Elena Zanichelli Author

Elena Zanichelli, Italian art historian, critic, and curator, currently Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Marburg and a board member of the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States in Berlin. From 2021-2023, she directed the Mariann Steegmann Institute. Art & Gender at the University of Bremen, and in 2022 she held the Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship in the Department of German Studies at Stanford University, USA. Her work focuses on contemporary art since the neo-avant-garde, with an emphasis on video and performance art, the representation of the "private" in contemporary art, art and feminism, and family photographs in art and visual culture.