{"id":25713,"date":"2026-10-01T13:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulaberlin.com\/?p=25713"},"modified":"2026-10-01T13:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:44:46","slug":"artist-portrait-i-paola-romoli-venturi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulaberlin.com\/de\/artist-portrait-i-paola-romoli-venturi\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Portrait I Paola Romoli Venturi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this interview, Paola Romoli Venturi speaks about her artistic journey, her creative process, the relationship between space, memory, and perception, and the role of contemporary art as a place for reflection and dialogue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your artistic journey has developed through different forms of expression, including installation, sculpture, painting, video, and performance. How has this interdisciplinary approach shaped your artistic language?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Completely. Connecting ideas, forms of expression, and actions in order to tell a story across different media is a constitutive part of my figurative and performative language. The interdisciplinary approach helps to involve the audience, who both observe and take part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Studio image of Paola Romoli Venturi, Traspaquadro<\/em> on the work table, 2017. Photo: Marco Adinolfi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Transparency, light, and perception are important elements in your artistic research. What fascinates you about what can be seen, hidden, or revealed through an artwork?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transparency is a constitutive element of my work, both physical and mental. A transparent or mirrored installation or sculpture that reflects light draws the viewer into the artistic device. Once the viewer has entered physical transparency, mental transparency is activated, encouraging reflection and a sense of freedom in front of the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Physical transparency is that of spaces, installations, and sculptures that lead viewers to step inside, drawing closer and closer with their gaze until they are captured by the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mental transparency means approaching things freely and neutrally, in order to arrive at a new idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of your works create immersive experiences where the viewer becomes part of the artistic environment. How important is the relationship between the artwork, the space, and the person experiencing it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relationships between artwork, space, and person are very important, because they create the spark that makes a work contemporary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MEMORIE: MAIN MEMORY, BY HEART, PAR COEUR.<\/em>, 2016. Sculpture, site-specific installation in Statuario Carrara white marble, Rosso di Francia Languedoc marble, engraved text, 316 Super Mirror stainless steel. Photo: Marcello Leotta.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How does a new artwork begin? Does the process start from an idea, a social reflection, a place, a material, or an emotion?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My work usually begins with a news story. In 2008 I began to define the idea of „instant art.“ I start from current events and transform them into images, sensations, and reflections that rescue the subject from the fate of the news the media present every day, news that stays in our personal memory for a very short time, pushed aside as it is by other news. Art becomes a sounding board that vibrates through time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe that, with public commissions and patrons all but gone, the only way to address social and public issues is to follow the news, identifying stories that, connected to one another and to the social fabric, can tell the story of the contemporary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, of course, there is an idea, a reflection, a place, a material, an emotion, and many other elements that make up the project, which usually begins with the writing of a concept or a poetic text, or a nursery rhyme, that then becomes part of the project itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your artistic practice often combines different elements such as images, sounds, materials, and spatial interventions. How do you create harmony between these different languages?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balance among the languages is achieved through mental transparency in the creative phase. If the idea is clear, and you know where you want to arrive and above all where you want to lead the audience’s reflection, the various parts connect in a natural and surprising way. Of course, there is also experience, knowledge of different artistic techniques, and the ability to perceive space, light, and sound. Sound includes silence, words, and gesture. All of this creates a space that is „natural“ and at the same time engaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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