Claudia Virginia Vitari

Turin, 1978
Lives 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 SHOWS

2025
ARCHETYPES, Taoxichuan Art Center, Jingdezehn

2024
PANOPTICON, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

2022
EMERGENCIES, REFRACTIONS, REFLECTIONS duo exhibition of Nikola Grozdanov and Claudia Virginia Vitari in the context of The Italian Glass Weeks, Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice
Le Città Invisibili in the context of the project Roll To Tie, Temporary Space Berlin

2021
Interstitial Identities, The Glass Factory Boda
Identità Interstiziali, Museum of Resistance, Turin

2020
LOCKDOWN, On-line exhibition, Raffaella De Chirico Contemporary Art, Turin

2019
Le Città invisibili, LA MASCHERA. in the context of The Venice Glass Week, Palazzo Loredan, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venice
(UN)SICHTBAR, Schicksale in Glas, Kulturhaus Karlshorst Gallery, Berlin

2018
O-Platz, Identità Interstiziali, in the context of The Venice Glass Week, Palazzo Querini, Venice

GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)

2026
Segrete, Tracce di Memoria, Santa Maria di Castello, Genova
She Burns, Sanbaopeng Art Museum, Jingdezehn

2025
International Biennale of Glass Bulgaria I National Gallery “Kvadrat 500” , Sofia (with the support of IIC Sofia) Segrete, Tracce di Memoria, Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin
Lei, La Resistenza, Forte di Gavi, Gavi
Fluid Matter_Humanature, SPARC* Spazio Arte Contemporanea, Venice

2024
Fluid Matters - The Venice Glass Week, Palazzo Experimental, Venedig
Glaspreis der Stadt Hadamar, Glasmuseum Schloss Hadamar
Under the skin, KA 32 , Berlin
Connections- GAS Members Exhibition, Wilhemhallen, Berlin
Artrest, Kunstanstalt Köpenick , Berlin

2023
Fresh legs 2023, Inselgalerie, Berlin
Tag der Druckkunst, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin
International Biennale of Glass Bulgaria, National Gallery “Kvadrat 500” , Sofia
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers I Wehrmuhle Biesenthal

2022
BLIND VISION, Treptow Ateliers, Berlin

2021
International Biennale of Glass Bulgaria, National Gallery “Kvadrat 500”, Sofia
Intimo e Politico, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Turin

2020
Satellit #10: Funcion.Anomy III, Axel Obiger Gallery, Berlin
New and Old, Fyns Grafiske Værksted/ Funen Printmaking Studio, Odense
Air Berlin, an exhibition by the Intermission Collective, Villa Heike, Berlin

2019
Chimera, Passangers of a Kaleidoscopic Journey, Part 2, Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
Rotation Artworks, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Function.Anomy, Rathaus Reinickendorf, Berlin
The CoLab Conference POP-UP Exhibition, Community Arts Centre, Whanganui

RESIDENCIES AND COLLABORATIONS

2025
Residency and show at Taoxichuan Art Center, Jingdezehn

2024
Glass Safari: TUT (Tshwane University of Technology), Pretoria, South Africa

2021 - 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 and other locations, Rome

2025
IIC Sofia Sponsorship: Guest artist at International Biennale of Glass Bulgaria, National Gallery “Kvadrat 500”
Taoxichuan Art Center, Grant and Honorarium for Residency, Artist Talk, Exhibition and Workshop at Taoxichan Ceramic Art Avenue, Jingdezehn

2023
Glass Art Society, Honorarium for Demonstration (in collaboration with Peter Kuchinke) during the Glass Art Society Conference in Berlin

2021
The Glass Factory Boda, Grant and Honorarium for Residency, Artist Talk, Exhibition and Workshop at The Glass Factory Boda
Alexander Tutsek Foundation: scholarship for Pilchuck Glass School
Autogroup S., Turin, Sponsorship for the exhibition Interstitial Identities

2019
Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Munich: scholarship for Pilchuck Glass School
Kulturhaus Karlshorst, honorarium for the solo Exhibition (UN)SICHTBAR, Schicksale in Glas, Kulturhaus Karlshorst Gallery, Berlin