Silvia Giordani

Silvia Giordani (Vicenza, Italy 1992) is a painter who lives and works in Venice, Italy.

Graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, she focuses her artistic research on the concept of landscape, creating works that evoke remote places in time and space, devoid of human traces.

In these landscapes, nature, characterized by altered forms and colors, dominates the scene, with silent interactions between elements that resemble the mineral or vegetal world while maintaining a deliberately ambiguous essence. The visual tension emerges from the relationship between these organic entities and a gradient background, evoking both a clear twilight sky and a digital environment.

The compositions invite the viewer to reflect on their own position, suspended between above and below, inside and outside, or between different worlds. The chromatic openings within the landscapes suggest passages-portals to other realities or universes.

Often inspired by dystopian and science fiction novels, Silvia Giordani explores the subtle boundary between real and unreal, creating enigmatic settings and suspended worlds, mysterious like fragments of unexplored realities.

Silvia Giordani is active on both the national and international art scene.

Among her recent exhibitions (2023-2024) are: Prima Vista, a solo show in Rome at Andrea Festa Fine Art; Moon Walk, a duo exhibition at Buysse Gallery in Belgium; Lavinia at The Gate, DIFC, Dubai; The Sky is of All Eyes, a duo show curated by Andrea Festa at Taipei Dangdai, Taiwan; Timeless Land, curated by Domenico De Chirico at Galleria Gianpaolo Abbondio in Todi; Se il paesaggio è simbolico, curated by Linda Carrara at Boccanera Gallery in Milan and Trento; Liberi tutti at Marignana Arte Project Room in Venice; and the solo exhibition Dov’è lontano, curated by Matteo Sormani and Amanda Hawkins Beltrame at Palazzo Cordellina, Vicenza.

She has also participated in artist residency programs such as Dolomiti Contemporanee, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, and Inedita 2. In 2024, she won the Contemporary Art Award issued by the Veneto Region and was a finalist for the Fondazione Francesco Fabbri Award in 2023.

In 2020, along with ten emerging artists, she founded the independent space Kadabra studio in Mestre.

Education

2025 Founder and Member, Kadabra Studio

2018 Assistant to Mirella Brugnerotto and Cristina Treppo, Professors of Visual Arts

2016 Assistant to Mauro Zocchetta, Professor of Anatomy Drawing

Bachelor and Master in Contemporary Art-Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Prima Vista, Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, Italy

2022 Dov’è lontano, solo show, curated by Matteo Sormani and Amanda Hawkins Beltrame, Palazzo Cordellina, Vicenza, Italy

Group Exhibitions

2025

Bleu [blø], Galerie PJ, Metz, France

2024

Moon Walk, duo show with Leo Orta, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Buysse Gallery, Belgium

Le fogge delle rocce, curated by Gianluca D’incà Levis – Dolomiti Contemporanee, Nuovo spazio di Casso, Italy

Lavinia, promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the DIFC of Dubai curated by Alejandra Castro Rioseco and Matteo Sormani, The Gate at DIFC – West Lobby, Dubai

Timeless Land, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Giampaolo Abbondio Gallery

2023

Liberi tutti – Chapter II, Marignana Arte Project Room, Venice Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Arts – Twelfth edition, curated by Carlo Sala, Italy

Se il paesaggio è simbolico, curated by Linda Carrara, Boccanera Gallery, Milan and Trento

And the night flowers open, Andrea Festa Fine Art

2022 Poison Green, curated by Eva Comuzzi, galerie Bevilacqua La Masa, Venise, Italy

2021 Perché siamo come tronchi nella neve, curated by Luca Zuccala e Andrea Tinterri, Milan, Italy

2020 Whatever it takes, curated by School for Curatorial Studies Venice, A plus A gallery, Venise, Italy

2019 Abstract Mind, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea

2018 Italian Academies exhibition, VII Saint-Petersburg International Cultural Forum, Russia

Fairs

2024 The Sky is of all Eyes, Duo show with Taedong Lee, curated by Andrea Festa Fine Art, Taipei Dangdai, Taiwan

Bibliography

Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, rule breaker, panel discussion at DIFC, Dubai with Hana Sammak Kurdi, Maie El Hage, and Matteo Sormani

Artiste e presenza femminile alla Bevilacqua La Masa, meeting with Stefania Portinari-Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Public Collection

Résidences

Dolomiti contemporanee

Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy

Extraordinario workshop, collaboration with Vulcano Agency

Inedita 2, artist residency curated by Alberta Pane, Ikona Photo Gallery, Marina Bastianello Gallery, Fondazione Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy

Workshop Laboratorio aperto, curated by Carlo Di Raco, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy

Awards

2024 Winner, Premio Arte Contemporanea, Regione del Veneto

2023 Finalist, Premio Fondazione Francesco Fabbri

2023 Finalist, Premio Arteam

2022 Honorable Mention, Prisma Art Prize

2021, 2018 Finalist, Nocivelli Art Prize

2019 Finalist, LYNX Prize; Mention, Combat Prize