Carolina Gestri
Teacher of History of Contemporary Art and Cultural Analysis in the MFA program
Carolina Gestri is an art historian, writer, educator and curator. After a Master degree in History of Contemporary at Università degli Studi di Firenze, with a dissertation focused on the relationship between performance art and performing arts, she was selected for the training program CAMPO13, a course promoted by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) for young Italian curators.
In 2013 she collaborated as external consultant with Museo Novecento (Florence) and founded two curatorial collectives:
(“host” and “ones -office. a non-exhibition space”). From 2015 to 2016 she has worked at Museo Marino Marini (Florence) following the production and the communication of the temporary exhibitions.
From 2015 to 2021 she was Project Coordinator of VISIO – European Program on Artists’ Moving Images, promoted by Lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival. She is co-founder of KABUL, a non-profit association, an independent house publishing, and online magazine with the aim of tracking a clear
frame about the main theories of the international debate and about its reflections on the art production field.
From 2019 to 2024 she was the coordinator of HZERO Museum (Florence). Between 2020 and 2025 she attended courses promoted by Scuola Holden (Turin), Scuola di scrittura Bellville (Milan), Node Center for Curatorial Studies (Berlin).
In 2025 she has obtained a master’s degree in Gender Studies at Università di Roma Tre.
She is actually teacher at Istituto Marangoni Firenze (2019-), IED (2020-2025), Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Florence (2024-).
Her articles have been published on magazines such as: Flash Art, Artribune, KABUL magazine, Zero, Il Giornale dell’Arte.