Anita Orzes, Ph.D.

Anita Orzes is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History and a member of the international research platform Modernidad(es) Descentralizada(s). She earned a PhD in Art History from the Universitat de Barcelona and Université Grenoble Alpes (2024) and was a research assistant at Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès (2025). Her research focuses on the history of European and Latin American biennials, with particular attention to the transformation of the exhibition model during the Cold War, transatlantic artistic, intellectual and political networks, and national pavilions at the Venice Biennial. 

Orzes has participated in the Jueves de la Bienal of the 15th Havana Biennial and in the Theoretical Event of the 14th Havana Biennial. Professional experience includes work as a cultural mediator at the 53rd Venice Biennial and as a documentalist for the exhibition Caso de estudio. España. Vanguardia artística y realidad social: 1936–1976 (IVAM, 2018–2019), which explored the Spanish participation in the 37th Venice Biennial. Her academic training includes an M.A. in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a B.A. in Conservation of Cultural Heritage from Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, as well as research stays at the Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis; Goldsmiths, University of London;  Universidade Federal de São Paulo; and the Universidad de La Habana.