Aria Spinelli is an independent curator and a PostDoc Researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Her PhD has analysed relations of curatorial practice to social imagination and performativity. Her main area of research is the investigation of the relationship between art, activism and political theory. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in art history, visual arts and curatorial studies. Founding member of the artistic and curatorial collective Radical Intention, from 2018 to 2020 she was an associate researcher and member of the curatorial team of the project The Independent at the MAXXI – Museum of the XXI century for art (Rome). Between 2015 and 2020 she collaborated as an external curator at the Pistoletto Foundation (Biella) and BOZAR, Center for Fine Arts (Brussels). She has published many articles and she is the editor of the publication Shaping Desired Futures (NERO, 2018). Between 2009 and 2012 she was curator at the Isola Art Center (Milan).