Francesco RAGAZZI

Francesco Ragazzi is an adjunct professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. In 2022, he obtained an international PhD in Philosophy from the same university and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne with a dissertation on the concepts of history and historicity in the analytical philosophy of art. Since 2024, he has been a member of the editorial board of the Philosophica book series. Since 2020, he has served as an editorial assistant for JoLMA - Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, for which he edited the issues Image/Images: A Debate Between Philosophy and Visual Studies (with Alessandro Cavazzana) and The Art of Mapping Between Land and Mind.

As part of the Francesco Urbano Ragazzi curatorial duo, Francesco Ragazzi has developed contemporary art exhibitions and projects since 2008 in public and private institutions such as ISCP (New York), MMCA - National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo), Centre d'Art Contemporain (Geneva), Centro Pecci (Prato), La Loge (Brussels), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Ruya Foundation (Baghdad), Emirates Foundation (Abu Dhabi), Reykjavik International Film Festival, Mattatoio di Roma, Museo Nazionale del Cinema (Milan), and CRRI – Centro di Ricerca Castello di Rivoli. From 2017 to 2022, he co-directed the archive of feminist artist Chiara Fumai, organizing her first solo exhibition in the United States, her first retrospective, and the first monograph dedicated to her practice. In 2022, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi directed the 17th edition of the Lofoten Biennial in Norway. In 2023, he curated Jonas Mekas 100! in Italy, the international program celebrating the centennial of the influential filmmaker's birth.

Francesco Ragazzi has given lectures and seminars at institutions such as Collège International de Philosophie, Nordland School of Arts and Film, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Universiteit Antwerpen, UC Davis Humanities Institute, and Yale School of Architecture. His writings have been published in magazines such as Flash Art, Purple, NERO, South as a State of Mind, Mousse, CURA, and Spike. Francesco Ragazzi's research interests include the ontology of art, contemporary art theory, and independent cinema.