Main Focus
- Art Criticism of the post-war in Brazil and Italy
- The relation between art and politics during II World War and Cold War
- Biennials of Art of Venice and São Paulo
- Modern and contemporary art practices
- Theory and Criticism of modern art
Research Project
The Italian Representation by the Venice Biennale at the São Paulo Biennale, from 1951 to 1973
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Marina Barzon Silva is Postdoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Plack Institut für Kunstgeschichte, where she works on the Italian national representation at the São Paulo Biennale between 1951 and 1973. Marina obtained her PhD in Art History, Criticism and Theory, from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2025 with the thesis “‘Caro maestro e amico’: Lionello Venturi and the criticism of modern art, between São Paulo and Buenos Aires”. Between 2018 and 2021 she worked as curatorial assistant of visual arts at the Instituto Moreira Salles. She obtained her masters in Aesthetics and Art History in 2017 with the dissertation “Escaping antinomy: the criticism of Lionello Venturi and the Gruppo degli Otto, from the Venice Biennale to Brazil” also from the from the University of São Paulo. She received grants during her doctoral and masters research and was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana between January and March of 2023. During her time at the Instituto Moreira Salles she assisted at the organization of congresses and exhibit, as well as its annals and catalogues.