Valerio Del Baglivo is a freelance curator, educator and “perennial collaborator” – as he likes to call himself – based in Italy. Collaborative research, alternative education, fiction and storytelling play a continuing and vital role within his methodology and interests. In the last years he has curated exhibitions and projects for organizations such as, Apexart – NY, Kunstverein (Milan), Konsthall C (Stockholm), Kunsthalle WUK (Vienna), Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao) and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), among others. In 2017 he initiated The Institute of Things to Come, an itinerant institute that embrace irrational, mimetic and fictional knowledge with the aim of destabilizing models of objective scientific research. He was 2017 Curator in Residency and Shadow Curator at Grand Union (Birmingham), 2019 Associate External Curator at MAXXI – Museum of XXI Century for the Arts (Rome) and 2018-19 Visiting Curator of UNIDEE at Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella).