After carefully going through over 150 applications, Villa Filanda Antonini is glad to announce the selected artists for the Open Call ‘Nourish‘.
We want to thank each one of the candidates for applying and we care to let you know that it was very difficult to chose only two artists for this residency.

The VFA team congratulates Anna Zanichelli  and Nora Mandray, as chosen resident artists for the Spring 2025 edition.

Jurors

Hunter Braithwaite (Philippines, 1986) is Senior Vice President of Cultural Counsel, where he consults in the contemporary art, design, and philanthropy space. He serves on the Board of Directors of Storefront for Art and Architecture. Over the years he has worked with organizations including Artist Relief, COLLECTIBLE Design Fair, El Museo del Barrio, Ford Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, NADA, Prospect New Orleans, South Arts, SculptureCenter, and United States Artists. He frequently programs and moderates speaker series as well.
Hunter received his MFA in fiction from New York University, and studied English literature and art history at the College of William and Mary. A longtime art writer, his work has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Bomb, the Brooklyn Rail, and the Paris Review Daily. He was a contributing editor at Modern Painters, the founding editor of the Miami Rail.

Joel Valabrega is Head of Programme / Curator at Galeria Municipal do Porto. She was previously the Curator of Performance and Moving Image at Mudam Luxembourg (2020–24). In 2024, she curated the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and and will be curating the Present Future section at Artissima Art Fair (1–3 November 2024). Her recent curatorial projects include the experimental exhibition Workers in Song by Billy Bultheel & James Richards (2024), the performative group exhibition After Laughter Comes Tears (2023) and the performance festival The Illusion of the End (2022). She has previously co-run the project space MEGA in Milan (2016–22), worked as a visiting curator at the V-A-C Foundation in Moscow and Venice (2018–19) and was part of the curatorial team of Triennale Milano (2020). She has curated exhibitions, performances and major new commissions with artists including Tarek Atoui, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Cecilia Bengolea, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Lara Favaretto,Trajal Harrell, Ligia Lewis, Eliane Radigue and Nora Turato, among others. She has edited publications including After Laughter Comes Tears (Lenz Press, 2023), Tarek Atoui: Waters’ Witness #02 (Mudam/Les presses du reel, 2022) and the artist book form is void void is color (2020) and regularly contributes essays to exhibition catalogues and magazines.

Flaminia Veronesi (Milan, 1986) lives and works in Milan. She explores the fantastic and the marvelous through a playful approach to artistic practice, creating heterogeneous works with media and materials that are free of hierarchies. Her works range from textile works, sculptures in polymer clay, ceramics to pencil drawings, paintings, watercolours, glass engravings and installations. From 2005 to 2020 she lived between London and Paris. She attended the Foundation Course, Central Saint Martins (2006) and obtained a BA in Fine Art, Chelsea University of Arts and Design (2009). This year Flaminia has been selected amomg the 20 finalist of Premio Cairo 2024. Her solo exhibitions include: Maternità Sociale. GrandeMadreMamma, Simondi gallery, Turin (2024); Popplay, Tommaso Calabro gallery,Milan (2024); The Hermitcrab’s Wundershell, Marni flagship store, Milan (2023); Herbarium and Bestiary of the Marvelous, Botanical Garden, Palermo (2023); Garden of Fantasy, T Magazine, Villa Necchi Campiglio (2022); Masculin/Féminine, Castiglioni Fine Arts Gallery, Milan (2021). Group exhibitions include: Pittura Italiana curated by Damiano Gullì, Milan Triennale (2023), Eddlesea. Il tempo metabolico, curated by Andrea Lerda, Posibila gallery, Bucharest (2024), Le diable au corps, curated by Massimo Mattioli and Daniele Capra, Galleria Bonelli Canneto sull’olio (2024), Per grazia ricevita, curated by Alberto Mattia Martini, Galleria Bonelli, Milan (2024) Connecting worlds at the Musee des Merveilles and the residency project Living Room, Associazione Artur(Cuneo), both curated by Andrea Lerda (2022-2021); Look atme in Milan, curated by OTTN projects (2022); La Fiabesca at the Galleria Bonelli, Pietrasanta (2022), Party, curated by the collective Die Sonnenstube, Lugano ( 2022).