Roberta Piantavigna is Head of Conservation at Fondazione MAST (Bologna, Italy), where since June 2024 she leads the management and preservation of the collection. Her practice is informed by previous roles as Photography Conservator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017-2024) and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015-2017), as well as by private conservation practice in Milan and Luxembourg (2007-2015).
She approaches conservation as a reflective and adaptive practice, positioned at the intersection of material care, curatorial thinking, and public engagement. Her work and research focus on the opportunities and challenges of collecting and preserving photography collections while adapting to evolving conservation practices that respond to the variability of artworks, climate change, and the expanding social role of conservation within society.