NADIA
FANELLI

Nadia Fanelli (Castel Goffredo, 1977) is a contemporary Italian artist known for a visual language that investigates the individual and their inner life, moving between abstraction and figuration as a reflection on the subjective nature of reality. Trained at the Istituto d’Arte in Guidizzolo and the Academy of Cultural Heritage Restoration in Mantua, she brings to painting a deep knowledge of techniques and materials, expressed through a signature of material and conceptual layering.

At the heart of her practice lie the themes of memory, identity and transformation: the image becomes a space suspended between presence and remembrance, where forms and perceptions dissolve and recompose. As Natalie Clifford (Space Gallery) writes, her work conveys “a state of continuous becoming” that shapes the worldview of contemporary humankind.

She made her debut in 2014 with her first solo exhibition in Milan, at Galleria Statuto13 (via Statuto 13), accompanied by a review in Wall Street International Italia. In 2018 she was awarded the Michelangelo Buonarroti International Prize in Forte dei Marmi for the work Last Look. Since 2019 her works have been selected by Bocconi University in Milan; since 2022 two pieces — Transition 1 and Transition 2 — have been on permanent display at BAG – Bocconi Art Gallery.

Among her most significant milestones are exhibitions at the Diocesan Museum of Padua and the Marino Marini Museum in Florence (2019), the Civic Museum of Asolo (2022) and Villa Farsetti in Santa Maria di Sala (2024), as well as solo shows at Galleria DeniArte in Rome (2020) and Spazio Petrecca in Isernia (2023). Her international presence has grown with Space Gallery, which dedicated a solo exhibition to her in St. Barth in 2023 and, in 2025, the show Where the Light Lands in New York.

She lives and works in Castel Goffredo, Italy.