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I am a lecturer in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, teaching on the Economics and Management for Arts and Culture programmes. I have also taught Arts Management on the Visual Cultures programme at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.I received my PhD in the Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage from the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca and  I was  a visiting researcher at the Gothenburg Research Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

Management of cultural institutions, heritage and events, in relation to territories and communities. Contemporary art systems and markets.

I graduated in Economics and management for Arts, Culture and Communication - CLEACC Master of Science at Università Bocconi. Since 2007 I am a researcher at the ASK Art, Science and Knowledge, taking part in and coordinating many research projects dedicated to cultural institutions and art markets. I have been member of the National Museum System Committee of the Ministry of Culture in 2017.
I teach Heritage Management and Transformation of the Cultural Sector in graduate and undergraduate programs ACME and CLEACC of Università Bocconi. I also teach Economia e Mercato dell’Arte in the undegraduate course in Visual Cultures at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

Annie Cohen-Solal, Distinguished Professor at Bocconi University in Milan (Department of Social and Political Sciences), received a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne, where she developed a joint interest in history and sociology. Her academic career led to appointments at prestigious universities from Berlin to Jerusalem, New York, and Paris. As a writer, she gained international recognition in 1985 with Sartre (1905-1980), which was translated in fifteen languages and hailed as « monumental » by Le Monde Diplomatique. From 1989 to 1993, she served as Cultural Counselor to the French Embassy in the United States —an experience which prompted her to explore the theme of art and immigration through numerous conferences, articles and exhibitions. Among her books in English are Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867-New York 1948 (prix Bernier de l’Académie des beaux arts, 2000), Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli (Prix ArtCurial 2010), New York Mid-Century (with Paul Goldberger and Robert Gottlieb, 2013), Mark Rothko: Towards the Light in the Chapel (2015). As a curator, she produced Magiciens de la terre: Retour sur une exposition légendaire (Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2014 with Jean-Hubert Martin); Picasso the Foreigner (National Immigration Museum and Picasso national Museum Paris, 2021-2022), which won the Historia Award of best 2022 exhibition. Her last essay Picasso the Foreigner (Prix Femina Essai, Fayard, 2021) will be published by both Farrar Straus & Giroux (USA and the anglophone world) and Paidós (Spain and the Spanish world) in March 2023. Born in Algiers, Cohen-Solal lives between Paris and Milan.

Cultural commoning, urban regeneration, hybrid spaces, cultural innovation, social innovation, social movements.

I am currently PhD student in regional planning and public policy at Università Iuav di Venezia, and project manager of the European platform “MERITA, Where chamber music, cultural heritage and talent meet”. From 2019 to 2021 I was project coordinator at Le Dimore del Quartetto. I graduated with honour in 2017 at Bocconi University in Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment, with a research thesis conducted with ASK Centre, “Measuring cultural sustainability at city level”. I have collaborated with Bocconi University and ASK research centre as teaching assistant and researcher.

Heritage studies, museum studies, critical/difficult heritage, decolonial studies,  organization studies, fascist heritage.

I am Research Collaborator at  LYNX research center and PhD candidate in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage at IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca. I did a visiting research period at HDK - Valand, Academy of Art and Design at University in Göteborg and I have published in academic journals, such as Museum Management and Curatorship and Engramma. Graduated in MSc Economics and Management for Art, Culture and Entertainment at Bocconi University, I worked in cultural institutions in Milan, such as La Triennale di Milano, BASE, and Pirelli HangarBicocca. I collaborate with ASK Research Center at Bocconi University.

A first research interest concerns the structuring and institutionalization of cultural systems, ranging from organizational studies to economic analyses of the creative sectors. Specifically, I have worked on the contemporary art market, museum organization and strategy, project spaces, and the creation of value in the comics industry in Italy. A second research interest, on which I wrote her doctoral thesis, falls within the field of critical heritage studies and in particular of difficult heritage, i.e. I have dealt with issues of cultural heritage conservation from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective that includes issues of collective memory, the political use of history, and decolonial theories. My doctoral thesis focuses on the concept of dissonance and heritage, by studying the reuse of former case del fascio in three Italian provinces and by analyzing and deconstructing the process of justification of the choices of reuse, preservation, or destruction.

History of cultural institutions and art markets, History of Culture, Cultural Management, Rights Management, Museum Studies.

I am researcher in Economic History and I teach at SDA Bocconi. Since 1996 I have taught courses and seminars in several Bocconi degree programs, in particular within the Bachelor of Economics and Management of Arts, Culture and Communication and the Master of Science in Economics and Management of Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment. I collaborate with ASK (Art, Science, Knowledge) research center. I was Research Fellow at the University of Sussex (2001-2003), I won the Research Rellowship for the Getty Institute Research Center of Los Angeles (2003-2004), and I was Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2003-2004). Since 2005, I have collaborated with the Research Department of Victoria and Albert Museum of London, where I am invited as Visiting Professor for academic year 2008-2008. I am contributor to il Sole24Ore financial daily and il Giornale dell'Arte art journal.

Art-based education. Dynamics of the contemporary art system. Cultural policies and city making.

I specialised with a qualitative assessment on an art-based educational project. As ASK researcher, I work on projects that deal with the intertwining of contemporary artistic and social practices in cultural and urban ecosystems.