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Davide Quadrio (Director of MAO Museum of Asian Art in Turin)

Davide Quadrio

Director of MAO Museum of Asian Art in Turin

Davide Quadrio (b. 1970) is the Director of the MAO Museum of Asian Art in Turin, Italy. He has worked in China in the arts and culture for over two decades curating, producing and supporting the development of Contemporary Art in China. Alongside an entrepreneurial and organizational activity in the field of cultural production, Quadrio’s experience is fueled by a profound knowledge of the economic and international networking mechanisms supporting artistic production and communication.



In 1998 he founded the BizArt Art Center, the first not-for-profit lab in Shanghai that he directed for more than a decade. In 2007 Quadrio established Arthub, a production and curatorial proxy active in Asia and worldwide. From 2005 to 2008 he was the artistic director of Bund18 creative space in Shanghai. From 2013 and 2016 he was the curator for contemporary Art at the Aurora Museum in Shanghai. In 2015 he founded Kaleidoscope Asia, a sibling publication of Kaleidoscope Magazine. Since October 2020 he is visiting professor at Iuav, University of Venice in the Arts and Architectural department.



For over twenty years Quadrio has been producing and organizing hundreds of exhibitions, educational activities, concerts, film reviews, biennials, editorial works, workshops, and exchanges in Asia and abroad, developing relationships with local and foreign institutions.



Among the most recent activities and exhibitions: Buddha10, MAO Museum of Asian Art, Turin (through September 2023); Il Grande Vuoto, MAO, Turin (2022); Flu水o, the winning project of the Italian Council promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture at Seosomun Shrine History Museum, Seoul (2022), Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2021); Hub India, Palazzo Madama, MAO, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Artissima, Turin (2021); Gwangju Biennale, Korea (2021); Visions on the making, Italian Cultural Institute, New Delhi (2020); Temporary Shelter, Zhang Enli, Villa Borghese, Rome (2019); The Unicorn and the Dragon, Fondazione Querini Stampalia for the Venice Biennale (2013); Journeys Without Arrivals by Qiu Zhijie, Van Abbenmuseum, Centre d’Art Contemporaine de Geneve, Kunsthalle Lund (2017-18); Jingshen, the act of painting in Chinese Contemporary Art, PAC, Milan (2015); Paola Pivi Tulkus 1898-2018, Castello di Rivoli, Witte de With, Frac Dijon (2011-2015).

Carlotta Godio (Co-founder and General Manager of FLATMIND VIDEO PRODUCTIONS Co., LTD.)

Carlotta Godio

Co-founder and General Manager of FLATMIND VIDEO PRODUCTIONS Co., LTD.

With an educational background in Chinese Culture, Carlotta is enabled to embrace her almost 20 years of living and working life in China with total passion.


Carlotta is the co-founder of FLATMIND Productions: a video agency with more than 15 years of experience in Chinese and Western markets, FLATMIND is passionate about telling unique stories through corporate and promotional videos to be used as marketing and communication tools.

Creating FLATMIND Chinese branch from scratch, building and managing her team and taking care of the business development, shaped her into becoming an expert in campaign/visual project & production, and a well-known creative mind with insightful planning and execution skills.

FLATMIND is nowadays a distinguished and reliable high-end agency working for some of the most prestigious brands belonging to a very diverse range of industries, spamming from fashion and lifestyle to industrial sectors like mechanical, automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical…