Matteo Bertelé

Matteo Bertelé is an Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he also serves as chief editor of the journal Venezia Arti, deputy director of the Centre for Studies in Russian Art, and executive director of the Summer School Contemporary Art and Curatorship: From Documenta to the Biennale. He was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara (2018–2020) and is currently a researcher in the project On the Eve of Revolution: The East German Artist in the 1980s at the Getty Research Institute.

His research focuses on Russian, Soviet, and socialist visual culture, the Cultural Cold War, intertwined art histories, cultural migrations/artistic diasporas, Biennial and exhibition studies, and curatorial practices. His work emphasizes international exhibitions as sites of cross-border negotiation and the reception of dissidents under socialist regimes.

Scientific awards and honors include fellowships from the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow, 2013), GWZO (Leipzig, 2015 and 2017), and invitations to deliver guest lectures at institutions including Stroganov Academy (Moscow), Universität Zürich, Otto-Friedrich-Universität (Bamberg), University of California Berkeley, and Bibliotheca Hertziana (Rome).