ABOUT

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

After completing her studies in Art History at the University of Milan and the Roberto Longhi Foundation in Florence, she moved to New York to collaborate with the Chelsea Art Museum. She gained experience working with prestigious galleries such as Lia Rumma and Mimmo Scognamiglio, and with the Pecci Museum in Milan. She specialized in post-World War II art during her direction of Cortesi Gallery (London, Lugano, Milan) from 2012 to 2017.

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

Since 2019, she has been collaborating with the SantaGiulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia, initially as a lecturer and later as coordinator of the degree courses in Painting and Sculpture. She has lectured on the art consultant profession and artwork evaluation in various universities and master's programs. She has also curated exhibitions both in Italy and abroad.

Since 2024, she has been a doctoral candidate in the "Communication, Markets and Society" program at IULM University in Milan.

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.