PhD in Art History from the Universitat de Barcelona and the Université Grenoble Alpes. Her research focuses on the transformation of the biennial model and the transnational networks between biennials in Latin America and Europe during the Cold War. She has undertaken research residencies at the Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis (2023), Goldsmiths, University of London (2022), Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2022), and the Universidad Havana (2019).

She has participated in the jueves de la Bienal of the 15th Havana Biennial (2024-2025) and the Theoretical Event of the 14th Havana Biennial (2021-2022). She worked as a cultural mediator at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009) and as a documentalist for the exhibition Caso de estudio. España. Vanguardia artística y realidad social: 1936-1976  (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, 2018-2019), which explored Spain’s participation in the 37th Venice Biennale.

She graduated cum laude in Cultural Heritage Conservation (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, 2010), holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture (Autonomous University of Madrid, Complutense University of Madrid, and Museo Reina Sofía, 2011), and a Master’s degree in Art History (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, 2014).

Publications

Orzes, Anita, “Venècia, 1968. Una Biennal en crisi i la protesta global”, Compàs d’amalgama, no. 10, 2024, pp. 10-13.

Orzes, Anita, “Maps and Circulation. A Way of Expanding Biennials through Time and Space?”, Index Journal, no. 5, 2024.

Orzes, Anita, “Bienalización. La globalización y cristalización de un concepto ligado a un fenómeno expositivo” en Barreiro López, Paula; Ruido, María (eds.), Revolver el tiempo. Conceptos críticos, mutaciones históricas y estéticas entre la Guerra Fría y la contrarrevolución neoliberal, Barcelona, Edicions Bellaterra, 2023, pp. 309-336.

Orzes, Anita “An Antifascit Biennial: Libertà al Cile in and from Venice”, Artl@s Bulletin, vol. 11, no. 1, 2022, pp. 63-80.

Orzes, Anita, “Curatorial Networks: The Havana Biennial and the Biennials in the South”, OnCurating Journal, no. 46, 2020, pp. 136-145. ISSN: 2673-2904.

Orzes, Anita, “Padiglioni che denunciano, riflettono ed astraggono: un’analisi critica e trasversale della partecipazione spagnola alla Biennale di Venezia (2003-2011)”, Storie dell’arte contemporanea, vol. 4, no. 1 1, 2019, pp. 353–374.

Orzes, Anita, “‘Better to be a dog in a peaceful time, than to be a human in a chaotic period’. América latina y caribe en la 58ª Bienal de Venecia”, Red de Estudios Visuales Latinoamericanos, 9 de agosto de 2019.

Orzes, Anita “XIII Bienal de La Habana: soyez réalistes, demandez l’impossible”, Exit, 6 de mayo de 2019.

Orzes, Anita, “La Bienal de Venecia y sus ciudades”, Anales de Historia del Arte, vol. 24, 2014, pp. 201-220.