Francesca Verga is the co-artistic director of Ar/Ge Kunst, Kunstverein in Bolzano-Bozen, and works in curating, management, and research in contemporary art. She was Assistant Curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024). She holds a PhD from the Department of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam (2022), with a dissertation on Mike Kelley’s early performances and video works. She was curatorial coordinator of Manifesta 13 (Marseille, 2020) and general coordinator of Manifesta 12 (Palermo, 2018). She received the Italian Council’s curatorial fellowship (2020) and was part of Archive Books (Berlin/Milan) in 2021/2022. Previously, she founded the online cultural platform Liaux (liaux.org) and has collaborated with cultural and academic institutions including Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), Barnard College (Columbia University), IED (Florence), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), MACRO (Rome), and IMT School for Advanced Studies (Lucca).