Meetings with artists and curators
This section features a series of meetings dedicated to visual arts and pedagogy, an integral part of the project “Cianfrusaglie. The Educational Method of Rosa and Carolina Agazzi,” which is part of the cultural offerings of the Museum of Junk, aimed at promoting a contemporary reflection on the Agazzian Method through educational and artistic activities.

Stefano Arienti
Ricalco
Dialogue with Stefano Giovanazzi, curator at AAC Archivio Arte Contemporanea, introducing Denis Viva, associate professor at the Department of Letters and Philosophy.
Thursday, October 2, 2025
5:30 PM
Room 110, Department of Arts and Philosophy, University of Trento
Via Tomaso Gar 14, 38122 Trento
On the occasion of “Cianfrusaglie. The Educational Method of Rosa and Carolina Agazzi” at the Department of Letters Auditorium of the University of Trento, a public meeting was held with the artist Stefano Arienti.
The artist was invited to engage in a dialogue with Stefano Giovanazzi, curator of the Contemporary Art Archive of Rovereto, on topics concerning the relationship within the artistic process between improvisation and technique, tool and expedient, ideation and material elaboration, reflection and manipulation. The event was introduced by Denis Viva, associate professor at the Department of Letters and Philosophy.
Clutter and the works of artist Stefano Arienti.
Stefano Arienti designed a specific arrangement of the exhibition space that hosts the show “Cianfrusaglie. The Educational Method of Rosa and Carolina Agazzi” at the Fondazione Caritro.
In particular, on the occasion of Cianfrusaglie, the artist decided to create chenille rugs to share a very personal experience of his. On these rugs, he had printed the image of an iris bed similar to the one he used to water when he was in kindergarten.
Walking on the rugs that introduced the exhibition path, the audience could understand the meaning of the work and share Stefano Arienti’s childhood experience—one linked to gardening, caring for plants, but also caring for oneself.
Although distant in time, some images vividly resurface in our minds: we are filling the watering can, approaching the plants, trying to pour water close to the roots, avoiding damaging the stem and flowers, with the care we are capable of.
An integral part of the educational and cognitive processes proposed by Rosa Agazzi is certainly an experience that we keep inside us forever.

Chiara Bettazzi, artist
Wonder Objects
Dialogue with Stefano Riba, lecturer in Contemporary Art History and curator at Foto Forum Bolzano, and Stefano Giovanazzi, curator of aac archive of contemporary art.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
5:00 PM
Colonna Hall
Caritro Foundation Trento
via Garibaldi
Contents of the Meeting
The discussion with artist Chiara Bettazzi and Stefano Riba, curator at Foto Forum, offers an opportunity to examine how certain institutions, associations, and artists within the Trentino-Alto Adige region are currentizing that type of sensitivity and attention to the world characteristic of Agazzian thought. As Stefano Riba explains: “Starting from Bettazzi’s interest in everyday objects, we invited the artist to work on the collection of Hartmut Prünster, co-founder of Foto Forum and passionate collector of ‘junk.’ Bettazzi will ‘fish out’ from Prünster’s archive—located in a space adjacent to the gallery used for the association’s exhibitions—and, following her practice, will create assemblages of objects to produce new, meaningful pathways, establishing novel logical and semantic connections. The artist’s practice has notable affinities with the pedagogical method of the Agazzi sisters: the contributions of the artist and the curators of the exhibition, which will take place at Foto Forum in December 2025, are particularly relevant to the themes proposed in the project ‘Junk. The Educational Method of Rosa and Carolina Agazzi,’ as they concern the complexity of experiential and formative processes that shape the social structure in which we are immersed.”

Francesca Verga
Marc Camille Chaimowicz. Here and There…
Dialogue between Francesca Verga, curator at Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano; Stefano Giovanazzi, curator, and Stefano Riba, curator and professor.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
6:00 PM
Colonna Classroom
Fondazione Caritro Trento
via Garibaldi
Contents of the meeting
The presentation is based on the artistic practice of Marc Camille Chaimowicz (1947-2024), a Polish and French artist. Inspired also by his mother’s profession, Marie Tailhardat, a seamstress, he loved to work by blending different materials in his artistic practice. His goal was to create a stage-like space, with an intimate, domestic sensibility, where artistic elements could coexist with objects from everyday life: furniture, ornaments, bric-a-brac, drawn materials, and other found objects. He enjoyed “shopping,” he said, between these two worlds: life and art, art and life.
