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An art historian, curator and cultural manager with more than twenty years of experience, he is Director of Casa Testori and of the Giovanni Testori Association, and teaches History of Art Criticism at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He also lectures in advanced training courses for degree and master’s programmes on innovation, digitalization and cultural strategies. For the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Aosta Valley – Castello Gamba, he has curated numerous exhibitions and special projects dedicated to major artists in the collection, including Emilio Isgrò, Mario Schifano and Luciano Minguzzi. He also developed the project that led to the installation of Orbita by Massimo Uberti, which redesigned the image of the Museum. He also coordinated the “Study Group. Proposals for the Future of Castello Gamba”, which conceived a project for the reinstallation of the permanent collection and curated new acquisitions to enrich its contemporary section. He has conceived and curated exhibition projects and events for institutions and museums including MART, Rovereto; Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia; Musei Civici, Varese; Museo Bernareggi, Bergamo; Palazzo Martinengo, Brescia; Museo Civico di Villa Manzoni, Lecco; and Fondazione Stelline, Milan.

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Alessandro Castiglioni is Deputy Director and Senior Curator of the MA*GA Museum in Gallarate. He teaches History and Criticism of Design and Multimedia Languages at Istituto Marangoni in Milan. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Mario Schifano Archive and the Chiara Dynys Archive. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Fondazione Pini in Milan. As a curator, he has worked for several institutions, including Ca’ Pesaro, Venice; the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, Egypt; the National Gallery, San Marino; the Italian Cultural Institute in London; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce, Genoa; and the National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík. In 2019, together with Emma Zanella, he co-curated the San Marino Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. He co-directed A Natural Oasis, a training and research project promoted by BJCEM and hosted by institutions such as the Garrison Library, Gibraltar; the National Art Gallery of Albania, Tirana; and Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham. Together with Simone Frangi, he was also Senior Curator of School of Waters – Mediterranea 19. His publications include: Teorie dei Climi (Postmedia Books, 2023); Chiara Dynys and the filmic imaginary (Skira, 2022); Kerouac Beat Painting (Skira, 2017); Urban Mining (Corraini, 2016); The Voices of the Sirens (Mousse Publishing, 2015); and Subjective Maps / Disappearance (Mousse Publishing, 2013).

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Luigi Fassi has been Director of Artissima in Turin since 2022. From 2018 to 2022, Fassi was Artistic Director of MAN – Museo d’arte della Provincia di Nuoro. He served as Visual Art Curator at the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria, from 2012 to 2017, and from 2008 to 2012 he was Artistic Director of the Kunstverein ar/ge kunst in Bolzano. A Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP in New York in 2008–09, in 2007 he was Artistic Director of the 5th Triennial of Finland in Helsinki. He has organized exhibitions for numerous international institutions, including The Kitchen, New York, USA; ISCP, New York, USA; Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic; Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden; Frac Corsica, Corte, France; GAM, Turin; Museo Marino Marini, Florence; Galleria Civica, Trento; Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland; Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples; and Fondazione ICA, Milan. Fassi holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Turin and studied at the Universities of Turin, Cologne and Zurich.

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Bernardo Follini is Senior Curator at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, an institution with venues in Turin, Guarene and Venice. His practice focuses on institutional praxis and on the relationship between curating, research and pedagogy. Among his recent projects at the Foundation, he has curated solo exhibitions by June Crespo (2026), Alessandra Ferrini, Marwa Arsanios (2025), Mark Manders, Diana Anselmo (2024), Peng Zuqiang (2023), Diana Policarpo, Jonas Staal and Daniela Ortiz (2022); as well as the group exhibitions News from the Near Future (2025), organized on the occasion of the Foundation’s 30th anniversary, Truly Rural (2024), and The Butterfly Affect (2023). In 2025, he was a member of the Content Steering Committee that conceived and organized the annual conference of CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art in Turin. He is a tutor and lecturer for CAMPO, the Foundation’s course in curatorial studies and practices; lecturer in Contemporary Art History at IED Turin; and lecturer for the Venice Curatorial Course in Venice. He is among the initiators and curators of Aperto (2024–ongoing), a programme of seminars on professions, practices and research in art promoted by Fondazione Arte CRT. In 2016, he co-founded Il Colorificio, a project space and curatorial collective in Milan, active until 2022.

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An independent curator and researcher, she lives and works in Milan. Her practice spans theoretical research, curatorial work and cultural planning, with a focus on the relationship between contemporary art, the public sphere and participatory practices. She teaches Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts at the Accademia di Como and has led workshops and seminars at Università Cattolica, IUAV University of Venice and IED Florence. She was curator at Fondazione Ratti from 2022 to 2025 and artistic director of Careof in Milan from 2014 to 2020. Since 2007, she has been the founder and artistic director of ON, a research and production project dedicated to the relationship between art and the public sphere. Among her most recent publications, she edited for NERO Editions the monograph Fiamma Montezemolo. Hidden in Plain Sight and the volume Visible. Art as Policies for Care, with Matteo Lucchetti and Judith Wielander. In 2023, she edited and translated for Meltemi the Italian edition of The Inheritance by anthropologist and artist Elizabeth Povinelli.

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Gianfranco Maraniello is an art critic and museologist. Since 2022, he has been Director of the Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Municipality of Milan. Formerly Director of MAMbo in Bologna, of Istituzione Bologna Musei and of Mart in Rovereto, he has served as President of AMACI – the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Pinacoteca di Brera, of the Scientific Committee of the Collezione Farnesina – MAECI, and of several scientific boards. He is currently a member of the Scientific Committee of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano. He curated the Shanghai Biennale in 2006, as well as numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad. He is adjunct professor of Museology at the Accademia di Brera and of Museum Communication at IULM University in Milan. He has written numerous essays and monographs and has given conferences and keynote lectures in museums, universities and cultural events, including the Festival della Filosofia in Modena.

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Art historian, curator and author, Marcella Beccaria is Deputy Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Chief Curator and Curator of Collections, and Head of the CRRI – the Museum’s Research Centre. She is Vice President of AMACI, the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums, and Professor at NABA, Milan, where she teaches Modern and Contemporary Art History and Curatorial Studies. At Castello di Rivoli, she has contributed to the development of the collection and has curated numerous exhibitions and related catalogues from 1998 to the present. Beccaria has curated exhibitions at national and international institutions, including The ICA, London; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; OGR, Turin; Gallerie d’Italia, Milan; and The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg. As an author, she has contributed to international magazines and museum institutions and is the author of the monograph Olafur Eliasson, Tate, London (2013).

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