Margherita Moscardini

Margherita Moscardini (Donoratico, 1981)the relations among transformation processes of urban, social and natural order belonging to specific geographies. She often focuses on abandoned and under demolition, whereby the demolitions’ waste system becomes a paradigm of the local complexities. Her practice favours the process and long-term projects, considering the context as a medium: the existing architecture, the landscape (meant as geo-morphological features) where the material environment is designed on, how the urban plans condition the behaviours of local communities. The context often suggests specific issues, materials and methods of the work, which she carries out through large-scale interventions, drawings, writings, scale models and video-documents.

Among her works: Istanbul City Hills_On the Natural History of Dispersion and States of Aggregation (2013), dealing with the recent urban transformation of Istanbul; 1XUnknown (1942-2018, to Fortress Europe with Love), which presents parts of the 15,000 bunkers of the Atlantic Wall defensive line, built by the Third Reich along the European Atlantic coast to defend Fortress Europe. Since 2016 she has been researching refugee camps as cities where a new idea of citizenship can be experimented. Her work The Fountains of Za’atari developed from the Za’atari refugee camp, conceived in 2012 in Jordan on the Syrian border.

Margherita Moscardini (b. 1981, Italy) obtained a BA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, in 2006 and in 2008 she attended the XIV ACVA Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, with Yona Friedman. In 2015 she was a research fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University. Recently, she held lectures and talks at MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; Columbia University, New York; SVA e ISCP, New York; Triennale di Milano; NABA, Milan. Over the past few years her work has been shown at MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome; MMCA Changdong and SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome; IIC of Istanbul and of Bruxelles; MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome; CCA, Plovdiv; MAMbo, Bologna; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Quadriennale di Roma, Rome; and Palazzo Reale, Milan.