Francesco Bernardelli, contemporary art critic and curator, has been working within the framework of visual arts, time-based media and performance, curating film and video programmes and performance projects.

From 1999 until 2005 he was responsible for the video and film screening programmes of Castello di Rivoli – Contemporary Art Museum, often in collaboration with the National Cinema Museum of Torino. In 2004/05 he co-catalogued the historical video collection of Castello di Rivoli, and in recent years he has been writing about the connection between performance, video art and moving images. His essays have been published by institutions such as MAMbo, Bologna, Papesse Contemporary art center, Siena, Castello di Rivoli and GAM-Modern Art Gallery, Torino, as well as Stedelijk Museum and De Appel, Amsterdam. Recent projects he has curated include Split Subjects (De Appel, Amsterdam 2005) and Figures of Excess (Beursschouwburg, Bruxelles, 2006).