Grisi (Rhodes, 1939 - Rome, 2017) experimented with photography, video, painting, and the creation of complex environmental installations, being associated at various times with Pop Art, conceptual art, kinetic art, and environmental art.

In 1964, she made her debut with a solo exhibition at  Il Segno gallery. In 1965 she participated in the Rome Quadriennale and held her second solo show at the Ariete Gallery in Milan. In 1966, she took part in the Biennale di Venezia and quickly found international acknowledgment, exhibiting at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York her first cycle of works: Variable Paintings and Neon Paintings. Married to the documentary maker and writer Folco Quilici, they travel together frequently, visiting numerous localities in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania. These journeys allow her to confront herself with the different cultures and the forces of nature: wind, light, fog, water that she re-elaborates in her works through camera recordings.

Since 1968, she has held numerous international solo exhibitions, including at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1968), Kunsthalle Bern (1969), Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (1973), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1976), Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf (1978), and Ugo Ferranti, Rome (1979). He has participated several times in the Rome Quadriennale (1965, 1973, 1986) and the Venice Biennale (1966, 1986, 2022). Thanks to the rereading of Grisi's work by Marco Scotini and P420, important solo exhibitions have been held in recent years, such as at the Muzeum Susch (2021), the MAMCO in Geneva (2022), and P420 in Bologna (2025). 

Her works are included in the collections of numerous international institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Weisman Museum in Los Angeles, the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna in Turin, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, EMMA | Espoo Museum of Modern Art in Espoo (FI), the Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris

Marco Scotini is Artistic Director of NABA (Milan, Rome, London), having headed the Visual Arts Department since 2004. Previously Artistic Director of FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea in Milan, he is now responsible for the exhibition program at PAV – Parco Arte Vivente in Turin. He has curated over 300 exhibitions worldwide, including exhibitions for the Venice Biennale (2015, 2024), the Istanbul Biennial (2022), the Bangkok Biennial (2020, 2022), as well as the Prague Biennial (2003, 2005, 2007), the Yinchuan Biennale (2018), and the Anren Biennale (2017), as well as the long-term project Disobedience Archive, presented internationally since 2005. He has collaborated on exhibitions and lecture series with major institutions such as Castello di Rivoli, Documenta, Museo Reina Sofía, MAXXI, MAMCO Geneva, and Migros Museum, and is Scientific Director of numerous artist archives, including those of Gianni Colombo, Bruno Di Bello, Bert Theis, Clemen Parrocchetti, Laura Grisi, and the Nanni Balestrini and Emilio Scanavino Foundations. Author of Artecrazia, Politics of Memory, and L'inarchiviabile, he is the Artistic Director of the “Geoarchivi” series for Meltemi. 

Brando Quilici is an Italian filmmaker, director, and documentary maker. Over more than twenty years, he has produced dozens of documentaries and specials for international networks such as National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, and PBS (NOVA), receiving awards at prestigious festivals including the Jackson Hole Film Festival and the Trento Film Festival. In 2013, he produced and co-directed the adventure film The Journey Home (Il mio amico Nanuk), set among the ice of the Canadian Arctic, and in 2022 he wrote, directed, and produced Ta’igara: An Adventure in the Himalayas (Il ragazzo e la tigre), a film combining nature, adventure, and environmental conservation themes.
Son of the renowned documentary filmmaker Folco Quilici and the artist Laura Grisi, Quilici’s work reflects a profound attention to nature, biodiversity, and world cultures.