Vanessa Badagliacca (B91B-80C9-921B)

Curriculum Vitae

Vanessa Badagliacca

Vanessa Badagliacca is a researcher in art history and an educator. She holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Art History from NOVA University, FCSH. In 2016 she defended her thesis entitled, "Organic Materiality in 20th Century Art. Plants and (Human and Non-Human) Animals from Representation to Materialization", for which she was awarded an FCT grant. Her academic research, interacting with her curatorial practice, explores the entanglements between plant life, environmental issues and artistic practices, with an approach informed by science, ecocriticism and new materialisms, focusing mainly on the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America from a transnational perspective. Her curatorial projects include different exhibitions in Portugal and abroad. She also dedicates herself to the practice of editing and writing for exhibitions and magazines. She is currently participating as a postdoctoral researcher in the research group "DESNORTADAS. TERRITORIOS DEL GÉNERO EN LA CREACIÓN ARTÍSTICA CONTEMPORÁNEA", at the Department of Art History of Universidad de Málaga.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Vanessa Badagliacca

Citation names

Badagliacca, Vanessa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: B91B-80C9-921B
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0812-9514

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Art history

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023/01/13 - 2023/02/28 Concluded	EAP – English for Academic Purposes, (Postgraduate Certificate) Oxford TEFL, Spain	Very good
2022/01/22 - 2022/04/22 Concluded	CELTA - Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Postgraduate Certificate) Major in English Language Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
2021/11 - 2022/01/01 Concluded	CREATING MEANINGFUL AND INCLUSIVE MUSEUM PRACTICES (Postgraduate Certificate) Major in Museology International Council of Museums, France
2016/04/21 Concluded	História da Arte (Doutoramento) Major in Especialidade: História da Arte Contemporânea Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal "Organic Materiality in the 20th Century Art-Plants and Animals (Human and Non-Human) from Representation to Materialisation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito Bom / Very Good
2011 - 2016 Concluded	Doutoramento em História da Arte (Doutoramento) Major in História da Arte Contemporânea Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal "Organic Materiality in the 20th Century Art. Plants and Animals (Human and Non-Human) from Representation to Materialisation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito bom, por unanimidade
2015 Concluded	Digital Media in Theory and Culture, UT Austin Portugal (Curso médio) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2009/10 - 2010/10 Concluded	Curso de Doutoramento em História da Arte (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Major in História da Arte Contemporânea Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2009 - 2009 Concluded	DITALS II (Outros) Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
2005 - 2008 Concluded	Storia dell'arte e valorizzazione del patrimonio artistico (Mestrado) Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy "Helena Almeida: La produzione artistica dell'ultimo ventennio. Da Alternativa Zero alla 51ª Biennale di Venezia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	summa cum laude
2000 - 2005 Concluded	Lettere Moderne (Licenciatura) Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy	cum laude

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/02/01 - 2021/12/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal
2008/09 - 2009/01	Research Assistant (Research)	Instituto Italiano de Cultura de São Paulo, Brazil

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/10/07 - 2021/10/07	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020/08/25 - 2020/09/05	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/01 - 2017/10	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/10/04 - Current	Investigadora Integrada	Universidad de Málaga Departamento de Historia del Arte, Spain
	Universidad de Málaga Departamento de Historia del Arte, Spain
2020/04/15 - 2022/12/31	Investigador Integrado	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal

2020/11/02 - 2020/12/30	Curadoria da exposição "Planta Pedra" de Catarina Marto e Raquel Pedro	Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Portugal
	Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Portugal
2019/03/01 - 2020/10/04	Curadoria - Earthkeeping / Earthshaking Arte, Feminismos e Ecología - Projecto de Co-Curadoria com a investigadora Giulia Lamoni (IHA)	EGEAC - Galeria Municipais, Portugal

2018/10/06 - 2019/03/06	Curadora - O Fio Invisível. O Popular e o Divino no Imaginário de Sofia de Medeiros / The Invisible Thread. Popular and Divine in the Imaginary of Sofia de Medeiros	Museu de Arte Popular - Lisboa, Portugal

