MAD Murate Art District Director, Valentina Gensini is an art historian and curator. 

Since 2005 she has been focusing her work on Museum Studies with an appointment at the Florentine Superintendency in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna of Palazzo Pitti. Since 2007 she has served as a consultant for the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation in Florence, where she curated the international project Green Platform. Art Ecology Sustainability in 2009. In 2010, she was member of the Cultural Commission for selecting projects for the Estate Fiorentina festival organized by the City of Florence. In 2011, she was the Artistic Director of the Notte Bianca in Florence, entirely dedicated to the contemporary arts. Gensini curated the section of Visual Arts for the Fabbrica Europa Festival in 2012. She is currently the scientific coordinator for the Museum Experience Design Master’s program (from 2020) and she was scientific coordinator for the international master’s program in Arts Management at the European Institute of Design in Florence (2015-2019). From 2014 to 2017 she was Scientific Director of the Museo Novecento, and from 2014 to 2018 the Artistic Director of Le Murate: Progetti Arte Contemporanea. From 2019, she’s Director of the civic center for the contemporary arts, MAD Murate Art District, and of the RIVA Project, about public arts and sustainability.

She’s member of board of Directors of Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence and Primo Conti Foundation in Fiesole.