Giada Dalla Bontà

Giada Dalla Bontà is an Italian researcher, curator, and writer focusing on the intersection between sound, politics, art, underground and experimental practices, with a particular emphasis to unofficial cultures in the late Soviet Union and in contemporary practices in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Baltics.

Throughout her career, she has worked with Lisson Gallery, Mondrian Foundation, HNI Rotterdam, Venice Biennale, and collaborated with independent art projects and experimental music labels. She is currently based in Berlin and in Copenhagen, where she is a PhD fellow at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies of Copenhagen University in association with the Sound Studies Lab.

By Giada Dalla Bontà

  • review
    06.08.2024

    »Ist nix für Frauen« 

    © Udo Siegfriedt
    Powerful Rhythms and Empowered Voices dominated at the opening night of Heroines of Sound Festival in Berlin.
    By Giada Dalla Bontà
  • reportage
    11.10.2022

    Face it and voice it

    © Alla Zagaykevych
    When you close your eyes to obvious acts of violence and evil, you only allow it to grow says Ukrainian composer Alla Zagaykevych, who believes in electronic music as a radical form of freedom. Reportage from the event »Antifascism - Electronic music from worlds on fire« in Lund, Sweden.
    By Giada Dalla Bontà
  • review
    11.12.2021

    It is impressed in the body

    © Frankie Casillo
    After a long hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic, Berlin Atonal has opened the gates of Kraftwerk to the public for the first time. As limitations to collective events endure, the new project Metabolic Rift includes, in addition to the live performances, an exhibition aiming to elicit individual experience with intense stimuli. The exposition presents a convincing curatorial approach to sound, exalting its sensorial qualities and proposing an inspiring model to work with the aural and its (im-)materiality in the context of art exhibitions.
    By Giada Dalla Bontà