18 October 2025
Food for Landscapes at Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden
The talk takes place during the anniversary event organised by the indigenous nursery and botanical studio Happy by Nature.
23 - 26 October 2025
Food for Landscapes: Recipes for Slow Disasters at Design Week Cape Town
An exhibition and public session in Cape Town, resulting from a Field Kitchen activation in the Lynedoch Valley, South Africa.
06 and 10 December 2025
Webinar on the Research and Development fund by Arts Council England
A curatorial office shaped by collaboration
Looking Forward operates as a distributed curatorial office built on collaboration, adaptability, and shared responsibility. Our structure is fluid: a small core team shapes the overall direction, while each project is developed through evolving constellations of artists, researchers, producers, and institutional partners.
We don’t follow a fixed hierarchy or traditional studio model. Instead, we work through open dialogue, co-design, and processes that adapt to each project’s context. Team members shift between roles depending on the needs of the work, ensuring flexibility and shared authorship.
Collaboration is at the heart of our work. We welcome conversations with artists, institutions, and researchers who share our values. To explore possibilities for partnership or other ways to get in touch, see our Opportunities and Consultancy pages.
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Project Teams
Field Kitchen - Nurseries for Slow Disasters
2023 - ongoing
Art Lead: Andrew Merritt
Associate Artist: Emilio Hernandez Martínez
Research Lead: Nik Petek-Sargeant
Curator: Carolina Lio
Partners:
British Council
Cocina Colaboratorio (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo
Gaia Art Foundation
National Trust
The Sustainability Institute (South Africa)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
University of Cambridge
Event Hosts:
Cambridge Botanical Garden
Cape Town Design Week
Delfina Foundation (London)
IEREK International Conference Sustainable Creative Art, Museum of the Future (Dubai)
Marzia Migliora: Seven Imaginative Exhibitions
2023 - 2025
Artist: Marzia Migliora
Curators: Anna Cestelli Guidi
and Matteo Lucchetti
Art Director: Luigi Stanga
Contributors:
Eva Brioschi,
Diana Campbell
Emanuele Coccia
Francesca Comisso and Nicoletta Leonardi
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Adrian Piper
Elena Pugliese
Davide Quadrio
Andrea Viliani
Partners:
Archivorum (Berlin)
La Gaia Art Collection
Torino Museums Foundation
Italian Council Grant
MAO Museum of Oriental Art (Turin)
Museo delle Civiltà (Rome)
Event Hosts:
Artissima (Turin)
Galleria Lia Rumma (Milan)
Italian Institute of Culture (London)
MAXXI Museum (Rome)
Museo del Novecento (Milan)
Museo Madre (Naples)
Danilo Correale: Living Dead Times
2025 - 2027
Artist: Danilo Correale
Curator: Matteo Lucchetti
Partners:
Art in General (New York)
Fondazione Ermanno Casoli (Fabriano, Italy)
Italian Council Grant
Magazzino Italian Art Foundation (New York)
Museet for Samtidskunst (Roskilde, Denmark)
SOMA (Mexico City)
Feedforward Peers
Feedforward: Creative Wellbeing (2025)
Greenwich Peninsula Design District (London)
Chaired by: Sylvia Keck and Carolina Lio
George Collum (Learning Curator, Camden Art Centre)
Julia Cort (Community Engagement Manager, Horniman Museum)
Paul Crook (Head of Communities & Learning, South London Gallery)
Vania Gonzalvez (Learning Curator, Barbican Centre)
Erin Li (Curator of Public Programming, Delfina Foundation)
Richard Martin (Director of Participation, Whitechapel Gallery)
Seth Pimlott (Social Practice Curator, Chisenhale Gallery)
Rachel Routledge (Curator, Community and Engagement, Auto-Italia)
Alex Thorp (Education Curator, Serpentine Galleries)
Frances Williams (Health and Research Lead, Queer Circle)
Feedforward: Heritage of Slavery (2022)
Museum of London Docklands (London)
Chaired by: Carolina Lio
Thomas Cury (Independent Curator)
Holly Graham (Artist)
Basil Olton (Artist)
Sarah Thomas (Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London)
Supported by:
Arts Council England
BAN British Art Network
Paul Mellon Centre
Tate Museums
Yale University
Feedforward: Tijuana's Border (2022)
Cultural Institute of Baja California (Tijuana)
Chaired by Olga Margarita Dávila (Director, Cultural Institute of Baja California)
Juan Antonio del Monte (Professor and Researcher in the Department of Cultural Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, and Co-coordinator of the Migration Legislation and Policy Observatory)
David Cotterrell (Director, Culture & Creativity Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University)
Roberto D. Hernández (Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University).
Eduardo Elías Gutiérrez López (Professor and Researcher at UABC Tijuana Law School)
Supported by: Global Challenge Research Fund and Sheffield Hallam University
Feedforward: Morocco (2021)
Online
Chaired by: Carolina Lio and Burçak Yakici
Soukaina Aboulaoula (Co-director, Untitled Duo, Marrakech)
Jessica El Mal (Co-director of A.MAL Projects, Manchester)
Mohammed Laouli (Artist)
Francesca Masoero (Co-director of LE18, Marrakech)
Myriam Mouflih (Coordinator for Africa in Motion Film Festival)
Adrian Schindler (Artist)
Supported by:
British Council Morocco
Associate Artist Facilitators
Our Associate Artist Facilitators are artists who collaborate with Looking Forward on specific projects that involve facilitation, co-creation, and community-based engagement. Each facilitator brings a distinct perspective, and their role adapts to the needs and values of the context.
Past Collaborations
Former Team Members
David Cotterrell (2020-2022)
Arianna Guidi (2020-2021)
Katherina Matheson (2020-2022)
Giulia Menegale (2020-2022)
Burçak Yakici (2021-2023)
Artists and Collaborators in Past Projects
Francis Almendárez
Monica Arreola
Ella Belenky
Greg Bunbury
Yamile Calderon
Helen Cammock
Camila Cañeque
Luigi Coppola
DAAR Decolonizing Architecture
Olga Margarita Dávila
Ali El Aziz
Ryan Gander
Daniel Godínez Nivon
Felipe García Salazar
Norma Iglesias Prieto
Michelle-Marie Letelier
Biel Llinàs
Laura Ní Fhlainhín
Fiamma Montezemolo
Yasmine Ostendorf
Joan Pallé
Keith Piper
Irma Sofia Poeter
Moira Ricci
Gro Sarauw
Marlene Solis
Joyce Treasure
Partners in Past Projects
ACAVA
Acción Cultural Española
City of Barcelona
Curating Contemporary Art Programme at Akbank Sanat (Istanbul)
Esch2022 – European Capital of Culture
Fondation Sommer (Luxembourg)
IBERO Universidad Iberoamericana
Instituto de Cultura de Baja California (Tijuana)
London Borough of Lewisham
London Royal Borough of Greenwich
Museum of London Docklands
OnCurating Project Space (Zurich)
Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte (Luxembourg)
Paul Mellon Centre (London)
Sant Andreu Contemporani (Barcelona)
Sheffield Hallam University
Tate Museums
University of Luxembourg
Yale University