Who is Francesca Della Ventura

Francesca Della Ventura
Ha studiato storia dell'arte (triennale, magistrale e scuola di specializzazione) in Italia e ha lavorato per alcuni anni come curatrice freelancer e collaboratrice presso il Dipartimento dei Beni Storici, Artistici ed Etnoantropologici del Molise (2012-2014). Dal 2014 risiede in Germania dove ha collaborato con diverse gallerie d'arte e istituzioni culturali tra Colonia e Düsselorf. Dallo stesso anno svolge un dottorato di ricerca in storia dell'arte contemporanea all'Università di Colonia con una tesi sul ritorno all'arte figurativa negli anni Ottanta in Germania e Italia. Nel 2018 è stata ricercatrice presso l'Universidad Autonoma di Madrid. Ha scritto sull'identità tedesca e italiana nell'arte contemporanea e nella politica, sul cinema tedesco e italiano del dopoguerra e grazie a diverse borse di studio D.A.A.D. ha presentato la sua ricerca a livello internazionale. Attualmente i suoi temi di ricerca riguardano l’arte degli anni Ottanta, in particolar modo quella femminista. Dal 2020 è entrata a far parte del gruppo di ricerca dell’Universitá di Bonn “Contemporary Asymmetrical Dependencies” con un progetto di ricerca sulla costruzione dei nuovi musei e delle condizioni di dipendenza asimmetrica dei lavoratori migranti nell’isola di Saadyat ad Abu Dhabi. Nell'ottobre 2020 ha fondato inWomen.Gallery, galleria online, sostenibile e per artiste. Dal 2017 lavora come giornalista d'arte per la rivista online e cartacea Finestre sull'Arte.

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Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains. The exhibition devoted entirely to the career and world of Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains. The exhibition devoted entirely to the career and world of Pink Floyd

by Francesca Della Ventura , written on 09/12/2018
Categories: Exhibition reviews
The history of the city of Dortmund, the major center of the Ruhr industrial region, is closely connected to the history and career of one of rock music's most famous bands, Pink Floyd. It was in Dortmund, in 1981, that eight spectacular concerts o...
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Will art fairs change the contemporary art system? The case of Art Düsseldorf

Will art fairs change the contemporary art system? The case of Art Düsseldorf

by Francesca Della Ventura , written on 26/11/2018
Categories: Opinions
Düsseldorf was one of the most important and most active cities in contemporary art and the art market between the 1970s and 1980s. Home to the famous Kunstakademie (Academy of Arts), it was for several decades the point of arrival (and depart...
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All-female: the exhibition on Gabriele Münter, companion of Vasily Kandinsky and co-founder of the Blue Knight

All-female: the exhibition on Gabriele Münter, companion of Vasily Kandinsky and co-founder of the Blue Knight

by Francesca Della Ventura , written on 08/11/2018
Categories: Exhibition reviews
Gabriele Münter (Berlin, 1877 - Murnau, 1962) is best known to most for being the fellow painter of Vasily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1866 - Neuilly-Sur-Seine, 1944) and co-founder of the expressionist group The Blue Rider. The exhibition Gabriele M&uum...
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The eyes of the city: the Flâneur at the center of the latest major exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn.

The eyes of the city: the Flâneur at the center of the latest major exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn.

by Francesca Della Ventura , written on 25/10/2018
Categories: Exhibition reviews
Despite being a small city of just over 300,000 inhabitants in Germany's North Rhineland, in recent years Bonn has been offering its residents and numerous tourists exhibitions of a certain caliber. After the retrospective devoted to Marina Abramovi&...
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Do the works of major contemporary art exhibitions no longer arouse pleasure? Toward the Venice Biennale 2019

Do the works of major contemporary art exhibitions no longer arouse pleasure? Toward the Venice Biennale 2019

by Francesca Della Ventura , written on 21/09/2018
Categories: Opinions
A few months after last July 16, 2018, when the 58th edition of the upcoming Venice Art Biennale (May 11-November 24, 2019) was presented, we already have the first names of the artists chosen by some of the foreign pavilions: last in order of presen...
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Lorenzo Lotto. Retratos at the Prado Museum: when high quality meets the public

Lorenzo Lotto. Retratos at the Prado Museum: when high quality meets the public

by Francesca Della Ventura , written on 21/07/2018
Categories: Exhibition reviews
The exhibition Lorenzo Lotto. Retratos, which can be visited until Sept. 30 at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, proves that it is still possible to create exhibitions of works of art that are not solely and exclusively of the "blockbuster" type. Lore...
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Marina Abramović, The Cleaner: a preview of the major exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi

Marina Abramović, The Cleaner: a preview of the major exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi

by Francesca Della Ventura , written on 06/06/2018
Categories: Exhibition reviews
[ ] The Cleaner is more than just an exhibition; it is an immersive and all-encompassing experience with great art-historical significance. (Rein Wolfs, director of the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn). Last April 20, at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, The...
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Documenta 14: when an international exhibition becomes a space for critique and political contestation of the contemporary world

Documenta 14: when an international exhibition becomes a space for critique and political contestation of the contemporary world

by Francesca Della Ventura , written on 17/08/2017
Categories: Exhibition reviews
The year 2017 will be remembered by art lovers as the year of major international exhibitions. Almost simultaneously, three major events opened their doors to artists, curators and visitors in general: the Venice Biennale dArte (05.13.2017-26.11.2017...
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