Trained as an architect and with a transdisciplinary career, Vittoria Matarrese was successively head of international communications for the Mostra del Cinema at the Venice Biennale (2001-2005), editor-in-chief and producer of cinema programs for TV5 Monde (2005-2008), artistic director of Villa Medici in Rome (2008-2010), then director of the performing arts department and exhibition curator at the Palais de Tokyo between 2010 and 2022.
She was the artistic director and curator of the performance Festival, Do Disturb, for five editions and with the curatorial team of the Palais de Tokyo she was curator of “Nuit Blanche Paris” (2016), the “Biennale de Lyon” (2019), and “Anticorps” (2019). With Emma Lavigne, she was co-curator of “Natures Mortes”, carte blanche to Anne Imhof in 2020. Since November 2022 she has been the director of the Bally Foundation in Lugano, Switzerland, dedicated to international contemporary art in all its forms. Since the opening of the Foundation she has been the curator of the group shows Un Lac Inconnu and Arcadia and of the first solo show of Sarah Brahim, Sometimes we are eternal.