Federica Martini, PhD, is an art historian and curator. She worked in the Curatorial Departments of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Musée Jenisch Vevey, and Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne. From 2015 to 2016 she was a fellow of the Swiss Institute in Rome. From 2009 to 2017, she was head of the master’s program MAPS – Arts in Public Spheres at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais, Sierre (ECAV), and since 2009 she has also been part of the independent art space standard/deluxe, Lausanne. In January 2018, she was appointed Dean of Visual Arts at ECAV.

Recent publications include: PhD Making is my Art Practice (with P. Gisler, SARN, 2017); Vedi alla voce: traversare (2016, Traces); Publishing Artistic Research (with B. Drabble, SARN, 2014); Open Source and Artistic Research (with B. Drabble, SARN, 2014); Tourists Like Us: Critical Tourism and Contemporary Art (with V. Mickelkevicius, 2013); Pavilions/Art in Architecture (with R. Ireland, 2013, Bruxelles: La Muette); Just Another Exhibition: Stories and Politics of Biennials (with V. Martini, 2011, Milan: postmediabooks).