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Cristiana Collu (Cagliari, 1969) is an Italian art historian, manager and professor, since 2015 Director of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome.

Education
In 1993 she obtained a master's degree in art and literature from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Cagliari with a thesis in early medieval art. She continued her studies in Spain, first in Burgos (1993-1994) and then in Madrid where she received a Ph.D. Scolarship in medieval art from the Complutense University of Madrid, she also specialized in museum studies with a Master's degree in Museology, in Museography and in Exhibition design and staging. In 2021 she obtained a Ph.D. in History of Contemporary Art from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis entitled: Por una museologia desquiziada (For an out of joint museology).

MAN - Museo d'arte della provincia di Nuoro
In 1996, after an initial experience in Sydney, she won the public exam for the direction of the MAN Museum of Art in the province of Nuoro, becoming  the youngest museum director in Italy. In Nuoro at the MAN she directed the renovation, restoration of the building and the setting up of the new collection which she completed in just two years. The museum opened in 1999 with the Eduardo Chillida exhibition, La mémoire et la main. Among the main exhibitions curated or conceived: Padiglione Sardegna, Biennale Venezia (2011), Something Else (2009), ''Confini. Boundaries (2006), DNA: Dal novecento ad oggi (2005), Catastrofi minime (2003), Pay Attention, Please (2001), Miró. Orizzonte Lirico (2001), La Collezione del MAN'' (1999). This direction won her the Artribune Award as best museum director in Italy, an award from the Italian Ministry of Culture for having made the MAN a "place of excellence in the Italian museum panorama" and the ABO Award as best young museum director.

MART - Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
In 2012 she was director of the MART Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto where she presented a new and innovative display of the collection, with 300 works in a diachronic organisation. She remained in Trento and Rovereto until 2015, directing the renovation and reopening of the Galleria Civica of Trento, one of the two MART locations, and finalizing over 500 new acquisitions and organizing 30 exhibitions. Among the main exhibitions curated or conceived: ''La guerra che verrà non è la prima. Grande guerra 1914 - 2014 (2014), L’altro ritratto – Antonello da Messina (2013) , La Magnifica Ossesione'' (2012).

National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
After a brief transition to the direction of the Higher Regional Ethnographic Institute (ISRE of Nuoro), in November 2015, through the international selection of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism she became Director of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome where she initiated and completed a large-scale process of transformation, reorganization and management of the museum and exhibition spaces.

Time is Out of Joint
Under her directorship the National Gallery has started a profound reinterpretation of the museum's collection with the innovative exhibition Time is Out of Joint (2016) which, quoting the verses of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, investigates the notion of time in its fluidity, nonlinearity, and stratification; in just one year the exhibition doubled the number of visitors to the museum. In her eight-year term of office she has organized 90 temporary exhibitions, exhibited over 2000 works from the collection and 3500 documents from the archives, finalized the acquisitions of over 500 works, 39 archives and 6000 photographic books, and promoted a total rebranding of the museum by abandoning the old acronym GNAM in favor of a new visual identity and communication strategy. Among the main exhibitions curated or conceived are: Picasso metamorfico (2023), Panorama XIX (2023); 100 Years of Modern Art (2022), ''HOT SPOT. Caring For a Burning World (2022), The Infinite Universe of Wuji – Masterpieces (2022), Io dico io – I Say I (2021), A distanza ravvicinata (2020), Joint is Out of Time (2019), Ragione e sentimento (2018), Time is Out of Joint (2016), The Lasting: l’intervallo e la durata'' (2016).

Architecture
In architectural her directorhip of the National Gallery begins a process of transformation, reorganization and refurbishment of the historic building built by Cesare Bazzani with an architectural redevelopment functional to the expansion of the museum originally designed by Luigi Cosenza.

Environmental Sustainability
In terms of environmental sustainability, in 2015 she began a plan to optimize museum resources with an 8-year program aimed at improving the energy efficiency and decarbonisation of the building. The National Gallery became the first museum in Europe to obtain ISO 50001 certification, completely eliminating the reduction of climate-changing emissions.

Feminism
Throughout her career she has dedicated particular attention to the organization of personal exhibitions of women artists and special projects dedicated to feminism. Of particular importance the Women Up project with eight years of in-depth analysis of feminism through exhibitions, festivals, events, acquisitions, open calls, the digitization and publication of the entire Carla Lonzi Archive and the festival ''Women Out of Joint. Feminism is my party'' (2018).

In 2021 she became, for a short period, interim Director of the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

Teaching and other activities
She has taught and teaches Museology and Art History at Sapienza University of Rome (2006-2007), the University of Sassari (2007-2011), the University of Cagliari (2007-2012), the University of Trento (2013-2014) and the LUISS Business School (2022-present). She is co-founder and permanent member of the Fondazione Scuola Alta Formazione Donne di Governo and participates as a member of important commissions, juries and scientific committees such as the International Jury of the Venice Biennale, 58th edition (Venice, Italy, 2019), the Bacchelli Commission (Presidency of the Council of Ministers, from 2022), the Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium and the Riyadh Art | Expert Panel, Royal Commission (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since 2019), the Rome Quadriennale (2018), the TERNA Prize (2009-2014) and others.

Voci correlate

 * Museo d'arte della provincia di Nuoro
 * Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
 * Istituto superiore regionale etnografico
 * Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
 * Galleria Borghese