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Jacopo Celona

General Director

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He attended the University of Florence in ‘History and Management of Cultural Heritage’ and earned a Master’s degree in ‘Art and Culture: Marketing, Communication, and Fundraising Strategies’ at the 24 Ore Business School of Economics, and a Master's degree in graphic design specialist at the Istituto Volta.

In 2001 he joined the Florence Biennale organization as Head of Communication while in 2005, within the framework of the Vth edition of the biennial, he was appointed as International Relations Manager and became the person in charge of the strategic planning of the Florence Biennale. 

In 2012 he was appointed Executive Director of the Florence Biennale. That same year he founded the LINEA Contemporary Arts Centre inside the premises of the Florence Biennale headquarters. He also entered partnerships and collaborations with organisations operating in the arts and cultural sector in Italy and abroad. His commitment to promoting artists participating to the Florence Biennale led him to organise solo and collective exhibitions with some of them, and also to host lectures and events in the arts centre that he founded which became Florence Biennale Art Space in 2018.

In 2015 he was appointed Guest Curator at the Lucca Museum of Contemporary Art, and in 2016, together with Annabella Pascale, CEO of the Artimino Resort, he founded the Artimino Contemporanea Association. The aim of that association, of which he is the President, is to promote art by organising exhibitions and cultural events at the so-called ‘Ferdinanda’ Medici villa, declared UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2013.

In 2017 he became a member of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS Italy), an official UNESCO Advisory Council.

Over recent years he has organised and/or curated contemporary art festivals, conferences, catalogues and exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
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