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FRANCESCA
ZAPPIA

CURATOR, producer, community

engagement coordinator, RESEARCHER

I am an international curator with expertise in research-driven projects, museum interventions, and public and social engagement. I explore transmission of cultural memory in contemporary artistic practices, with a focus on artwork reproductions and heritage reimagination. Rooted in ‘the curatorial’, my practice extends beyond exhibition-making to encompass educational, discursive, polyvocal, editorial, and digital formats.

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I work with museums, universities, arts, heritage and charitable organisations to research, conceptualise and produce curatorial and engagement projects embracing alternative narratives and social justice. My monograph, ‘Flâneurs. Copies, appropriations, citations from the collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques’ (CNAP & Shelter Press, Fr/En 2021/2023, 572pp.) is an innovative and experimental curatorial and editorial project which is distributed worldwide.

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I am a PhD researcher at the Glasgow School of Art and have a strong record of collaborating with the academic world. I teach in the MLitt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) at the Glasgow School of Art.

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In 2023/24 I was guest researcher with the Haute Ecole d’Art et Design (HEAD), Geneva, for the project ‘The Grey Zone of the Original (from Bifaces to NFT)’. This collaboration resulted in ‘Tomorrow Never Dies. Laocoön’s Hyperrealities’ (2024), a site-specific intervention in the University of Geneva’s Plaster Cast Collection.  

 

Current and recent partners include Glasgow International, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow, The Glasgow School of Art Archives & Collections, Centre national des arts plastiques Paris, HEAD Geneva, University of Geneva.

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​Based in Glasgow, I work on projects across the UK, Europe and worldwide. Please get in touch if you want to find out more or discuss potential projects.

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