About

About

Artistic Statement

Balance

I seek, in art as in my way of being, an unstable balance: a form of lightness that coincides with freedom. I imagine myself suspended on the edge of a threshold, listening to what I cannot yet see but feel deeply.

Invisible Threshold

For me, art is an opening toward an unknown horizon, a space in which to rediscover harmony with the invisible.

Gesture & Color

Painting becomes a mystical experience, a dialogue with ancestral forces that pass through the body and are translated into gesture

and colour. My canvases are born like pages of a diary: layers of thoughts, emotions, and transformations.

I begin a painting without knowing its outcome; it is colour that guides the process, leading me toward a form of autonomous life.

Awards

2025 – Rome, Italy – Apollo Dionisiaco Award
Special Jury Merit Recognition

2024 – Rome, Italy – Apollo Dionisiaco Award
Special Jury Merit Recognition

2024 – Turin, Italy – International Competition “Metropoli di Torino”
Merit Mention

2024 – Mestre, Italy – Mestre Painting Award
Merit Selection

2023 – Rome, Italy – Apollo Dionisiaco Award
Special Jury Merit Recognition

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITION

2024 – Monterano, Rome, Italy – Galleria Accademia d’Arte Contemporanea

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 – Paris, France – Art Capital, Grand Palais Paris

2025 – Rome, Italy – Apollo Dionisiaco Award, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
2024 – Rome, Italy – Apollo Dionisiaco Award, Biblioteca Nazionale Central
2024 – Turin, Italy – International Competition “Metropoli di Torino”, Museo della Bela Rosin

2023 – Rome, Italy – Apollo Dionisiaco Award, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
2023 – London, UK – London Art Biennale 2023, Chelsea Old Town Hall

2023 – Genoa, Italy – 5th Genoa Biennale
2023 – Lecce, Italy – MUST Museo Storico – Off Gallery,
“Id / Ego / Superego”
2023 – Pisa, Italy – GAMEC – “Les Femmes”
2022 – Genoa, Italy – Palazzo Stella
27th National Contemporary Art Competition
2022 – Verbania, Italy – Villa Simonetta
“La Collettiva delle Collettive”
2022 – Ostuni, Italy – Palazzo Tanzarella
“Veritas Feminae”
2022 – Chianciano Terme, Italy – Finalist, Chianciano Biennale
2022 – Verbania, Italy – Villa Giulia, Pallanza
“Wunderkammer”
2022 – Messina, Italy – Santo Stefano di Camastra, Museo della Ceramica
“Foreste Contest”
2022 – Salerno, Italy – Museo Diocesano
“Sublimina”
2022 – Milan, Italy – Villa Brentano, Busto Garolfo
“Identity”

2022 – Matera, Italy – Casa Cava
“Art Mater”
2021 – Venice, Italy – Imago Ars Gallery
“Imperfect Beauty”
2021 – Ferrara, Italy – Vittorio Sgarbi Award
2021 – Ferrara, Italy – International Isabella d’Este Award

Art Fairs

2021 – ART3f, La Roche-sur-Foron, Haute-Savoie, France – October

2021 – Arte Padova, Padua, Italy – November

Biennale_Chianciano

Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Museo D'Arte" - Chianciano, ITALY

Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Villa Brentano" - Milano, ITALY

Identity: una collettiva artistica sul rapporto tra uomo, la sua stessa autocoscienza e identità nel mondo. https://www.independentartists.eu/identity-una-collettiva-artistica-sul-rapporto-tra-uomo-la-sua-stessa-autocoscienza-e-identita-nel-mondo/

 

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Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "CASA CAVA" - Matera, ITALY

A project of re-birth, of divination, aimed at beauty. In perhaps the darkest days of the new Millennium,art plays a privileged role: once again, it can be a reference for inspire life and its seductions. https://www.casacava.it/event/art-mater-mostra-darte-contempora/

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Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Villa Brentano" - Milano, ITALY

The contemporary city seen from art and artists. https://www.independentartists.eu/city-of-the-future-la-citta-contemporanea-vista-dallarte-e-dagli-artisti/

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Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Captaloona Gallery" - Madrid, SPAIN

“As long as man exploits man, as long as humanity is divided into masters and servants, there will be neither normality nor peace. The reason for all the evil of our time is here. “https://captaloona.com/eventos/dentro-pasolini/

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "Imago Ars- Venice, ITALY

Can we still see beauty in imperfection?.”http://www.imagoars.com/spazio_affinito.php

 

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Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "FERRARA ARTEXPO"- Ferrara, ITALY

“An award dedicated to my name, my name for many is a reason for criticism of positions that may seem harsh, for others it is the name of a person who has loved art with infinite tenderness, looking for art even in the most remote “.

