Nathaniel Katz is an interdisciplinary artist, his work is realized in performance, video, and collaborative events. Katz was born in Canada, and raised in Israel and the United States. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and his MFA with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design in Digital+Media. At RISD he was the recipient of a graduate fellowship and a graduate award of excellence. Katz was awarded the Best New Media prize at the Boston Young Contemporaries in 2008. In 2009 He participated at the Lugar a Dudas artist residency program in Cali, Colombia. Ian Berry, Associate Director and Curator of The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College said of his work: “Nathaniel Katz presents his artworks as an exchange. Katz makes art as a gift, as a component of teaching, or as an intimate collaboration between father and son. It almost doesn’t matter if we are invited in at all— imagining a practice that is private and in some critical ways counter to the structures of the dominant art world is inspiring, brave, and very effective.“ Valentina Curandi studied Art History and Art Education in Italy. With this theoretical background, she started working as Mediator and Art Educator in the Contemporary Art’s field, collaborating with institutions like the Modern Art Museum of Bologna (MAMbo), the Fine Arts Academy (FAA Bologna) and Manifesta7, European Biennial of Contemporary Art. From 2008 she started an artistic practice and research based on collaborative experiences in educational context, with international partners as well with the participation of art audience. In summer 2009 she was selected to participate at the Summer Camp on Performance Art at Artistic Residency of Schlöss Brollin (D) and invited by the artistic collective Die Orbitale to take part at the International Platform on Performance Art (Performance Behandlungsraum) at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel (D). Since 2008 Katz and Curandi have been working collaboratively. In 2009 the collaborative project Making Bread in Bologna won the selection for the ICEBERG prize for young artists in the Public Art category. They also participated in the Residency at the CESTA interdisciplinary festival in the Czech Republic realizing the project Unearthing Romanticism in the Hilltop and Below with German artist Sibylle Hofter. In July 2010 the video Making Aliyah was included in the Moscow Biennial for Young Art and the Medrar Video Festival in Cairo. The video New Natives was selected by the Foundation for Contemporary Art March in Padova (I) to be screened in Barcelona as part of the Loop Festival, in Prague, Kaunas and other venues in Europe. In August 2010 a collaboration with German artist Sibylle Hofter led to the exhibition Hinterland at DADA Post in Berlin. Their work was published in the inaugural issue of Motore di Ricerca, from Fondazione March in Padova (I)
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