Chiara Dynys

Chiara Dynys (Mantua) is one of the most important Italian contemporary artists. Her work is studied and presented by many Italian and international institutions.

Among the Italian museums that have hosted her work are the MART, Rovereto (2005–2011); Museo del Novecento, Milan (2012); Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (2013); Museo Correr, Venice (2019); Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese (2009–2021); MA*GA, Gallarate (2022); Ca’ Pesaro, International Museum of Modern Art, Venice (2024).

Dynys’s participation in exhibitions dedicated to twentieth- and twenty-first-century art has positioned her work as a reference for studies focused on the relationship between space and light, installation, and conceptual visual languages. Such exhibitions include Aspectos da Pintura Italiana: do Após–Guerra aos Nossos Dias, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro and Museu de Arte, São Paulo (1989); WHERE? L’identité ailleurs que dans l’identification, Musée d’art moderne de Saint-Étienne (1992); The Shape of the World, PAC Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan (2000); Light Art from Artificial Light, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (2006); La parola nell’arte, MART, Rovereto (2007); 7th International Moscow Biennale, Arkhangelskoye Palace, Moscow (2017); and Soundlines of Contemporary Art, ICAE Armenia, Yerevan (2018).

Among the international institutions that have hosted Chiara Dynys’s work are the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (1996); Centre international d’art contemporain, Montréal (1997); Städtische Galerie, Stuttgart (1999); Museo cantonale, Lugano (2001–15); the Rome Quadriennale (1986–2005); Kunstmuseum Museum, Bochum (2003); Kunstmuseum, Bonn (2004); Wolfsberg Executive Development Centre, Wolfsberg (2005); MASI– Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano (2018).

Her work has been published internationally by publishers such as Skira; Allemandi; Electa; E-Flux. In 2024 her work has been included in the book Environments by Women Artists published by Quodlibet and MAXXI – National Museum of Art of the XXI Century, Rome.