Teresa Sartore is Head of the International Press Office at Lightbox. She was born and bred in Venice and since 2005 she has undertaken several research and art projects, and has since gone on to specialise in Communications and Contemporary Art.
She holds an MA in Anthropology from SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. She worked as Research Assistant at Heidelberg University (2009-2013) and Visiting Researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2011-2013).
In 2015 she was the Artistic Director of PRISMA Human Rights Photo Contest, organised by the Global Campus of Human Rights in collaboration with Lightbox. In 2016 and 2017 she was a member and artistic curator at ISOLAB, Photography Research Centre.
She is currently Media and Communication Consultant for the Department of Asian and North Africa Studies (since 2019) and the Department of Humanities (since 2021), Ca’ Foscari University.
Over the years she has worked in collaboration with Lightbox as International Press Officer for the following projects, among others:
- Who is Alice? MOCA Seoul – Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2013
- A remote whisper – Pedro Cabrita Reis – Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition, 2013
- Hyperpavilion during the 57th International Art Exhibition, 2017
- The End of Utopia – Jacob Hashimoto and Emil Lukas for Studio la Città Verona during the 57th Venice Art Biennale, 2017
- Pavilion of Albania at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2018
- Pavilion of China at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2018
- The Spark Is You: Parasol unit in Venice Collateral Event of the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2019
- Pavilion of Chile at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2019
- Polish Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2023