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Art historian with over twenty years of experience promoting and enhancing assets of artistic, historical, and cultural interest.

Passionate about visual arts, cinema and theater, Rossella graduated from the “Francesco Grandi” State Institute of Art in Sorrento. She then continued her studies at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University Institute in Naples, where in 2004 she graduated in Conservation of Cultural Heritage, focusing on the contemporary sector with a thesis on the importance of Peggy Guggenheim’s activity as a bridge between the art of European and non-European countries.

Passionate about visual arts, cinema and theater, Rossella graduated from the “Francesco Grandi” State Institute of Art in Sorrento. Since 2005, she has had experiences in the contemporary art sector. She has held managerial roles in contemporary art galleries of international scope, such as the Miart Gallery based in Via Brera in Milan, also dealing with foreign relations and curatorship of exhibitions. She collaborates with universities and museums through interventions in conferences and debates. Since 2006, Rossella has been published in specialized magazines. In 2007, she curated an event promoted by the Campania Region Tourism and Cultural Heritage Department “Lucio del Pezzo in Positano”, during the Positano Art Festival.

In 2011, she took part in the “Valore Donna” exhibition at the Pinacoteca di Positano (Sa), with a speech “How to read a work of art”. In 2012, she was the author of the catalogue “Antonio Di Viccaro-Paesaggi italiani”, published by Iemme Edizioni, in co-edition with Mondo Arte, a magazine for which she curated several interventions. In 2014, she participated as a speaker at the English-language conference “The Italian Transavantgarde”, held in Brussels, where she with the patronage of the Italian Cultural Institute, organized a group show of Italian artists.

Since 2018, Rossella Savarese has been the curator of the “SyArt Sorrento Festival”, an event that takes place annually in the prestigious Villa Fiorentino, headquarters of the Sorrento Foundation. In that same year, she opened the SyArt Gallery dedicated to contemporary art and located a few steps from the historic residence of Torquato Tasso, which is in the heart of Sorrento. She also launched the “SyArt Sorrento Outdoor Museum” project, which was discussed internationally by the sector press and reported in 2019 to the Department of Architecture (DiARC) during the round table “Artists in Architecture”, as a concrete example of planning at the service of society.

In 2019, she became a member of the jury of the call for residence “Art culture of food and landscape” of Massa Lubrense. This was a project to care for the built environment, born from an agreement between the Lubrensi Restaurant Association, the Department of Architecture (DiARC) of the of the Studies of Naples Federico II and the Municipality of Massa Lubrense. In the same year, Rossella curates the personal exhibition “Essenze” by Carmen Novaco, bringing contemporary art for the first time within the historic spaces of the Royal Galoppatoio of the Reggia di Portici.

In 2021, at the National Archaeological Museum of Eboli and the Media Valle del Sele at the Sala Mangrella, she conferred on the conference entitled “In the sign of nature – Between art and architecture” in which she underlined the powerful suggestions that are generated by placing ancient and contemporary in dialogue, with young people at the center as human capital on which to build visionary and necessary projects.

Rossella Savarese also deals with training for Italian and international students with internships and dedicated courses. She participates in various dedicated trade fairs, including Miart in Milan, Kunstart in Bolzano, Arte Fiera in Bologna, Volta Art fair in New York. The following talk about her exhibitions curated by her: La Repubblica, Il Mattino, Corriere della Sera, Rome, Artribune, Exibart, Arbiter, Achtung mag, Corriere del Mezzogiorno, Il Giornale, La Stampa. Her specialization as an art curator continues in Italy and abroad.
Since 2024, she has been managing the gallery independently.

Born in Sorrento but a world citizen, he worked as Manager and Sales Agent for Luxury Multinationals such as SSIH, CHOPARD and CORUM. At the same time he always followed his passion for history, culture and art, organizing events such as antique exhibitions, vintage watches and cars exhibitions. He has promoted the TERRA DELLE SIRENE Awar to promote the Southern culture. About ten years ago, thanks to a friend, he discovered the wonderful world of contemporary art and young artists, beginning a way that he no longer abandoned and led to the collaborations that created SyART – SORRENTO YOUNG ART. In 2024 he left gallery management to devote himself to the new curatorial project CASA LEOR.