
Christina Magnanelli Weitensfelder was born in Milan in 1968 to an Italian father and an Austrian mother, and without knowing it, she was already growing up in the midst of what would become her work's leitmotif: the evocative vision of the "Central European idea."
Supranational humanistic culture began to take shape through what we would now call collective works: in the 1990s, Christina combined readings with performances and impactful communication by organizing cultural events, understanding that stimulation, whether visual or content-based, would become increasingly crucial in the society of the future.
Piero Chiambretti and Sandro Paternostro, among others, interviewed her for RAI, and Corriere Della Sera dedicated an article to one of the events organized by Christina. Between 1992 and 1998, she worked as an art director and graphic designer for around a hundred performance events throughout Italy. From 1995 to 2005, Magnanelli worked for ten years as a project designer, specializing in mosaicking and aligning aerial photography for technical purposes, illustrating projects with CAD systems in DOS environments, and hand-finishing projects for various public and private clients. Her love of futurist-inspired flight led her to fly around Italy and discover "other perspectives" through sporting and acrobatic experiences.
In 2006, her focus shifted definitively to Fine Arts, "because it is at the root of existence itself and because it is the only art that can provide visions and therefore good direction." With careful consideration of the relationship between medium and publishing, he founded the cultural magazine L'Aperitivo Illustrato and, two years later, the publishing house Greta Edizioni. L'Aperitivo Illustrato ran for 78 issues and received prestigious awards, including being named one of the top three art magazines in the world in Spain. Artistic direction and organization of international art awards: "La costantino è il percorso," "Segno" in 2011, "dal Rinascimento all'arte contemporanea" in 2010, and "Il Meccanismo impazzito" in 2009. In 2015, he became director and curator of the BAG Gallery and specialized in art criticism.
Summer 2019. Finding beauty is finding content. Experimentation, free from any mental imposition, culminated in the founding of the Aimagazinebooks publishing group, which brought together the previous entities under the aegis of a contemporary and visionary avant-garde, committed to addressing the content that travels through the medium, in keeping with a modern and necessary ethic. The research and reflection of the Aimagazinebooks working group led by Christina agrees that selection, guided by humanities, is the only possible response to McLuhan's prophetic phrase, on a par with Plato's question, later also echoed by Shakespeare: "To use the medium as a means and return the function to itself, the web to the web and the paper to the paper, the vision to time, to find the necessary balance, in other words, Beauty." The portal and the printed medium work in parallel as an authorial esprit at the highest levels.
Winter 2019. The AI M monographic concept book is released. You don't need to be initiated into high magic, Christina teaches us, to convey the vertigo of pre-vision. Enlightenment resides in a consciousness that admits the infinite in a poetic irrationalism that, like faith, eludes science but, unlike the latter, needs no proof because it exists in Immortality. (Dunia Elfarouk, from 'The Seer Artist of AI M')
Since 2022, Christina Magnanelli Weitensfelder has been the artistic director of cultural events and festivals in the ancient Montefeltro region (Pesaro-Urbino). She oversees the editorial design of artistic and historical volumes, as well as editorial products for Montefeltro's cultural merchandising. Her photographic portraits are featured in a traveling exhibition dedicated to 1990s clubbing. She directs and designs the shopping guide "The We.t," dedicated to the Pesaro, Urbino, and Fano areas. She collaborates with local writers, artisans, and artists as a curator, manager, and visionary.
Since fall 2025, she is the artistic director of the Martini30 - La Casa Dell'Immaginario concept store in Urbino.
