Roberta Rose Cavallari Archive

This is the Roberta Cavallari Archive profile created in 2026, a new second profile on Saatchi Art dedicated to the artist’s archival works. For recent paintings and larger contemporary works, please visit my primary Saatchi Art profile, dedicated to current available works and ongoing artistic research.
Roberta Cavallari is a contemporary symbolic European artist with archival and research-based practice.
Born in Ferrara, Italy, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna and spent a research period in Berlin in the late 1990s, an experience that deeply influenced her visual imagination. Her practice encompasses painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance, developing a research focused on the relationship between space, perception, and memory.
Her works combine realistic elements and abstract forms, creating suspended and ambiguous environments shaped by post-industrial references, neo-metaphysical atmospheres, and reflections on the transformations of the contemporary landscape. She has exhibited in Italy and abroad, including participation in the 54th Venice Biennale, and has recently presented her work at Galleria Studio Cenacchi in Bologna.

1994–2001
Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Painting (110 cum laude).
1999–2000
Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin (Erasmus Programme).
2007–2010
Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, two-year specialist course in Photography (110 cum laude).
2008–2010
Mambo, Bologna, Master’s programme The Craft of the Arts, promoted by the Emilia-Romagna Region and G.A.I. Ferrara.
2009
Assistant at Francesco Jodice’s studio, Milan.

2026
Ecologie instabili. At the Point Where Everything Transforms (with Sabrina Muzi), curated by Raffaele Quattrone, Galleria Studio Cenacchi, Bologna.
2022
Sipario, curated by Vittorio Beltrami and Andrea Romagnoli, Curva Pura, Rome.
2013
Vis a Vis, curated by Massimo Scaringella, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires.
2007
Drinnen Und Draussen, curated by Christiane Perrone-Boehme, Goethe-Institut, Bologna.
2002
Il Gioco del Mondo, within Via Vai Pontespositivo, curated by Angelo Andreotti, Porta degli Angeli, Ferrara.
1999
Luoghi di scarico (with Lucia Anselmi), curated by Werner Liebmann, N.A.K.T. Galerie, Berlin.

Group Exhibitions, fairs, and awards
2026
Mellone Art Prize, Independent Artist Association, Milan.
2025
Interior Art, Manuel Zoia Gallery, Milan.
Francesco. Contenitore di Pittura, curated by Gabriele Salvaterra, travelling exhibition presented at the artist’s studio, Ala (TN); Spazio Piera, Trento; and Galleria Studio Cenacchi, Bologna.
2024
Legami fragili, travelling exhibition curated by Raffaele Quattrone, presented at Galleria Studio Cenacchi, Bologna; Studio DFB, Rome; Spazio 21, Lodi; and San Sebastiano Contemporary, Palazzolo Acreide.
Opere da una collezione, curated by Amina Pedrinolla, Villa Carlotti, Capr...