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Chiara Ventura (Verona, 1997) è artista visiva e performer. Il suo lavoro è genuinamente di carattere esistenziale, dove la biografia diventa cifra. Le pitture, sempre al limite tra figura e astrazione, incarnano i macrotemi delle opere plastiche, concettuali e performative. L’analisi sul corpo, sulle relazioni e reazioni che questo ha con psiche, emotività e l’Altro, è stata il punto di partenza per gli sviluppi di una pratica, prevalentemente performativa, dove il punto scomodo, non protetto, per chi fa e per chi guarda, è al centro dell’attenzione. Ventura indaga e denuncia gli aspetti più subdoli delle forme di violenza presenti nella contemporaneità ed è interessata agli aspetti politici del comportamento umano. Nel 2020 co-fonda plurale, un concetto che trova forma nel fare arte collettivo, una dinamica in cui l’artista individuale si fonde in una prospettiva comune, una pratica zen di decentramento dell’ego. Nel 2022, plurale pubblica il Manifesto Gesto empatico e mette in atto una pratica transfemminista, osservando sessualità e piacere come spazi politici. Inoltre, è interessato alla cultura giovanile e studia in particolare il fenomeno trap italiano, analizzando le problematiche socioculturali legate alle nuove generazioni.
Chiara Ventura ha realizzato performance ed esposto presso musei, fondazioni, gallerie, spazi indipendenti tra cui Mart – Galleria Civica di Trento (Trento), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Venezia), Viafarini (Milano), Villa Rondinelli (Fiesole), Galleria ME Vannucci (Pistoia), TAI – Tuscan Art Industry (Prato), GATE26A (Modena), Spazio In Situ (Roma), Spazio Cordis (Verona).
short biography
Chiara Ventura (Verona, 1997) is a visual artist and performer. Her work is genuinely existential, where biography becomes a feature. Her paintings, always on the edge between figuration and abstraction, embody the macro-themes present in her sculptural, conceptual, and performative works. The analysis of the body, and the relationships and reactions it has with the psyche, emotionality, and the Other, has been the starting point for the development of a practice, predominantly performative, in which the uncomfortable and unprotected point, for the doer and the viewer, is the focus of attention. Ventura investigates denounces the most devious aspects of contemporary forms of violence and is interested in the political aspects of human behaviour. In 2020, she co-founded plurale, a concept that takes shape in collective art-making, a dynamic where the individual artist merges into a common perspective, a Zen practice of ego decentering. In 2022, it published Empathic gesture (Manifesto) and has activated a transfeminist practice, observing sexuality and pleasure as political spaces. Furthermore, plurale is interested in youth culture, particularly studying the phenomenon of Italian trap music, analyzing the sociocultural issues related to new generations.
Chiara Ventura has performed and exhibited at museums, foundations, galleries, and independent spaces, including Mart – Galleria Civica di Trento (Trento), Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (Venice), Viafarini (Milan), Villa Rondinelli (Fiesole), Galleria ME Vannucci (Pistoia), TAI – Tuscan Art Industry (Prato), GATE26A (Modena), Spazio In Situ (Rome), Spazio Cordis (Verona).
contacts
mail – gestoempatico@gmail.com
instagram – @chiaraventura_artist
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EDUCATION
2022
BA graduate in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Verona, Italy.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
MEAT / NOBODY, with critical text by Amerigo Mariotti and Giorgia Tronconi, GATE26A, Modena, Italy.
2023
Venire a galla / Coming to the surface, curated by Silvia Concari, Villa Rondinelli, Fiesole, Italy.
2022
Dentro / Inside, curated by Silvia Concari, LAMB by Marina Bastianello, Mestre, Italy.
2019 – 2020
Corpo Limite / Boundary Body, curated by Silvia Concari, Spazio Cordis, Verona, Italy.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Be the difference…with art! (prize exhibition), curated by Moira Mascotto, Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova, Possagno, Italy.
Visioni Oltre / Visions Beyond, curated by Claudia Ponzi, Irene Follador, Art Studio Finestreria, Milan, Italy.
Allegoria della felicità pubblica / Allegory of Public Happiness, curated by Giulia Colletti & Gabriele Lorenzoni, Mart – Galleria Civica Trento, Italy.
