Matteo BERTELE'

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Matteo Bertelé is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History.

He has been Marie Skłodowska-Curie global fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara, Universität Hamburg and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2018-2020), with the research project "GYSIART. A cultural history of comparative art practices and receptions in Cold War Europe (1945-1991)", agreement n. 750682. 

After obtaining a PhD at Ca' Foscari in 2011, he was post-doc research fellow and scientific secretary at the Center of Studies of Russian Art (CSAR), where he co-curated and coordinated exhibitions and edited volumes and catalogues of modern and contemporary Russian art. In 2020 he has been appointed deputy director of the same center.

At Ca’ Foscari, he was adjunct lecturer in Modern Art in Eastern Europe and History of Russian Art, teaching in both graduate and post-graduate classes (2015-2017). Since 2018, he is a committee member of the international PhD programme in “History of Arts” at Ca’ Foscari. Since 2022, he is Executive Director of the Summer School "Contemporary art and curatorship: from documenta to the Biennale" (Ca' Foscari University and Universität Kassel). 

He is director of the academic journal "Venezia Arti" for the Contemporary art section and a member of the editorial board of the journal "MDCCC 1800" (both indexed in Scopus), of the scientific committee of the book series “La prospettiva rovesciata/Obratnaja perspektiva”. He is member of the Advisory Board of the project "Mapping diaspora. Russian Art in Exile" (CSAR) and of the Scientific committee of the Archive Gregorio Sciltian (Fondazione Il Vittoriale degli Italiani).

He obtained research grants and fellowships from Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden (2004); Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Tbilisi (2005); National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2013); Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig (2017); Kunsthistorisches Institut - Max-Planck-Institut in Florence (2023). He is currently member of the collaborative research project “Bildwelten im Sozialismus” at Universität Hamburg; Project Researcher within the Project "On the Eve of Revolution. The East German Artist in the 1980s" at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and Associate Scholar at Kunsthistorisches Institut - Max-Planck-Institut in Florence.

He participated in international conferences held in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Lithuania, Estonia. He was invited Guest Lecturer at (among others) Stroganov Academy, Moscow (2011; 2012), National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2013); Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie, Universität Zürich (2014); Geistwissenschaftliches Zentrum für Geschichte und Kultur Ostmittel-Europas, Leipzig (2015); Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (2017); University of California Berkeley (2019); Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome (2022); documenta Archiv, Kassel (2023).

His main research projects and publications deal with art exhibition and collection studies, artistic diasporas, Russian, Soviet and socialist art and visual culture, and the cultural dimension of the Cold War. He has published articles and essays in several international peer-reviewed journals and books, published in English, Russian, Italian, German, and French. He is the author of the monograph "Arte sovietica alla Biennale di Venezia (1924-1962)", 2020. He extensively contributed to the book "Russian Artists at the Venice Biennale 1895-2013 (2013)", awarded in 2013 as “Book of the Year” by the “Art Newspaper Russia” and nominated in the category “Theory, Art Critics and History” at the Innovation Prize, Moscow. His edited and co-edited books include “ZKK Rereading: La nuova arte sovietica: una prospettiva non ufficiale” (2014), the conference proceedings on Yuri Lotman (2015) and Pavel Florensky (2015) and the catalogue of the Russian Pavilion at the 57. Venice Biennale (2017).

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Matteo Bertelé è professore associato in Storia dell'arte Contemporanea.

E' stato Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow presso la University of California Santa Barbara, Universität Hamburg e Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (2018-2020), con il progetto di ricerca "GYSIART. A cultural history of comparative art practices and receptions in Cold War Europe (1945-1991)", agreement n. 750682.

Nel 2011 ha ottenuto un dottorato di ricerca in Lingue, Culture e Società a Ca’ Foscari, i cui esiti sono stati pubblicati nel volume "Russian Artists at the Venice Biennale (1895-2013)", nominato nel 2013 “libro dell’anno” dall’"Art Newspaper Russia" e nella categoria “Teoria, critica e storia delle arti” dell’Innovation Prize di Mosca. 

Dal 2011 al 2017 è stato assegnista di ricerca e segretario scientifico presso il Centro Studi sulle Arti della Russia di Ca’ Foscari, dove ha coordinato o co-curato mostre, cataloghi e volumi dedicati all’arte russa moderna e contemporanea, e di cui nel 2020 è stato nominato Vicedirettore. Sempre a Ca’ Foscari ha tenuto corsi di laurea triennale e magistrale in Storia dell’arte moderna dell’Europa Orientale e Storia dell’arte russa (2015-2017). Dal 2018 fa parte del collegio del dottorato internazionale in Storia delle arti di Ca' Foscari. Dal 2021 è Direttore esecutivo della Summer School "Contemporary art and curatorship: from documenta to the Biennale", organizzata da Ca' Foscari e Universität Kassel. E' membro del Comitato di studi dell'Archivio Gregorio Sciltian presso la Fondazione Il Vittoriale degli Italiani e del Comitato scientifico del progetto "Mapping Diaspora. Arte russa in Esilio". 

E’ direttore della sezione Contemporaneo della rivista "Venezia Arti" e membro del comitato editoriale della rivista "MDCCC 1800", entrambe indicizzate in Scopus. E' membro del comitato scientifico della collana editoriale “Obratnaja Perspektiva/La prospettiva rovesciata”, presso la quale ha curato gli atti dei convegni dedicati a Jurij Lotman e Pavel Florenskij (2015). Con Mimesis ha pubblicato la sua prima monografia (Arte sovietica alla Biennale di Venezia 1924-1962, 2020).

Ha ottenuto borse di ricerca e di perfezionamento da Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresda (2004); Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Tbilisi (2005); National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Mosca (2013); Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Lipsia (2014); Kunsthistorisches Institut - Max-Planck-Institut, Firenze (2023), dove dal 2024 è Associate Scholar. Attualmente fa parte dei gruppi di ricerca “Bildwelten im Sozialismus” (Universität Hamburg) e “On the Eve of Revolution. The East German Artist in the 1980s” (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles). 

E' intervenuto in veste di relatore a conferenze internazionali in Italia, Stati Uniti, Regno Unito, Germania, Francia, Russia, Svizzera, Repubblica Ceca, Romania, Lituania, Estonia. E' stato Guest Lecturer, tra gli altri, all'Accademia Stroganov di Mosca (2011; 2012); Centro Nazionale per l'Arte Contemporanea di Mosca (2013); Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie, Universität Zürich (2014); Geistwissenschaftliches Zentrum für Geschichte und Kultur Ostmittel-Europas, Lipsia (2015); Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (2017); University of California Berkeley (2019); Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma (2022); documenta Archiv, Kassel (2023).

I suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano la storia delle esposizioni, delle collezioni e delle diaspore artistiche, l’arte e la cultura visiva russa, sovietica e socialista, e la dimensione culturale della Guerra fredda.