Maria Donata Papadia

I’m a multidisciplinary artist and began my career as set and costume designer for Teatro
Due Mondi (a visionary theatre, which produced about forty shows, persisting in placing
the actor and the spectator at the centre).
Love for beauty, passion, creativity, fun, relationship and experimentation between
colour and energy, expressed in various forms of art, have always been my driving force.
I have been working for more than thirty years as a painter, set designer, costume
designer and chromatic researcher.
Inspired by different materials, paper, cloth, wood, cardboard, recycled objects, metal
etc., and artistic techniques, gouache, watercolour, engraving, collage, papier-mâché,
drawing, with a fondness for upcycling.

1988 - Graduated from the Ravenna Academy of Fine Arts.
1990 / Present - Freelance profession as painter, sculptress, decorator, interior designer
and chromatic researcher.

2023 - BOTANICAL PORTRAIT - Santabago - Santarcangelo (IT)
- IL CUORE FEMMINILE - gauze installation - La Malvina - Santarcangelo (IT)
- BLOOM - Buurtboerderij ons Genoegen - Amsterdam (NL)
- MELKBLOEMEN ON TOUR - La Malvina - Santarcangelo (IT)
2022 - IMPRONTE - Sacripante Art Gallery - Roma
- IMPRONTE - Radio Trastevere Gallery - Roma
- MELK - Radio Trastevere Gallery - Roma
2021 - GARZE - Galleria del Cembalo, Palazzo Borghese, Roma
2015 - AQUAREL - watercolour on paper and paper owers, Lazagne, Amsterdam (NL)
2007 - HOUSE SILHOUETTES - fashion show set design for Mario Ma eo, Palazzo Pitti , Firenze
- BUBBLES - fashion show set design for Mario Matteo, Palazzo Pi , Firenze
2006 - VUCCIRIA - fashion show set design, Astra, Bologna
- BLACK - fashion show set design, Superstudio13, Milano
2002 - SOULMOVING - Winters, Milano
2001 - PERSONALE - Galleria Alphacentauri, Parma
1999 - CARTAPESTA - papier-mâché objects and lamps, Salone del Mobile, Milano
1998 - CONTINUUM FRAGILE - Galleria Artefa , Conegliano (IT)
- LUCI - Piazza Cavour, Cervia (IT)
1997 - CORPO - Galleria Gra o, Bologna - curated by Serena Simoni
1996 - COSTRUZIONI ABUSIVE - Sala Rossa, Mar, Museo d’Arte della ci à di Ravenna
Curated by Rocco Ronchi e Serena Simoni
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