Federica Belloli

Imagination is not an escape, but the place where the invisible takes form. This is the space in which my painting is rooted. I am a figurative painter, and I work with the human figure as a threshold between the visible and the inner world. My early formative years in the atelier of the painter Rodolfo Guzzoni played a decisive role in directing my research toward portraiture, understood not as mere representation, but as a space in which inner states, memories, and emotional thresholds can emerge.

My work unfolds in a territory where realism coexists with a poetic and visionary dimension. I am interested in the gaze of childhood, not as a narrative subject, but as a perceptual quality: a space of purity, wonder, and imagination. My figures often appear in communion with their spirit animal, a symbolic presence referring to our instinctive, natural, and mysterious dimension — to what precedes us and moves through us.

Portraits thus become liminal surfaces: places where fragility, melancholy, and solitude surface, but also silence and suspension. Identity is never asserted; rather, it slowly dissolves into matter.

I favour acrylics for their immediacy and matte quality, which allow me to work through glazes and stratifications w...

2020
Bottega d'Arte di Ettore Maiotti - Milano, Italia
2019
Atelier Antonio Molino - Milano, Italia
2018
Workshop Antonio Molino - Milano, Italia
2017
Atelier Rodolfo Guzzoni - Pavia, Italia
2016
Atelier Rodolfo Guzzoni - Pavia, Italia

2025
THE MEAM HALL 6th edition / Esplico Jovellanos, Madrid
2025
THE MEAM HALL 6th edition / MEAM, Barcelona
2025
ModPortrait 2024 / Auditorium Arroyomolinos, Madrid
2025
ModPortrait 2024 / Real Circulo Artistico, Barcelona
2025
Corrispondences / Onart Gallery, Florence
2024
THE MEAM HALL 5th edition / First Street Gallery,New York
2024
THE MEAM HALL 5th edition / MEAM, Barcelona
2024
Una connessione profonda / Onart Gallery - Firenze, Italy
2023
Rendere l'essenza / ARTtime Gallery - Udine, Italy
2021
Attraverso / Onart Gallery - Firenze, Italy
2021
Radice / Onart Gallery - Firenze, Italy
2019-2021
Permanent exhibition Silvia Rossi ARTGallery - Bibbiena (Arezzo), Italy
2020
Kunsthaus Burg Obernberg Ausstelung / Castello di Obernberg - Burg Obernberg, Austria
2020
Donne & Padri - Un omaggio / Galleria ARTtime - Udine, Italia
2020
XXI Salòn International ESART / Esart Galeria - Barcelona, Spagna
2019
Affordable Art / Galleria Merlino Bottega d'Arte - Firenze, Italia
2019
XX Salòn Internacional ESART / Esart Galeria - Barcelona, Spagna