Michela Sacchetto

Michela Sacchetto is an art historian, curator, and lecturer at the School of Arts (ERG), where she teaches courses in History and Current Events of the Arts / Medialities and Current Events and Reading of Art / Exhibition Policies (M1). She is pursuing a doctorate at the Catholic University of Leuven (UCLouvain) with a thesis on the resonance of mythology in exhibitions from the 1960s to the 1980s, focusing on curator Harald Szeemann. Her work bridges academic research with curatorial practice, including fellowships at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and research stays at the documenta Archives in Kassel.

• Active member of the curatorial platform [or nothing] since 2012.
• Co-founder of coloc, a dialogical project involving artistic cohabitation in shared spaces.
• Collaborated on sound art projects like PLAY IN with Overtoon (Brussels) and Art.ur (Cuneo, Italy).

Her research focuses on the interplay between mythology and curatorial practices in late 20th-century exhibitions, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary methodologies and the mediations of artistic discourses. She contributes to art magazines, exhibition catalogs, and artist books, integrating her academic and curatorial expertise.