Valentina Ferrarese Art

Valentina Ferrarese is a visual artist from Venice (Italy) living and working in Berlin (Germany). She studied painting and art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, as well as visual arts and curatorial practice at the Venice University of Architecture and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. In 2008 she completed a Master's Program of the Arts at the University of Berlin. Since then she has worked as an artist and project curator in collaboration with art and social institutions, as well as an art historian and educator for various museums in Berlin and its surroundings.

STUDIES

2005 / 2008 Master: Kunst im Kontext/Art in Context, University of Arts, Berlin/Germany.

2001 / 2002 Post Graduate for contemporary art and curatorial praxis, University of Architecture, Venice, Art Department.

2002 / 2003 Guest student at the Post Graduate Program for visual arts and curatorial praxis, Piet Zwart Institut (Willem De Kooning Akademie), Rotterdam/Holland.

1995 / 2000 Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (Fine Arts Academy of Venice, Italy). Field: Painting.

2011/2012 Eb-Dietzsch-Kunstpreis für Malerei, GERAER BANK, Gera (CAT.)
Something about to Happen, Galerie Skolska, Prague
2008/2010 Gallery director at Parrotta Contemporary Art Project Space. Works as gallerist and curator (www.parrotta.com)
2008 AUS DEM KONTEXT / OUT OF THE CONTEXT, group exhibition, University of Arts, Berlin, Curator Michael Fehr (cat).
Berlin?stanbul. A TransGlobal Live Memory Box, group exhibition, Bebelplatz, Berlin within the Long Night of Sciences, Curator: Branka Pavlovic.
2007/2009 Public Art Project / Kunst am Bau, Seniorenheim Lebenswerk Schöneberg, Berlin.
2007/2008 Curates the Lectures Program and interdisciplinary podium discussion LANDSCAPES OF DESIRE contemporary art strategies and urban research, with Viola Thiele. University of Fine Arts (UdK) Berlin. Guests (among others): Tomas Saraceno, Simone Dybbroes Moller, Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Matteo Ghidoni (Salottobuono), Mandla Reuter.
2006 Traffic Zone 02, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. With the support of the city of Trento and Trento University. Curatos Stefano Coletto and Marco Ferraris
2005 Arte Presente-Arte Futura, group exhibtion, Arsenale Austriaco, Verona (Ital...