Born in Rome in 1980, she lives and works in Luxembourg.
Emanuela Mazzonis di Pralafera is a freelance curator. After graduating in Art History from the University of Rome, she completed a master’s in Art Management at the Brera Academy in Milan. Her initial work was with art galleries (Francesca Kauffmann, Milan; Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York) before she became assistant curator for the François Pinault Collection in Venice from 2003 to 2011.
The most noteworthy exhibitions she has curated include: Addio anni ’70, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2012; The Sea Is my Land. Artists from the Mediterranean Sea , MAXXI, Rome, Triennale di Milano, FRAC, Marseille 2013-2016; Year after Year – opere su carta dalla UBS Art Collection, GAM, Milan, 2014; Don’t Shoot the Painter – Dipinti dalla UBS Art Collection, GAM, Milan, 2015; Me, Family, Mudam, Luxembourg, 2020.
In 2023 she joined the scientific committee of MIA Photo Fair, Milan, and is curator of the Reportage beyond Reportage section. A selection of her published essays includes Artists Interviews for Luxembourg Art Week, 2023; Stronger than Memory and Weaker than Dewdrops – Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron, 2021; Me, Family. Portrait of a Young Planet , 2020; Monumenti effimeri. Storia e conservazione delle installazioni, 2009. , 2009.
