Marylène Malbert

Born in 1978, Marylène Malbert holds a doctorate in contemporary art history. Her thesis focused on “international artistic relations at the Venice Biennale from 1948 to 1968”. She has published several articles on the history of this event and the extension of this model of international exhibition. To carry out her research, she worked on various archives in the United States and France, as well as in Venice, where she spent six years. After defending her thesis at the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, she collaborated with the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, where she assisted the curator of the “Rome and the Barbarians” exhibition. Her stay at Villa Medici was motivated by a desire to gain access to the archives of the Rome Quadriennale, in order to carry out a comparative study between the Roman event, which is national in character, and the Venice Biennale, which is international in scope, with a view to drawing up a portrait of the post-war Italian art scene.