Fabiola Fiocco is a researcher, curator, and organiser. Currently, she is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD fellow at the University of Edinburgh, with a research project on gender and labour in the curating and production of socially engaged art and independent instituting. She holds an MA in Museology from the Reinwardt Academie in Amsterdam and an MA in Art History from Roma Tre University in Rome. She previously obtained a BA in Arts Management from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. As part of her academic and curatorial practice, she has focused on art and activism, feminism and biopolitics, and on the sociopolitical agency of the contemporary art museum. She has worked in independent art spaces, museums, and foundations - both in Italy and abroad - and collaborated with various online magazines. She is a founding member of [AWI] – Art Workers Italia.

Selected Conference Papers, Lectures and Public Engagement

- Collectivity, Labour, Value and Social Reproduction, panelist (with Katja Praznik, Karolina Majewska-Güde, Kirsten Lloyd, Jelena Vesić), part of the And Others: The Gendered Politics and Practices of Art Collectives, convened and moderated by Dr Lina Džuverović, Birkbeck, University of London, 31 October 2022

- Art is not alone, panelist (with Kasia Wolinska), IETM Plenary Meeting, Belgrade, 1 October 2022

- A Feminist Account of Socially Engaged Art: Consciousness-Raising as Research Practice, conference paper presented at the AAH Summery Symposium Art & Activism, 21-22 July 2022

- This Is Making Me Uncomfortable: Rethinking the Generative Capacity of Discomfort as a Tool of (Artistic) Collective Configuration, conference paper presented at the 11th European Feminist Research Conference Social Change in a Feminist Perspective at the University of Milano Bicocca, 15-18 June 2022

- Feminist Curating and Care: Possibilities and Limits, lecture by Helena Reckitt, co-moderator, 2 December 2021

- Lecture on feminist curating as part of the Theory & History of Curating seminar, held by Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg, Campus der Zeppelin Universität, 15 and 22 November 2021

- Instituting, Care, and Feminist Politics in the 21st Century, Workshop for postgraduate students, co-organiser, The University of Edinburgh, 30 June 2021