The scholarship sponsored by the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art, in collaboration with the Sports and Youth Sector of the City of Milan and the Centre Culturel Français de Milan, which includes a six-month stay at the Centre International d’Accueil et d’Echanges des Récolletes in Paris, was awarded to Dafne Boggeri.

The ACACIA Associazione Amici Arte Contemporanea Italiana award was given to Marcella Vanzo. The award “for having best interpreted the dialogue of her work with the space in which the exhibition takes place” consists of the acquisition of a ‘work by the artist that will later be donated to the future Museum of Contemporary Art in Milan.

Dafne Boggeri (Tortona, 1975. Lives and works in Milan)
Through the contamination between different expressive languages, Dafne Boggeri practices a transversal and questioning path between the real and the unreal. She participated with the queer group Pornflakes in the exhibition Linee di Confine, Open Space – Care Of, Milan (2003). Follows for the Ac/D*She – ratatuia rebel label – the anomalous line of Klava accessories in which themes of pop-divertissement and gender are mixed.
Last exhibition: Ph+Txt No.01, Superstar* Like my shoes: Female attitudes around electronic music…, independent publishing project, Spazio Lima, Milan (2004).

Marcella Vanzo (Milan, 1973. Lives and works in Milan)
She graduated in Anthropology in London, then attended the Brera Academy in Milan. Her video installations have been included in numerous international festivals including Video Marathon, New York (2004), Arcipelago Film Festival, Rome (2003), First Experimental Media Festival, Dubrovnik (2002), Videoex, Zurich (2002). Magma is his first solo exhibition in Lucca, Associazione Culturale Prometeo (2003). Major group exhibitions include: Opera Video, Galleria Continua, S. Gimignano (2004); The Squared Circle, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2003); Sieben, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne (2003); Private Architectures, Galleria Continua, S. Gimignano (2003); Video Invitational, FA Projects, London (2003); Exit, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2002).
Last exhibition: On Air, La Comunale, Monfalcone (2004).