Dr. Silvia Loreti has taught art history at AUR since 2024. She is a modern art scholar and curator whose research focuses on the European avant-garde, cultural history and the relationship between the socio-political conditions of creativity and their impact on notions of tradition, identity, and difference. Prior to joining AUR she taught at The University of Manchester, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London and IMT School of Advanced Studies, Lucca.
Dr Loreti received her BA, MA and PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, with support from the Accademia dei Lincei and The British Academy. She was postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies (The University of Manchester, the University of Essex and Tate Modern, 2009-11) and postdoctoral fellow in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage at IMT Lucca (2012-13). She was Assistant Curator in the department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museums of Modern Art, New York (2013-14), scientific committee member for the exhibition Picasso: Between Cubism and Neoclassicism, 1915-1925 (Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2017) and assistant curator for Picasso. The Sculpture (Galleria Borghese, Rome, 2018). She authored the Giorgio de Chirico entries in the catalogue raisonné of the Cerruti Collection, Castello di Rivoli (Allemandi, 2021) and contributed critical essays to landmark exhibitions, such as Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, Picabia and the New Classicism (Getty Villa, Los Angeles and Musée Picasso Antibes, 2012) and Préhistoire: un énigme moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2019). She reviews modern and contemporary exhibitions for The Burlington Magazine(https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/reviews/rosemarie-trockel-thea-djordjadze-limitation-of-life)
At AUR, Silvia teaches undergraduate courses in art trafficking and protection, the art of Rome from antiquity to the twentieth century, modernism in context in the South of France and the legacies of modern art in contemporary culture.
Selected projects, exhibitions, and publications
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“Rosemarie Trockel/Thea Djordjadze: limitation of life”, Review of the exhibition at the Lenbachhaus Munich, Burlington Contemporary, March 2025 (https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/reviews/rosemarie-trockel-thea-djordjadze-limitation-of-life)
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“Dealing with Difference. The Iberian-African Connection in Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, in G. Brockington and CFB Miller eds, Of Modernism. Essays in Honour of Christopher Green, Paul Holberton, London, 2020.
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Picasso. The Sculpture, Galleria Borghese, Rome, 2018.