Ilaria Bernardi holds a Ph.D. in art history and is a curator. She has worked with leading figures in the art world, including Germano Celant and, at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. She has organized exhibitions for major exhibition spaces in Italy and abroad. Ilaria Bernardi has also worked with public institutions and devised exhibitions for Italian cultural institutes in several cities around the world. She has published monographs, essays in exhibition catalogues and articles in art magazines, in which she focuses on Arte Povera artists and Italian art from the 1960s to the present, in general. She currently teaches at Milan's IULM University and has run "Progetto Genesi. Art and Human Rights", a traveling exhibition and educational project developed by Associazione Genesi, since 2021.