From 11 March to 29 May 2022 , Spazio Zero of GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo welcomes Dancing Plague , the winning project of the 11th edition of the Lorenzo Bonaldi Award for Art - EnterPrize by the Greek curator Panos Giannikopoulos .

Starting from the suggestion of the historical event of the Plague of the Ball , the curator puts in dialogue the post-medieval European history, the problems of colonialism and the recent experience of the pandemic, through the works of Benni Bosetto (IT), Ufuoma Essi (UK), Klaus Jürgen Schmidt (SA), Lito Kattou (CY), Petros Moris (GR), Eva Papamargariti (GR / UK), Konstantinos Papanikolaou (GR), Mathilde Rosier (FR / DE), Michael Scerbo (IT / UK) and Elisa Zuppini (IT / NL).

The jury, chaired by Lorenzo Giusti, Director of GAMeC, and composed of Marina Fokidis, independent curator and writer from Athens, and Roberta Tenconi, curator of Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, particularly appreciated the imaginative nature of Giannikopoulos' project, presented by Marily Konstantinopoulou and Dimitra Nikolou co-founders and directors of ARTWORKS, Athens, for her ability to compose different mediums and experiences, reflecting from an original perspective on the concepts of dance, body and disease.

Plague of dancing is the term used to describe a social phenomenon that occurred in Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, when, in a sort of collective hysteria, groups of people danced continuously in a state of trance for entire weeks, with participants collapsing from exhaustion, injuries, and died from strokes and heart attacks.