporary tool to traverse the boundaries between the vernacular and civil spheres, the familial and the economic.

Gianlorenzo Nardi (Giulianova, 1995)
Trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, his practice explores sculpture, installation, sound and performance.

WATER THAT WORKS

Curator: Bianca Marsella (Scorrano, 1990)
Independent curator with a scientific background, after graduating in Pharmacy she worked in the pharmaceutical sector, while concurrently developing a curatorial practice focused on sound and listening. In 2024 she launched Act of Kindness, a series dedicated to experimental and electroacoustic music.

Artists:

Filippo Contatore (Modena, 1999)
Graduated in Design and Art from the Free University of Bolzano, he lived for a long time in South Tyrol, where he studied and worked as an artist and cultural operator

Alicya Ricciuto (Isernia, 1997)
Artist and founder of the artist residency project “Le Fonticelle”, of which she manages the artistic and curatorial direction, she is specialized in visual arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino.

Francesca Baglieri (Modica, 1997)
She studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, where she co-founded an artist-run space active in Palermo's cultural life and a shared studio where she develops much of her work. In her practice, the residency experience is central as a space for research on social and anthropological themes.

Luca Pagin (Venice, 2002)
Graduated in Sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venice, he lives and works between Padua and Venice. His research investigates the relationship between the individual and culture through the exploration of memories, traditions and rituals characteristic of everyday life.