Biography
Roberta Cavallari (b.1975, Italy) moved to Bologna to study painting and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts. Strongly attracted by metropolis, she obtained a scholarship in Berlin, where she starts with exhibitions and performance. The contradictions of Berlin in 1999 between empty spaces and ultra-modern architecture, the explosion of the internet, the cyberpunk, the electronic music shaped the imaginary of the artist, who expressed herself in painting with a free language, a sort of brainstorming of signs and flat backgrounds, conditioned first by abstract artists such as Cy Twombly, then definitively pop, from Basquiat to David Hockney. The topics dealt with range from the autobiographical to environmental themes, but the leitmotif of the first production is the alienation. From 2001 to 2014, her interest in architecture gave rise to various performances, videos and photographic project in Berlin, Mexico City, Milan.
Education
BA, Academy of Art of Bologna, 2007-2010
BA, Academy of Art of Bologna, 1994-2001
Exhibitions
2023, Through the Looking Glass, AucArt, London, UK (Group)
2023, Booming Art Show, Manuel Zoia Gallery, Bologna, Italy (Group)
2022, Silenzio, Galleria Civica of Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy (Duo)
2022, Sipario, Curva Pura Gallery, Rome, Italy (Solo)
2019, Artanima, Studio 53 Arte, Trento, Italy (Group)
2016, Premio Nocivelli, Chiesa della Disciplina, Verolanuova, Italy (Group)
2015, Prima Pagina Art Prize, Artefiera, Bologna, Italy (Group)
2014, Artelibro, Palazzo Renzo, Bologna, Italy (Group)
2013, It’s Time to Change and Re-Birth, KAIROS, Bologna, Italy (Group)
2013, Omaggio a Verdi, Istituto Storico Parri, Bologna, Italy (Group)
2012, Vis a Vis, R. Centro Cultural Borges, Scaringella, Buenos Aires,
Argentina (Solo)
2012, Galerie Proarta, Lars Malmberg, Zurich, Switzerland (Group)
2012, Immagini per La Memoria, Istituto Storico Parri Emilia Romagna, Bologna, Italy (Group)
2012, Videonote, Boximbau Lab, Bologna, Italy (Group)
2012, The Scientist, International Video Art Festival VI Edizione, Ferrara, Italy (Group)
2011, 54° Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavillion, L’arte non è cosa nostra, Venezia, Italy (Group)
2011, Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Lo stato dell’arte nel 150° dell’Unità d’Italia, Torino, Italy (Group)
2011, Relazioni Interpersonali, Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Lucca, Italy (Group)
2011, New Grotesque, Oratorio della Passione, Basilica di Sant Ambrogio, Milan, Italy (Group)
2010, Galerie Proarta, Lars Malmberg, Zurich, Switzerland (Solo)
2010, Is It ordinary? Fondazione Durini, Milano, Italy (Group)
2010, The Difference, Arte Fiera Off, Bologna, Italy (Group)
2009, A Hole Can Make a Difference, Palazzo Zenobio Degli Armeni, Italy (Solo)
2009, L’Accademia per Enzo Biagi, Bologna, Italy (Group)
2009, Otto al Verde, Immagini dall’orto Botanico, Bologna, Italy (Group)
2008, Visuale, Sguardo Fotografico, Casa dell’Ariosto, Ferrara, Italy (Group)
2008, Premio Samp, Academy of Art of Bologna, Bologna, Italy (Group)
2007, Drinnen Und Draussen, Goethe Institut, Bologna, Italy (Solo)
2007, Celeste Art Prize, I. S. A., Roma, Italy (Group)
2006, Berlin Upcoming Places, Goethe Institut/Alliançe Française Bologna, Italy (Solo)
2001, Il Gioco del Mondo, Porta Degli Angeli, Ferrara, Italy (Solo)
2001, Artificial Spaces, Ex Teresa Arte Actual Gallery, Mexico City (Group)
2001, Quotidiana, Museo Civico del Santo, Padova, Italy (Group)
2001, Premio Iceberg, Salara, Bologna, Italy (Group)
1999, Luoghi di Scarico, N.A.K.T Gallery, Berlin, Germany (Solo)