Francesca Bacci

Biography

As a curator, Bacci has worked with contemporary artists in both gallery and museum exhibitions, curating shows of nineteenth and twentieth century Italian, European and American art, as well as contemporary productions. Her curatorial experience includes shows at the Courtauld Institute in London, at the Science Oxford Centre (UK) and, in Italy, at the Museum of Modern Art of Rovereto and Trento (MART), the Ricci-Oddi Museum (Piacenza), the Messina Museum (Milan) and the Civic Museum of Bolzano. She has also worked as a digital embodiment consultant for the Education Department of the Museum of Science (MUSE, Trento) and the Norway National Museum of Art (Oslo), and is convener of a 2017 CAA session on “Multisensory Digital Curatorship” in New York.She is currently working on two main projects: “The Body at the Museum,” on multisensory engagement in exhibition practices, and “The Art of Misogyny,” a history of misogyny in Modern and Contemporary Art.

Research Interest

Bacci’s scholarly work includes both traditional archival research, in particular focusing on the photography of sculpture, and interdisciplinary research that brings current ideas from neuroscience and digital technology into an investigation of the roles of the body, senses and cognition in the production and appreciation of art.