Virginia Zanetti

Virginia Zanetti was born in Fiesole in 1981. She graduated in painting with lode at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and obtained different art education masters.. She exhibits and collaborates for lectures, workshops, residences or permanent works with several Italian and foreign institutions for contemporary art, such as Man in Nuoro, CCC Strozzina in Florence, Museo Pecci in Prato, Bern Kunsthalle, Bellinzona MACT, Mog Museum, Italian Culture Institute in Delhi, Serendipity Festival in Goa, India. She won several institutional prizes as MOVIN’UP II session 2015 promoted by Ministry of Italian Cultural Heritage and GAI, first place in the competition for artists aimed at creating permanent artworks for the Law Courts of Florence in 2017, first Prize Maccaferri for photography, Artefiera 2019 and Smartup Optima 2019, Napoli. Her work is also in many articles and in several publications as A brief history of curating in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist published by postmediabooks.

2013 Master in Art teaching methods, Forcom University, Roma
2009 Paper qualification in Avertising graphic, Art Lycée, Firenze
2007 Master in Art Teaching, Academy of Fine Arts of Florence with 60/60
2005 Degree in Painting, Accademy of Fine Arts of Florence with 110/110 with lode 

SOLO
2020
The Pillars of the Earth, curated by Matteo Innocenti, Museo della Resistenza, Bologna, IT (upcoming)
2019
Abysses, performance, curated by Francesca Ceccherini and Beatrice Fontana, a project by IIC – Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Zurich, 15^ Giornata del Contemporaneo IT, in collaboration with Migration Museum – Zurich (CH), Traffic Gallery - Bergamo (IT), Nomas Foundation - Roma (IT), Ilisso Casa Editrice - Nuoro (IT), OnCurating Space – Zurigo (CH), ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, TONI-AREAL, Zurigo CH
To create space, performance and installation, PAV Parco Arte Vivente, on occasion of Network ZonArte,Torino, IT
ANAMNESIS - Memória Têxtil, Convento Santo Antonio dos Capuchos Museum, curated by Claudia Melo, Guimarães, PT
Concettuale romantico, solo show, Traffic Gallery, Bergamo, IT
I Pilastri della Terra vs La Parata della Fine, double show with Andreco at Traffic Gallery Booth for Arte Fiera Bologna 2019, IT
2018
Keeping love, performance, curated by Milena Becci, Collezione Bertozzini, Pesaro, IT
Abissi, performance, in collaboration with SpazioY, Border Crossing,Collateral Evants, Manifesta 12, Palermo
2017
The Pillars of the Earth, curated by Ravi Agarwal, Istituto di Cultura Italiano, New ...