Chiara Vecchiarelli was born in Belgium and lives in Rome and Kassel. She studied philosophy and visual arts at the Iuav University of Venice and is currently Assistant to the Artistic Director for dOCUMENTA (13) and Curatorial Researcher. Vecchiarelli curated exhibitions at Ca’ Zenobio, Venice (2010, 2009), and the Tophâne-i Âmire Cultural Centre, Istanbul (2010). She is the editor of the book Visual Art at Iuav: 2001–2011 (2011).