Adrienne Drake is a curator working primarily with emerging and mid-career international artists. In the production of exhibitions, events and books she investigates the realms of collaboration, authorship, the autonomy of the art object, and alternative modes of interpretation and display.
As founding director and curator, she is currently responsible for the vision and direction of Fondazione Giuliani in Rome, a private non-profit foundation dedicated to a programme that emphasises new artistic production and the exploration of multiple or tangential aspects of an artist’s practice. Since the Foundation’s inception in 2010, she has curated numerous solo exhibitions, including artists Will Benedict, Mircea Cantor, N. Dash, Michael Dean, Alicja Kwade, Benoît Maire, Ahmet Ögüt, Nora Schultz, Oscar Tuazon and Guido van der Werve, in addition to group shows, performances, and off-site projects.
She also curates independently, favouring a working methodology of collaboration and the opening up of non-traditional approaches to curatorial and artistic practice. In 2016 she co-founded Magic Lantern Film Festival, a semi-annual thematic investigation of the interstice between visual art and cinema. Selected past projects also include High Noon, l’Accademia delle belle arti, Rome; Wetlands Hero, CNEAI Centre national édition art image, Chatou, France; Red Swan Hotel, MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Despite Our Differences, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris.
Since 2011 she is an Arts and Humanities Advisor at the American Academy in Rome.
In collaboration with the embassy of the Netherlands in Italy.