Irene Campolmi

(Amos Rex, Helsinki)

Irene Campolmi is a curator, art historian, and researcher whose practice is rooted in decolonial thinking and interdisciplinary inquiry across art, science, technology, and performance. She is currently the Curator for Art, Technology and Society at Amos Rex and the Co-founder and Curator at Large of Yonder Art•Science Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen.

Irene Campolmi has a strong track record of building strategic interdisciplinary networks and examining humanity’s evolving relationship with technology; her recent work includes "Yet it moves!"—a major survey at Copenhagen Contemporary in collaboration with Arts at CERN, DARK at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University, exploring motion as an omnipresent phenomenon.

Prior to joining Amos Rex, Campolmi served as Senior Curator at MAPS – Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Denmark (2023-2026), Guest Curator at Copenhagen Contemporary (2021-2023) and as Head of the Art Program at Enter Art Fair (2019–2023).

With more than fifteen years of experience, Campolmi has curated the Estonian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, and exhibitions at TANK Museum, Shanghai; MAAT- Museum of Art Architecture and Technology in Lisbon; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, The Power Plant in Toronto, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg, Musée d'art de Joliette and l'UQAM Galleries in Montreal,, and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.

Campolmi is a faculty member of the Master for Curatorial Studies at IED - Institute of European Design in Florence and is concluding her PhD on curatorial ethics at Aarhus University, Denmark.