Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey

Curator and Editor

Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey is a curator and editor with a background in economics and cultural policy, based in Turin. Together with the designer Ab Rogers and the neuroscientist Ash Ranpura, she recently co-founded DRU+, a design research agency operating in the fields of healthcare, culture and sustainability. Until 2022 she was the CEO of Cove Park, an artist residency in rural Scotland. Previously she worked at Kettle’s Yard, the modern and contemporary art gallery of the University of Cambridge, at the Liverpool Biennial, where she co-curated the 2016 and 2018 editions, at Artissima, the contemporary art fair in Turin, and at the Fondazione Pirelli Hangar Bicocca in Milan. In 2016–18 she was Associate at Large of Council, a Paris-based organisation focused on the integration of artistic, scientific and civic ways of knowing. Since 2016 she has been the co-director of the publishing, archiving and learning platform The Serving Library.

Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey is curator and editor with a background in economics and cultural policy, based in Turin. For the last twenty years she has been working in a wide range of private and public institutions including artists' residencies, foundations, biennials, publishing platforms, art fairs and galleries in Italy, France, the UK and the US. Her practice has always been inquiry-led, spanning across the arts, the humanities, science and civic responsibility to interrogate some of the most urgent issues of our times. Her research is currently focused on three distinct subjects: cohabitation, in its most exploded sense; the 'healing turn' in the arts; and the ecologies of time.

Photo Credit: Juha Törmälä