BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Beatrice Gallori was born in Montevarchi in 1978. After earning her diploma in 1996 from the Liceo Classico Cicognini in Prato, she pursued her passion for fashion and design by attending the Polimoda Institute in Florence, where she specialized in Fashion Design and Knitwear.
Her interest in fashion soon evolved into an exploration of painting. Her early works are characterized by a distinctive materiality and vitality, achieved through the use of reclaimed materials that serve as vehicles for emotional impulses and expressive "bursts."
From 2008, Gallori began presenting her paintings in various group exhibitions hosted in both public and private venues.
In 2009, she took part in Arte in Vetrina - Prato, giovani talenti emergenti, a showcase for emerging young talents curated by Giovanni Faccenda.
In 2010, a series of her hand-made knitwear sketches featuring painterly interventions became a full-fledged collection for the brand Bettaknit. These experiences prompted the artist to conceptualize her practice further, focusing on the theme of movement and how to capture it on canvas aiming to freeze a fleeting, unrepeatable instant rendered by nature. This investigation gave rise to her first three-dimensional works: sculptural “pours” of paint, crystallized in midair, captured “after the fall but before the landing.”
In 2011, her sculpture To Red – ing Future was included in the Combat Prize catalog. That same year, her work Milk Walking was selected by Arturo Schwarz for Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction in support of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Her ceramic pieces shown in the Linguaggi group exhibition in Milan received strong public acclaim. She also took part in ArtVerona 2011 and joined the Artisti a km 0 project at the Luigi Pecci Museum for Contemporary Art in Prato, where she presented an artwork and a video titled I miei respiri.
In 2012, she created a site-specific installation for the International Day of Knitwear, an event supported by the Province and Municipality of Prato, in whose spaces she installs for the occasion a work and a video entitled I miei respire (My breaths).
In 2012 she presented an installation created especially for the International Knitwear Day, an event sponsored by the City of Prato with the collaboration of the Textile Museum.
That year marked a growing collaboration with Italian galleries and saw her participate in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Italy and abroad.
One of her works was selected for BAU10 - Contenitore di arte contemporanea and entered the Collezione Zavattini at the National Library in Florence.
In 2013, she began working with Armanda Gori Arte (PO), which brought her works to several major art fairs, expanding her exposure to a wider audience. Her practice entered a mature phase, characterized by the mastery of materials and a move toward monochromatic, essential, and purified forms.
The group show Urbana Vestigia in Prato marked a turning point: her video Human Crisis was selected by the City’s Departments of Culture and Equal Opportunities as a symbolic work for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Additionally, one of her sculptures was installed in Prato’s main square, Piazza del Comune. Later that year, her solo exhibition Time Lapse opened at Armanda Gori Arte, with a curatorial text by critic Valerio Dehò. Her new works focused on cellular structures and transformations, visual "still frames" of cellular movement through which she explored human diversity and the essence of life itself.
In 2014, she took part in three collective shows - Rosso Contemporaneo, Plastica Italiana, Differenze – at the Galleria Armanda Gori Arte di Pietrasanta.
In 2015, her work was featured at the Municipal Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Arezzo in the shows Evolve-ING and Plastica Italiana. With her artworks she also participated in Photissima (Venice), Microscope (Pietrasanta, Armanda Gori Gallery), and BIOsphere (Prato, Museum of Mural Painting).
She held the solo show Origins at Sassuolo Hospital, supported by the Volontariarte association, and closed the year with a personal exhibition titled #differences at Riccardo Costantini Contemporary in Turin.
In 2016, Gallori established partnerships with Lara & Rino Costa Arte Contemporanea of Valenza and Riccardo Costantini Contemporary of Turin, who presented her work at ArteFiera Bologna 2016 and other contemporary art fairs, expanding her presence in both Italian and international markets. In the same year, her work BOOM entered the Bocconi University Collection in Milan. In June, her solo show The Cell, curated by Luca Beatrice, opened at Vecchiato Arte in Padua. Later, she presented the exhibition CORE at Lu.C.C.A. – Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, curated again by Luca Beatrice and Maurizio Vanni.
In March 2017, she presented her solo exhibition called m(OTHERS) at the Lara & Rino Costa Gallery in Valenza, accompanied by a critical text by Alessandra Frosini. In December 2017, she participated once again in BAG at Bocconi University in Milan with her work called BOOM.
In 2018, Gallori intensified her research in the field of sculpture, creating works from recycled wood and polymers. This results in three-dimensional works that float between mirrors in a game of balancing spherical forms and monoliths, metaphorically evoking the fragility of life. In January, she presented a personal exhibition called Biological Rules, curated by Angelo Crespi, at La Triennale di Milano. At the same time, she was chosen by Luca Beatrice for the exhibition Il Millennio è maggiorenne held at the MARCA Museum of the Arts in Catanzaro with the support of the Fabbrica Eos gallery in Milan, with which she began a collaborative relationship. Her installation VAST, shown in the same exhibition, is acquired by the Fondazione Rocco Guglielmo. Also in January, together with the Lara & Rino Costa gallery, she presents at ArteFiera Bologna an installation entitled Gaze, curated by Alessandra Frosini. In the same period, another of his works enters the permanent collection of the Lu.C.C.A.
She also began working with AriaArt Gallery - Firenze, Londra, Istanbul - participating in a group show at their Florence venue. In April, she launched her solo show Emotion Capture in the Istanbul venue, curated by Alessandra Frosini.
In early 2019, she began a new collaboration with SPACE Gallery (New York / St. Barth). During the year her works were shown at various art fairs and entered private collections in Italy and abroad. She participated in several group shows with Lara & Rino Costa gallery in Valenza, Fabbrica Eos in Milan and Futura Art Gallery in Pietrasanta, initiating a new partnership with the latter. In autumn, she began working with Galleria Stefano Forni in Bologna, which brought her works overseas. Her solo exhibition SO THIS IS LIFE is presented at the Bologna venue at the end of the year, which will then be exhibited in some of its parts in international fairs such as ARTMADRID, Art Karlsruhe, LA Art Show (Los Angeles), and Context Art Miami (2020).
Also in late 2019, she worked with AriaArt Gallery on a large-scale project for a major private collection in Istanbul, where she spent several months creating a 10-meter-long installation using local materials, now housed in private and institutional collections in Turkey.
Throughout 2020, Gallori continued exhibiting in group shows with her representing galleries, including Frammenti di storie curated by Giorgia Pirrone at Lara & Rino Costa and Contemporanea at Futura Art Gallery.
In June 2022, she presented a major solo exhibition titled CODEX at the MARCA Museum in Catanzaro, curated by Luca Beatrice, in collaboration with Fabbrica Eos in Milan and AriaArt Gallery in Florence. That same year, one of her works was acquired by the permanent collection of the Mac Lula Museum in Nuoro.
In April 2023, she opened the solo show UNDER THE SURFACE at Aria Art Gallery in Florence. In August 2023, she presented another solo exhibition at Futura Art Gallery in Pietrasanta.
In 2024, Gallori began collaborating with Ad Dal Pozzo Galleria d’Arte in Padova, which presented her works at various Italian art fairs.
Her works are part of numerous private and institutional collections in Italy and abroad.
