Chiara Ianeselli

Chiara Ianeselli has gained her Ph.D. in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy).
Acknowledged on curatorial projects and exhibition making, Ianeselli has worked on several large-scale projects, including dOCUMENTA (13), the 14th Istanbul Biennial and documenta fifteen in Kassel, where she served as Curatorial Coordinator.
She also collaborated with a variety of private foundations and public cultural institutions, along with museums and universities.

She specializes in originating and leading research-based creative initiatives, with a drive on multidisciplinary collaborations and trans- historical perspectives. Interested in experimental approaches, combining art-historical research with critical engagement in current and pressuring debates around the accessibility of collections, she has promoted numerous methodological inquiries around the making of exhibitions.

After receiving the Frontier Proposal Fellowship in 2021, due to the relevant scientific and cultural contribution to the field of art history, in 2023 Dr. Ianeselli was selected for the Falling Walls Female Science Talents Intensive Track 2023 and in the same year she was a postdoc fellow at the Institute for Museum Research, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Her current research project deals with how objects’ labels are presented in cultural institutions, often in an assertive yet semantically objective voice; the project is grounded on the urgency of developing critical tools to analyze how and what stories are presented to the public.
In particular the aim is to bring, thanks to art historical research and the introduction of layered perspectives, further attention on the mediation between context and object, exactly what can be considered the curatorial negotiation of display.

In 2024 she will be a resident at ISCP in New York.
She is currently working on the development of MAXXI Med, in Sicily.