Marco Scotini is the Artistic Director of NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (Milan, Rome, London), having directed the Academy's Visual Arts Department since 2004. Formerly Artistic Director of the FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea in Milan, he is currently responsible for the exhibition programme of PAV – Parco Arte Vivente in Turin.
A curator and critic of contemporary art, he has organised over 300 exhibitions internationally, taking part in major shows such as the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, the Bangkok Art Biennale, the Prague Biennale, the Yinchuan Biennale, and the Anren Biennale. Since 2005 he has been the originator and curator of Disobedience Archive, a touring exhibition project devoted to artistic practices and to contemporary movements of protest and resistance, presented at some of the leading international museums and biennials. Over the course of his career he has collaborated with prestigious institutions, including the Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Documenta, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MAXXI in Rome, MAMCO in Geneva, and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich. He is also Scientific Director of numerous artist archives, including those of Gianni Colombo, Bruno Di Bello, Bert Theis, Clemen Parrocchetti, and Laura Grisi, as well as of the Nanni Balestrini and Emilio Scanavino Foundations. He is the author of numerous essays on the relationships between art, politics, archive, and memory, among them Artecrazia, Politiche della memoria, and L'inarchiviabile. He serves as Editorial Director of the Geoarchivi series for Meltemi Editore.