Dialoghi empatici / Empathic dialogues, curated by Alessio Vigni, (un)fair, Superstudio Maxi, Milan, Italy.
2023
Dodicesima edizione Premio Francesco Fabbri per le arti Contemporanee (prize exhibition), curated by Carlo Sala, Villa Brandolini, Solighetto di Pieve di Soligo, Italy.
Fair something out, Art Verona collateral project, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
Clarity is close to the sun, curated by Ibrahim Alrefaie, Michelle Brito, Mapi de Aubeyzon, Eve Gueterbock, Loren Marie, Eleni Matou, Sofia Morais, Mariana Quinteira, Marinah Raposo, Charlotte Rich-Jones, Eliza Savage and Flavio Silva, Sala del Camino, Chiostro SS. Cosma e Damiano, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy.
Latte Versato / Spilled Milk, curated by Mirco Marino, Galleria ME Vannucci, Pistoia, Italy.
Vedersi da fuori. Vedersi da dentro / Seeing oneself from the outside. Seeing oneself from within, curated by Angel Moya Garcia, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (Galleria Piazza San Marco), Venice, Italy.
Parole di pelle / Words of skin, curated by Eva Comuzzi e Orietta Masin, Magazzini del sale di Villa Ottelio Savorgan, Ariis di Rivignano-Teor, Italy.
2022
My body is a batteground, curated by Eva Comuzzi and Orietta Masin, Piccolo Cinema Paradiso, Brescia, Italy
Abitare lo spazio / Inhabit the space, widespread group exhibition in public space, curated by Ileana Rutigliano e Giulia Del Gobbo, Venice, Italy.
XVI edizione del Premio Nazionale delle Arti / XVI edition of the National Arts Prize (prize exhibition), Academy of Fine Arts of Lecce, Lecce Italy.
LAMB – Opening, curated by LAMB by Marina Bastianello, LAMB by Marina Bastianello, Mestre, Italy.
2021 – 2022
Tracce visibili e invisibili / Visible and Invisible Traces, curated by In Habitat, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
2021
In-Edita 2, Sala del Camino, Chiostro SS. Cosma e Damiano, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy.
BLAST Estetiche della violenza tra immagine, video e documento / BLAST Aesthetics of violence between image, video and document, curated by Jessica Bianchera, Marta Ferretti, Palazzo Poste Verona, Verona, Italy.
Sonnentag, curated by Innesto Spazi di ricerca, Innesto Spazi di ricerca, Ravenna, Italy.
gesto movimento militanza / gesture movement militancy, curated by In Habitat, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
Combat Prize (prize exhibition), SAC – spazio arte contemporanea, Livorno, Italy.
Looking Within, curated by a.topos Venice, Palazzo Donà Brusa, Venice, Italy.
ISIT.exhi#001, curated by ISIT.magazine, Spazio In Situ, Rome, Italy.
2020
MAI PACIFICA (exhibition as part of the Il Teatro si mostra / Theatre shows itself project organised by Teatro Stabile del Veneto), Teatro Nuovo, Verona, Italy.
CASAMATTA discontinuità, curated by Re-Public, Bastione Sangallo, Fano, Italy.
HUMAN RIGHTS? THE FUTURE’S SHAPE #WOMANCANSAVETHEWORLD, curated by Roberto Ronca, Fondazione Campana dei caduti, Rovereto, Italy..
2019
Premio Nazionale delle Arti – XIV edizione / National Arts Award (prize exhibition), Accademia Albertina, Turin, Italy.
PERFORMANCES, INTERVENTIONS
2024
Condensazione (dopo l’Apnea) / Condensation (after Apnea), performance live, curated by Giulia Colletti & Gabriele Lorenzoni, Fountain of Neptune, Cathedral Square, Trento, Italy.
Mi chiamo fuori / I call myself out, performance live, curated by Performing The Club, Azimut Club, Turin, Italy.
2023
Apnea, performance live curated by Silvia Concari, Villa Rondinelli, Fiesole, Italy.
Tutto ciò che resta – Ibridazione 15, by Giovanni Morbin, Academy of Fine Arts, Verona, Italy.