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Francesca Verga
Francesca Verga is co-artistic director of Ar/Ge Kunst, the Kunstverein in Bolzano, and is involved in curation, writing, management, and research in contemporary arts. She was assistant curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024). She holds a PhD from the Department of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam (2022). She was the curatorial coordinator of Manifesta 13 (Marseille, 2020) and the general coordinator of Manifesta 12 (Palermo, 2018).
AR/GE KUNST
Ar/Ge Kunst, Kunstverein of Bolzano, was founded in 1985 at the premises of Via Museo 29. The name Ar/Ge Kunst derives from the abbreviation of Arbeitsgemeinschaft (work community), indicating the goal of promoting an idea of collective work and also referencing something uncomfortable and unexpected (from the German word ‘arge’). The aim is to consider the kunstverein as a center for research and production in contemporary arts, where each new project is shaped within a working group composed of members from different fields, in order to reflect on social, legal, and artistic issues.
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Carlo La Manna and Giuseppe Calliari
“The Music of Things”
Video testimonials of expressive experiments with Carlo La Manna, bassist, narrator, and composer, and Giuseppe Calliari, music historian, curator, writer, and poet.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
11:00 AM
Conference Room
Fondazione Caritro Trento
via Garibaldi
Biography
CARLO LA MANNA
Trentino double bassist, storyteller, and composer, he blends jazz, contemporary music, and sound research. He has collaborated with Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Antonella Ruggiero, Giovanni Sollima, Marco Ambrosini, and Daniele Di Bonaventura. With over twenty recordings, including Te Audire (2025), a project that combines music, vision, and spirituality.
GIUSEPPE CALLIARI
Author of monographs – Ferruccio Busoni (2011), Laurence Feininger (2022) – and contributions on Mozart, Zandonai, Dionisi. Curator of the writings on music by Andrea Mascagni (1998) and critical biographies of Trentino musicians. Texts for composers – lyric scenes, choral works, musical theater scenes – and projects that intersect music and literature.

Stefano Giovanazzi
Game theory. Imaginary, symbolic, and real
Dialogue between Stefano Giovanazzi, curator of AAC Archivio Arte Contemporanea Rovereto, and the audience of Cianfrusaglie
Saturday, October 25, 2025
5:00 PM
Conference Room
Fondazione Caritro Trento
Via Garibaldi
Contents of the meeting
Game theory is a central point in the description of individual and collective dynamics; language, so dear to Rosa Agazzi, and its use mark a turning point in human experience: caring for oneself and mutual help find comfort in thought, words, and actions. The meeting addresses the issue of life’s complexity, a characteristic trait of each person’s “formation.” Language, as we know, is equally a complex organism. Its origins and how it manifests remain topics of discussion. We often encounter it in the form of various types of statements: prescriptions – orders, commands, instructions, recommendations, questions, prayers, supplications, etc. – but also as interrogations, promises, literary and artistic descriptions, to name just a few. As Jean-François Lyotard reminds us: “every statement should be considered as a ‘move’ made within the framework of a game.”
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Stefano Giovanazzi
Stefano Giovanazzi (Rovereto TN, March 4, 1961). Graduated from the Magistral Institute in Rovereto (TN) and subsequently from the State Institute of Art in Trento. In the early 1980s, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, where he graduated in Painting under the artist Emilio Vedova. Founder and curator of AAC (Contemporary Art Archive) of Rovereto, since 1994 he has been the president of the cultural association Numero Civico. Over more than thirty years of activity, he has curated events related to contemporary art and thought, and notable collaborations include: Governments and governmental institutions such as the Italian Senate, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, the Canadian Embassy, the Basque Government (Spain), the Cervantes Institute (Spain), The British Council (United Kingdom), the French Ministry of Culture, the French Institute (France), and the Goethe-Institut (Germany).
AAC Archivio Arte Contemporanea
The materials of the exhibition come from the Contemporary Art Archive, a repository of objects and ideas that condenses some of the most expressive experiences of contemporary thought. Conceived by Stefano Giovanazzi in 1980, over the years the archive has collected and preserved 180,000 documents — artworks, artist books, monographs and periodicals, sound recordings, videos, ephemera, posters, and photographs — testimonies of encounters with the protagonists of contemporary art and some of the most important figures in contemporary philosophical and literary reflection. From its beginnings in Venice, acquisitions have undergone various accelerations. Today, the archive promotes the most innovative experiences of contemporary art through loans and by curating projects in collaboration with academies, museums, foundations, and other institutions. The research for documents particularly focuses on ‘movements’: Futurism, Dadaism, Informal, Neodada, Pop Art, Optical Art and Kinetic Art, Conceptual Art and Minimalism, Arte Povera, Transavanguardia, New New; Situationism and the Student Movement (’68, ’77), Utopianism and Science Fiction, Feminism.