2011/04 - 2016/04	PhD (Investigação Científica)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2010/02 - 2011/06	Assistant curator (Assistente de curadoria)	"Carpe Diem - Arte e Pesquisa", Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/10/04 - 2024/09/01	DESNORTADAS. TERRITORIOS DEL GÉNERO EN LA CREACIÓN ARTÍSTICA CONTEMPORÁNEA PID2020-115157GB-I00 Post-doc Universidad de Málaga, Spain	España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Ongoing
2023/03/22 - 2024/03/22	Entomornitofilias (y fobias): Impresiones y encuentros de aves e insectos B1-2022_11 Post-doc Universidad de Málaga, Spain	Universidad de Málaga Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2022/04/20 - Current	Celeiro AIR 15388 Curadora	Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes Ongoing
2022/04/18 - 2023/11/30	Celeiro AIR - Art and Environment 15388 Curadora	Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book	Badagliacca, Vanessa. Folheando. Lisboa, Portugal: Imagerie. 2019. Published
Book chapter	Badagliacca, Vanessa. ""'Transit'-ional belonging. war, migration and displacement in Adrian Paci's work"". In Migrações: processos migratórios e práticas artísticas em tempo de guerra: do século xx à actualidade, 113-140. Lisboa, Portugal: Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa, 2017. Published
Conference paper	Badagliacca, Vanessa; Alves, Margarida Brito. "Espaço, Ambiente e Ecologia nas práticas artísticas contemporâneas - uma entrada a partir dos anos 1960 e 1970". Paper presented in Compromissos com o Meio Ambiente: 50 anos da Conferência de Estocolmo (1972-2022), Lisboa, 2022. Published
Edited book	Badagliacca, Vanessa; Lamoni, Giulia; Maier, Tobi; Lippard, Lucy; Di Paola, Marcello; Tarazona, Emilio, ed. Earthkeeping/Earthshaking - Art, Feminisms, and Ecology. Lisbon, Portugal: Galerias Municipais. 2021. Published
Exhibition catalog	Badagliacca, Vanessa. A sidewalk botanist. Some considerations around and about Daniel Caballero's Tóxico Trópico. Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Lisboa, Portugal, 2015.
Journal article	Badagliacca, Vanessa. "Life inside a system: eco-critical stances in the art of Luis Fernando Benedit, 1968-72". The Burlington Magazine - Burlington Contemporary 5 (2021): https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/journal/life-inside-a-system-eco-critical-stances-in-the-art-of-luis-fernando-benedit-196872. Open access • Published Badagliacca, Vanessa. "Do fazer até ao pensar e vice-versa. Um percurso no trabalho artístico de Sofia de Medeiros". MODOS 3 3 (2019): 266-274. https://www.publionline.iar.unicamp.br/index.php/mod/article/view/4227. Open access • Published Badagliacca, Vanessa. "Plantar es político: prácticas artísticas ambientales en el espacio público". Ecología Política 57 (2019): 92-96. https://www.ecologiapolitica.info/?product=plantar-es-politico-practicas-artisticas-ambientales-en-el-espacio-publico. Published Badagliacca, Vanessa. "On Matter, Materials, Materiality and Materialism Entanglements with Art History". North Street Review-Postgraduate Art History Journal 20 (2016): nonpaginated-nonpaginated. https://northstreetreview.com/editorial-2/. Published Badagliacca, Vanessa. "When a tree becomes art. Alberto Carneiro and the international artistic context around 1968". Chronica Mundi, Issue on "Nature" Issue 9 (2014): 155-181. http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/abstract?site=eds&scope=site&jrnl=22397515&AN=102371067&h=2EqFeArHec%2f%2bSO6%2bMYDSidoZ9cAuiH0FuQvSVQuWI4Y%2fNDJn6QJMUZWoAhoBTla0IygVPa%2f2Lu2Dovjqshnd%2fw%3d%3d&crl=c&resultLocal=ErrCrlNoResults&resultNs=Ehost&crlhashurl=login. Published Badagliacca, Vanessa. "Doing and Nothing. An exploration on Song Dong’s Doing Nothing Garden and the possibility of renewing ourselves and our environment through not doing". Zeteo. The Journal of Interdisciplinary Writing Spring (2014): 1-16. http://zeteojournal.com/2014/05/21/doing-nothing-garden/. Published
Magazine article	Badagliacca, Vanessa. "Biblioteca das Imagens Não Vistas. José Domingos, Magda Fernandes, Sofia Berberan", Texto da exposição - Creative Hub, 5D, Lisboa, Portugal, 2019, https://fasciniodafotografia.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/jose-domingos-magda-fernandes-e-sofia-berberan-a-biblioteca-das-imagens-nao-vistas/. Badagliacca, Vanessa. "In Black & White: Explorations on Animalario by Nuria Cubas", KAPSULA Magazine, Issue “Animality” 2/2, 2016, http://kapsula.ca/releases/KAPSULA_ANIMALITY_2of2.pdf.
Newsletter article	Badagliacca, Vanessa. "Um Banquete de Maria Braga", Inestética Associação Cultural, 2021, https://inestetica.com/banquete/. Badagliacca, Vanessa. ""Finding Earths through Shapes" – Text for Amelie Bouvier's exhibition at JustMad5, Madrid, Javier Silva Gallery space, 19-23 Feb", 2014, http://www.plataformadeartecontemporaneo.com/pac/finding-earths-through-shapes-2014-amelie-bouvier/. Badagliacca, Vanessa. ""Contemplative State Nº2" - text for Amelie Bouvier's exhibition", 2014, http://museoph.org/MuseoPatioHerreriano/exposiciones/exposiciones_anteriores/lienzomph-7.
Online resource	Badagliacca, Vanessa. Text for the exhibition "Museu Mineiro" [Mining Museum] by Isabel Carvalho at Quadrado Azul Gallery, Porto. 2022. https://www.quadradoazul.pt/en/qa/exposition/2022-09-24-um-museu-mineiro/.
Thesis / Dissertation	Badagliacca, Vanessa. "Organic materiality in the 20th century art-plants and animals (Human and Non-Human) from representation to materialisation". PhD, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/18980.
Translation	Badagliacca, Vanessa. Bertolo (Amedeo) - Anarquistas e orgulhosos de o ser. Lisboa, Portugal: Barricada de Livros. 2018. Published Badagliacca, Vanessa. El cine de Pietro Marcello / The Cinema of Pietro Marcello. Madrid, Spain: FILMADRID. 2016.

