Camilla Palestra
Curatorial Associate, FHEA
As Curatorial Associate, Camilla works on exhibitions, artists residencies, art and design commissions, including Rainer Ganahl’s solo exhibition for the Fashion Space Gallery, and the ongoing AER Art for the Environment International Residency Programme. Her curatorial interests lie in multidisciplinary and collaborative artistic practices that reflect on aspects of our contemporary society, in connection to the socio-political environment and its diversity. She has also lectured at LCF and CSM and she is a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London. Camilla holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the RCA and is a member of the International Association for Visual Culture.
Exhibitions and Residencies
Speculative Ecologies, LABVERDE, Brazil (1 – 10 September 2022)
Rainer Ganahl: Comme des Marxists, Fashion Space Gallery, London (5 October 2018 – 12 January 2019)
Art for the Environment, The Nunnery Gallery Bow Arts, London (26 January – 18 March 2018)
Voice for Change. UAL Showroom, London (12 January – 29 March 2015)
Publications
Quasi-Marxism, Sustainability Fairy Tales and ÜBER Fashion: Camilla Palestra in Conversation with Rainer Ganahl, in Comme des Marxists, London: Fashion Space Gallery, 2018
Mapping the Invisible. EU-Roma Gypsies, Lucy Orta (Ed.), London: Black Dog, 2010