Giorgio Bacci

Giorgio Bacci is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Arts and Entertainment (SAGAS) at the University of Florence. He currently serves as National Coordinator of the PRIN 2022 project BorderArt(E)Scapes. Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Borderscapes and is a member of the UNIFI unit within the CHANGES Partnership funded by PNRR-PE5. His academic career includes positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore (2008-2012, 2017-2018), fixed-term researcher (2012-2017), and teaching appointments at the University of Turin, Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, IED in Turin, and Alma Artis Academy in Pisa.

His research focuses on contemporary art, with particular emphasis on border studies, migration, the relationship between art and literature, and illustration from the 19th to 21st centuries. Bacci has curated numerous exhibitions including Manuele Fior. Viaggio a colori (2024), Simone Bianchi. L'arte dei supereroi (2023), Igort. Attraversare le forme (2023), and Hyper-modern Dante. Illustrations of Dante throughout the world 1983-2021 (2021-2022), among many others. His scholarly work demonstrates how visual culture engages with contemporary social and political issues, particularly through the lens of borders and migration.

Bacci serves on the scientific committees of several peer-reviewed journals including Ceramica e Arti Decorative del Novecento, L'Illustrazione. Rivista del libro a stampa illustrato, and Visual History. Rivista internazionale di storia e critica dell'immagine. His recent publications reveal a consistent scholarly trajectory examining how contemporary art engages with historical narratives, cultural identity, and social transformation, particularly through the lens of borders and migration.

As an academic advisor, Bacci has supervised award-winning theses at the University of Turin, including Martina Furno's Infanzie e Nazioni. Immagini e testi per ragazzi tra Francia e Italia (1930-1940) (2017) and Giulia Scrocchi's La pubblicità tra arte e immagini a larga circolazione: il caso Fiat nel secondo dopoguerra (2016), both of which won the Premio Piemonte Letteratura. His current research projects include the PRIN 2022 project examining border landscapes through interdisciplinary methodologies combining art history and anthropology.