Research:
Stefano Agresti (born 1994 in Pescara) has obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Art History at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, with dissertations on Enrico Castellani (Supervisor: Prof. Claudio Zambianchi) and on the solo exhibition of Jannis Kounellis in Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall (Supervisor: Prof. Claudio Zambianchi; Co-supervisor: Prof. Ilaria Schiaffini) respectively. He was SSAS (Superior School of Advanced Studies) student from 2013 to 2018. He has spent study periods at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2016) and at the Freie Universität in Berlin (2017). In 2018, he got a scholarship for a research period in Köln, where he conducted archive research at the ZADIK (Zentralinstitut für deutsche und internationale Kunstmarktforschung). In 2017, he was intern at the Museum Berggruen in Berlin. Since 2018, he collaborates with the “Thema” review.
His academic interests concern the history of Italian art starting from the second post-war period, the artistic, cultural and economic relationships between Germany and Italy before 1989, and the Italian contemporary art market and collecting.
He is currently developing a doctoral research project entitled Arte e ideologia a Roma 1968-1979.