Leonardo Ruvolo
(Italy)
Leonardo Ruvolo is a lawyer, writer, and curator. He is currently a PhD Candidate at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, specializing in copyright law and cultural economy. His research focuses on the performativity of archives within temporary artistic communities, exploring the legal and economic implications of intellectual property in decentralized creative ecosystems. He is the founder of Landescape, a Mediterranean association mainly active in Sicily that promotes the reactivation of Southern Italy’s cultural, social, and economic fabric through an interdisciplinary approach combining contemporary art, local traditions, and alternative teaching methods. After ten years of artistic work, the collective is evolving into a living, performative archive that fosters collective authorship and the fair use of common property. Ruvolo previously served as artistic director and curator of MACA – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Alcamo, a cultural institution born from a long-term regeneration project led by Landescape in Alcamo’s public space. He is also a curator at MACAO, a Milan-based center for arts and culture, working on projects that bridge artistic practice and political imagination. Currently, he is curating Archiving the Ungovernable, a forthcoming publication with NERO Editions (2026), applying insights from his research on common copyright and archival performativity. He is currently collaborating with Franca Petroni as a duo, engaging performative practices as a tool for investigating the real.