As every year the invitation of the curators falls during Bologna’s ArteFiera. This fair is dedicated to contemporary art where experts, artists, gallerists come together, offering a rare chance of meetings, exchanges, and to be updated on Italian contemporary art world.
The residency program for curators at Nosadella.due intends, in fact, to offer a precious experience of study, information and interaction with the Italian artistic scene through studio visit with artists selected on purpose as regards the research of the guest curators; meetings with curators, critics, experts; visits to exhibitions, events, projects of special interest at independent platforms as well as at galleries or museums.
The aim of Nosadella.due is in fact to develop together with the curators in residency a project of cultural export to be realized in the guest curators’ countries involving up-and-coming Italian artists.

Oyku Ozsoy and Vessela Nozharova’s residency is part of the wider program “PASS - Produce Art (as) Social Strategy”, organized by Nosadella.due for 2009-2010. It is focused on an exchange between Italy and East Mediterranean Countries to develop a research about the process of innovation that is involving and connecting these different territories.
Together with the two guest curators and several experts that will be involved during the residency program, in collaboration with other Italian cultural institutions, the research will compare different opinions from different subjects during round tables, private or public meetings, talks and screenings.

Oyku Ozsoy is curator and program coordinator at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center in Istanbul, the most important center for contemporary art in Turkey and residency for international artists curators and critics. She is also one of the founders of Alti Aylik, an artistic independent project based in Istanbul. She has worked as coordinator for the project Black/North SEAS promoted by Intercult in Stockholm (2006) where she has devoted herself to study the artistic contemporary research in Sweden and in the North Countries.
Vessela Nozarhova is an independent curator based in Sofia. After her training at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia and the practice at S.M.A.K. Museum in Gent, she run Irida Art Gallery and she worked as Visual Arts Manager and curator at Red House Centre for Culture and Debate in Sofia. Currently she collaborates with art and theatre magazines and with the newspapers ‘Sega’, ‘Standart’, ‘Democracy’, ‘Duma’ and ‘Dnevnik’ for the cultural section. In 2007 she has curated the Bulgarian Pavillion at 52° edition of Venice Biennial.