Arianna Ellero is an Italian visual artist based in Udine.
Her work explores the relationship between painting, perception, and matter through processes of transformation and mutation. Image emerges through layers and sedimentation, maintaining the surface as an active field in continuous evolution.
Her artistic path began in Berlin at the shared studio Werkstattraum (Skalitzerstrasse) and developed through collaborations with musicians and interdisciplinary projects, where painting and sound operate within the same perceptual field.
Her works are held in public and private collections, including the Ljubljana Festival Collection, and have been presented in institutional contexts in Italy and abroad. She has received international awards and recognitions including Exibart Prize, Art Matters – Galerie Biesenbach (Cologne), We Art Open Worldwide and Premio Lynx.
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STATEMENT
I am interested in painting as both a material and immaterial experience, one that continues to surprise me.
I seek a condition that does not reveal itself immediately, but opens a space within thought through matter and light: an opening, a vision.
The support itself participates in the work: it absorbs, retains and reacts. Painting breathes like an organism.
ITALIANO
Arianna Ellero è un’artista visiva con base a Udine.
Il suo lavoro esplora il rapporto tra pittura, percezione e materia attraverso processi di trasformazione e mutazione. L’immagine emerge attraverso stratificazioni e sedimentazioni, mantenendo la superficie come un campo attivo in continua evoluzione.
Il suo percorso inizia a Berlino, presso lo studio condiviso Werkstattraum (Skalitzerstrasse), e si sviluppa attraverso collaborazioni con musicisti e progetti interdisciplinari, in cui pittura e suono agiscono nello stesso campo percettivo.
Le sue opere fanno parte di collezioni pubbliche e private, tra cui la Ljubljana Festival Collection, e sono state presentate in contesti istituzionali in Italia e all’estero. Ha ricevuto premi e riconoscimenti internazionali, tra cui Exibart Prize, Art Matters – Galerie Biesenbach (Colonia), We Art Open Worldwide e Premio Lynx.
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STATEMENT
Mi interessa la pittura come esperienza materiale e immateriale, capace di sorprendermi ancora.
Cerco una condizione che non si dia subito, ma che attraverso la materia e la luce apra uno spazio nel pensiero: un’apertura, una visione.
Il supporto partecipa al lavoro: assorbe, trattiene, reagisce. La pittura respira come un organismo.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
May-June 2026 —In cerca di attrito, la pittura precede la forma, text by Chiara Tavella, Casa Furlan, Fondazione Ado Furlan, Pordenone, IT
(exhibition view)
March-April 2026 — Nenehno gibanje/ Unceasing motion, text by Daniele Capra, sound by Stefano Pilia, Mestna Galerija NG, Nova Gorica, SI
Review by Fabio Fabris in Juliet Art Magazine(link to the review)
(exhibition view)
2024 — Deposito vernici e solventi, curated by Marco Pasian, Galleria PAB contemporary art, Portogruaro, IT
2024 — Generativna urbana zvočna pokrajina, curated by Gal Furlan, Kulturno umetniško društvo Kussa, Ajdovščina, SI
2023 — My God, curated by Pietro Franesi, former Church of San Sebastiano, Città di Castello, IT
2022 — La forma dell’acqua, curated by Paolo Asti, Startè, La Spezia, IT
2021 — Che cosa sono le nuvole, Villa Albrizzi Marini, Treviso, IT
2019 — [A] Arte tra le Calli, curated by Gruppo A, Marano Lagunare, IT
2017 — Il Cielo in Atelier, Atelier Peressutti, Vienna, AT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 — La Scomparsa degli Animali, curated by RAVE East Village Artist Residency, Borgo Clauiano, IT
2025 — Quindici + Uno, curated by Paolo Asti, Startè, La Spezia, IT
2025 — A Brene Vierte, curated by Michele Bazzana, Colonos, Lestizza, IT
2024 — DYS(U)TOPIA, exhibition of the finalists of We Art Open, curated by Crea Cantieri del Contemporaneo, CREA, Venice, IT
2023 — RI-NASCITE, curated by Stefano Cecchetto and Giorgio Baldo, MuPa, Museo del Paesaggio, Torre di Mosto, Venice, IT
2023 — FluxJudri, Palazzo Locatelli, Cormons, IT
2022 — Venezia Madre, curated by Paolo Asti, text by Valerio Dehò, Biennale collateral exhibition, Venice, IT
2021 — XXIV. International Arts Colony in Križanke, artist residency and exhibition project curated by by Tomo Vran, Križanke,Ljubljana, SI
PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
2026 — Minotti, project curated by Minotti, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
2024 — Minotti Collection, exhibition project curated by Giampiero Tagliaferri and Diane Van Impe, Milan, Italy.
SELECTED PROJECTS & PERFORMANCES
2025 —Blu Notte Gorizia, curated by Associazione BlueBird , Tenuta Villanova, Gorizia, IT
2021 — Celebration Concerts: Dante, curated by Domenico Mason, Auditorium H.Zotti, San Vito al Tagliamento, IT
2021 — Storm of forms, with the improvisation duo Camusi,(Patrizia Oliva and Stefano Giust), Villa Albrizzi Marini, Treviso, IT
2018-2019 — Pieno e Vuoto (Voll und Leer), cross-border project between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia, in collaboration with the improvisation duo Haiku,( Paolo Pascolo and Stefano Giust), IT/SI