Clara Donadoni
June 2025
Clara Donadoni is a curator working across publishing, post-institutional practice, and experimental forms of art distribution. Her work investigates how collective ownership, decentralised infrastructures, and participatory frameworks can reshape cultural production and the conditions under which art is shared and sustained.
She holds a Master’s degree in Curating Art, including Management and Law, from Stockholm University. Her thesis, The Ignorant Curator (2025), investigates curatorial authority and the politics of ownership through a critical reading of authorship and institutional power. Drawing on theorists such as Jacques Rancière, Jean Baudrillard, and Boris Groys, it argues for collective custodianship as a way to redistribute curatorial agency and challenge the myth of the singular author. The research proposes a curatorial position based on epistemic humility, shared meaning-making, and refusal of hierarchical knowledge structures.
Photo: © Enrico Marzico
Clara is the founder of Lozenge Dispatch, a epistolary art institution that delivers exhibitions by mail. This ongoing project explores the aesthetics of correspondence, intimacy, and delay as alternative exhibition formats that reach beyond the walls of institutions and into everyday rhythms of reception.
Through her curatorial work, Clara creates contexts for dialogue, co-authorship, and speculative forms of cultural stewardship. Her practice is guided by the desire to create spaces where meaning is negotiated rather than declared – emerging through shared inquiry, not individual authority –encouraging audiences to co-think rather than consume.
Through her curatorial work, Clara creates contexts for dialogue, co-authorship, and speculative forms of cultural stewardship. Her practice is guided by the desire to create spaces where meaning is negotiated rather than declared – emerging through shared inquiry, not individual authority –encouraging audiences to co-think rather than consume.