Serena Vestrucci: Irony, Limits, and Everyday Life in Dialogue
Serena Vestrucci, born in 1986 in Milan, delves into the everyday through various mediums, including installation, collage, drawing, painting, video, sculpture, and photography. She received her education at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and Università IUAV di Venezia. Her solo exhibitions have taken place at Casa Gramsci in Turin, Galleria FuoriCampo in Siena, and Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce in Genoa. She has also participated in group exhibitions at Museo Madre in Naples and Palazzo Reale in Milan. In 2017, she was awarded the Premio Cairo and chosen for a public art project in Milan. In 2024, she conducted a training course at Pirelli HangarBicocca and presented her solo exhibition 'Contorno' at Galleria Renata Fabbri. Vestrucci highlights spontaneity, irony, and a departure from rigid classifications in her artistic approach.
Key facts
- Serena Vestrucci was born in 1986 in Milan.
- She studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and Università IUAV di Venezia.
- She works across installation, collage, drawing, painting, video, sculpture, and photography.
- In 2017 she won the Premio Cairo and was commissioned for ArtLine Milano.
- In 2024 she held a teacher training course at Pirelli HangarBicocca.
- Her solo exhibition 'Contorno' was at Galleria Renata Fabbri, Milan, in 2024.
- Vestrucci develops ideas from nocturnal notes, verifying them the next day.
- She views irony as salvific and limits as possibilities.
- She works with self-imposed rules but values spontaneity and transgression.
- She rejects traditional artistic categories, focusing on the work itself.
- Form is the last element in her creative process.
- She sees art as a form of rebirth and change.
- Time is a key theme; she uses future projection to move forward.
- Everyday accidents can become starting points for artworks.
Entities
Artists
- Serena Vestrucci
- Alberto Garutti
- Davide Dal Sasso
Institutions
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
- Università IUAV di Venezia
- Casa Gramsci
- Galleria FuoriCampo
- Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Verona)
- Museo Archeologico Salinas
- Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce
- Galleria Ottozoo
- Museo Madre
- Museo MAXXI
- Fondazione Stefan Gierowski
- Fondazione Imago Mundi
- Palazzo Reale (Milan)
- Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
- Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Milan)
- Italian Cultural Institute of New York
- Italian Cultural Institute of London
- Italian Cultural Institute of Warsaw
- Italian Cultural Institute of Krakow
- Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
- Premio Cairo
- Comune di Milano
- ArtLine Milano
- Pirelli HangarBicocca
- Galleria Renata Fabbri
- Artribune
Locations
- Milan
- Italy
- Turin
- Siena
- Verona
- Palermo
- Genoa
- Naples
- Rome
- Warsaw
- Poland
- Treviso
- New York
- United States
- London
- United Kingdom
- Krakow
- Venice