Elena di Raddo

Elena Di Raddo. È professoressa ordinaria di Storia dell’arte contemporanea presso l’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Brescia e Milano.

Dirige il Master “Progettare Cultura. Arte, design, imprese culturali” ed è membro del Comitato Esecutivo del Centro di Ricerca sull’Arte Astratta in Italia (CRA.IT). Tra le sue attività, è curatrice di mostre e consulente scientifica per musei, gallerie, archivi e istituzioni culturali pubbliche e private. Scrive per newsletter, periodici e riviste d’arte.

Le sue principali aree di studio sono la pittura tra la fine del XIX e l’inizio del XX secolo, l’arte astratta europea e gli sviluppi artistici degli anni ’60 e ’70. Il suo interesse si rivolge inoltre anche all’arte in relazione ai nuovi media, in particolare alle questioni emergenti nelle nuove forme di arte digitale.

Tra le sue pubblicazioni: Franco Ciliberti. Storia degli ideali (Como 2003); Sogni e ideali. Italian Decorative Cycles in International Exhibitions 1890–1914 (Milano 2004); The 1970s: The Art of Commitment: New Cultural, Ideological and Social Horizons in Italian Art (Milano 2009); Mario de Maria. Pictor of Mysterious Stories in European Symbolist Painting (Milano 2013); The 1970s. The Revolution in the Languages of Art (Milano 2015); Art Beyond Art. Encounters and Exchanges between the Visual Arts and Society in the 1970s (Milano 2017); Abstract. Women and Abstraction in Italy 1930–2000, Antiga edizioni, Como 2022; Diari di bordo. Renata Boero’s artist’s books, Electa, Milano 2025.

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Elena Di Raddo. She is a full professor of contemporary art history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Brescia and Milan.

She directs the Master’s programme Progettare Cultura. Arte, design, imprese culturali and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Research Centre for Abstract Art in Italy (CRA.IT). She works as an exhibition curator and scientific consultant with museums, galleries, archives and public and private cultural institutions. She writes for newsletters, periodicals and art magazines.

Her main areas of study are late 19th- and early 20th-century painting, European abstract art, and artistic developments of the 1960s and 1970s. She is also interested in art in relation to new media, particularly the emerging issues in new forms of digital art.

Among her publications: Franco Ciliberti. Storia degli ideali (Como 2003); Sogni e ideali. Italian Decorative Cycles in International Exhibitions 1890–1914 (Milan 2004); The 1970s: The Art of Commitment: New Cultural, Ideological and Social Horizons in Italian Art (Milan 2009); Mario de Maria. Pictor of Mysterious Stories in European Symbolist Painting (Milan 2013); The 1970s. The Revolution in the Languages of Art (Milan 2015); Art Beyond Art. Encounters and Exchanges between the Visual Arts and Society in the 1970s (Milan 2017); Abstract. Women and Abstraction in Italy 1930–2000, Antiga edizioni, Como 2022; Diari di bordo. Renata Boero’s artist’s books, Electa, Milano 2025.

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