Sarah Arensi

Sarah Arensi is an Italian contemporary artist whose practice unfolds across painting, performance, and interdisciplinary projects. Her work explores art as an embodied and perceptual space in which presence, transformation, and relational experience intersect. She lives and works between studio practice and international project-based contexts.

At the core of Sarah Arensi’s practice lies the body understood as an archive: a repository of emotional memory, unconscious patterning, and creative intelligence. Through her visual language, she investigates states of tension and release, fragmentation and recomposition, allowing images to emerge as traces of an embodied process rather than premeditated forms. Her paintings arise from a gestural and intuitive methodology in which form and color are not imposed but revealed through physical engagement and somatic attention. The act of painting becomes a threshold — a liminal space where control is suspended and the image surfaces from a pre-verbal, sensorial dimension of experience. In this sense, the work does not seek to illustrate concepts, but to activate perception.
Alongside painting, Arensi integrates performance and project-based practices as extensions of her visual inquiry. These works emphasize the temporal, relational, and collective dimensions of art, shifting the artwork from a fixed object toward a shared experiential field. Within this framework, performative actions function as tools for recalibrating attention, presence, and creative agency — both individual and collective.
Her practice engages with contemporary ...

Selected Exhibitions & Art Projects​
2025 Arte PadovaPadua, Italy
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2023 Art Activation — ThinkSmartDubai, United Arab Emirates
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2022 Gateway of Freedom — Solo Exhibition Shanghai–Florence
Sino Italian Design Exchange Center Florence, Italy

2021Pavia Art Fair Palazzo Esposizioni Pavia, Italy

2020 35x35 Art Project Copelouzos Foundation Art Museum Athens, Greece

2020 Open Studio — FILANDA Atelier
San Colombano al Lambro (MI), Italy

2019 Open Studio — FILANDA Atelier San Colombano al Lambro (MI), Italy

2019 SPIRIT — Solo Exhibition ArtMida Gallery Lodi, Italy

2017 Essence Avery Gallery Modena, Italy

2017 BNL / Telethon — Art & Philanthropy Event BNL Headquarters Rome, Italy

2016 REBORN Circle of Life Art Gallery Cortona, Italy

2016 REBORN Galleria Villa Contemporanea Monza, Italy

2016 REBORN Cà Zanardi Venice, Italy

2015 International Contemporary Art Expo Galleria Farini Concept Bologna, Italy

2015 Kaleidoscopic of the Mind Agora Gallery, New York, United States2015TAOMiami Spectrum Art FairWikiarte GalleryMiami, United States

2014 Contemporary Perspectives Agora Art Gallery New York, United States

2014 Arte a Palazzo Galleria Farini Concept Bologna, Italy

Permanent Collection
Copelouzos Foundati...