Irene Campolmi is an Italian-born, Copenhagen-based curator, art historian, and researcher whose practice is rooted in a deep engagement with decolonial practice, performance studies and science, particularly astrophysics and physics. Since 2011, she has developed experimental programs—ranging from performances and exhibitions to talks, festivals, and public art commissions—that push the boundaries between disciplines and explore art’s capacity to reshape how we think, feel, and organize knowledge.

Her curatorial work is underpinned by rigorous theory and bold imagination. Drawing on queer and feminist studies, she critically challenges the colonial binaries that structure art history and visual culture, while actively constructing alternative narratives and value systems. Curating is not only a practice of care and inquiry—it is a political and philosophical tool for rethinking the world and how we inhabit it.

With over fifteen years of experience leading curatorial departments and large-scale art programs across and beyond institutions, she currently holds a dual role: Senior Curator at MAPS—Denmark’s National Museum of Art in Public Spaces—and Head of Arts & Science Initiatives at DARK, the Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute. At DARK, she is pioneering new methodologies for artist–scientist dialogue and cross-disciplinary research.

She has collaborated with over 100 artists worldwide and curated projects with respected institutions from  La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, TANK Museum in Shanghai, MAAT- Museum of Art Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Den Frie Udstillingbygning, Copenhagen Contemporary and Copenhagen PhotoFestival in Copenhagen, MAPS Museum of Art in Public Spaces in Køge, Walk & Talkin the Azores Islands, Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, The Power Plant in Toronto, Musée d'art de Joliette and l'UQAM Galleries in Montreal, Canada, among others. From 2019 to 2023, she served as Head of the Art Program at Enter Art Fair, curating commissions and critical conversations with leading international voices.

Campolmi brings together strategic leadership, curatorial innovation, and a commitment to building institutions that reflect the complexity and urgency of our times. She's faculty member of the Master for Curatorial Studies at IED - Institute of European Design in Florence - and has given lectures and workshop about curating and ethics of curating worldwide.