Matteo Lucchetti

Contemporary Arts and Cultures Curator, at Museum of Civilizations, Rome

Matteo Lucchetti is a curator, art historian and writer. He is curator for arts and culturecontemporary at the Museum of Civilizations in Rome. Since 2011 he has curated, with Judith Wielander, Visible, a Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna project to research and support socially engaged art practices in a global context, which has seen the creation of an intangible collection of more than 200 art projects. He is also guest curator for the Pompeii Commitment project. ArchaeologicalMatters. He worked as curator of exhibitions and public program at BAK Utrecht in 2017-2018, and was curator of the 16th Quadriennale in Rome. Recent curatorial projects include: DAAR: Decolonization Entity – Borgo Rizza (winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale), for La Loge in Brussels, the Madre in Naples and the Berlin Biennale, 2022-2023; Raffaella Crispino: WeWantMirrors.AJourneyInto the Matrix of Coloniality, MMSU, Rijeka, 2022; Marzia Migliora. The Spectre of Malthus, MA*GA, Gallarate; Sammy Baloji. OtherTales, LundsKonsthall and Kunsthal Aarhus, 2020; Marinella Senatore: Universal Square. Social Stages, Queens Museum, New York, 2017; De Rerum Rurale, 16th Quadriennale di Roma, 2016; Don’t Embarrass the Bureau, ParaSite, Hong Kong, 2013; Lunds Konsthall, 2014; Enacting Populism, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2012.