Valentina Curandi (she/her) is an art practitioner interested in non-theatrical performance and the performativity of languages. Her work weaves together performance and text through live acts, printed matter, video, and sound. She often takes normative and prescriptive language as a starting point, incorporating contracts and protocols to reflect on the tension between standardized language and embodied needs and desires.  

Valentina created commissioned projects for, among others, Kunstlicht (NL), Marwan (NL), The Physics Room (NZ), the 16.ma Quadriennale di Roma (I), Konstfak (SWE), Centrale Fies (IT), Kunstraum Munich (D), ar/ge kunst (IT), Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (FL), VIAFARINI (IT), New York Art Book Fair, Flux Factory and Center for Book Arts (U.S.A.).  

She studied Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI), and recently began a Ph.D. trajectory in Artistic Practice Research with the MERIAN program (Maastricht Experimental Research In and Through the Arts). Her research explores how living art practitioners relate to the eventuality of death and dying, asking what their wishes and concerns are regarding their artistic afterlife.