Serena Ferrario Exhibitions and Events

Serena Alma Ferrario is an Italian-Romanian artist whose work spans drawing, collage, and installation. She fragments and rearranges her own drawings, combining them with found materials such as newspaper clippings, objects, and film stills to create shifting constellations of figures and forms. Her practice reflects her intercultural identity and explores memory, people, and everyday life.

Ferrario’s installations often reactivate older works by integrating them with new elements, creating dynamic archives in which drawings, cut-outs, and objects interact and find new contexts. The result is a layered visual language that balances fragility and movement.

Born in Crema near Milan in 1986, Ferrario studied at the Braunschweig University of Art from 2010 to 2017. She has received the Max Ernst Scholarship (2017), the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship (2018), and the Horst Janssen Graphic Prize (2021). Her works are held in public collections including the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Haus des Papiers Berlin, and the Reinking Collection. Recent exhibitions include Another Time Has Other Lives to Live at Art Encounters Foundation, Timișoara (2025), Frösche, Feuer, Finsternis at Kunstforum Ingelheim (2024), Everyone but Caspar! at Kunsthalle Niendorf/Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, and Hungry Ghosts at Villa Merkel, Esslingen (2025).