ABOUT

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

After studying art history at the University of Milan and the Roberto Longhi Foundation for the Study of Art History in Florence, she moved to New York, where she collaborated with the Chelsea Art Museum. Her passion for contemporary art became a profession through her collaboration with Lia Rumma and Mimmo Scognamiglio galleries and the Pecci Museum in Milan. Subsequently, he served as director of Cortesi Gallery (London, Lugano, Milan) from the opening of the first location in Lugano in 2012 until 2017. The gallery's international reach and its ongoing relationship with institutions, archives and artists allowed it to specialize in post-World War II art.

Since 2018 he has been working as an art consultant and independent art advisor for artists, collectors, galleries, museums, publishing houses, law firms, architectural firms and private companies.

Since 2020 he has been a technical consultant (CTU) of the Court of Milan for twentieth-century art. In the same year he published with FrancoAngeli Editore the book "Professione Art Consultant," a guide to navigate the world of art and, in particular, the world of art consulting.

At the SantaGiulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia, he teaches Art Economics and Market and Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts. He has lectured on Art Consulting at the Masters of Art Management of 24Ore Business School, RCS Academy, Catholic University of Milan, State University of Pavia, IULM University of Milan and NABA - New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

He has organized and curated several exhibitions in galleries and institutional venues, both in Italy and abroad, and has collaborated with several publishing houses, including 24Ore Cultura, Skira, De Agostini Scuola and FrancoAngeli.

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 starts her collaboration with Cortesi Gallery in the Lugano office as Gallery assistant and then in 2017 she becomes 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 an in-house curator and editorial coordinator at Moshe Tabibnia's BUILDING Gallery. For BUILDING she supervises and produces several exhibitions.

In 2020 she works for the company 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.

In 2022 she became a partner/associate of Vera Canevazzi Art Consulting as Art Consultant and PR and Social Media Manager.

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 art-historical research and assistance in the organisation of exhibitions.