Overview
Beatrice Catanzaro (born 1975) is an Italian-Swedish artist known for her long term socially engaged art practice and exploring issues such as migration and cultural exchange. She has also worked as a professor.
Biography
Catanzaro was born in San Donato, Milanese in 1975. Catanzaro has Ph.D. from Oxford Brookes University.
Between 2010 and 2015, Catanzaro lived between Jerusalem and Nablus, where she initiated Bait al Karama, a social enterprise and women community center in the Old City of Nablus. She also taught at the Art Academy of Palestine in Ramallah.
Works
The Water Was Boiling at 34° 21' 29“ South, 18° 28' 19” East (2008), was an installation curated by Achille Bonito Oliva at the MART Museum of Rovereto. Singling her out from the 47 artists in the exhibition, Artforum described it as "worth commendation."
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