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 scientific assistant in the department of Prof. Dr Weddigen. After receiving her Doctorate 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 Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History (2025; “Decolonising Italian Visual and Material Culture”, 2024), 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). Dr Rattalino is currently a board member of BAU - Institute for Arts and Ecology and the Kunstverein ar/ge kunst in Bolzano.