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Artists
Margareth Dorigati
Margareth Dorigati was born in Bolzano in 1954. In 1973 she studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia with Emilio Vedova. In 1975 she moved to Berlin where she studied Painting, Graphics and Photography at the Hochschule der Künste. She was invited to take photographs for the foremost cultural institutions in Berlin.
In 1977 she founded a Studio home frequented by eminent artists and theatre people living in Berlin. In 1979 she was awarded a grant to study in New York, with the task of photographing the Actor's Studio and Lee Strassberg’s lessons. She starting exhibiting her work in private galleries in Berlin in 1980, and 1983, together with Joachim Szymzcak, undertook a huge project for the decoration of the Berlin underground network: 75 paintings in 8 different stations. She won the Internationalen Bauausstellung competition for the decoration of the façade of a historic Kreuzberg house.
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In 1984 she moved to Rome, where she has continued her work as a painter.
In 1992, she won first place in the Italian national examination for the selection of Academy Professors in ‘Decoration’ (painting within an architectural context).
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She has exhibited in Italy and abroad in private galleries, public venues and museums (Rome, Paris, Milan, Pescara, Bolzano, Modena, Bologna, Berlin, Nimes, Lyon, Cologne, Bonn, etc). She was invited to take part in the 54th Venice Biennale.
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She was Professor of Decoration at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where she held courses on Chromatology and was a founder of the Artistinofficina project. In 2025, she held a major retrospective exhibition "CHROMA" at Castle of CASTELBELLO, Tschars.
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She lives and works in Bolzano, Rome and Berlin. Her works are available from Galleria MAC, Rome and Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano.
Agata Stępień
Agata Stepien is an internationally renowned Polish artist. born in Krakow in 1986 into a family of Polish artists, she grew up in Spain. She is a bilingual interdisciplinary artist, doctor of humanities, intersectional feminist, and academic teacher. She has spent the last 10 years studying visual arts at:
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Universidad de Castilla La Mancha of Fine Arts (Spain)
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University of Barcelona, Escola Massana
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Academie des Beaux Arts Bruxelles (photography and painting)
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Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (department of decoration and painting)
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Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon
Her International doctoral defense in Spain in 2016 was on the limits of intimacy in women's art and was awarded Diploma Cum Laude of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome: Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts.
​Agata Stepien cooperates with European galleries. Her works are in the permanent collections of museums:
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Women's Museum of San José Costa Rica
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Antonio Pérez Museum in Cuenca, Spain
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San Clemente Spanish Museum
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Museum of Krakow
Research interests in art: intercultural dialogue on women's identity in the dimension of artistic/bodily practices and boundaries of territories/traumas, transcending intimacy in art.
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Emanuele Fasciani
Emanuele Fasciani (Rome, 1994) is an artist with an international background and a practice that spans installations, sculpture, and participatory art. After several group exhibitions in Italy, he held his first solo exhibition in 2019 at the Galerie de l'Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Liège, Belgium, and won the Art Mogao Caves international sculpture competition in China.
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In2021, he co-founded the art space CONDOTTO48. In 2022, he exhibited at the GAM in Rome in the exhibition Materia Nova, curated by Massimo Mininni. In 2023, he participated in The Others Art Fair with the Contemporary Cluster gallery, which selected him for the "Cave" residency at Palazzo Brancaccio in 2024. In the same year, he exhibited in a
two-person exhibition at Palazzo Rospigliosi (Ombra Lunga) and won the Lazio Contemporaneo competition with the project Crisopea, curated by Valentina Muzi.
In 2025, he was selected for an artistic residency on Lake Garda with the aim of creating a land art work for the Campo degli Ulivi Museum in Brenzone sul Garda.
"My work is distinguished by a strong materiality, expressed through the use of waxes and bitumen, symbols of the transformation of matter. Black, obtained by the stratification of bitumen, recalls the Nigredo of alchemy, the initial phase of the journey towards Opus, while gold represents perfection and spiritual elevation. My artistic research explores transformation not only material but also symbolic, reflecting an existence in constant evolution."
