Lara Demori

Dr. Lara Demori is Postdoctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Plack Institut für Kunstgeschichte, where she works on transatlantic encounters between Latin American and Italian artists, between 1960s and 1980s. In 2017, Lara obtained her PhD in contemporary art history from The University of Edinburgh with a thesis entitled “Art Degree Zero: Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica”, which is currently becoming a book (Routlegde, 2023). Until August 2018 she was Goethe-Institut Postdoctoral Fellow at the Haus der Kunst Museum in Munich where she worked on Okwui Enwzor’s project “Postcolonial Art, 1955-1980.” From 2019 to 2021 Lara was Marcello Rumma Fellow in Contemporary Italian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and was then promoted to Research Associate. At the PMA, Lara worked on curatorial and research projects related to contemporary art at large from the post-war period to the present, in particular: Giuseppe Penone, Teresita Fernandez, Andrea Fraser and Nam June Paik.