ORGANIZED AND/OR CHAIRED EVENTS (SELECTION)

Schloss Thun, Thun, Switzerland, 28.09.2023: Co-organization (with Giulia Busetti) of the interdisciplinary public programme School of Interspecies Diplomacy and Werewolfish Studies, conceived and moderated by artist collective Mali Weil, with Federico Luisetti, Luzia Hürzeler and Gabriella Calchi Novati, including a screening of Ursula Biemann's Acoustic Ocean.

Museo Vincenzo Vela, Ligornetto, Switzerland, 25–26.08.2023: International conference "Vincenzo Vela. Temi e studi a confronto / Themes and Studies in Comparison" (conference organization).

Museum und Begegnungszentrum Schloss Waldegg, Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus, Switzerland, 28.09.2022: Fundraising event and textile workshop with artist Alina Kopytsia in the framework of the exhibition Beyond the Baroque, organized to raise funds for artists in Ukraine.

Photobastei, Zurich, Switzerland, 24.03.2022 and 08.04.2022: In the framework of the exhibition Stand For Democracy: Myanmar, co-organization (with Giulia Busetti) of a performance by Yadanar Win and Angela Stöcklin, a roundtable discussion on the political, social, and cultural situation in Myanmar, and a charity event (standing dinner and rap concert) in collaboration with Amnesty International Switzerland.

Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, France, 05.04.2019: “Latin American Women Artists in France and On the International Art Scene” (two panel discussions in the framework of Art Paris Art Fair, co-chaired with Hans-Michael Herzog, Independent Curator, Zurich).

106th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Los Angeles: “Provenance Research as a Method of Connoisseurship?” (panel session).

Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland, 01.06.2017: “Die Biografien der Kunstwerke. Perspektiven der Provenienzgeschichte in der Forschung an Universität und Museum” (co-organized with Etienne Wismer, Universität Bern, and Rainer Lawicki, Kunstmuseum Bern).

Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland, 21.06.2016: Conversation with artist Teresa Serrano and with Hans-Michael Herzog, former Artistic Director of the Daros Latinamerica Collection, in the framework of the exhibition “Without Restraint”.

Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland, 04.06.2016: Conversation with artist Betsabeé Romero and with Daniel Garza Usabiaga, Artistic Director of Zona Maco, Mexico City, in the framework of the exhibition “Without Restraint”.

PRESENTATIONS (SELECTION)

10.06.2026, AWITA Switzerland c/o Rothschild & Co., Zurich, Switzerland: Invited panelist at the inaugural AWITA Switzerland Launch, discussing the findings of the AWITA × artnet Hardwiring Change survey and their implications for the Swiss cultural sector.

18.02.2017, 105th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, New York: “‘Nobody is a prophet in his own land’: The Exhibition ‘Without Restraint’ as a Case Study”, presentation during the panel “Mexico City Today!”.

25.11.2016, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy: “Giovanni Morelli e le attribuzioni dei dipinti italiani nelle gallerie tedesche: il caso di Dresda”, presentation in the context of the cycle of conferences in honour of Giovanni Morelli.

24.08.2013, Second Swiss Congress of Art History, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland: “La Maddalena leggente di Correggio. Storia di un’appropriazione”, presentation during the panel “Appropriationen”.

20.03.2013, 32nd Congress of German Art Historians, Greifswald, Germany, 2013: “Georges Hulin de Loo und die Kunstkennerschaft altniederländischer Malerei”, presentation during the panel „Niderlande-Forschung, Kennerschaft“.

15–20.07.2012, 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, Nuremberg, Germany: “Der Kunstkenner und das Kunstobjekt: Inventarisieren, Ordnen, Schützen und Ausstellen. Das Beispiel Giovanni Morellis”, poster session.

24.04.2012, Accademia di San Luca, Rome, Italy, 2012: “L’arte di vedere l’arte: esempi pratici e riflessioni sull’evoluzione metodologica e gli strumenti della connoisseurship,”, presentation in the context of the conference “Storia dell’arte fra scienza e dilettantismo. Metodi e percorsi”, organized by the Rome Art History Network (RAHN).

11.2011, IULM University, Milan, Italy: “Giovanni Morelli: tra patrimonio nazionale, collezionismo privato e musei”, lecture during the course in Museum Studies 

03–05.12.2007, Villa Vigoni, German-Italian Center of European Excellence, Como, Italy: “Die Jugendentwicklung Raffaels’. Ivan Lermolieff liest Anton Springer: Ein Beispiel der Auseinandersetzung Morellis mit dem deutschen Gelehrtentum”, presentation at the international conference on Raphael’s reception in the 19th century (“Künstler-Träume: Raffael im 19. Jahrhundert”).