Rainy silver clouds, installative intervention curated by Innesto – Spazi di Ricerca on the occasion of World Food Forum 2023, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy.
Comunione, by Cesare Pietroiusti, Relazioni (im)possibili, curated by Demis Martinelli, Rosalia Pasqualino di Marineo, Museo della stampa, Soncino, Italy.
A mare, performance live, a cura di Angel Moya Garcia, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy.
2022
Pulsazione / Pulsation, performance live, curated by Silvia Concari, LAMB by Marina Bastianello, Mestre, Italy
Piatto freddo / Cold dish, performative intervention, curated by LAMB by Marina Bastianello, M9 – Museo de ‘900, Mestre, Italy.
Un leggero gonfiore / Slight swelling, intevention for LAMB (Magazine 01), curated by Acido Lattico.
Copia dal vero / Copy from life, performance, in collaboration with Giovanni Morbin, curated by Giulio Verago, Viafarini, Milan, Italy.
Mi chiamo fuori / I call myself out, performance live, FLUORESCENZE. Indagini artistiche sul corpo contemporaneo N°5, Caracol Olol Jackson, Vicenza, Italy.
Distribuzione 6 / Distribution 6, intervention for IN&OUT, Via Carlo Farini 35, Milan, Italy.
Mi chiamo fuori / I call myself out, performance live, Tracce visibili e invisibili – Finissage, curated by In Habitat, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy.
2021
Mi metto all’angolo (alone) / I put myself at the corner (alone), performance live, Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy (public space).
Azione per il bene di sé contro di sé / Action for one’s own good against oneself, performance live, Spazio In Situ, Rome, Italy.
Distribuzione 5 / Distribution, intervention at Dubbio-cucina evolutiva, Via Strà 66, Colognola ai Colli, Verona, Italy.
2020
Distribuzione 2 / Distribution 2, intervention, ISIT2020#002 (online version) edit by ISIT.magazine.
Distribuzione 4 / Distribution 4, intervention, ISIT2020#002 (printed version) edit by ISIT.magazine.
Distribuzione 3 / Distribution 4, intervention at Dubbio-cucina evolutiva, Via Strà 66, Colognola ai Colli, Verona, Italy.
Tentativo empatico contemporaneo 2 / Contemporary empathic attempt 2, performance live, in collaboration with Simone Toniolo, Stazione Porta Nuova, Verona, Italy.
Tentativo empatico contemporaneo 1 / Contemporary empathic attempt 2, live streaming performance, in collaboration with Simone Toniolo, Instagram Live.
Disarmandomi / Disarming myself, performance live, performance live, curated by Re-Public, Bastione San Gallo, Fano, Italy.
Piatto freddo / Cold dish, performative intervention, at Dubbio-cucina evolutiva, Via Strà 66, Colognola ai Colli, Verona, Italy..
Nello spazio di mezzo / In the middle space, performance in collaboration with Andrea Bonetti, Venice, Italy (public space).
Automatismi: gesti del parlare / Automatisms: gestures of speaking, performance live,Spazio Cordis, Verona, Italy
Distribuzione 1 / Distribution 1, intervention within the exhibition catalogue Corpo Limite.
Mi metto all’angolo / I put myself at the corner, performance live, Central Station (public space), Milan, Italy.
(plurale) Luogo comune / Clichè, performative intervention, Volcana Festival 2020, Forte San Briccio, Verona, Italy.
2019
Attesa condizionata / Conditional waiting, performance-installation during the opening of Corpo Limite at Spazio Cordis, Verona, Italy.
Mi metto all’angolo / I put myself at the corner, performance live, Historic center (public space), Brescia, Italy.
Mi metto all’angolo / I put myself at the corner, performance live, Centro commerciale Verona Uno / Verona Uno Shopping Center (public space), Verona, Italy.
Mi metto all’angolo / I put myself at the corner, performance live, Historic center (public space), Verona, Italy.
Mi Ascolto / I Listen to myself, performance live, Verona, Italy (public space).
Participation in the project Femminisssmmm – vai pure / Femminisssmmm – go ahead, with a collective performance between the Academy of Fine Arts of Verona and Brera featuring the action SMS, in collaboration with Leonardo Avesani and curated by Giovanni Morbin and Maria Rosa Sossai.
