Main Focus
- Postwar Italian art
- Landscape studies, elemental thinking and environmental history
- Italian fascist heritage
Research project
On Ploughed Land, Work Tools and Community Rituals. Artistic Practices and Rural Italy 1968–1986
Curriculum Vitae
Elisabetta Rattalino is Postdoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Plack Institut für Kunstgeschichte, where she studies artists’ and architects’ engagement with the rural world in postwar Italy. After receiving a Ph.D. from the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews (2018), she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bolzano (“Curating Bolzano Fascist Legacies,” 2023-2025; “Written in the landscape,” 2022; “Scientific Visualisations: Impact on Practice,” 2018-2021), where she taught Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture. Her research has been supported by the Istituto di Cultura Italiana di Mumbai (2023), The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (BauhauLab 2021), CIMA – Centre for Italian Modern Art (2018), the Margaret and Alfred Forrest Trust (2015-2017), and Fondazione G. Goria (Master dei Talenti, 2013-2015). In 2024, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the research unit “Decolonising Italian Visual and Material Culture” of the Bibliotheca Hertziana.
Elisabetta collaborated with socially engaged arts organisations (Cittadellarte–Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy, 2011-2012; Deveron Projects, Scotland, 2017-2018), and is currently a board member of BAU - Institute for Arts and Ecology and ar/ge kunst in Bolzano.