Roberta Pugno @ Rome Art Week

Roberta Pugno

Roberta Pugno, born in Bolzano and graduated in Literature and Philosophy, has held 70 solo exhibitions, 150 group exhibitions, and published 14 catalogs. She is the artistic director of the IPAZIA Odv Association and co-curator of *PSYCHE and ART*.

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Roberta Pugno was born in Bolzano and graduated in Arts and Philosophy under the guidance of Carlo Ginzburg. She has held seventy solo exhibitions, over one hundred and fifty group shows, and published fourteen catalogues. Since 2010, she has been the Artistic Director of the IPAZIA Odv Association. She was one of the curators of the published proceedings of the six conferences on PSYCHE and ART (2013–2019). Her images have been used as book covers for works of philosophy published by Moretti & Vitali and by the Edizioni della Scuola Normale Superiore. Recently, she conceived and directed the performance *LINEA SUONO IMMAGINE* at Teatro Basilica in Rome: bit.ly/TeatroBasilica.

Main solo exhibitions include: Studio d'Arte Il Moro, Florence (1989); Italian Cultural Institute, Munich, Germany (1989); Castello di Canossa, Canossa (R.E.) (1993); Museo delle Mura Aureliane, Rome (1996); Palazzetto dell'Arte, Foggia (1997); Palazzo Chigi-Zondadari, S. Quirico d'Orcia (SI) (1998); Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1999); Il Mauriziano Casa dell’Ariosto, Reggio Emilia (2000); Castello Aragonese, L'Aquila (2003); American Academy, Rome (2003); Villa Piccolomini, Rome (2005); Palazzo Altieri, Oriolo Romano (VT) (2006); Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome (2006); Arab Republic of Egypt Embassy, Rome (2007); Palazzo Valentini, Rome (2008); Palazzo Venezia and Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome (2009); Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Latina (2010); Museo Bilotti, Rome (2012); Palazzo Sforza-Cesarini, Genzano di Roma (2014); Cascina Farsetti, Rome (2014); Biblioteca Angelica Gallery, Rome (2016); Case Romane del Celio, Rome (2018); Virus Art Gallery, Rome (2019); San Giovanni a Teduccio (NA) (2020); Cartiera Latina, Rome (2021); Arte Borgo Gallery and Curio Collection by Hilton, Rome (2022).
Among her international group shows: Sofia (Bulgaria), Schwelm (Germany), Melbourne (Australia), Ghent (Belgium), Barcelona (Spain)…
She has collaborated with the following galleries: Eralov, EdiEuropa, and Andrè in Rome; Helga Wicher Gallery, Wuppertal (Germany); Kontraste Gallery, Pietrasanta; Zammarchi Gallery, Milan; Granelli Gallery, Livorno; Astuni Gallery, Fano; Urs Aebi Kunstgalerie, Lucerne (Switzerland).

Catalogues include: *La donna e lo straniero*, *Gilgamesh re di Uruk*, *Materia e respiro*, *L’audaci imprese io canto*, *La terra l’acqua l’uomo*, *Le voci del rifiuto Giordano Bruno*, *L’universo tutto infinito*, *Pensiero interno*, *Uomo donna infinito*, *Materia Energia Pensiero*, *Nasce da dentro*, *Materia Infinita*, *Terrafuoco*, *La rivolta del pensiero*, *Immagineparola*…

Writings about her include works by: Fulvio Abbate, M. Pia Ammirati, Raffaella Bozzini, Gianni Bulian, Silvia Chiodi, Michele Ciliberto, Rosa Cipollone, Mario De Candia, Fabio D’Achille, Antonio Di Micco, Cinzia Folcarelli, Hilary Gatti, Hussein Mahmoud, Claudio Marra, Tommaso Paloscia, Giovanni Pettinato, Sergio Rispoli, Ingrid Rowland, Claudio Strinati, Marcello Venturoli.

Official website: www.robertapugno.it — curated by Cristian Rossi.

PROGRAM

IMAGINING AS RESISTANCE AND REFUSAL

The research…

Through her art and her forty-year professional career, Roberta Pugno seeks to convey the energy and emotional power that images, beauty, and the sense of *wonder* in the world hold in opposing a reality increasingly tied to the logic of rationality, utility, and the banality of evil.
“The human being,” says the artist-philosopher, “is born with the ability to imagine and with fantasy, which, often, due to disappointing or violent relationships, is lost. We need to rediscover the healthy and vital origin of the individual but also of the human species, which began with reciprocity and even with art, as evidenced by cave paintings.” Supported by the most advanced scientific discoveries on the human mind, the artist proposes, together with her works, collective research, events, and initiatives designed to “speak” of the deeper nature of things, first and foremost the “wisdom” of the unconscious world, that universal dimension which naturally drives human beings toward creativity and relationship with others, and which, through the realization of personal identity, counters violence between individuals and peoples — a condition too long presented as the true nature of human beings.

The opening program, as well as the schedule for visits to the studio and meetings to be held on Friday 24, Saturday 25, and Sunday 26 October 2025, will be published shortly.

At the studio, visitors will find a wealth of explanatory and theoretical materials, including the catalogue *IMMAGINEPAROLA* and the published volumes of *PSYCHE e ARTE*.

Open Studio

Studio Roberta Pugno

Via Girolamo Benzoni, 26 — ROMA