FESTIVAL
2024
Festivalfilosofia 2024 – psiche, Modena, Italy.
2020
Il nuovo lavoro di sé, Volcana Festival 2020, Forte San Briccio, Verona, Italy.
2019
VII International Art for Peace Festival, curated by Fereidoun Farboud, Mehrnoush Baradaran, Mehrdad Bordbar, Fereshteth Shadi, Aein Shahroudi, Ehsan Shayegh & Kambach Moshgelan, Baroque Gallery, Teheran, Iran.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2022 – 2023
Atelier, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy.
2022
MIR, Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy.
2021
VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Via farini 35, Milan, Italy.
In-Edita 2, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy.
Sonnentag, Innesto Spazi di Ricerca, Ravenna, Italy.
PRIZES
2024
Be the difference…with art! (finalist).
2023
Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee (mention of the Jury).
2022
Premio Nazionale delle Arti / National Arts Award (section: Painting, finalist).
DOC.Creativity (winner).
Exibart Prize (finalist).
2021
Combat Prize (finalist)
2020
Exibart Prize (winner/6th position).
Premio Rotary / Rotary Prize (3th position).
2019
Building a new world, Premio Nazionale delle Arti / National Arts Award (XIV edition).
First Step 10.
TALK / GUEST LECTURE
2024
Guest lecture, within the Artistic Literature and Curatorial Practices course by Stefano Coletto, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
Artist talk – Chiara Ventura, Giulia Colletti, Gabriele Lorenzoni, Studio d’Arte Andromeda, Trento, Italy.
XII edition ART CITY Bologna | Street Dialogues – Release of Ôpêra magazine #12 and meeting with the artists involved, curated by Attiva Cultural Prejects, Sof:Art, Bologna, Italy.
2023
Scalfire la superficie – talk, a conversation with Max Mondini, Edoardo Durante, Giulio Ancona, Leonardo Avesani, Zeno Massignan, Filippo Tommasoli and Chiara Ventura, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy
Artiste e presenza femminile alla Bevilacqua La Masa, Female artists and female presence at Bevilacqua La Masa, with Stefania Portinari, Sara Nazzari, Silvia Giordani and Chiara Ventura, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (Galleria di Piazza San Marco), Venice, Italy.
2022
Fuoco incrociato#2 – Copia dal vero, a conversation between Giovanni Morbin and Chiara Ventura, curated by Giulio Verago, Viafarini, Milan, Italy.
2020
Artist talk, Nuovo Liceo Artistico Nani-Boccioni, Verona, Italy.
Corpo Limite – Talk (with the presence of Chiara Ventura, Giovanni Morbin, Jessica Bianchera, Silvia Concari), Spazio Cordis, Verona, Italy.
OTHER PROJECTS
2024
Videoart Yearbook 2024 | The Yearbook of Italian Video Art XVII edition, cuaretd by Renato Barilli, Piero Deggiovanni, Pasquale Fameli, Silvia Grandi.
Effetti di Realtà / Reality effects (Podcast).
2023
TAI / You too – winner project.
Booth Supermartek, Roma Arte in Nuvola, Rome.
ItagnolTV, Chiara Ventura, l’arte come forma di vita (in italiano) / Chiara Ventura, art as a form of life (in Italian), online podcast.
Group Exhibition curated by Angel Moya Garcia, booth Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Artefiera, Bologna, Italy.
2022
Masterclass, How Too – Narrazione dal contemporaneo, TAI – Tuscany Art Industry, Prato, Italy.
Venice Art Week, Presentation of the curator and the artists of Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa 2022 – 2023, Palazzetto Tito, Venice, Italy.
Performer for Sintonizzatore di decongestione ambientale by Matteo Vettorello, Liberi (tutti), curated by Silvia Concari, Alessio Vigni, Habitat Ottantatre, Verona, Italy-
Piatto freddo / Cold dish, video projection, Auditorium, M9 – Museo del ‘900, Mestre, Italy.
2021 – 2022
Dialoghi dell’altrove, eppure in noi, curated by Arianna Desideri.
2021
Walk-In Studio, Viafarini, Milan, Italy.
Urgente per una ricostruzione, manifesto.
