Biography
Valeria was born in Sassari, where she graduated in philosophy with a thesis on the ontological definition of art in the philosophies of Arthur Danto and Plato. She starts showcasing her first project in Sardinia and later collaborates with spaces and curators across the rest of Europe. In 2020, Valeria moved to Berlin, where she had the opportunity to immerse herself in the local art scene and invest in her education at the Berlin Art Institute. Drawing inspiration from comics, animation, pop culture, and cinema, Valeria creates characters that exist in a state of tension between the comical and the tragic. These characters often struggle with a dominant model, be it aesthetic, political, or social.
Education
2020 BERLIN ART INSTITUTE
2017 MASTER’S DEGREE IN PHILOSOPHY, University of Sassari, Italy
2015 Academy of Fine Arts M. Sironi, Italy
2013 BACHELOR DEGREE IN PHILOSOPHY, University of Sassari, Italy
Selected exhibitions
2024 WOMAN&WOMAN, the art of survival, Tartu Kunstimaja, Tartu, Estonia
2024 Liquida Photo Festival, ARTiglieria Con/temporary Art Center, Turin, Italy
2024 VALERIA IS ON TOUR NOW, Biella, Italy
2023 VALERIA IS ON TOUR NOW, Itala (Messina), Italy
2022 Portraits without Borders, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
2022 12 Artists of Tomorrow, Mucciaccia Gallery Project, Rome, Italy
2021 Naine&Naine, Pärnu Linnagaleriis, Pärnu, Estonia
2020 PARATISSIMA TALENTS, ARTiglieria Con/temporary Art Center, Turin, Italy
2020 Valeria is out now, Ruvo di Puglia (Bari), Italy
2019 Ethereal, a daily poetry, Galerie Joseph PARIS, Paris, France
2017 Sardegna contemporanea, MAN museo d’arte e provincia, Nuoro, Italy
2016 FUORI USO, Avviso di Garanzia, Ex tribunale piazza Alessandrini, Pescara, Italy
2015 Pudor nuditatis, LEM, Sassari, Italy
Publications
2024 Liquida PhotoFestival, Paratissima art Fair, Catalog
2022 Il Corpo Solitario vol. III, di G.Bonomi, Edizioni Rubettino, ISBN 8849871295
2022 12 artists of tomorrow, Mucciacia contemporary Edizioni, Catalog
2021 222 ARTISTI EMERGENTI SU CUI INVESTIRE EDIZIONE 2021, Cesare Biasini Selvaggi,
Silvia Conta, Exibart, ISBN 8885553036
2019 Ph.ocus, about photography, Paratissima art Fair, Catalog
Workshops & Lectures
2024 Progettare un’opera: temi e autori a confronto, Liceo Sella, Biella, Italy
2024 Visual story telling, Stud10, Campobasso, Italy
2022 Ontologie delle arti, teorie e prospettive sul contemporaneo, University of Sassari, Italy
2021 Parliamo di fotografia, Siena Foto Club, Siena, Italy
2020 Visual Art Preview n. 3, Opse Project, Berlin, Germany
2021 Stac! Di traverso, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Sassari, Italy
Grants
2021 APULIA PRIZE, Apulia Center for Art and Technologies
2019 BEST 15 PRIZE, Paratissima Art Fair