OHT was established in 2008, after winning Nuove Sensibilità, a national prize for young theatre directors at the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, and since then it has achieved national and international collaborations including, more recently:

– The Anni and Josef Albers Foundation (USA):

squares do not (normally) appear in nature a now on-work project on Josef Albers;

– Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK): buzz a vide installation included in the exhibition Twixt Two World curated by Gaia Tedone;

– MAXXI-Museo delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (IT): Delirious New York (2010) is included in the exhibition Open City – Open Museum curated by Hou Hanru as his first exhibition as director of the roman institution in 2014;

– MADRE and Teatro Pubblico Campano, Naples (IT): in 2009 the installation/performance Bios Unlimited has been shown in connection with the collection of the museum;

– Palazzo Grassi, Venezia (IT): installation work Real-Time Polaroid (2011-2012).

Finally, Centrale Fies and MART Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, have frequently been partners of various of the mentioned projects and many others, either for productions or for premieres.

BA in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, and MA in Performing and Visual Arts at IUAV, University of Venice. In 2009, he decided against accepting the invitation of the Royal CSSD, University of London, for attending an MA in Performance Practices and Research as he worked as actor and assistant director for two opera productions with the Berlin-based ensemble

Nico and the Navigators. For two years, he has been advisor of the City of Rovereto for the theatre season and he has launched a programme of Contemporary Theatre. In December 2012, he is

appointed set-designer for the opera productions of Centro S.Chiara in Trento. In 2014, he is acting for the Belgian company Peeping Tom at the La Biennale di Venezia and since 2015 he’s co-curator of Drodesera Festival at Centrale Fies.

He is a musician and sound designer. After a degree at DAMS–Music Department- he becomes music consultant for the movie Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo, an Italian cult movie. In 2004, he establishes Nanou, an Italian theatre company touring in Italy and abroad. In 2010, he established Studio Spaziale a sound recording studio to unify artistic and technological aspects of sound art and music for the stage.

Lives and works in Milan, Italy. She graduates cum laude at the University of Pavia with a thesis on contemporary artist Racheal Whiteread. Since 2005, she is associate curator of Germano Celant at Fondazione Aldo Rossi with responsibility for exhibitions and publications and associate curator of the exhibition Arts & Foods for EXPO 2015. She was associate curator (2008-2012) at Triennale di Milano, department of Arts and Architecture, and curator/editor of various exhibitions and catalogues like: “OMA / Rem Koolhaas” (24Ore Cultura and Espresso, Milano / Roma, 2013), “Arte Povera 2011” (Electa, Milano 2011), “Fausto Melotti. 1889-1986”, MADRE Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina, Napoli, (Electa, Napoli 2011) and “Frank O. Gehry. Dal 1997”, Triennale di Milano, (Skira, Milano 2008).

In 2007, together with Daniel Blanga Gubbay, she establishes pathosformel which works on the image of the body on stage and the possibility to represent it by abstract signs. Their work has been invited by leading festivals all over Europe such as Mime Festival London, Crec Festival Barcelona, Kaaitheatre Brussels and many more.

Paola Villani collaborates with other artists on works that have been exhibited at La Biennale di Venezia 2013 – Ossido Ferrico by Francesca Grilli, Istanbul Design Biennale 2012 – Mapping with Antonio Ottomanelli, Sao Paulo Calling 2012 – Subbendo with Antonio Ottomanelli and MAMBO museum of contemporary art of Bologna 2011 – the conversation by Francesca Grilli.