Vittorio Sgarbi https://www.premiovittoriosgarbi.it

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Manuela Pederzolli exhibiting at "FERRARA ARTEXPO"- Ferrara, ITALY

The Award, reserved for a small number of selected artists, tends to attest their real value, underlining the importance of their stylistic path carried out in recent years. https://culturaidentita.it/premio-vittorio-sgarbi-premio-isabella-deste-grande-successo/

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Torna in alto
THROUGH WATER
This is the selected work, “Through Water” by Manuela Pederzolli featured at Villa Brentano international contemporary art exhibition organized by Indipendent Artists.

Through Water suggests an identity reflected through the mirror of water that reaches the surface full of everything that comes from the depth, flower petals, leaves, various types of organisms. A liquid and mutant identity that, getting lost in the waves arranged like floating steps, lets you glimpse the semi-hidden portrait of Santa Muerte, a pre-Columbian divinity. In this elusive and technological reality, where values ​​always take on different meanings, this is perhaps the portrait that makes us all similar, belonging to the same species, a return to origins.

REBIRTH
This is Manuela Pederzolli selected work, featured at Casa Cava contemporary art exhibition

In the cyclical nature of time the wounds of men doze off, the rocks sculpted with violence are smoothed. Everything is reborn under a great bright sky, our hopes for peace and love, fragile like the petals of a flower that becomes transparent under water. Wash our eyes and inebriate us with life!

CITY OF THE FUTURE, THE CONTEMPORARY CITY SEEN FROM ART AND ARTISTS

MIXED MEDIA ON RICE PAPER – CM 88 X 73,5 – 2021

This is the selected  work, “Solo” by Manuela Pederzolli  featured at Villa Brentano international contemporary art exhibition organized by Indipendent Artists.

 

It is a future where nature wins with its beauty, perhaps modified, but finally free from the man who fights it. “In my city of the future – says Manuela – only traces of skyscrapers, factories, highways and all the various human constructions that have eroded the natural territory remain : houses seen from above and conglomerates. Everything, however, is being covered with colorful corals and marine vegetation that is slowly reclaiming its spaces. Yes, because by now the oceans have covered much of the still land. Traces of men spin like in a vortex inside a large fish,  inhabitant of this city.”

INSIDE PASOLINI- The focus exhibition in the month of Pier Paolo Pasolini birth centenary

MIXED MEDIA ON RICE PAPER – CM 88 X 73,5 – 2021

This is Manuela Pederzolli  selected  work, “Dentro Pasolini”   featured at contemporary art exhibition Captaloona Gallery curated

by Gina Affinito.

Beyond the barbed wire and in the solitude, I feel his clear gaze opening on the “B” side of humanity, the cruelty of indifference and hypocrisy.

A gnarled and dry tree like Pasolini’s body throws its shoots beyond a suburban landscape, regardless of winter. The fingers between the pursed lips, the gaze projected on something terrible, perhaps within himself, perhaps outside, beyond the curtain of appearances, he rattles off poems that feed on pages written by violence.

 
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IMPERFECTION IS BEAUTY
This is Manuela Pederzolli selected work, featured at Imago Ars contemporary art exhibition

Two different worlds meet and merge together to bring to light a new vision, the beauty of imperfection. The scratched and  prickly pears cover a partially mutilated Venus de Milo almost devouring its surface. Without arms, today more than ever a symbol of athletic resilience, the new Venus appears current and beautiful so dressed in the cactus pattern that, from its parched and sunlit lands,  becomes an architectural element of a fantastic garden.

Premio Vittorio Sgarbi

This is Manuela Pederzolli selected work, featured at Premio Vittorio Sgarbi international contemporary art exhibition

A journey into the soul, a dream vision of the infinite possibilities of the unconscious.

SHIVA'S DANCE

This is Manuela Pederzolli selected work, featured at Isabella d'Este international contemporary art exhibition

We are all different and yet we belong to the same world…we are made of the same stuff.