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Danilo Lovisi is Brazilian-born artist-curator with a degree in Art History and Museology from the École du Louvre in Paris. As a curator and author, he co-curated Fibres Africaines at the Musée de la Toile de Jouy (2021), L’Apprentissage d’un geste at the Révélations Salon (2022), Between the Head and the Earth: Traditional African Textile Art at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2024), alongside curator Renato Menezes and Gonçalo Ivo: Fenêtre sur l’Afrique (2026) at Maison Gacha, with associate curator Leonardo Ivo. He contributed to the editorial work of Ndop, Fabrics of Royal Courts and Secret Societies of Cameroon, directed by Ly Dumas, and has published in various journals, including Foam Magazine.
Former Cultural Director of the Jean-Félicien Gacha Foundation in Cameroon, he coordinated all of the institution’s cultural projects in France and internationally between 2019 and 2025. He also co-led the cultural development of Maison Gacha in Paris, an interdisciplinary space dedicated to the preservation of African and global south craft traditions and their dialogue with contemporary creation, where he curated its inaugural cultural program in 2025.
In 2026, he was awarded the Villa Formose research and creation residency by the Bureau français de Taipei, in partnership with the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA). During the residency, he developed Object-Narratives and Visual Stories, a project exploring how found and intimate objects can enter into dialogue with museum collections through visual pairings, writing, and intuitive curatorial methods.
Building on this research, he is developing an artistic practice at the intersection of material culture, narrative processes, and intercultural circulations. Bringing together found objects, images, writing, and exhibition-making, his work explores memory, relation, and the meanings that emerge through unexpected associations.