Roberta Tenconi is Chief Curator at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, where she leads the conception and production of large‑scale monographic exhibitions and ambitious commissions. Her curatorial practice is grounded in close collaboration with artists to develop experimental projects in unconventional spaces, and using exhibition-making as a tool to question and interpret contemporary conditions.
At Pirelli HangarBicocca she has curated major solo shows by Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Leonor Antunes, Rosa Barba, Neïl Beloufa, Maurizio Cattelan, Petrit Halilaj, Saodat Ismailova, Ann Veronica Janssens, Eva Kot’átková, Matt Mullican, Bruce Nauman, Laure Prouvost, Nari Ward, and Cerith Wyn Evans, among others. Her recent projects include Nan Goldin’s This Will Not End Well, the artist’s first retrospective devoted to her work as a filmmaker. Forthcoming exhibitions she is currently working on include surveys of artists such as Luciano Fabro, Aki Sasamoto and Cecilia Vicuña.
Tenconi was part of the curatorial teams of major international exhibitions, including the 55th Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace (2013), and the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006). She has collaborated with museums, foundations, and biennials worldwide—among them the Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Manifesta, and the Gwangju Biennale—working alongside artists such as Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Pawel Althamer, Tacita Dean, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Cyprien Gaillard, Paul McCarthy, Paola Pivi, Pipilotti Rist, and Tino Sehgal. In October 2025, she co‑curated Flesh Flowers, the exhibition marking the reopening of the Aïshti Foundation in Beirut, which brought together over seventy women artists.
Tenconi has edited numerous monographs and exhibition catalogues and contributes regularly to art publications. She lectures in art and curatorial studies and has served on juries and commissions for awards and institutional programs, including the Italian Council of the Ministry of Culture, supporting artistic, curatorial, and critical research in Italy and abroad. In fall 2025, she co-edited Maurizio Cattelan. Beware of Yourself, a first‑person volume reconstructing nearly forty years of the artist’s practice.
