Notte degli Archivi : A Talk on the Artist’s Book “Sette Mostre Immaginifiche” by Marzia Migliora
Archivorum is pleased to take part in Quello che non c’è, the ninth edition of Archivissima, the first Italian festival dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of archival heritage.
To mark the occasion, we invite you to join us at the library for the Notte degli Archivi on June 5, with extended opening hours until 11 PM. As part of the festival’s opening night, Archivorum will host a conversation at 7.30 PM with artist Marzia Migliora and curator Eva Brioschi in the Galleria Franco Noero space and a one-night book exhibition in the library.
Titled Sette Mostre Immaginifiche, in reference to Marzia Migliora’s first monograph, the conversation will explore the artist’s practice through her personal and artistic archive, tracing an emotional geography across Italy, from her native Alessandria to the Sicilian salt mines. Inspired by this year’s festival theme, “What there is not (or perhaps there is),” the talk will examine the seven “imagined exhibitions” presented in the publication – exhibitions on paper conceived by five different curators, each highlighting a key aspect of Migliora’s research and practice.
Sette Mostre Immaginifiche 1993–2024, published in 2025 by NERO Editions and produced by Looking Forward Art Projects with the support of Archivorum, Fondazione Torino Musei, and Collezione La Gaia, and curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Matteo Lucchetti, and Galleria Lia Rumma (Milan / Naples), it is the first monograph dedicated to Migliora’s work.
Additionally, during the same week, the Archivorum Library will take part in the ninth edition of Open House Torino, the citywide program of free visits, guided tours, and special openings. Over the course of the weekend, the initiative offers access to normally inaccessible or lesser-known spaces across the city and, through its collaboration with Archivissima, to selected archive spaces as well.
Notte degli Archivi – 5th June 2026 – 7.30PM
Seven Imaginative Exhibitions : Talk & Presentation
Archivorum Library, Via Mottalciata 10B
Free entry
The talk will be presented in italian
info : office@archivorum.org
Biographies
Marzia Migliora (born in 1972, lives and works in Turin) is a visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses photography, video, sound, performance, installation, and drawing. At the heart of her work is memory, understood as a tool for comprehending the present and giving voice to individual and collective stories, often forgotten or overlooked. Migliora’s work stands out for its strong commitment to minorities, marginalized forms of knowledge, and untold stories, transforming these themes into powerful tools for reflection and resistance. Migliora’s work has been exhibited in major national and international institutions, including Palazzo Abatellis Regional Gallery of Sicily, Palermo (2025); Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2023); MAO, Turin (2023); Radius Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft (2023); Dhaka Art Summit (2023); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2023); MAXXI, Rome (2023), among others.
Eva Brioschi is an art historian, curator, and researcher whose work lies at the intersection of art history, philosophy, and visual culture, is the artistic director of the Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in Bolzano and curator of the Collezione La Gaia in Busca, as well as a member of the advisory board of Carico Massimo in Livorno.
She has developed a rigorous institutional program, viewing curatorial practice as a civic responsibility in which art is understood as a tool for critical thinking and social change. Her research seeks to decenter eurocentric epistemologies, transforming marginality into a space of freedom.
Her recent curatorial projects, including exhibitions dedicated to Ilya Zdanevich and Ibrahim Mahama, as well as the upcoming exhibition of Mariuccia Secol at Muzeum Susch, reflect her interest in a global historical approach and in overturning established institutional narratives. Within this context fits the exhibition/platform project Duchamp. À l’infinitif, which will open in Bolzano in December 2026 and will function both as an exhibition and as a platform, reinterpreting the legacy of Marcel Duchamp from a European perspective while opening it to a transdisciplinary discourse.
She has also curated several editorial projects, including Mariuccia Secol. Unraveling(Hatje Cantz, 2026), Ibrahim Mahama. Voli-ni (Lenz Press, 2022), Moving Tales (Mousse Publishing, 2016), and Landon Metz. Plose (Mousse Publishing, 2015).
