Virginia Zanetti

Artist and teacher, she lives in Prato. Degree in painting with honors at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, specialized in art education. She works both in unconventional places and by Italian and foreign institutions for culture and contemporary art such as Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, the CAC Pecci in Prato, the Mac of Lissone, the Kunsthalle of Bern, the Italian Cultural Institute of New Delhi and Zurich. She has won prizes such as the MIBACT Movin Up 2015 Award and the International Competition for artists for the creation of permanent artworks for the Law Court in Florence in 2017, the Maccaferri First Prize for photography, Artefiera 2019. Her works and texts are present in publications such as A Cielo Aperto and H.U. Obrist’s book A Brief History of curating, postmediabooks, Milan, in magazines or newspapers such as La Lettura of Corriere della Sera or Republic.
Co-founder of the Estuario project space of Prato and of the Laboratory of the Future.