Luigia Lonardelli graduated in Florence in 2004 following the archiving of the studio of the artist Mario Mariotti. The following year she obtained a master’s degree in management for curators at the Faculty of Architecture of Valle Giulia in Rome. She graduated from the Scuola di Specializzazione di Siena with a study on Ugo Mulas’ colour photography. In 2012 she discussed her doctoral thesis on the activity in the seventies of the association Incontri Internazionali d’Arte, which is currently being published. Since 2005 he has collaborated with the Direction for Contemporary Art dealing with the promotion of Italian art. She is editor-in-chief for the Art section of the latest volume of the Enciclopedia Treccani. Since 2010 she has been working at MAXXI where she is currently curator.