Dr. Elisabetta Rattalino

Dr Elisabetta Rattalino is a Postdoctoral fellow and an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bolzano, where she works in the research unit “Curating Bolzano fascist legacies: A sustainable approach to a city’s dissonant heritage”. In 2018, she obtained a Ph.D. from the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews with a thesis titled “The Seasons in the City. Artists and Rural World in the Era of Calvino and Pasolini”, which is currently becoming a book. At the Free University of Bolzano, Elisabetta was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Piattaforma Patrimonio Culturale e Produzione Culturale (“Written in the landscape. Places, traces and memories of the First World War in the Sesto Dolomites”, 2022), and conducted research into the intersections between contemporary art and science (2018-2021). Since 2010, she has been collaborating with artists and arts organisations in both Italy (Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella; BAU - Institute for Arts and Ecology, Bolzano) and Scotland (Deveron Projects, Huntly). Her research was supported by the Istituto di Cultura Italiana di Mumbai, The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (BauhauLab), CIMA – Centre for Italian Modern Art, the Margaret and Alfred Forrest Trust, and Fondazione G. Goria (Master dei Talenti).