Claudia Virginia Vitari
1978, TurinLives and works in Berlin
Claudia Virginia Vitari was born in Turin. She studied at Burg Giebichenstein, Hochschule fuer Kunst und Design (University for Art and Design), in Halle an der Saale, Germany, where she graduated in 2004 in painting and graphics with Prof. Ulrich Reimkasten. The artist also attended several workshops on working with glass.
Vitari’s projects are based on a study of total institutions: a graphic documentation evoking a confrontation between single stories and the institution, as part and mirror of society itself. “PERCORSOGALERA” (2009) was realized inside Turin’s penitentiary and “Le Città Invisibili” (2012) in Barcelona in collaboration with Radio Nikosia, the first Spanish radio organized by people who have been diagnosed with mental diseases. Both projects received a grant of RegionePiemonte. Vitari is now working in Berlin, investigating through her artistic documentation the current issue of migration in Europe ( O–Platz, Interstitial Identities) .
SOLO SHOW:
2025 ARCHETYPES I Taoxichuan Art Center, Jingdezehn CN
2024 PANOPTICON I Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, DE
2022 EMERGENCIES, REFRACTIONS, REFLECTIONS duo exhibition of Nikola Grozdanov and Claudia Virginia
Vitari in the context of The Italian Glass Weeks I Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice,IT / Le Città Invisibili in the context of the project Roll To Tie I Temporary Space Berlin, DE
2021 Interstitial Identities I The Glass Factory Boda, SE / Identità Interstiziali | Museum of Resistance, Turin, IT
2020 LOCKDOWN, On-line exhibition | Raffaella De Chirico Contemporary Art, Torino, IT
2019 Le Città invisibili, LA MASCHERA. in the context of The Venice Glass Week | Palazzo Loredan, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venice, IT / UN)SICHTBAR, Schicksale in Glas | Kulturhaus Karlshorst Gallery, Berlin, DE
2018 O-Platz, Identità Interstiziali, in the context of The Venice Glass Week | Palazzo Querini, Venice, IT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2026 Segrete, Tracce di Memoria | Santa Maria di Castello, Genova, IT / She Burns | Sanbaopeng Art Museum, Jingdezehn CN
2025 International Biennale of Glass Bulgaria I National Gallery “Kvadrat 500” , Sofia, BG ( with the support of IIC Sofia)Segrete, Tracce di Memoria | Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin, DE / Lei, La Resistenza | Forte di Gavi, Gavi, IT / Fluid Matter_Humanature | SPARC* Spazio Arte Contemporanea,Venice , IT
2024 Fluid Matters - The Venice Glass Week | Palazzo Experimental, Venedig, IT / Glaspreis der Stadt Hadamar | Glasmuseum Schloss Hadamar, DE / Under the skin I KA 32 , Berlin, DE / Connections- GAS Members Exhibition I Wilhemhallen , Berlin, DE / Artrest I Kunstanstalt Köpenick , Berlin, DE
2023 Fresh legs 2023 I Inselgalerie , Berlin, DE / Tag der Druckkunst I Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin, DE International Biennale of Glass Bulgaria I National Gallery “Kvadrat 500” , Sofia, BG / Let life be beautiful like summer flowers I Wehrmuhle Biesenthal, DE
2022 BLIND VISION I Treptow Ateliers , Berlin, DE
2021 International Biennale of Glass Bulgaria I National Gallery “Kvadrat 500” , Sofia, BG / Intimo e Politico | Raffaella De ChiricoContemporary Art, Turin, IT
2020 Satellit #10: Funcion.Anomy III | Axel Obiger Gallery, Berlin, DE / New and Old | Fyns Grafiske Værksted/ Funen Printmaking Studio, Odense, DK / Air Berlin, an exhibition by the Intermission Collective | Villa Heike, Berlin, DE.
2019 Chimera, Passangers of a Kaleidoscopic Journey, Part 2 | Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE /Rotation Artworks | Raffaella De Chirico Galleria d’Arte, Torino,IT / Function.Anomy | Rathaus Reinickendorf, Berlin, DE / The CoLab Conference POP-UP Exhibition | Community Arts Centre, Whanganui, NZ
RESIDENCIES AND COLLABORATIONS
2025 Residency and show at Taoxichuan Art Center I Jingdezehn (CN)
2024 Glass Safari: TUT (Tshwane University of Technology), Pretoria, South Africa
2021/2022/2023 The Glass Factory Boda, Sweden
2015-2020 Glasmanufaktur Harzkristall, Germany (with Peter Kuchinke and Torsten Rötzsch)
2015 Glass Lab Sazava, Czech Republic
2011 Derix Glass Studio, Germany
AWARDS
2026 A-HEAD di Angelo Azzurro Onlus Grant and Honorarium for Residency, Exhibition and Workshops at Gnosis Cooperativa Sociale Onlus + other locations, Rome (IT).
2025 IIC Sofia Sponsorship: Guest artist at International Biennale of Glass Bulgaria I National Gallery “Kvadrat 500” / Taoxichuan Art Center, Grant and Honorarium for Residency, Artist Talk, Exhibition and Workshop at Taoxichan Ceramic Art Avenue, Jingdezehn (CN).
2023 Glass Art Society (US), Honorarium for Demonstration (in collaboration with Peter Kuchinke)
during the Glass Art Society Conference in Berlin (DE)
2021 The Glass Factory Boda (SE), Grant and Honorarium for Residency, Artist Talk, Exhibition and Workshop at The Glass Factory Boda.
2021 Alexander Tutsek Foundation (DE): scholarship for Pilchuck Glass School, US
2021 Autogroup S., Turin (IT) Sponsorship for the exhibition Interstitial Identities
2019 Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Munich: scholarship for Pilchuck Glass School, US.
2019 Kulturhaus Karlshorst (DE), honorarium for the solo Exhibition (UN)SICHTBAR, Schicksale in Glas | Kulturhaus Karlshorst Gallery, Berlin, DE