Numero Civico
The cultural association Numero Civico promotes contemporary arts and thought through a series of daily practices aimed at fostering sharing, production, management, and preservation; it facilitates relationships among artists, existing cultural institutions, collectors, and the public; and it participates in the conception, planning, and management of cultural and exhibition events.
Founded in Rovereto in 1994, since the beginning of its activity, Numero Civico has collaborated with numerous important national and international institutions.
Museums and Centers: Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea “L. Pecci”, Prato; MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Trento and Rovereto (TN); La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Trento; ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento; MUSE – Museum of Science, Trento; Castello del Buonconsiglio Museum, Trento.
Foundations: La Biennale di Venezia, Archivio Boetti Foundation, Fiumara d’Arte Foundation, Daniel Spoerri Garden Foundation, Accorsi Foundation, Achille Marazza Foundation, Antonio Ratti Foundation, Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, Tito Balestra Foundation, Bandera Foundation for Art, Baruchello Foundation, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Cargaleiro Foundation, Order of Architects Foundation, Stelline Foundation, Orestiadi High Culture Foundation, Roberto Longhi Foundation, Italian Foundation for Photography, Lanfranco Baldi Foundation, Luciana Matalon Foundation, Lucio Fontana Foundation, Magnani Rocca Foundation, Mazzullo Foundation, Mudima Foundation, Morra Foundation, Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Palazzo Albizzini-Burri Foundation, Palazzo Bricherasio Foundation, Pistoletto Foundation, Prada Foundation, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Querini Stampalia Scientific Foundation, Southeritage Foundation, Teseco Foundation, Zappettini Foundation, Kunst Merano Arte, FAI Italian Environment Fund, Palazzo della Permanente, La Casabianca Malo, Celli Farm-Collezione Gori.
Galleries and Cultural Associations: CRAM, Mezzocorona (TN), Galleria Mazzoli, Modena, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (SI), Antonio Colombo Gallery, Milan, Molto Multimedia Gallery, Milan, C/O, Milan, Kunstforum, Merano (BZ), Artforum, Merano (BZ), Arge-Kunst, Bolzano, Foto Forum, Bolzano, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck [A], Galleria Il Castello, Trento, Galleria Improvvisazione Prima, Trento, Interzona, Verona, Galleria Neon, Bologna, Galleria Fabbrica Eos, Milan, Mairania857, Merano (BZ), Veragouth Arte Contemporanea, Lugano [CH], VIAINDUSTRIAE association, Foligno, Werkbank, Lana (BZ), Ziggurat, Trento. Government and governmental institutions: Senate of the Italian Republic, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Canadian Embassy, Basque Government (Spain), Cervantes Institute of Culture (Spain), The British Council (United Kingdom), French Ministry of Culture, Institut Français (France), Goethe Institut (Germany).
Enti ed altre istituzioni: University of Trento, Bezirksamt Treptow von Berlin, City of Berlin, “Antonio Stradivari” School of Luthiery in Cremona, “F. Depero” Art Institute in Rovereto TN, Rovereto and Vallagarina Tourist Promotion Agency (APT), Trento Tourist Promotion Agency (APT), Vallagarina District, Adige Intermunicipal Business Consortium (BIM), Artisans and Small Businesses Association of the Province of Trento.
Regions and Provinces: Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Region, Autonomous Province of Trento, Autonomous Province of Bolzano.
Municipal administrations: Municipality of Ala TN, Municipality of Besenello TN, Municipality of Bolzano, Municipality of Borgo Valsugana TN, Municipality of Brentonico TN, Municipality of Calliano TN, Municipality of Foligno PG, Municipality of Isera TN, Municipality of Mori TN, Municipality of Merano BZ, Municipality of Venice, Municipality of Trento, Municipality of Rovereto TN, Municipality of Ronzo-Chienis TN, Municipality of Ruffrè TN, Municipality of Villa Lagarina TN, Municipality of Volano TN.
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