Loredana Campa

I am Loredana Campa, an artist born in Southern Italy, a land where light shapes memory and turns the landscape into an inner horizon. That light marked the beginning of my path, later refined at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, where I graduated in Painting in the early 1990s. Over time, I wove Graphic Design and Editorial Illustration into my practice, as if each discipline were a different way of listening to what vibrates beneath the surface of things.

I have painted for as long as I can remember, and since the early 2000s I have shared my work through exhibitions, competitions, group shows, and solo projects. My themes emerge from quiet encounters: a face, a figure, a rural or urban landscape that, for a moment, holds my gaze. From that fragment, a series takes shape — a path, a dialogue. Photography often accompanies this process: sometimes as a note, sometimes as a presence within the work, sometimes as the spark that ignites an entire cycle.

What I seek in my paintings is essence. Not reduction, but opening — a passage toward interiority. From this pursuit came the series "Interni", an invitation to linger in a suspended, evocative space where what is not immediately visible becomes the most truthful part.

I work wit...

1987 - Art school "G. Toma"
Art Institute in Galatina (fabric and Batik sector);

1991 - Degree of 1°st level Painting, Academy of Fine
Arts of Bologna;

1994 - Editorial illustration, Galileo Training Center,
Bologna;

2007-2°nd level degree visual arts and performing Accademy of Fine Arts of Lecce.

Personal exhibitions

1993 Saletta S. Giovanni – Modena;
"L'Unico" Gallery il Graffio Bologna – exhibition
curated by Valerio Dehò;
Gallery Il Circolo del Collezionista – Galatina (Le)

2001 City Hall of the Town Hall of S.- Lazzaro di Savena (Bo)

2002" Sincronie" Gallery Catùs – Bologna;

2003"Tracce" Gallery Artemisia – Modena;

2010 "White Wall – Suburbs" mini-personal
Ashanti®galleria Roma, curated by R. Cinzio.

Recent seleted group exhibitions

Since 1997 she has taken part in numerous exhibitions at regional, national and international level including:

2005 "Arte in Comune” Itinerant art raids" Palazzo
Raho Zollino (Le);
"Il Tempo del Tempo" Norman Swabian Castle of
Mesagne (Br);
"Art & Fashion Festival" The Glass Bridge
Burjuman Centre - Dubai UAE;

2007“Prima parete"Confindustria Lecce;
"Uncomfortable Landscapes"-Primo Piano
LivinGallery Lecce;

2008 Gallery Det Gule Galleriet – Stavern (Norway);
Gallery Il Grifone – Lecce;

2009 "Contemporaneamente" Gallery Gnaccarini –
Bologna;

2010 “Tracce Contemporanee 2010” 1°Biennale del
Salento" Castello Carlo V Lecce;
"Dissolvenze Incrociate – 5th International
Biennial of Ferrara" Chiostro di S. Anna e
Saloon S. Francesco of Ferr
"Inside Outside – th...