About this blog’s author

io biennale resizedSimona Cavaliere, an events organiser, curator, author and blogger across the public, private and not-for profit sectors, set up Future for the Arts in 2010.
Italian mother tongue with fluent English and French, Simona holds a strong background in Arts Management as well as an extensive experience across the Creative and Fashion sectors both in UK and Italy. She started her carrier in Arts Management in 2002, accomplishing a wide range o fresearch, consultancy and teaching activities in the realm of arts and heritage. Meanwhile she has developed a thorough experience in Fashion as product developer, researcher and later as blogger.

Simona started the blog “Future for the Arts” with the aim at building an ideal creative bridge between London and Florence, her home town. Her focus as blogger is on the role of critical inquiry that arts, fashion and the creative industries bear to everyday life; Simona is also keen on investigating the economic potential of the creative sector, cultural production and heritage as impulse to the creation of long-term benefits and prosperity.

The blog addresses cultural trends and developments happening in both cities, giving voice to new art and emerging artists as well as exploring hidden and alternative arts spaces, cutting-edge events and intriguing tales of artistic life.

Born and brought up in Tuscany, in 2007 Simona relocated to London, where she has developed the skills and critical understanding of the latest arts development and practice in UK, she has actively researched and explored the UK visual, performing art and fashion environment, both emerging and main-stream, as well as increased her work experience in the field of museums, galleries and fashion.
Simona combines a dynamic approach and a practical appreciation of the broad art and culture context, placing the debates and issues that surround the international arts policy and current developments in contemporary art at the core of her practice.
She approaches the field critically, theoretically and through best-practice in exhibition making, programming and art writing in museums, galleries and a broad range of alternative contexts.
She has always valued the importance of the intellectual approach, as well as pursued a lifelong professional and learning development, addressing initiative, involvement and innovation.
She has engaged in all relevant areas, such as researching on exhibitions and collections, reflecting on social, political and historical contexts, writing reviews and conceiving her own curatorial projects.

With artist Linda Lieberman @galleria La Corte –  Arte Contemporanea Florence