Country: Italy 🇮🇹
Monia Marchionni (Italy 1981) is a visual artist and fine art photographer, graduated in Academy of Arts - Bologna (IT) 2005, a second degree in Literature and Philosophy with a specialization in History of Contemporary Art (2008).
She is fascinated by photography for that "double glance" typical of the medium, the "already seen" become "never seen" with a different cut of the scene and with the imagination, where the boundary between reality and fiction becomes more and more confused. Photography allows her to show reality as she sees it: places swallowed by an evanescent atmosphere, metaphorical characters, every picture is poised between fiction and reality, like a dream.
Monia has partecipated at important prizes (selection): Art rooms Award 2019 winner Le Dame Gallery Prize; Life Framer 2019 winner 2° place; Arte Laguna 2019 finalist, IPA Shot Street 2019 winner 2 honorable mantion; IPA Lucie Award 2018 winner 3 Honorable mantion; Eneganart 2019 and 2018 finalist; Prize Malamegi 2018 winner 3° place; Urban Dotart 2018 finalist; Fine Art Photography Award 2018 winner 2 Nominee Fine Art and Open categories; Opera Award 2014 winner 3° place; G.B. Salvi Award winner Critical Prize 2012; V and IV Arte Laguna Award 2009/2010 winner Press Prize 2010; In 2009 she was invited to exhibit at the 53rd Venice Biennal for the collateral show Krossing, Forte Marghera - Mestre.
The most important solo show: "Esercizi di Resistenza", Palazzo del Ridotto - Galleria L'immagine of Cesena, curated by E. Agnoli 2012; "Prolegomeni", Spazio Mecenate, Rome, curated by S. Rella 2009.
The Art Magazines "Arte In", "Juliet", "Kult", "Inside Art", "The diary of the web", she dedicate articles and interviews. Her photos are published on Vogue Italia since 2018
Among the important group exhibitions:
November 2020 Steet Sans Frontieres, Galerie Joseph Turenne, Paris (FR) curated by M. Vegas;
November 2019 Art Rooms Fair at Melia White Hotel in London (UK); September 2019 Life Framer emerging photographer at Bermondsey Project Space of London (UK); november 2019 Life Framer winners at Officine Fotografiche in Milan (IT); October 2019 Eneganart award - group show Museo deli Innocenti Firenze (IT); Arte Laguna 2019 at tese of the Arsenale Venezia (IT), Last Young, curated by L. Respi 2013; Troubling Space, curated by C. Boemio 2012; Metamorphisms, Identity and Otherness, curated by C. Sala 2010; Biennal Young Artists of Benevento, selected by the art critic L. Marucci 2010; Big Bang Yourself -Arte Fiera Off curated by A. Zannoni 2010; Artistic Warnings at the Musei Fori Imperiali of Roma, curated by E. Ladovaz and
M. Ratti 2009.
She exhibited in 2012 at the Affordable Art Fair art fair with the gallery Case Aperte of Bologna (IT).
She is fascinated by photography for that "double glance" typical of the medium, the "already seen" become "never seen" with a different cut of the scene and with the imagination, where the boundary between reality and fiction becomes more and more confused. Photography allows her to show reality as she sees it: places swallowed by an evanescent atmosphere, metaphorical characters, every picture is poised between fiction and reality, like a dream.
Monia has partecipated at important prizes (selection): Art rooms Award 2019 winner Le Dame Gallery Prize; Life Framer 2019 winner 2° place; Arte Laguna 2019 finalist, IPA Shot Street 2019 winner 2 honorable mantion; IPA Lucie Award 2018 winner 3 Honorable mantion; Eneganart 2019 and 2018 finalist; Prize Malamegi 2018 winner 3° place; Urban Dotart 2018 finalist; Fine Art Photography Award 2018 winner 2 Nominee Fine Art and Open categories; Opera Award 2014 winner 3° place; G.B. Salvi Award winner Critical Prize 2012; V and IV Arte Laguna Award 2009/2010 winner Press Prize 2010; In 2009 she was invited to exhibit at the 53rd Venice Biennal for the collateral show Krossing, Forte Marghera - Mestre.
The most important solo show: "Esercizi di Resistenza", Palazzo del Ridotto - Galleria L'immagine of Cesena, curated by E. Agnoli 2012; "Prolegomeni", Spazio Mecenate, Rome, curated by S. Rella 2009.
The Art Magazines "Arte In", "Juliet", "Kult", "Inside Art", "The diary of the web", she dedicate articles and interviews. Her photos are published on Vogue Italia since 2018
Among the important group exhibitions:
November 2020 Steet Sans Frontieres, Galerie Joseph Turenne, Paris (FR) curated by M. Vegas;
November 2019 Art Rooms Fair at Melia White Hotel in London (UK); September 2019 Life Framer emerging photographer at Bermondsey Project Space of London (UK); november 2019 Life Framer winners at Officine Fotografiche in Milan (IT); October 2019 Eneganart award - group show Museo deli Innocenti Firenze (IT); Arte Laguna 2019 at tese of the Arsenale Venezia (IT), Last Young, curated by L. Respi 2013; Troubling Space, curated by C. Boemio 2012; Metamorphisms, Identity and Otherness, curated by C. Sala 2010; Biennal Young Artists of Benevento, selected by the art critic L. Marucci 2010; Big Bang Yourself -Arte Fiera Off curated by A. Zannoni 2010; Artistic Warnings at the Musei Fori Imperiali of Roma, curated by E. Ladovaz and
M. Ratti 2009.
She exhibited in 2012 at the Affordable Art Fair art fair with the gallery Case Aperte of Bologna (IT).