Lara Demori

Dr. Lara Demori is a Scientific Assistant and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte, specializing in transnational art practices between Italy and Latin America from the 1960s to 1980s. She earned her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2017 with a thesis on Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica, now being adapted into a book (Routledge, 2023). Her work spans post-war art, feminist movements, and the intersection of art with political and nuclear themes.

• Research Focus: Transatlantic encounters between Latin American and Italian artists, diasporic narratives, and hybrid styles
• Key Themes: Art and politics in the 1960s–1970s, nuclear aesthetics, feminist art in Latin America
• Affiliations: Former Goethe-Institut Postdoctoral Fellow (Munich), Marcello Rumma Fellow (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Projects: She leads the research initiative Transnational Encounters: Diasporic Narratives across Italy and Latin America (1960s–1980s), examining Latin American artists' influence on Italian cultural institutions and the Venice Biennale.

Contributions: Regularly publishes in journals like Antinomie and Doppiozero, and collaborates on curatorial projects at institutions such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

• Fellowships: Goethe-Institut Postdoctoral Fellowship, Marcello Rumma Fellowship