Artist Talk: Margherita Moscardini

Join us for an artist talk with Margherita Moscardini, presented by Gian Marco Casini, Livorno, in conversation with Chus Martínez and Robert McKenzie. The conversation opens up Margherita Moscardini’s practice, exploring the themes that shape her work and artistic approach.

Margherita Moscardini (b. 1981) is a Livorno-based artist with an MFA from Accademia Belle Arti Bologna. She is shortlisted for the MAXXI Bulgari Prize 2026. Recent exhibitions have been held at KW for the 13th Berlin Biennale, Centro Pecci in Prato, CCA Tel Aviv - Yafo. Her multidimensional works span architecture, the city, and citizenship.

Chus Martínez is the director of the Institute of Art Gender Nature at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, associate curator at the TBA21 Foundation and artistic director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. She is a board member of CIMAM and an advisor to several international art institutions. Martínez has organised numerous exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists. Her writings regularly appear in journals, catalogues and compilations of essays.

Robert McKenzie is an art advisor, writer and curator who was born in Melbourne and has lived in New York since 2008. He has worked as an advisor to a number of prominent art collections in America and Europe over the past 15 years. Mc Kenzie has written for art and design magazines including Starship, The Whitney Review of New Writing, and Pin-Up Magazine. Between 2015 and 2019 he was Artistic Director with Beata Von Oelreich of Rehnsgatan3 in Stockholm and has been a director at Cayre Art Group in New York since the beginning of 2023.