Luca Ciancabilla

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

Department of Cultural Heritage

Academic discipline: ARTE-01/D Museology and Art and Restoration Criticism

Director of Single Cycle Degree in Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage

Curator of the Humanities Area — University Museum Network

Curriculum vitae

From February to June 2025 co-curator of the exhibition Dall'Origine al destino, Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna
From July 2024, Member of the Board of Directors of MAR, Museum of the City of Ravenna
From June 2024, Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track, L. 79/2022
From May 2024 Delegate to Third Mission and Public Engagement for the DBC, Department of Cultural Heritage of University of Bologna
February to June 2023 co-curator, with Antonio Danieli and Andrea Zanotti of exhibition Oltre lo spazio, oltre il tempo. Il sogno di Ulisse Aldrovandi, Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna
From December 2021, Curator of the Museums and collections of the University of Bologna
From November 2020 to June 2024, Junior assistant professor (fixed-term), Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna (Ravenna), Academic discipline: L-ART/04 Museology, Art and Restoration Criticism
October 2018 the National Scientific Qualification as Associate professor in the subject area 10/B1 (History of art) was obtained again (ends 2029)
March to June 2016 co-curator, together with Christian Omodeo and Sean Corcoran of international exhibition Street art. Banksy & co. L'arte allo stato urbano, Genus Bononiae, Museo della città di Bologna, Bologna
February to June 2014 co-curator, together with Claudio Spadoni, of the international exhibition L'incanto dell'affresco. Capolavori strappati da Pompei a Giotto, da Correggio a Tiepolo, MAR of Ravenna
February 2013 the National Scientific Qualification as Associate professor in the subject area 10/B1 (History of art) was obtained (ends 2024)
From September 2015 to September 2020 adjunct professor in History and technique of restoration at the University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
From July 2015 to September 2020 adjunct professor in Theory and techniques of restoration at the University of Bologna, School of Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage, Bologna
From July 2015 to September 2020 adjunct professor in History of art techniques at the University of Bologna, School of Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage, Campus of Ravenna
From 2012 to 2019 adjunct professor in History and technique of restoration (History of art techniques, from 2017) at the University of Florence, School of art and human heritage
From September 2007 to January 2014, research fellow (Assegnista di ricerca) at the Department of Cultural Heritage of University of Bologna (campus of Ravenna). Two different projects were carried out: the first one dedicated to the study of “Theory and practice of restoration in the artistic literature of the eighteenth century”, the second to “The restoration of the wall paintings in the Modern Age. The activity of estrattisti”
In 2011 Ph.D in History, conservation and management of cultural heritage from the University of Siena, title of dissertation Il medioevo del Settecento nella Bologna delle Accademie.“La fortuna dei primitivi” a Bologna nel Secolo dei Lumi fra tutela, conservazione e collezionismo.
From 2010 to 2011 Visiting scholar at Warburg Institute of London
From 2004 to 2011 adjunct professor in Museology, history of collections and history of restoration at University of Bologna
From 2006 speaker, curator and scientific organizer of many conferences, meetings and exhibitions (see italian cv)
From 2005 to 2007 Director of staff European project Iterreg IIIA Siti Unesco Adriatici S.U.A for CIDM, International Centre for documentation of mosaics, Museo della Città di Ravenna
2003 research fellow at “Fondazione Roberto Longhi”, Florence
From 2001 to 2005 worked for IBACN, Istituto per i Beni Culturali e Naturali of Emilia Romagna as one of the main members of staff of MIDA, Memoria Informatica Database Artistici
From 2000 to 2001 researcher in the “European Museum of Students” of University of Bologna
Degree in History of conservation of cultural heritage in 1999 in Ravenna (University of Bologna), title of dissertation Evoluzione storica della diagnostica e connessioni con la ricerca storico-artistica

Luca Ciancabilla

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