Ivana Volpe was born on October 11, 1988, in Campobasso. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, enriched by a study stay at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Her early works were marked by elements tied to childhood ambitions an d passions, recurring in gestures such as cutting and stitching, incising the body, wounding, and healing. The exploration of concepts like destruction and dissolution —applied both to organic nature and to fetish objects—reflects an investigation into instability and the persistent precariousness of the human psycho -physical balance.
Over time, her focus shifted to sound, conceived as a sensory element and thus a universal language. As containers of past experiences, her latest installations merge her educational and professional background, alternating between themes related to multisensoriality and the analysis of time as a source of destruction/creation. Central to her practice is a conceptualist poetics of the ephemeral, which closely links her to the Italian avant-garde movements of the 1970s.
Her installations often explore and encourage interaction between the viewer and the work itself, turning it into a two-way bridge between creator and audience. In 2018, she won the 6th edition of the P.A.C.I. Città di Isernia Prize and was featured as Artist of the Month in Rolling Stone Italia’s AR-TCORE column curated by Nicolas Ballario (July 2018). Recent experiences include an artist residency at the Pino Pascali Museum Foundation in Polignano a Mare, as part of the international exchange project “MON ET” Italy–Albania–Montenegro; the final exhibition of the residency AMUSE at the Gallery of the Cultural Center of Dusetos, Lithuania (2019); and COMEDOVEQUANDOPERCHÈ at ARATRO – Gino Marotta Gallery in Campobasso, curated by Lorenzo Canova and Piernicola Maria Di Iorio (2017).
