BIOGRAPHY
Marisa Albanese was born in Naples and graduated in Modern Literature and also from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. The artist left us on August 25, 2021.
She used a wide variety of mediums in her installations: sculpture, drawing, language, photography, video. The subjects concern the human condition and its environment.
Marisa Albanese discussed the emancipation of women in Italy in the series of the Combattantes. A final installation was carried out in 2000 for a Naples metro station.
The condition of immigrants is at the center of her questioning in Le storie del vento. She projected verses of Homer taken from the Odyssey, in a loop on the branches of a floating tree.
In the series Battement d’ailes, Marisa Albanese took up the theory of chaos as defined by Edward Norton Lorenz, illustrated by the metaphor of the butterfly effect. She questioned the transformation of nature and the relationships between the various forms of life.
In 2013, she participated in the exhibition Présence italienne at the gallery Berthet-Aittouarès with Gianni Dessi, Gregorio Botta and Nunzio, curated by Lorand Hegyi and Odile Aittouarès.
Her permanent installations can be seen in public places and her works are kept in several museums such as the National Museum of Capodimonte, the MADRE Museum in Naples, the Magi '900 Museum in Pieve di Cento Bologna, the Benaki Museum, Athens...
EXHIBITIONS
2026
- The gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary. Carte blanche to Pierre Wat, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
2022
- Inauguration of the monumental sculpture Massi Eratici in the gardens of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
2019
- Apparent horizons, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- Displacement, Castello di Rivalta, Rivalta Torino, Italy
2018
- Il viaggio di Jane Auer Bolwes, Galleria Davide Gallo, Milan, Italy
- War is Over, MAR Museo d'Arte, Ravenna, Italy
- Evidence. A New State of Art, Georgian National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017
- Sguardo nomade, International Contemporary Art Film Festival, Naples, Italy
2016
- Marisa Albanese Sentieri di Mani, Instituto Centrale per la grafica, Rome, Italy
- Le storie del vento, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
2015
- Doble cel, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Casal Solleric, Palme de Mallorca, Spain
- Rewind, Museo Castel Sant'Elmo Naples, Italy
- Il Progetto, La notte dei filosofi, Complesso Monumentale San Domenico, Naples, Italy
- Premio Fabbri, Arte Contemporanea 2015, Bologna, Italy
- Premio Lydia Cottone, 2015, Naples, Italy
2014
- Combinato disposto, Torre di Guevara, Ischia, Naples, Italy
- Per formare una collezione (Intermezzo), Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
2013
- Postclassici, Foro Romano e Palatino, Rome, Italy
- Présence italienne, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
2012
- Cosa closed the altalene, Studio d'arte contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rome, Italy
- Un battito d'ali, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
2010
- Spyholes & Grand Tour 2.0, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
- Progetto per una Ipotesi, Galleria G7/, Bologna, Italy
2008
- Speech, Studio d'Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rome, Italy
2006
- Mind the Gap, Galleria Rossana Ciocca, Milan, Italy
2003
- Tensioni, Museo di Castel Nuovo, Naples, Italy
2003
- S.N., Studio d'Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rome, Italy
2002
- The Resistenze, Unique Piece Gallery, Paris, France
2000
- Per un sasso, Palazzo Baronale, Pizzoferrato, Italy
- Korai, Galleria Dina Caròla, Naples, Italy
1998
- Artisti a Napoli, Progetto Arte 2, Edizioni Guida, Naples, Italy
1997
- Orphani, Studio d'Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rome, Italy
- Manufatto Artefatto, Galleria Dina Caròla, Naples, Italy
1995
- Stazione Centrale, Corsea Arte, Lanciano, Italy
1994
- Trilogia, with E. Castellani and P. Fogliati, Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy
- Spostamenti, Studio d'Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rome, Italy
1993
- Erede l'Arte, Studio Scalise, Naples, Italy
1990
- Il Grande Gioco, Studio Scalise, Naples, Italy