Federica Milano

A graduate of Sapienza Università di Roma and the École du Louvre, Federica Milano (1995, Italy) specializes in contemporary art history. From 2019 to 2021, she was associated with the research program “1959-1985, au prisme de la Biennale de Paris” at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, and curated the exhibition devoted to the archives of the Biennale de Paris at the Centre Pompidou. A contract PhD student since 2021 at Sorbonne University and La Sapienza, her thesis focuses on corporate patronage in France and Italy between 1945 and 1968. Since 2022, she has been teaching XXᵉ century art history and theory at several universities in France.

Federica Milano’s residency project, part of her doctoral thesis, is part of a critical reflection on the now decisive importance of corporate sponsorship in the international art system. His study explores the historical links between this phenomenon and collaborations between artists and industrialists during reconstruction, from the end of the Second World War to the protest movements of the 1960s. The comparative approach adopted, centered on case studies in France and Italy, highlights both the emergence of national specificities and points of convergence in the definition of a practice with transnational contours.