Francesca Della Ventura

Francesca Della Ventura studied art history ( Bachelor, Master and Postgraduate School) in Italy and worked for several years as a curator and freelance collaborator at the Soprintendenza dei Beni Storici, Artistici ed Etnoantropologici del Molise (2012-2014). Since 2014 she has been living in Germany where she has collaborated with several art galleries and cultural institutions between Cologne and Düsselorf. Francesca is a PhD student in contemporary art history at the University of Cologne with a thesis on the return to figurative art in the 1980s between West Germany and Italy. In 2018, she was a researcher at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. She has written about German and Italian identity in contemporary art and politics, post-war German and Italian cinema and thanks to several D.A.A.D. (Deutscher Akademischer Austaschdienst) grants, she has presented her research internationally. Currently her research topics concern the art of the 1980s, in particular the feminist art of this decade. Since 2020 she has joined the working group of the University of Bonn " Contemporary Asymmetrical Dependencies " with a research project on the construction of new museums and the asymmetrical dependency conditions of migrant workers on Saadyat Island in Abu Dhabi. In October 2020 she founded inWomen.Gallery, an online and sustainable gallery for women artists. Since 2017 she has worked as a contributor for several online and print magazines, including Finestre sull'Arte and Flash Art Italia online.