Visiting Curator Lecture - Matteo Lucchetti

Wed, Jul 15 • 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Matteo Lucchetti is a curator, art historian, and writer. Since 2026, he has been Head of the artistic project at ParCO in Parma, and since 2022, he has been Curator of Contemporary Arts and Cultures at MUCIV - Museo delle Civiltà in Rome. Since 2011, together with Judith Wielander, he has curated Visible, a research and support project for socially engaged artistic practices in a global context—initiated by Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna and supported since 2024 by the Zegna brand—which has led to the creation of an immaterial collection of more than 200 artistic projects and the first European award for socially engaged artistic practices. He is also the guest curator of the project Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters. He worked as curator of exhibitions and the public programme at BAK in Utrecht from 2016 to 2018, and was curator of the 16th Quadriennale di Roma in 2016.