Nina Carini was born in Palermo in 1984 and her education took place between the Academy of Fine Arts of Verona and Milan and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Lyon. The artist took her first steps in the pictorial field, with the aim to quickly overcome the specificity of the single languages and reinvent the sense and the purpose of the medium, that she used from time to time. Each of her works is preceded by a long preparation time, dedicated to the knowledge of the phenomena that she is analyzing.
Hers are not fixed forms in time, closed in themselves, on the contrary, they cross their own limits: a modus operandi that has been decisive for making art using alternatives means to the traditional ones and continue to experiment especially the sound, the installation and the video. Between the recent exhibitions where she showed her artworks, can be remembered: Materia Sonora, (Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid, Madrid, 2024), Premio Cairo, (Permanente Museum, Milan 2023), Aperçues (Basilica di San Celso, Milan, 2023), Per Sempre e toujours ( Nembrini Collection, Bergamo 2022) Meteorite in giardino 13, (Fondazione Merz, Turin 2021) For 24h CALL ME POET! Let’s meet on the horizon (Casa Testori and Casa degli Artisti, Milan 2020), Are my eyes distracting my hearing? (NM Contemporary, Monaco 2019). She was finalist during the 8th Foundation Award VAF with artwork Confine (2017) currently in collection at MART Mondern and Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto.
Palermo (1984)
lives and works between Geneva and Milan
Training, workshops and residencies
Sahara Ouverture, Dance theatre seminar by Claudia Castellucci at Triennale, Milan 2024
Artist in residence at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan (2023)
Contemporary Poetry Seminar, curated by the writer Paolo Giovannetti and poet Tommaso di Dio, IULM, Milan (2022)
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan (2017)
Artist in residence at Ensba (Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-art de Lyon), Lyon (2017)
Dance theatre Laboratory with Lara Guidetti, Milano (2017)
Visual Arts Laboratory, Central Saint Martins, Londra (2016)
Visual Arts Laboratory with Sarah Moon, Les rencontres de la photographies, Arles (2016)
BA in Fine Art, Accademia di Belle Arti, Verona (2015)
Expressive Painting Laboratory, Central Saint Martins, Londra (2015)
Solo Show
Aperçues, curated by Angela Madesani and Rischa Paterlini, Basilica di San Celso, Milan (2023)
Per sempre e toujours, poetic action, curated by Rischa Paterlini, Collection Enzo Nembrini, Bergamo (2022)
For 24h CALL ME POET! Let’s meet on the horizon, virtual performance (24h), Casa Testori and Casa degli Artisti, Milan (2020)
Are my eyes distracting my hearing?, curated by Angela Madesani, NM Contemporary, Principato di Monaco (2019)
Divine Astrazioni, curated by Angela Madesani, Palazzo Nicolaci, Noto (2017) 1+1=0 J’ai Peur, curated by Angela Madesani, Teatro Verdi, Milan (2017)
Group Show
Materia sonora, curated by the collective S.o.n.r.o., Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid, Madrid, 2024
22° Premio Cairo, curated by Michele Buonuomo and Arte magazine, La Permanente Museum, Milano (2023)
Quattro radici, curated by Carolina Ciuti, 8 Albe Contemporary Art Overview, Noto (2023) Trinacria, curated by Martina Lolli, Cittadella degli Archivi della città di Milano, Milan (2022) You may say I am a dreamer, curated by Susanna Ravelli and Giulia Restifo, Condominio xyz, Milan (2022)
Sonro, project curated by Edi Guerzoni and Marzio Zorio, Web archive of the Santa Maria della Scala Museum Complex, from an idea by Michela Eremita in collaboration with Radio Arte (2022)
Visibilia, rendere visibile l’invisibile, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio (2022)
Meteorite in Giardino 13, curated by Maria Centonze and Agata Polizzi, Fondazione Merz, Torino (2021)
Le déjeuner sur l’herbe, curated by Gaspare Luigi Marcone, Eze-Bord-de-Mer, NM Contemporary, Monte Carlo (2021)
Natura risponde, curated by Angela Madesani, A 21, Lodi (2021)
Ti Bergamo, curated by Lorenzo Giusti, Gamec, Bergamo (2020)
Palazzolo Ospitale, Talk curated by Agata Polizzi and Rischa Paterlini, Siracusa (2020) Partiture Illegibili, curated by Angela Madesani, Labs Gallery, Bologna (2020) VAF Sifung, curated by Stephan Tresp, Stadtgalerie, Kiel (2019)
VIII Premio Fondazione VAF, Passione 12 progetti per l’arte italiana, curated by Daniela Ferrari, MART Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento, Rovereto (2019) Il ricamo su carta come atto performativo dell’inconscio, Talk Wop Art curated by Angela Madesani, Lugano (2018)
Like, curated by Francesco Fillini, I Pazzi Factory, Pisa (2018)
I fantasmi del 900, curated by Eleonora Fiorani, Milano (2017)
Apparizioni, curated by Angela Madesani, Kunsthalle west, Bolzano (2017) In Absentia, curated by Laura Bianchessi, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Torino (2016) Fragile-handle with care, Museo della Commenda di Prè, Genova (2016)