Claudia Virginia Vitari / Biography Claudia Virginia Vitari was born in Turin, Italy. She studied at Burg Giebichenstein, Hochschule fuer Kunst und Design (University for Art and Design), in Halle an der Saale, Germany, where she graduated in painting and graphics.Vitari’s projects are based on a study of total institutions: a graphic documentation evoking a confrontation between single stories and the institution, as part and mirror of society itself. “PERCORSOGALERA” (2009) was realized inside Turin's penitentiary and “Le Città Invisibili” (2012) in Barcelona in collaboration with Radio Nikosia, the first Spanish radio organized by people who have been diagnosed with mental diseases. Both projects received a grant of “Regione Piemonte”. Vitari is now working in Berlin, investigating through her artistic documentation the current issue of migration in Europe (O-Platz, Interstitial Identities). The artist is represented by Enter Art Foundation (Berlin) and Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea (Turin).
Education
1999-2004 Bachelor and master in Fine Arts at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design, Halle/Saale, Study Program Painting/Graphics, Painting Department. 1997-1999 Bachelor at Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti (Albertina Art Academy), Torino, Painting Department.
Solo exhibitions
2019 (UN)SICHTBAR, Schicksale in Glas (1 March-14 April) | Galerie Kulturhaus Karlshorst, Berlin, Germany (upcoming)
2018 O-Platz, Identità Interstiziali, solo exhibition in the context of The Venice Glass Week (9-16 September) | Palazzo Querini, Venezia, Italy
2017 Le Città Invisibili | Die kleine Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2014 Il Corpo in Questione. Forme, collassi, mutamenti | Studiodieci, Vercelli, Italy
2013 Le Città Invisibili | Mausoleo della Bela Rosin, Turin, Italy / Las Ciudades Invisibles | Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain /Le Città Invisibili | Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
2012 Le Città Invisibili | BERLINARTPROJECTS, Berlin, Germany / Le Città Invisibili | Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Turin, Italy (with a grant from Regione Piemonte)
2009 PERCORSOGALERA | Panopticon, Le Nuove Museum, Turin, Italy (with a grant from Regione Piemonte)
2008 PERCORSOGALERA | Riflessioni, Lorusso e Cutugno Penitentiary, Turin, Italy
Group exhibitions (selection 2018)
TRASFORMATION | Bunker K101, Cologne, Germany. Organised by Enter Art Foundation / Preparing for Darkness Vol. 2, Breaking God’s Heart | Kuehlhaus Berlin-Galerie Selected Artist, Berlin, Germany /ANYTHING | Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Mexico City, Mexico: Organised by Raffaella De Chirico Art Gallery /Vetro Illuminato | Fondazione Berengo, Venice, Italy. Organised by Glass Art Society /L'arte femminile: cambiamento radicale | Res Publica, Galleria d'Arte Democratica, Torino
