Michela Trovato Giancardillo

is a curator and researcher focusing on multidisciplinary artistic research practices that examine communal systems and institutional strategies of self-organisation. Giancardillo graduated in 2017 with a Master in Cultural Studies from the KU Leuven (BE), after obtaining her bachelor's in History and Tutelage of the Cultural Heritage at the University of Florence (IT).

From 2015 to 2019 she worked as a curator and project manager in the Artist in Residence WOW Amsterdam. During her work at WOW Amsterdam, she produced a multitude of projects that reflected the multidisciplinary character of the residency. Facilitating and producing multidisciplinary and site-specific projects has been at the core of her practice for about six years.

In 2019 and 2020 she worked as a project manager for Museumnacht Amsterdam, where she was in charge of the outreach programme of the foundation in order to broaden the audience of the Museumnacht event.

In 2021 she co-founded MARC Amsterdam, a multidisciplinary artistic research collective and a platform with a central focus to encourage and develop hybrid collaborative practices between artists, researchers and partner institutions. Since September 2021, she has been working as a producer for Sonic Acts.