Metropolitan Voids Agency is the first monographic publication dedicated to the work of artist Margherita Moscardini. The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) will host a presentation of Metropolitan Voids Agency with Moscardini and curator Zasha Colah, co-editor of the book.

The book covers part of the work carried out by Moscardini over the span of 17 years, from 2008 to 2024, encouraging readers to interpret her practice as an investigation into voids—those Moscardini has identified and designated as such, or those she has invented—in urban spaces, sparsely populated areas, and within the gaps of legal frameworks. Metropolitan Voids Agency is published by Archive Books and commissioned by Ar/Ge Kunst. 

Born in Italy, Margherita Moscardini is an artist who, through large-scale interventions, sculptures, videos, and writings, explores the relationships between urban, natural, and social transformation processes in specific geographies. Her practice spans various fields, including architecture, cities, and citizenship, aiming to create sculptures conceived as unclaimable objects and spaces that legally distance themselves from the sovereignty of the territory they occupy. Moscardini was an ISCP artist-in-residence in 2015.

Zasha Colah is a curator based in Turin, Italy, who is interested in cultural sovereignty and cultural transference under repression. She is a lecturer in Curatorial Studies at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, Italy; Artistic Co-Director of Ar/Ge Kunst, Italy (with Francesca Verga; Bozen-Bolzano); and a member of Archive in Berlin, Germany, Dakar, Senegal, and Milan, Italy. From 2010-2022, she was co-founder of the Clark House Initiative in Mumbai, India. In 2017, she co-curated the third Pune Biennale with Luca Cerizza, and in 2018, she was part of the curatorial team led by Marco Scotini of the second Yinchuan Biennale. She is curator of the 13th Berlin Biennale to open in 2025. Colah was an ISCP resident in 2012.

This project  is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (12th edition, 2023), which aims to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide.
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