Eugenio Viola is the current Senior Curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in Australia. He has held various curatorial positions at MADRE, the Contemporary Art Museum of Naples. Since 2013, he has served as Curator at Large and was responsible for the research and development of the museum’s collection. He also cocurated the first Italian large-scale exhibitions of Boris Mikhailov and Francis Alÿs, a complex Daniel Buren project conceived in two times. From 2009 to 2012, he was the curator of the museum’s project room. In this role he was responsible for presenting Transit Project (2009–11), a series of exhibitions and residencies in partnership with institutions from the Middle East, as well as an annual performance festival named Corpus. Art in Action (2009-2012). He also worked as a guest curator for several Italian and international institutions, curating amongst others solo exhibitions. In 2015 he curated the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Viola has written for numerous publications, he is also a scholar in theories and practices related to performance and Body Art and has published and lectured extensively on these subjects. He is a longtime contributor to American Artforum.