Official, Luca Beatrice is the new president of the Quadriennale di Roma

It’s official: the new president of the Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma is Luke Beatrice. The appointment by Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano arrived today. “Happy and proud to have been identified by Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano for such an important and prestigious position,” said the new president. “Happy to return to Rome where I lived in the 1990s, right from the start working to plan a major edition of the Quadriennale in 2025, with the aim of putting Italian art back at the center of cultural debate.”

Born in 1961 in Turin, where he lives, Luke Beatrice is an art critic and curator, teaching art history and design history at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, Contemporary Art at the IED in Turin, and Art and Contemporary Culture at the IULM in Milan. In the past, he has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo and the Academy of Brera, Milan, IAAD in Turin holding numerous visiting professorships, among them at the Academy of Helsinki. He holds a degree in History of Cinema from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Turin, postgraduate diploma in History of Art from the University of Siena.

Beatrice began his career in the late 1980s with exhibitions on futurism in Turin. As a critic he wrote in the art magazines “Tema Celeste,” “Arte,” and “Flash Art.” Since the 1990s he has been curator of numerous exhibitions related to new Italian figurative arts. He was appointed curator of the Prague Biennale (2003- 2005) and commissioner of the Anteprima section of the XIV Quadriennale in Rome (2004). In 2009 he was chosen as curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Art Biennale. From 2010 to 2018 he was president of the Circolo dei lettori in Turin. He is a member of the Evaluation Board for the School of Cultural Heritage and Activities.

Recent exhibitions include the anthological exhibition of Andy Warhol at Palazzo Ducale, Genoa (2016) and Edward Hopper at Palazzo Fava, Bologna, and Vittoriano, Rome (2015-2016); the group exhibitions Jackson Pollock and the New York School, Palazzo Reale, Milan and Vittoriano, Rome 2018; Easy Rider; The Myth of the Motorcycle as Art, Reggia di Venaria 2018; Warhol and friends, Palazzo Albergati, Bologna 2018; Diabolik at the Mole, Museum of Cinema, Turin 2021; Carlo Levi, GAM Turin 2022; Giacomo Soffiantino, Ferrero Foundation, Alba 2022; Alberto Moravia and art criticism, GAM, Turin March 2023; Marco Tamburro, MAXXI, Rome 2023. For Gallerie d’Italia. Intesa Sanpaolo he curated at Palazzo Zevallos in Naples exhibitions devoted to New York, London, Berlin and Los Angeles, and the Futuro exhibition at Palazzo Leoni Montanari in Vicenza (2020). He has published numerous essays on art and music criticism. He is currently art curator for the Heysel victims’ memorial, an assignment given to him by Juventus FC. He contributes to “Libero,” “Corriere Torino” and “Il Giornale dell’arte.”

Official, Luca Beatrice is the new president of the Quadriennale di Roma

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