MASI Lugano Editor

MASI Lugano was established in 2015 by the merger the Museo Cantonale d’Arte and Museo d’Arte della Città di Lugano. With its two sites LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, opened in 2015, and the historic Palazzo Reali it has become one of Switzerland’s leading art museums.

Nicolas Party, born 1980 in Lausanne, Switzerland, lives and works in New York. His most recent solo exhibitions were at the FLAG Art Foundation (New York, 2020), M Woods (Beijing, 2018/19), and the Magritte Museum (Brussels, 2018).

Tobia Bezzola is an art historian and director of MASI Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana in Lugano since 2018. Prior that, he was director of Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, 2013–17.

Michele Robecchi lives and works in London as a writer and curator. He is the editor of the Contemporary Artists Series published by Phaidon.