Andrea Bellini (born October 9, 1971) is an Italian and Swiss curator and contemporary art critic based in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2012, he is director of the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and artistic director of the Biennial of Moving Images (Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement). Life and work Andrea Bellini holds a degree in Philosophy (1996), and a postgraduate diploma in Archaeology and History of Art, University of Siena (2002). From 2004 to 2007, he was US editor of Flash Art magazine, based in New York City. In 2007 he was named director of Artissima. Beatrix Ruf, director of the Stedelijk Museum, interviewed by Frieze Magazine chose Andrea Bellini’s Artissima as one of the most important events world-wide in 2008. In 2009, in the context of Artissima, he organized the events program “Accecare l’ascolto / Aveugler l’écoute / Blinding the ears”, focusing on a single theme: the interaction between the visual arts and theater. From 2007 to 2009 he was hired by Alanna Heiss as curatorial advisor of MoMA PS1, where he organized several shows, including the retrospective of Gino De Dominicis. From 2009 to 2012 he was co-director of the Castello di Rivoli with Beatrice Merz, devising interdisciplinary cultural events, and personally curating group and solo exhibitions, including the first Italian museum show of Thomas Schütte “Frauen” and the first retrospective in Europe of John McCracken (2011). Other exhibitions include the solo shows of Piero Gilardi “Collaborative Effects 1963-1985” (Castello di Rivoli, 2012; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2012–13; Nottingham Contemporary, 2013) – and of Luigi Ontani “RivoltArteAltrove” (Castello di Rivoli, 2011–12; Le Consortium, Dijon, 2012; Kunsthalle Bern, 2012), of Philippe Parreno (2010) and of Andro Wekua (2011). In 2013, he curated solo shows by Gianni Piacentino and Pablo Bronstein at Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. In the following years he organized solo exhibitions and performances by Marina Abramović, Joachim Koester, Charles Atlas, Genesis P-Orridge, Nicole Miller, Raphael Hefti, Sonia Kacem, Steven Claydon, Ernie Gehr, Robert Overby, and Giorgio Griffa. Daniel Birnbaum, director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, listed Giorgio Griffa’s solo show as one of the ten most interesting shows worldwide in 2015 in Artforum. In 2017 he curated the first mid-career retrospective of Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi. In 2014 he curated his first Biennial of Moving Images with Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Yann Chateigné, proposing a new format: the works presented are commissioned and produced by the Centre d'Art Contemporain