Maria Rosa Sossai is a researcher in the field of artistic practices and education policies. She lives in Rome. In 2010 she founded esterno22, an association for contemporary art education, which in 2012 became ALA accademia libera delle arti, an independent platform for education and contemporary art; recent projects include a cycle of workshops and exhibitions of Italian and international artists at FAI – Villa e Collezione Panza in Varese. It currently collaborates with Spazio5 in Trieste. From 2013 to April 2015 she was artistic director of AlbumArte spazio | projects for contemporary art, a non-profit cultural association in Rome. She has curated exhibitions and projects in galleries, foundations and museums in Italy and abroad such as the MAN museum in Nuoro, the Pastificio Cerere Foundation, the Polish Institute in Rome, Nomas Foundation, the American Academy, the Real Academia de España in Rome, the Italian Cultural Institute in Istanbul and Seoul, the Tel Aviv Museum, SongEun ArtSpace in Seoul and together with Laura Cherubini, a travelling exhibition by Carla Accardi in Toruń, Budapest, Thessaloniki and Athens.
She writes for contemporary art magazines such as Flash Art, Arte e Critica, Artribune and Shifter; with Silvana Editoriale, Milan, she has published Arte video, storie e culture del video d’artista in Italia, 2002, Film d’artista, percorsi e confronti tra arte e cinema, 2009, Vivere insieme art as a pedagogical action, 2018.