Veronica Caciolli is an Italian art historian, curator, and lecturer. Her interests are mainly focused on the relationships between contemporary art and the archaic.
She has been educated in Philosophy at the University of Florence and in Humanities at DAMS (Disciplines of Visual and Performing Arts, Music, and Media – University of Bologna), graduating with honours in the master’s degree in Phenomenology of Styles under the renowned art critic and curator Renato Barilli. She then completed a series of advanced studies in Curating and Art Critique, History of Religions, Anthropology of Art, and Western Esotericism in Berlin, Rome, Milan, and London (Node Center, La Sapienza University, Bicocca University, Treadwell’s). She also holds an MRes in Cultural, Intellectual, and Visual History at the Warburg Institute.
While writing for art magazines such as Segno, Exibart, Memecult, from 2005 to 2007, she was in charge of institutional exhibitions and publications for Photology (Bologna-Milan), managing projects such as Mario Giacomelli curated by Enzo Cucchi at Senigallia Town Council Museum, Beat&Pieces – Photographs by Allen Ginsberg at Fondazione Giovanna Piras in Asti, the solo by Joel-Peter Witkin at Palazzo Mediceo, Seravezza, or publications such as Claudio Abate’s monograph edited by Achille Bonito Oliva.
After assisting Professor Carrara at Gonzaga University in Florence, in 2008, she won a national competition as curator of XX and XXI centuries collections at Mart, Museum of Modern and Contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto. There, from 2011 to 2015, she served as curator of contemporary art exhibits, such as: #collezionemart, Project Wall, Scenario di terra, There and again. Souvenir de voyage, The magnificient obsession, With the eyes, the heart and the mind. Photographs from the Trevisan Collection.
In 2013 together with Denis Isaia and Federico Mazzonelli she curated Der Blitz. Research, Action and Contemporary Culture, setting up Mag, Museo Alto Garda’s first contemporary program.
In parallel, she has conducted field research in Sardinia (Orgosolo, Santa Chiara, Bitti), Central America (Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba, Panama), Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Celebes, Bali, Komodo Archipelago), India (Rajasthan, Varanasi, Kolkata, Odisha), South Pacific: Vanuatu Islands (Efate, Malekula, Ambrym, Espiritu Santo), Cook Islands (Rarotonga, Aitutaki).
She entertains a special bond with Thailand, starting in 2015 with the exhibit One to Many in Mae Rim (Chiang Mai) where she grouped seven Thai artists and two Australian ones gathered by political, religious, and community issues. In 2017 in collaboration with curator Pier Luigi Tazzi and the Thai Ministry of Culture, she curated the first Italian solo show of the Thai (and legendary) National Artist Inson Wongsam at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. In 2018 and 2024 she was invited to curate two other solos of his at Chiang Mai Art Museum and Noname Gallery. In 2022 she connected him and Rampad Kothkaew with Tarshito for his collaborative project The Camp of The Wayfarers in Love, supported by The Italian Embassy in Thailand and The Region of Apulia, held at River City Space in Bangkok. She also homaged Pier Luigi Tazzi’s career in 2022 and Inson Wongsam’s in 2024 at Silpakorn University.
From 2016 to 2019 she focused on symbolic cultural stratifications of time at Palazzo Pretorio Museum in Prato (IT) throughout Pretorio Studio, by inviting artists such as Paola Angelini, Gea Brown, Dan-I and THX, Sadi Oortmood, Luigi Presicce and l’Accademia dell’immobilità, Luca Scarlini and Maria Caterina Frani, Simone Pellegrini, to confront with classical masterpieces by Donatello, Filippo and Filippino Lippi, Lorenzo Bartolini, Jacques Lipchitz, with a residency and a final exhibit/performance.
Her research on the relationships between tradition and globalization led her also to curate the recent work by Lisa Batacchi on Hmong People (a solo, two publications, public talks) and the exhibit on Guna Women in Panama at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence (2025).
In 2019, she launched the triennial symposium Art, the Mystique, Community, featuring artists, philosophers, collectors, and scholars, culminating in the publication of the proceedings. The second edition occurred at Musec, Museo delle Culture in Lugano (February 2022). The third edition was held in December 2025 at the University of Roma Tre, in collaboration with Museo delle Religioni Raffaele Pettazzoni.
Recently, she has grouped the main Florentine religious communities and six contemporary artists for the spread exhibition Re-Enchanting the World, at Ewam Buddhist Tibetan Center, the Mosque, the Synagogue, Santa Felicita’s Church, Villa Vrindavana, and Semiottagono, with the support of the Town Council of Florence (May 2022).
Aryan Ozmaei. Third Space exhibit inaugurated in 2023, her triennial collaboration with MAD Murate Art District and The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence. The second event with sound artist SADI, has taken place in February-March 2024. The third event has involved Jakkai Siributr from October 2025.
She participates in international conferences and has published her essays, among others, with Silvana Editoriale, Electa Mondadori, Gli Ori, Wip, Postmedia Books, Mousse Publishing, and Brill (2026).
Her book on the relationships between esotericism and contemporary art will be published with Mimesis International in 2026.
She currently teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna, at IED, Istituto Europeo di Design, at Laba, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti, at Istituto per l’arte e il restauro Palazzo Spinelli in Florence, and at the University of Pisa.
