Brizia Minerva is an art historian and curator at the Sigismondo Castromediano Museum, where she serves as the scientific director of the painting gallery, art collections, and contemporary archives associated with the Bibliomuseum Center of Lecce. After completing a Master’s degree in Classical Literature, she specialized in Contemporary Art History under Enrico Crispolti at the Postgraduate School of the University of Siena.

She has curated numerous exhibitions and museum installations, along with their catalogues, in close collaboration with the University of Salento, the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiBACT), and both national and international cultural institutions such as UNESCO. She is the author of various scientific essays and publications focusing on modern art history, the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary art. She has contributed to specialized journals such as Kronos, Kermes, Art Dossier, Atp Diary, and Flash Art, and has written the art column A Sud dell’arte for Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia.

Since 2017, she has co-directed the French film festival Vive le cinéma, curating the art section Spazi aperti della visione, which features video screenings, exhibitions, spotlights on emerging French artists, and talks with artists and curators.

Since 2021, she has been in charge of the Carmelo Bene Archive, for which she has curated several projects with contemporary artists in relation to Bene’s work and archives, including the performance Atto unico sulla morte in 5 compianti by Luigi Presicce and the video installation Là dove muore canta (2023) by Rä di Martino.