Martina Bagnoli is the new director of the Carrara Academy of Bergamo


The Carrara Academy in Bergamo has a new director: she is Martina Bagnoli, who has reached the end of her term as director of the Estensi Galleries. She will assume the post in February 2024.

TheCarrara Academy in Bergamo has a new director: she is Martina Bagnoli, who will take up the post on February 1, 2024, but already in the coming months she will be deployed alongside the museum’s team to work on future programming: in particular, she will work together with the Academy’s general manager, Gianpietro Bonaldi, whose contract was recently renewed. The director is therefore leaving the Estensi Galleries of Modena and Ferrara, one of the 44 autonomous state museums: in fact, her position was expiring. The current director, Maria Cristina Rodeschini, will remain in office until January 2024.

Martina Bagnoli (Bolzano, 1964) is an art historian who studied at Cambridge University in England and earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. Bagnoli has curated more than 130 exhibitions, publications, academic lectures and conferences. Solidly experienced in fundraising and partnership building, she is a passionate advocate for the role of art in society

“Martina Bagnoli,” comments the mayor of Bergamo and president of the Fondazione Accademia Carrara, Giorgio Gori, “is a figure of absolute prestige, certainly capable of giving continuity and new impetus to the excellent work carried out in recent years by Maria Cristina Rodeschini. It is a source of great satisfaction for us that the Foundation’s call has been answered by professionals of the highest level, applying to direct the museum, as this confirms the growth of Accademia Carrara’s reputation.”

The Carrara Academy explained in a note that the choice of Martina Bagnoli was motivated by “her expertise in planning, skills with respect to innovative approaches toward museum and artistic heritage in terms of conservation, valorization, fruition, communication and development.” The Foundation also expressed “its satisfaction with the choice as well as with the entire selection process, including the important number (29) and quality of applications received, and thanks the committee composed of Francesco Frangi, Neville Rowley and Cristian Valsecchi.”

Martina Bagnoli is the new director of the Carrara Academy of Bergamo
Martina Bagnoli is the new director of the Carrara Academy of Bergamo


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