Federica Martini

Federica Martini, PhD, is a curator, art historian and professor in charge of the Master CCC Critical Curatorial Cybermedia programme. Her research, curatorial projects and publications focus on the history and geopolitics of exhibitions, the intersections between aesthetic gestures and industrial histories, and the production of (in)visibilities in contemporary art practices. In 2015-16 she was a research associate at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma, and in 2022 guest researcher at TrAIN (The Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, UAL, London). Previously, she was head of the MAPS Master's programme (2009-2017) and the visual arts department at EDHEA/Valais. She was a member of the curatorial departments of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea (Rivoli/Torino), Musée Jenisch Vevey, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-arts/Lausanne and the Festival des Urbaines. Her books include Just Another Exhibition: Stories and Politics of Biennials (Milan: postmedia books, 2011, with Vittoria Martini), PhD-Making is My Art Practice (Bern: SARN, 2017, with Priska Gisler), Pour Elle: Marguerite Burnat-Provins (2018, art&fiction: Lausanne, with Anne Jean-Richard Largey), Blackout Magazine (2018-2021, with Christof Nüssli), the editorial series On Words (2023, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, with Julie Enckell and Sarah Burkhalter), Feminist Exposure: Feminist Practices of the Archive and the Exhibition (2023, in preparation, Lausanne: art & fiction, with Julia Taramarcaz).