Pietro Rigolo is the new collection manager and chief curator of the Agnelli Art Gallery

Pietro Rigolo is the new head of Pinacoteca Agnelli’s collection and chief curator of the institution; he will thus take over from Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, chief curator and head of the curatorial department of Pinacoteca Agnelli since 2021, who is about to embark on a new career path.

Pietro Rigolo studied at the University of Padua, IUAV in Venice, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Siena in 2011, he worked for eleven years at the Getty Research Institute (GRI) in Los Angeles, serving since 2013 as head of curator Harald Szeemann’s archive and other modern and contemporary art collections and, from 2018 to the present, as curator. He has also contributed substantially to the growth of the Getty Research Institute’s collections with over two hundred acquisitions. He co-curated the exhibitions Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions (2018, presented at Castello di Rivoli in 2019) and Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be (2023). In 2025 he will open the exhibition $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives. Her writings have appeared in publications edited by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Castello di Rivoli, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Istanbul Biennale, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Getty Research Institute, and Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, among others.

“We are very happy to welcome Pietro Rigolo to the team,” said Pinacoteca Agnelli Director Sarah Cosulich. “His vision and experience will allow us to continue to bring the Pinacoteca’s contemporary programming closer to the historical legacy of its permanent collection, cultivating and amplifying the path of experimentation and quality that we have undertaken and exploring new directions with which to contribute to the institution’s mission.” “We are deeply grateful to Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti for her three years at Pinacoteca Agnelli,” Cosulich added. “The perseverance, competence and passion with which she has carried out her role have enabled us to achieve many significant goals, and we wish her every success in the new professional challenges she will encounter on her path.”

During her tenure, Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti has contributed significantly to the success of the institution, collaborating on the definition of its new identity and the conception of projects such as the Beyond the Collection exhibition. Together with Sarah Cosulich, she curated the monographic exhibitions Sylvie Fleury. Turn Me On; Lee Lozano. Strike (Pinacoteca Agnelli and La Bourse - Pinault Collection, Paris); Salvo. Arriving on Time (in preparation), curated Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s new commission PISTARAMA and the exhibition project Lucy McKenzie and Antonio Canova. Vulcanized. He developed the scholarly design of the publications and curated talks and events in the public program of Pinacoteca. He also co-curated installations on Runway 500 by Shirin Aliabadi, VALIE EXPORT, Sylvie Fleury, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Shilpa Gupta, Louise Lawler, SUPERFLEX, and Rirkrit Tiravanija; and new commissions to Nina Beier, Monica Bonvicini, Julius Von Bismarck, Liam Gillick, Marco Giordano, Alicja Kwade, Mark Leckey, Chalisée Naamani, Finnegan Shannon, and Cally Spooner. He curated together with Sarah Cosulich and Beatrice Zanelli the projects Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar and Tiepolo X Starling.

Pictured is Pietro Rigolo. Photo by Antonio Beecroft

Pietro Rigolo is the new collection manager and chief curator of the Agnelli Art Gallery

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