Phd in HISTORY OF ART

Research: Rome in the Age of Globalization: Diasporas and Cultural Encounters (1989–2002)

Arianna Desideri (Rome, 1996) holds a cum laude BA and MA from Sapienza University of Rome in Historical-Artistic Studies (2019) and Art History (2023). She completed her bachelor’s thesis on the relationship between art and urban space in Rome during the 1970s (supervisor: Prof. Francesca Gallo) and her master’s thesis, “The Posthuman Debate. A Case Study: Pierre Huyghe 1990–2013” (supervisor: Prof. Francesca Gallo; co-supervisor: Prof. Sergio Cortesini), which included a research period at the Centre Pompidou Archives in Paris. In 2022, she attended the Summer School “Contemporary Art and Curatorship. From documenta to the Biennale” at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (tutor: Prof. Matteo Bertelé).

She is currently a PhD fellow in Contemporary Art History at Sapienza University of Rome (39th cycle). Her doctoral project is entitled “Rome in the Age of Globalization: Diasporas and Cultural Encounters (1989–2002)”. She is a member of the Sapienza research unit “From Third-Worldism to Postcolonialism: Visual Imaginaries of Otherness in Italy (1979–2009). Racism, Anti-racism, Multiculturalism and Neo-primitivism” (PI: Prof. Claudio Zambianchi; coordination: Prof. Francesca Gallo), contributing to the development of the SPRIAC database (Sguardi Postcoloniali sulle Riviste Italiane d’Arte Contemporanea). In 2025, she was a visiting student at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.