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition

Rodrigo B. Camacho; Sara Rodrigues. 2023. "Celeiro Air".
Raquel Pedro; Catarina Marto. 2022. "Sous un arbre du carbonifère".
José Domingos; Magda Fernandes; Sofia Berberan. 2021. "BURNING WITH DESIRE to See Your Experiments from Nature".
2020. "Planta Pedra - Catarina Marto e Raquel Pedro".
Alexandra do Carmo; Alicia Barney; Ana Mendieta; Bonnie Ora Sherk; Cecilia Vicuña; Clara Menéres; Emília Nadal; et al. 2020. "Earthkeeping / Earthshaking - Arte, Feminismos e Ecologia". In Earthkeeping / Earthshaking. Arte, Feminismos e Ecologia.
Sofia de Medeiros. 2019. "O Fío Invisível. O Popular e o Divino no Imaginário de Sofia de Medeiros [The Invisible Thread. The Popular and The Divine in Sofia de Medeiros’ Imagination]". In O Fío Invisível. O Popular e o Divino no Imaginário de Sofia de Medeiros [The Invisible Thread. The Popular and The Divine in Sofia de Medeiros’ Imagination].
Laura Arana. 2012. ""Vestígios - fotografías de Laura Arana e vídeos de Nuria Cubas"".

