Siliqoon — Agency

Agency

Siliqoon on the conditions from which every project emerges. We operate as a distributed system¹ where artists, practitioners, and specialists become active agents across research, strategic consultancy, communication, and direction.
precedes method. This website does not function as a portfolio. It’s a document.

¹ By “distributed system” we refer to a […] organized through temporary constellations of knowledge, practices, and forms of authorship.

Cases

Siliqoon’s practice unfolds through contexts. Each Case Narrative² is a document of decisions and processes emerging from multiple commissions.

² Case Narratives differ from case studies in that they do not aim to demonstrate success or showcase clients, but to document decision-making.

Curation

Curation is rooted in Siliqoon’s origins. Before operating as an agency, it was established as an art label³ built around a simple question: how can we support the development of an artist? From conception to production to presentation, the work is supported as a whole. , , and grew from this approach.

³ Siliqoon was established in 2014 as an art label. The agency emerged in 2019, extending this practice into commissioned contexts.

Education

Education is a structural component of Siliqoon’s practice. We work in academic and para-academic contexts through workshops, visiting professorships, public programs, lectures, .
Over the years, we have collaborated to develop critical frameworks⁴ with institutions and universities including: NABA, IUAV, Domus Academy, Politecnico di Milano, CPUT Cape Town, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Castello di Rivoli, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and others.

⁴ By “critical frameworks” we refer to conceptual tools that allow cultural systems to be questioned and redesigned.

Contact

operate through conversations. For projects, collaborations, research, partnerships, or any other inquiry please write directly to office@siliqoon.com. You can also⁵ find us on IG, Linkedin or subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on our events.

Signals is a new online editorial project by Siliqoon dedicated to observing emerging phenomena that shape art, visual culture, technology, and society. Its purpose is to capture and interpret the soft signals of the present to unfold possible futures. It brings a cross-disciplinary network of contributors across criticism, curating, artistic research, publishing, and cultural journalism—voices moving between theory and practice, institutional discourse, and emerging cultural phenomena.

At its core, the project wonders how to observe without claiming to possess what it sees, aware of its own interference. It does not want to explain, resolve ambiguity, or turn encounter into understanding. Signals recognizes the right to opacity and wants to stay inside things long enough to feed them, preserving zones of shadow and contradiction, without rushing to decide what they will become. Hence interest in ideas before theses, works before artworks, questions that produce more questions. Art works as a trigger for looking at how practices, bodies, technologies, desires, and ways we inhabit the planet are changing.

Signals is a bilingual publication that unfolds around five formats for ideas, conversations, research, and visual contributions with different depths and creative freedom. Notes gather ideas, observations, and references in flux, with an informal, process-oriented tone. Dialogues features longs conversations built around a few questions to artists, curators, designers, creative directors, and entrepreneurs. Practices uses short interviews and abundant imagery for concise portraits of emerging talents and new practices. Readings publishes developed texts on specific themes, authors, and cultural phenomena. Carte Blanche invites voices to create a project with complete freedom. Together they let Signals move fluidly between research, analysis, dialogue, and experimentation.

Siliqoon has worked in this space for over a decade, and Signals carries that stance into the editorial field. Most signals that shape the future are present before anyone names them; by the time a phenomenon is visible, a trend codified, a cultural shift announced, direction is already unfolding. Art as a starting point for looking elsewhere.
Read the editors’ note here.

Signals is conceived, developed and directed by Siliqoon:

Editorial Office
office@siliqoon.com

Zoë De Luca Legge
Editorial Direction
zoe@siliqoon.com

Andrea Magnani
Art Direction
andrea@siliqoon.com

Riccardo Sala
Digital Production & Development

Niccolò Moronato (La Poliglotta)
Translation & Adaptations