ABOUT

Vera Canevazzi is an art consultant, curator and lecturer from Milan.

After studies in art history at the University of Milan and the Roberto Longhi Foundation in Florence, she moved to New York, working with the Chelsea Art Museum. She has worked with prestigious galleries such as Lia Rumma and Mimmo Scognamiglio and with the Pecci Museum in Milan, specializing in post-World War II art through her role as Director of Cortesi Gallery (London, Lugano, Milan) from 2012 to 2017.

In 2018, she founded her Art Consulting firm in Milan, offering consultancy for the management and enhancement of art collections. In 2020, she became a technical consultant to the Court of Milan for twentieth-century art and published the book "Professione Art Consultant" with FrancoAngeli Editore.

Lecturer at the SantaGiulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia and Lecturer at other academic institutions, he has curated numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

After a literary and art-historical education at the University of Milan and the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, she obtained a master's degree in Economics and Management for Art and Culture at the Sole24ore Business School, acquiring specific skills in the art market and cultural heritage management.

Passionate about contemporary art and interested in promoting young emerging artists, she has been working with Spazio Volta since March 2021. In 2019, she did an internship at the Fondazione Stelline in Milan, following the institution's various exhibition and organisational activities.

In the studio Vera Canevazzi Art Consulting is responsible for the activities of art historical research and assistance in organizing exhibitions and estimating art collections.

Margherita Strada trained as a contemporary art historian at the Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore in Milan. She has worked in contemporary art in Italy and abroad. In 2015 she began her collaboration with Cortesi Gallery in the Lugano office as Gallery assistant and then in 2017 she became Exhibition coordinator, PR and Social Media Manager in the Milan office. At Cortesi Gallery she follows and produces several exhibitions and editorial projects. In 2019 she starts her collaboration as in-house curator and editorial coordinator at BUILDING Gallery by Moshe Tabibnia. For BUILDING she follows and produces several exhibitions. In 2020 she works for Testa per Testa, founded by Gemma De Angelis Testa, to promote and produce exhibitions dedicated to Armando Testa, father of Italian advertising and international artist. In 2020 she is Assistant Collector Manger of the Gemma De Angelis Testa Collection.

Since 2022 he has been working with Vera Canevazzi Art Consulting studio as the Contact Person for Digital Advisory services.