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/04/27	Arte e ecologia. Uma tecedura entre o fazer curatorial e o fazer história da arte	Seminário GAPS Márcia Oliveira, CEHUM, Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2023/02/22	Incontri ed incroci tra arte ed ecologia negli anni '70 e '80. Alicia Barney e Agnes Denes in dialogo	Lecture at the course of environmental Aesthetics Roberta Dreon, Associate Professor of Aesthetics Ca' Foscari University, Venice (Venice, Italy)
2021/11/12	Curating as research and research as curating	doutoramento em Estudos Artísticos Ana Margarida Brito Alves, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/10/21	Invited professor for a class on the entanglements between curating and feminisms at the course of Gender Studies and Artistic Practices	Lecture at the course of art and gender taught by Giulia Lamoni Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020	"Transcoding the City" / Winter School / 27 - 31 January 2020	Università degli studi dell'Aquila, Italy (L'Aquila, Italy)
2012	Testemunhos da dOCUMENTA(13) - Kassel	(Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2017 - 2017	JORGE PINHEIRO: D'APRÈS FIBONACCI E AS COISAS LÁ FORA. Um projeto de Cabrita Reis com Jorge Pinheiro - DE 15 SET 2017 A 07 JAN 2018 - Exhibition (Other)	Fundação Serralves, Portugal
2012 - 2012	Vestígios - fotografías de Laura Arana e vídeos de Nuria Cubas Exhibition (Other)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/10/06 - 2022/10/08	An aesthetics of Minimal Resources. Colombia and Environmental issues in Alicia Barney's Work (1975-1981). Paper presentation to the conference, Towards a Sustainable Attitude: Aesthetics, The Arts, and the Environment, University of Venice Conference	Towards a Sustainable Attitude: Aesthetics, The Arts, and the Environment Università Ca' Foscari, Italy
2021/09/27 - 2021/09/28	Doing and Nothing. An exploration of Song Dong's Doing Nothing Garden and the Possibility of Renewing Ourselves and our Environment through Not Doing CANCELLED due to covid restrictions Conference	Artists and the Garden: New Perspectives Conference ‘Artists and the Garden: New Perspectives’ will explore the relationship between cultural production and the garden, across creative disciplines and media, from the 18th century until the present day. Kingston University, United Kingdom Hestercombe Gardens Trust, United Kingdom
2018/08/30 - 2018/09/02	BoCA Summer School “ARTE ÚTIL”, MNAC, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon with Miguel Amado, Alistair Hudson and Tania Bruguera Seminar	Arte Útil, Summer School
2018 - 2018	Uma abordagem em três partes sobre o 'O Atelier Verde no IC19' de Alexandra do Carmo Seminar	SEMINÁRIO DIREITO À CIDADE (1968-2018) 05-08 DEZEMBRO 2018 GESTUAL. CIAUD. FAUL, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Materializing Fairy Tales: The Animals Inhabiting the Art of Luís Benedit Congress	Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association - ACLA, United States
2016 - 2016	Hydroponic environments in the artistic context: The case of Luis Benedit's Fitotrón Symposium	Science and Culture in Theory and History: Latin America, France, and the Anglophone World Center of Latin American Studies, United Kingdom
2015 - 2015	In black and white: explorations on Animalario by Nuria Cubas Congress	Human and Non-Human Animals: Liberation, History and Critical Animal Studies. 4th EU Conference for Critical Animal Studies Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2014 - 2014	When a tree becomes art. Alberto Carneiro and the international artistic context around 1968 Congress	45nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE HISTORICAL STUDIES - ASPHS, Italy

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2021/12/09	Speculating Sustainability on a Divided Island: Gardens, Migration, and Culture (Thesis) Main arguer	Eve Liza Petrakidou (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2020/11/10	"Approaching the environmental threat in art, culture and science. A transdisciplinary dialogue in a bio-acoustic sound experiment and line of beauty” (Thesis) Main arguer	Carlotta Brandizzi (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2021/02/10 - Current	AAH
2016/02 - Current	ACLA - American Comparative Literature Association
2014/09 - Current	APS - Association of Print Scholars
2014/05 - Current	ASPHS - Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2020/08/25 - 2020/09/05	Pensamento Ecológico, Arte e Curadoria, Curso da Escola de verão	Pensamento Ecológico, Arte e Curadoria¿ (Outros)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023/01/03 - 2023/02/09	Leonardo Journal	MIT Press
2022/03 - 2022/04	Museological Review (1354-5825)	University of Leicester
2021/12 - 2022/01	ArtsEduca (2254-0709)	Universitat Jaume I
2021/01/23 - 2021/03/01	Museological Review, Issue 25 (1354-5825)	University of Leicester
2018/02/01 - 2018/03/31	Museological Review, Issue 22 (1354-5825)	University of Leicester
2016/01/20 - 2016/02/20	Museological Review, Issue 20 (1354-5825)	University of Leicester

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2023/02/23 - 2023/06/30	Criatório - PLAKA PORTO, Portugal Participation in the jury of the 2023 edition of the Creative support program in the modality of Programming Spaces.	Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2022/09/19 - 2022/09/30	Participation as member of the juri to select a master student for a six months fellowship to work on the archive of Companhia Maior – IHA - SEED Projects /NOVA, at NOVA University of Lisbon by invitation of Dr. Paula Gouveia Varanda	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2020	Terra Foundation Research Travel Grant Terra Foundation for American Art, United States

Other distinction

2020	Scholarship - Winter School - Transcoding the City. A Multidisciplinary Approach. Università degli Studi dell'Aquila. Dipartimento di Scienze Umane. Dipartimento di Eccellenza Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
2015	Travel Award 11th Biennal Conference of ASLE - Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Portugal
2010	PhD fellowship (4 years) FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal