Claudia Zanfi

is an independent curator and art critic and is interested in micro-geographies and emerging cultures. She is Director of the cultural association aMAZElab (www.amaze.it), which she founded in 2000, and of MAST (Museo d’Arte Sociale e Territoriale). She collaborates with national and international institutions and with art magazines and has authored texts in group and monographic publications. She also promotes cultural and editorial projects, placing particular emphasis on social and geopolitical subjects, amongst which are: A Ticket to Bagdad; Transcrossing Memories (Nicosia); Re-Thinking Beirut; Atlante Mediterraneo and Going Public, an ongoing project about public art and contemporary life. She is a lecturer at Middlesex University of London.