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Detail, Cecilia De Nisco, Piccole catastrofi per minuti intimi #2, 2024, courtesy of the artist and VINVIN gallery.
Detail, Cecilia De Nisco, Piccole catastrofi per minuti intimi #2, 2024, courtesy of the artist and VINVIN gallery.

I WAS LOOKING FOR YOUR HEART, BUT I FOUND ONLY MILK

CECILIA DE NISCO

curated by Marta Papini

14.12.2024 > 01.03.2025

Opening hours | Thursady 2:00 > 7:00 pm, Friday and Saturday 10:30 am >12:30 pm – 2:00 > 7:00 pm Free admission.

The title of Cecilia De Nisco’s solo exhibition, curated by Marta Papini, is Stavo cercando il tuo cuore lì dentro ma ho trovato solo latte (“I Was Looking for Your Heart Inside There, but I Found Only Milk”), designed specifically for the spaces of the former Church of the Dimesse. For this exhibition, the artist has created seven new paintings, offering insight into her artistic research path. The subjects of De Nisco’s works are bodies in motion, frozen in a suspended moment where their intentions remain ambiguous, eternally suspended between desire and violence.

Cecilia De Nisco, Frecciatine, 2024. Courtesy the Artist and VIN VIN Vienna/Naples
Cecilia De Nisco, Stavo cercando il tuo cuore lì dentro ma ho trovato solo latte, installation view a cura / curated by Marta Papini, Fondazione Sandra e Giancarlo Bonollo

Cecilia De Nisco / artist

Cecilia De Nisco (born 1997 in Parma, Italy) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Arts and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the University of Urbino, Italy. Upcoming exhibitions include: her first institutional solo exhibition at TAG Art Museum, Qingdao, China, in April 2025. Recent group exhibitions have taken place at Andrew Kreps, New York, and Almine Rech, London. She will be featured in an upcoming group exhibition taking place at Villa Magdalena, San Sebastián, founded by Cy Schnabel, in April 2025. Cecilia De Nisco is represented by VIN VIN Vienna / Naples.

Marta Papini / curator

Marta Papini (Reggio Emilia, 1985) is an independent curator.
She is the curator of Radis, a four-year public art project promoted by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. She is also associate curator of Il parlamento delle marmotte, the 9th edition of the Gherdëina Biennale (2024), and, together with Lorenzo Giusti, of Pensare come una montagna (2024-2026). In 2023, she was part of the selection committee for the Future Generation Art Prize. She was Artistic Organiser of The Milk of Dreams, the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale, curated by Cecilia Alemani (2022). She has curated and organised several exhibitions, including Lonely Are All Bridges. Birgit Jürgenssen and Cinzia Ruggeri, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (2021); Il mondo magico, Italian Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale (2017, curated by Cecilia Alemani); The Artist is Present, Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2018, with Maurizio Cattelan). She writes about contemporary art for Icon magazine.