Valeria Castellaneta

Helleborus orientalis (blue lady)

Perennial, deciduous and evergreen, Valeria is a cosmopolitan plant originally from Europe. Her natural habitat is the garden and she loves waking up in the middle of winter, even though her best projects require exposure to the sun or partially shaded locations to grow. She favours fertile grounds where to plant her ideas, which she often finds through her travels. In order for her little plants/ideas to bloom, she looks for the right pace and timing to grow with them.

Valeria is an organiser of cultural events. She graduated in Arts Management at the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, with a thesis on ARTA in Paris. She is an experienced and professional organiser of performing arts events, holding a post-grad MA from the Fondazione Paolo Grassi in Milan. Since 2004 she has been working for the promotion of Corte Sconta Dance company and has co-organised the first edition of the Festival of performing arts Opplà at Teatro Out Off  in Milan (in collaboration with the Municipality and the Province of Milan). From 2007 until 2013, she was a producer for TPO (Teatro Fabbrichino – Prato) company and she looked after production, international promotion, media and tour management.
In 2014, she was in charge of overseas promotion and support of emerging artists for international site-specific projects. In this role, she has collaborated with a number of artists, including Nicola Galli, Giorgia Nardin, Marta Cuscunà.
At the same time Valeria returned to her hometown to co-fund and grow the PlanTS project. A few years later she moved to Turin, where she fruitfully works with TPE – Fondazione Piemonte Europa and Fondazione Teatro Stabile di Torino.