Elisa Nocente

Elisa Nocente is a curator and programme manager who has been working in the heritage and museum sector organising exhibitions, performances, and learning programmes for over 15 years. She is currently Head of Cultural Programme at Liverpool Cathedral, where she has curated several exhibitions and new commissions including Monadic Singularity, the first exhibition by Anish Kapoor in a UK cathedral, Izyum to Liverpool by Katya Buchatska, and Coalescence by Paul Cocksedge. She was Exhibition assistant at Tate Liverpool for six years, where she worked on major solo shows, such as Keith Haring, Don McCullin, Fernand Léger, and Louise Bourgeois in Focus. In this role, she curated the first presentation in the North-West of England of Arthur Jafa’s Love Is The Message, The Message is Death and was part of the curatorial team of the Tate collection rehang Journeys through the Tate Collection; she co-curated the show Utupya by artists collective OPAVIVARA!, and the performance Voyage of the Relic Traveller by Larry Achiampong with Shiraz Bayjoo. Independent curatorial projects include Freedom Is, an exhibition of time-based media works from the Inter Media Art Institute Foundation collection, and Stage of Mind, the first solo exhibition in UK and Ireland of artist JeeYoung Lee.