Francesca Pola

Art historian and curator, she is an associate professor of the history of contemporary art at UniSR, where she collaborates with ICONE, the European Research Center for the History and Theory of the Image. Pola has been Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer Chair in Italian Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston (Chicago) and has curated hundreds of exhibitions and publications dedicated to the different forms of artistic expression in the contemporary world: from drawing to painting, from sculpture to installation, from photography to new media. She believes that all art is (has been) contemporary and she considers artistic creativity one of the privileged spaces in which to build dialogues between individuals, disciplines, eras, cultures.