Susanna Cardelli

Dear art-lovers,
I am Susanna Cardelli, painter, calligrapher and grafics artist based in Berlin and Rome, autodidact by choice.
From early childhood the curves and dynamics of baroque flow in my veins; later in life the passion of german expressionism joined in to resist and question them.
Throughout my childhood and first youth, I traveled the world with my parents, thus developing an affinity to different cultures and means of expression, from the detailed and decorative of the South, to the impetuous brush-strokes of colder Europe, loving all.
Still thanks to my family I had the chance to encounter art at a very early age, and have ever since been enthralled by it.
Art history and humanistic studies continue to accompany my artistic work.
In 1998 I achieved a diploma at the Fachhoschule Augsburg in Communications Design, specializing in calligraphy. This discipline added a completely new dimension to my approach to art –in a way, it freed me from formal patterns I didn’t realize were so strong. Calligraphy often mingles with my figurative sujets, at times lending them a strong abstract character, at other times its presence is more discreet manner, you might see it in the repetition of certain brushstrokes.
I have worked fo...

British primary school in England.
2 years elementary italian school in Rome.
International schools in Cairo and Rome.
Boarding school in Germany (German school).
High school degree in Rome, Deutsche Schule Rom.

2 years art history class at Universitá La Sapienza, Roma
Diploma in Germany, Communications Design at Fachhochschule Augsburg, Fachbereich Kommunikationsdesign

Various group and twosome-exhibtions -selected:
-Lange Nacht der Museen -"Kunst am Bau" 1999, Berlin, Germany
-IHK (Industrie- und Handelskammer) Berlin -"Geld wird Kunst" ("Money Turns to Art"), Berlin, Germany
-Swiss Art Space -Drawings, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2014
-"Resistenza e Contemporaneitá" FestaReggio, Reggio Emilia, Italy 2016
-"It's a Gift!" Art space United Arts & Design, Berlin, Germany
-Foyer Ostdeutscher Sparkassenverband, Berlin, Germany, single exhibition
-"PRO-traits" Kunstraum Berlin Schmetterlingshorst, Germany
-"Waldgang - boscoscuro" Medina Art Gallery, Rome, Italy 2023
-"Eine Ausstellung sieht rot" Galerie Hentrich, Berlin 2024 and in Kulturspeicher Ueckermünde 2025, both in Germany.
-"Hier und Jetzt: Berlin" Galerie Hentrich & Shrivastava, Berlin, Germany 2025
-continuing group exhibits with the Galerie Hentrich & Shrivastava 2026