Antonella Quacchia

Wien

Italian visual artist, born in Gorizia in 1957 in a city divided by a wall - a smaller, forgotten twin of the Berlin Wall. Raised between Italy and Brazil after a childhood crossing of oceans, shaped by decades at CERN, where physicists taught me that reality has more than one truth, and by 27 years at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, among colleagues from 187 countries. Today I live and work between Vienna and Barcelona. My practice is an alchemy of mixed media on canvas, epoxy resin on panel and Bohemian crystal. I layer the ancestral weight of bitumen, iron powder and marble dust with the modern fluidity of acrylics, alongside found and recycled materials. Influences run from Zao Wou-Ki and Rothko to de Kooning and Soulages, with the Japanese concept of "ma", space as breath, resonating through every horizon line. A life lived across borders translated into light, matter and colour. The initial fractures became crossings and the crossings became horizons.

Antonella Quacchia ARTWORKS

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22 May 2026

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Antonella Quacchia EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions

Materia e Memoria: Un dialogo tra scienza e astrazione, 9 – 29 October 2026, Galleria ARTime, Udine, IT, 2026
RED CARPET ART AWARD: Antonella Quacchia, Schottentor, Vienna, AT, 2025
Antonella Quacchia. Exhibition and live performance, Natuzzi Austria Showroom, Vienna, AT, 2025
Serendipity. Antonella Quacchia, Banca Fideuram, Rome, IT, 2024
Dalla scienza all’Arte, Conference and solo exhibition, Centro Studi G. Turcotti, Borgosesia, IT, 2024
Orizzonti Sensibili, MyOwnGallery, Superstudio Più, Milan, IT, 2023
Morphosis, Palazzo della Cancelleria Vaticana, Rome, IT, 2023
Die Bilderwelt der Erfahrung, City Gallery, Vienna, AT, 2023
Sguardo verso l’essenziale, Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, Venice, IT, 2022
Paths of Life, PantoART Galerie, Vienna, AT, 2022

Art Fairs

GRAZ ART EXPO 24 – 26 April 2026, Graz, AT, 2026
28th Innsbruck Art Fair, Innsbruck, AT, 2024
ArtZurich, Zurich, CH, 2024
ARTMUC, Munich, DE, 2024
Vernice Art Fair, Forlì, IT, 2024
XIV Florence Biennale, Florence, IT, 2023
Tokyo Tower Art Fair, Tokyo, JP, 2023
26th Innsbruck Art Fair, Innsbruck, AT, 2022
Luxembourg Art Fair (5th edition), Luxembourg, LU, 2021

Group Exhibitions (selected)

Master piece, 5 – 31 January 2026, CITY Gallery, Vienna, AT, 2026
Soglie invisibili, 3 – 12 July 2026, Museo Diocesano e Capitolino di Terni, Terni, IT , 2026
Mater Materia – Women Artists for a Visionary Future, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, IT, 2025
Opera con Vista, Museo Diocesano e Capitolino di Terni, Terni, IT, 2025
Osaka International Art Show, Osaka, JP, 2025
Abstract, Galerie Contemplor, Vienna, AT, 2025
Mit allen Sinnen, Kulturankerzentrum, Vienna, AT, 2024
Lights and Shadows, City Gallery, Vienna, AT, 2024
The Healing Gaze, Monserrat Contemporary Art Gallery, New York City, USA, 2024
On Tour, Galerie Hamilton, Cannes, FR, 2024
Mondi inapparenti, Palazzo dei Priori, Assisi, IT, 2024
MicroMACRO, Villa Marazzi, Cesano Boscone, Milan, IT, 2024
Lights and Shadows, ArteBorgo Gallery, Rome, IT, 2023
Prague International Art Exhibition, Čapek Hall, Prague, CZ, 2023
Perpetual Light, Elsa Victorios Gallery, Miami, USA, 2023
Ideas Empire, El Bairo Art Space, New York City, USA, 2023
Il respiro dei mondi, Casa di Dante, Florence, IT, 2023
Abstract, City Gallery, Vienna, AT, 2022
Hidden Treasures, Monat Gallery, Madrid, ES, 2022
Woman Essence, 24b Gallery, Paris, FR, 2022
Contemporary Venice, Misericordia Archives, Venice, IT, 2021
Artist Collectives, Geneva, CH (ILO, ITU, ARTQuarium), 2017–2019