ADDIS GINEVRA

Ginevra Addis is an art historian and Research Fellow at the University of Milan-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy, where she works on the relationships between contemporary art, aesthetics, and biodiversity. Since 2023, she has held a research fellowship within the National Biodiversity Future Center (Spoke 7), UNIMIB. Since 2025, she has also taught the course on the entanglement of Biodiversity and Contemporary Art at the same University. She is an Adjunct Professor teaching courses on the contemporary art world at UCSC Milan, within the M.A. in Art History and the international M.A., since 2017, and has collaborated with the Department of History, Archaeology and Art History—Contemporary Art Unit at UCSC since 2014. She holds a PhD in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage from the IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca (2019), and was a Visiting PhD Scholar at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2017. In 2024, she was Sir William Dobell Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Her research focuses on the following areas:

-Biodiversity and contemporary art aesthetics in a global perspective

-Sustainability and contemporary art

-The Reappraisal of Pop Art in Italy and the United States

-Post-colonial studies in contemporary art collections

-Women's Abstractionism: Avant-garde entanglements

Her books include Arte contemporanea e biodiversità. Dalle mostre alle collezioni museali. Per una prospettiva globale (Trans. Contemporary Art and Biodiversity: From Exhibitions to Museum Collections. Towards a Global Perspective, FrancoAngeli, Open Access, 2025) and The Re-identification of Pop Art: Its Reception from an Italian Perspective (European Press Academic Publishing, 2021). She has contributed articles to journals such as Visual Resources, Wiley, Tafter Journal, Documenti Geografici, and chapters to volumes published by Routledge, Brill, Edward Elgar, LediPublishing and Accademia University Press. She has presented at conferences in Italy and internationally, including in New York, Brussels, Antwerp, Melbourne and Lisbon.

She has worked for international organisations such as the United Nations (New York) and UNESCO (Paris), and for non-profit organisations including More Art (New York). She has curated several art exhibitions in Italy and Switzerland and has worked as a curator and art consultant for young contemporary artists, as well as collaborating with Hestetika magazine. Since 2023, she has also served as an EU evaluator - European Commission, Bruxelles, for art projects. She founded In.a.Hub (International Artistic Hub) in 2016, a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging contemporary art and sustainability.

Projects developed with students and the video-artist Stefano Cozzi at UCSC, Milan (M.A.):
2022. The Timelapse project: Self-narration practices in host communities for adolescents on probation. With Fondazione EOS - Edison Orizzonte Sociale and the collaboration of Marcello Maloberti and Eiko Soga.
2023. Planning of creative practices and activities to support host communities for migrants with disabilities.
2025. Wellcome: concept development, production of works and exhibition project for an exhibition of video art, performance and photography at the Ex Ospedale Militare in Naples and the Library of Via Senato, Milan.