Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès. PhD in Art History from Universitat de Barcelona and Université Grenoble Alpes (2024). Her research focuses on the history of European and Latin American biennials, with particular attention to the transformation of exhibition models during the Cold War, artistic, intellectual, and political networks in the Atlantic space, and the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale.

On these topics, she has published in books and journals, including OnCurating, Artl@s Bulletin, MODOS: Revista de História da Arte, and OBOE – Journal. 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 has carried out research stays at the Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis (2023), Goldsmiths, University of London (2022), Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2022) and the University of Havana (2019). Orzes holds a BA in Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, 2010), a Master’s in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Museo Reina Sofía, 2011) and a Master’s in Arts History (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, 2014).

Publications

Orzes, Anita, “Latin America at the Venice Biennale: Histories of Unrealised National Pavilions”, OBOE – Journal on Biennials and Other Exhibitions, Università IUAV di Venezia, vol. 5, no. 1, 2024, pp. 21-41. https://doi.org/10.25432/2724-086X/5.1.0003

Orzes, Anita, “Dos dois lados do Atlântico: a reformulação do modelo bienal entre teoria e prática (1968-1989)”, MODOS: Revista de História da Arte, Universidade Estadual de Campinas-São Paulo, vol. 8, no. 3, 2024, pp. 449-483. https://doi.org/10.20396/modos.v8i3.8676340

Orzes, Anita, “Venècia, 1968. Una Biennal en crisi i la protesta global”, Compàs d’amalgama, Universitat de Barcelona, no. 10, 2024, pp. 10-13. ISSN: 2696-0982. https://doi.org/10.1344/Compas.2024.10.3

Orzes, Anita, “Maps and Circulation: A Way of Expanding Biennials through Time and Space?”, Index Journal, no. 5, 2024. ISSN: 2652-4740. https://www.index-journal.org/issues/liquid-time/maps-and-circulations

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 Biennale: ‘Libertà al Cile’ in and from Venice”, Artl@s Bulletin,Purdue University,vol. 11, no. 1, 2022, pp. 63-80. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol11/iss1/4/

Orzes, Anita, “Curatorial Networks: The Havana Biennial and the Biennials in the South”, OnCurating, no. 46, 2020, pp. 136 – 145. https://www.on-curating.org/issue-46-reader/curatorial-networks-the-havana-biennial-and-the-biennials-in-the-south.html

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 [número especial “Storie della Biennale di Venezia” editado por Stefania Portinari y Nico Stringa], Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, vol. 4, no. 1, 2019, pp. 353 – 374. http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-366-3/022.

Orzes, Anita, “La Bienal de Venecia y sus ciudades”, Anales de Historia del Arte, vol. 24, 2014, pp. 201-220. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ANHA.2014.v24.47185