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Federica Martini

Federica Martini, PhD, is a curator, art historian and professor in charge of the Master CCC Critical Curatorial Cybermedia programme at HEAD – Geneva (HES-SO). 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 in Lausanne. 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 (Lausanne, art&fiction, 2018, with Anne Jean-Richard Largey), Blackout Magazine (2018-2021, with Christof Nüssli), the editorial series On Words (Zurich, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2023, with Julie Enckell and Sarah Burkhalter), Feminist Exposure: Feminist Practices of the Archive and the Exhibition (Lausanne, art & fiction, 2023, with Julia Taramarcaz).
  • Lundis-Livres : Federica Martini et Julia Taramarcaz

    Feminist Exposure. Pratiques féministes de l'exposition et de l'archive

    by
    • Julie Enckell Julliard
    • Federica Martini
    • Julia Taramarcaz

    What are books for? What role should they play in an art and design curriculum? How does fiction inform critical writing—or is it the other way around? And, for that matter, how does the form of a book enhance the meaning of its content?

    The…

  • Dossier #26

    In Their Own Words

    2 publications

    This feature reports on research carried out during the 2023-2024 academic year thanks to the Gendered Innovation Fund that we obtained in 2023 for the In Their Own Words research project. Our aim was to formalise a long-term thinking…

  • On the Record

    Notes on Feminist Practices of Visual Arts Interviewing

    by
    • Julie Enckell Julliard
    • Federica Martini

    In this essay, the two authors discuss feminist methodologies of the visual arts interview. Adopting the interview to obtain information on women’s experience of art means focusing research on the terms of conversation and language. From this approach…

  • In Her Own Words

    by
    • Julie Enckell Julliard
    • Federica Martini

    The podcast captures the essence of a conversation that we had with Polish-born artist Marysia Lewandowska in November 2023, at her studio in London. This conversation is the starting point and matrix of the research project In Their Own Words. While…