Lorenzo Giusti
Prato, 1977
Lorenzo Giusti (Ph.D) is an Italian art historian and curator, director of GAMeC in Bergamo.
He has produced exhibitions and publications dedicated to leading figures in 20th-century art history and curated contemporary art projects in Italy and abroad involving numerous artists from the international scene. His special interests lie in the relationship between historical avant-gardes and contemporary languages as well as between ecological thinking and the visual arts.
Curator of the two major retrospectives dedicated to Maria Lai (2015) and Regina Cassolo Bracchi (2021), he is the author of various essays on art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
In 2024 he curated the ninth edition of the Biennale Gherdëina.
In 2023 he curated the Modern section of Art Dubai.
In 2022 he served on the international jury of the Venice Biennale.
From 2020 to 2022 he was president of AMACI – Associazione dei Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani.
In 2020 he conceived the digital platform Radio GAMeC, recognized by UNESCO as one of the most important museum initiatives in the world during the pandemic.
From 2019 to 2021 he coordinated the curatorial team of the Back to the Future section of Artissima, Turin.
In 2018 he was part of the curatorial team of the Curated by festival in Vienna.
In 2017 he curated the international conference Museum at the Post-digital turn at OGR, Turin.
In 2016 he was part of the curatorial team of the Third Shenzhen Biennial of Animation (CHN).
From 2012 to 2017, he was director of the MAN Museum in Nuoro, Italy.
He has curated solo and group exhibitions in public and private institutions, including Kunsthaus Baselland (Chiara Bersani. Deserters, 2023), the Triennale di Milano (Thea Djordjadze-Fausto Melotti, 2017), FRAC Corse (Nomadisme, 2016) and Palazzo Strozzi (Green Platform, 2008).