Italian designer and architect, included in the list of the hundred most influential people in the art world by the magazine Art Review. She is curator of the Department of Architecture and Design of the MoMa.

Born in Sassari to Lombard parents, graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan in 1990, Paola Antonelli has curated numerous architecture and design exhibitions in Italy, France and Japan. She has written for Domus (1987-91) and Abitare (1992-94). In 1994 she was hired by the MoMA in New York as an Associate Curator, becoming Curator in 2000 and finally being appointed Senior Curator in 2007, thanks to the essential contribution made to the inclusion of design among the museum’s research areas.

She is the curator who for the first time introduced a permanent exhibition containing a collection of video games into the MoMA design department, as she states in the interview with A. Oteri, she decided to bring video games into the museum as a “great form of design”.