Prof. Matteo Bertelé

Matteo Bertelé is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara (2018-2020). At Ca’ Foscari, he is chief editor of the journal "Venezia Arti", deputy director of the Centre for Studies in Russian Art and executive director of the Summer School "Contemporary art and curatorship: from documenta to the Biennale". He authored the monograph Arte sovietica alla Biennale di Venezia (1924-1962), 2020. He obtained fellowships from the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2013) and GWZO, Leipzig (2015; 2017) and was invited guest lecturer at Stroganov Academy, Moscow (2011; 2012); Universität Zürich (2014); Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg (2017); University of California Berkeley (2019); Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome (2022). He is currently researcher within the project "On the Eve of Revolution. The East German Artist in the 1980s" at the Getty Research Institute.