PIVOTE, episode 31, podcast project of Matheus Chiaretti.
ISIT.serie, web serie edit by ISIT (appears in S01 EP04).
2020
ReA! Fair (Art Fair), Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy.
PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES, PRESS REVIEW
2024
Il Mare Empatico, by Edoardo Durante, The Collector Magazine, Issue 12, published by MVPUBLISHING, ISSN 2280-3599.
Panorama, a project by La Quadriennale di Roma (Studio visit by Osservatorio Futura with Chiara Ventura), online publication (link).
Ôpêra Magazine #12, produced by Associazione Attiva Cultural Projects, ISSN 2974-7163.
SUPER FRESH: Performing The Club, by Alessio Vigni, art-frame magazine, online article (link).
Chiara Ventura | Mi chiamo fuori, by Miriam Di Francesco, Segnonline, online article (link).
Nessun silenzio sul femminicidio: la performance di Chiara Ventura a Torino, by Exibart, online article (link).
Chiara Ventura – Mi chiamo fuori, by Artribune, online article / press release (link).
Chiara Ventura – Mi chiamo fuori, by Itinerari nell’Arte, online article (link).
2023
Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee 2023 – Prize Catalogue, ISBN 9788894674674637.
Il mare per metafore nel lavoro di Chiara Ventura, by Exibart, online article (link).
Chiara Ventura – Venire a galla, by Artribune, online article / press release (link).
SUPER FRESH: TAI – TUSCAN ART INDUSTRY, by Alessio Vigni, art-frame magazine, online article (link).
Al Palazzo FAO di Roma, arte contemporanea per riflettere sulla sostenibilità, by Exibart, online article (link).
Chiara Ventura, arte e corpo per indagare la Gen Z, by Cristina Cuttica, Heraldo, online article (link).
222 Artisti emergenti su cui investire / 2024, curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, published by Exibart, ISBN 978-88-85553-05-7.
Panorama, a project by La Quadriennale di Roma (Studio Visit by Angel Moya Garcia with Chiara Ventura), online publication (link).
Vedersi da fuori. Vedersi da dentro. Gli artisti degli Atelier 2022-2023, Exhibition Catalogue produced by Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa.
Artisti under 33 su cui scommettere nel 2023, by Chiara Canali, POSH N.108, (link).
ReA! Flashback Friday with Chiara Ventura, online publication (link).
2022
Re-Vision Performing Arts Festival, online publication (link).
Osservatorio, Interview with Chiara Ventura, curated by Marta Acciaro for Osservatorio Futura, online publication (link).
LAMB (Magazine 01), curated by Acido Lattico – Solo Exhibition Catalogue, produced by Lamb by Marina Bastianello.
LAMB (Magazine 00), curated by Acido Lattico, Lamb by Marina Bastianello.
2021
BLASTing Theory, volume curated by TBD Ultramagazine, published by SIZ Industria Grafica, ISBN 9788894417050.
Lo spazio vissuto, Cambi di prospettiva per il decennio che verrà (project curated by IIC Tirana), ISBN 978-9928-4514-5-3.
La Frana, online publication promoted by Fondazione Stazione dell’Arte, curated by Davide Mariani and Stefano Boeri Architetti.
2020
ISIT.magazine, issue 2020#002, editors AFFDP.
REA! Art Fair 2020, Exhibition catalogue, EAN 9788894571400.
Mai Pacifica: gli studenti dell’Accademia di Verona rispondono al lockdown, by Exibart, online article (link).
HUMAN RIGHTS? THE FUTURE’S SHAPE – THE BOOK, Exhibition Catalogue.
First Step 10 – Prize Catalogue, produced by Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona.
HIXUNT DRACONES, curated by Mixta, online publication.
Corpo Limite – Solo Exhibition Catalogue, published by Spazio Cordis.
2019
Building a new world for Premio Nazionale delle Arti (XIV edition) – Exhibition Catalogue, ISBN 978-88-94843-29-3.
Publication in the online catalogue of ArtVerona / Premio Casarini Due Torri Hotel section.
IAPF 2019 / International Art for Peace Festival – Exhibition Catalogue.
Chiara Ventura – Corpo Limite, by Artribune, online article / press release (link).