Linda Carrara

Linda Carrara (Bergamo,1984) lives and works between Milan and Brussels.
She studied in the contemporary art department at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts (2003 – 2007) and was a studio assistant for Vincenzo Ferrari (2006 – 2012). Between 2014 and 2015, she completed a master’s degree in multimedia arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) at the University of Gent in Belgium, and in the same year she did an internship for Michaël Borremans.
In her more recent works, her artistic practice has shifted toward a “vitalist” representation of reality: the material and the pictorial action have become the focal point of the work itself, thus breaking free from the purely figurative for a “figural pictorial event.” In this sense, the images presented by the artist do not coincide with the things they describe, but are intended to evoke the primary experience that generated them, the observation to which they refer, their primordial side, almost in a metaphysical narrative of both the pictorial event and the experience from which they arise.
The artist recently won the Premio Casarini Due Torri 2023 at ArtVerona 2023 and was invited to participate in the group exhibition Pittura italiana oggi at the Triennale Milano. In 2013 she was a finalist at the Premio Cairo, and in 2014 she won the Terna Prize – Pittura with the work entitled Outer Space.
In 2016 he presents his first solo show at Boccanera Gallery Il pretesto di Lotto curated by Daniele Capra, in 2017 her solo show Looking for the right place at the right moment with writings by Claudio Salvi at Blanco spaces in Gent, Belgium. In 2018 she opens her exhibition A/R Linda Carrara [nata a Bergamo nel 1984, vive e lavora tra Bruxelles e Milano] at the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels, in 2019 the solo show Madonna delle Rocce at the Iragui Gallery in Moscow and the solo show Chôra at Boccanera Gallery curated by Giuseppe Frangi. In 2020 she participates in the virtual group shows Love is the answer e Boccanera Fiction, in 2021 in the group show Basta at Palazzo Monti in Brescia, and in 2022 in the group show How far should we go? curated by Rossella Farinotti at Fondazione ICA in Milan. In 2023 she transformed her solo show Se il paesaggio è simbolico into a group exhibition in Trento and Milan, opening the dialogue to other artists she considered akin to her poetic research.
Her works have been exhibited in numerous private galleries and public institutions in Italy and abroad: Triennale Milano, 2023; Cremona Art Week, 2023; Public Service Gallery, Stockholm, 2023; Boccanera Gallery, Trento/Milan, 2023-2019-2016; MAC Lissone, 2023; Fondazione ICA, Milan, 2022; Centrul de Interes in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2022; Galleria Renata Fabbri, Milan, 2022; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2021; Floris-Romer Museum in Gyor, Hungary, 2021; Rizzuto Gallery, Palermo, 2020; Iragui Gallery, Moscow, 2019; Italian Institute in Brussels, 2018; Blanco Space Gent, 2017; Fabrica, Moscow, 2016; L.A.C. Centre d’Art Contemporaine Sigean, France, 2015.
She has participated in residencies such as: MOMENTUM, Berlin (2015); LKV Trondheim, Norway (2016); NCCA, St. Petersburg (2017); Musumeci Contemporary, Brussels (2018); Palazzo Monti, Brescia (2020).