Massimiliano Mollona is a writer, filmmaker and anthropologist with a multidisciplinary background in economics and anthropology. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna, where he teaches Political Anthropology and Art Anthropology. He has taught Visual Anthropology at the Goldsmiths University of London. His research focuses on anthropology of work and class relations, and contemporary capitalism from an intersectional and decolonial perspective. He is also interested in the intersection between art and political economy. Mollona has produced films on working-class communities in Brazil, England and Norway. His area of interest lies in film, visual, and political anthropology, avant-garde and experimental cinemas, the politics of realism, and the anthropology of work and organizations—especially of class and social movements. His work has been shown at Tate Britain and British Film Institute (BFI) in London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, Norway. In 2023 Mollona co-curated with Gabriele Lorenzoni the exhibition Shamans. Communicating with the invisible at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART). Mollona has been the director of the Athens Biennale (2015-17), one of the artistic directors of the Bergen Assembly (2017); co-founder of the Laboratory for the Urban Commons (LUC) based in Athens and one of the initiators of the ongoing project Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI).
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