Federica Donato

Federica Donato believes in a universal language that transcends time, space, and cultural differences. Arts and culture are the areas where people with different views of the world can come together and share experiences.
As an artist and educator she lives a major responsibility: arising awareness about globally relevant issues. Her work wants to touch and move people to get to know, wants to trigger personal understanding and generate changes.
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Her art is as straightforward as it is complex.
Raised in the South of Italy she came to appreciate the hybrid formation of the society through the layering of time in successive waves of cultural influences. This has profoundly impacted her education and seeped into her work a lot. Her subjects are often allusive, inspired by ancient history, figures and symbols from classical literature and the old masters. Embedded in her art are a number of philosophical, visual, biological, and language-based subtleties.
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Most of her works review the loss of human dignity. People and the environment are both victims, abused and deceived by false dialogues across time - victims of hypocritical societies, excessive nationalism, meaningless formalities and unproductive practices.

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1977 Born in Italy
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2001 Holds a bachelor degree in Strategic Communication at LUMSA University in Rome
2002 Settles in Brussels
2004 Attends the atelier of Belgian artist Gauthier Hubert
2013 Holds a bachelor degree in Art History at La Sapienza University in Rome
2015 Starts teaching art history and painting classes to kids
2019 Lives and works in Washington DC

2005 (solo) at Derapage Art Gallery, Bruxelles - 2006 (collective) at Minima Gallery, Mykonos - 2008 (collective) Parcours du Maelbeek, Bruxelles - 2009 (solo) Blueprints art space, Bruxelles - 2010 (collective) Affordable Art Fair, Bruxelles - 2010 Olga Lamdon Art Gallery, Bruxelles - 2010 (solo) Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Bruxelles - 2010 (solo) Parcours du Maelbeek Bruxelles - (2010 - 2017 works on demand) - 2017 (collective) Galerie Saint Medar, Bruxelles - 2017 (collective) Accessible Art Fair at Bozar Museum, Bruxelles - 2018 (collective) Art Truc Troc at Bozar Museum, Bruxelles - 2018 (solo) Cook and Book Art Gallery Section, Bruxelles