Photo credits: Ana Lui for Eurowings
ABOUT
Caterina Roppo is a multidisciplinary artist based between Palma de Mallorca and Milan.
Her research weaves together organic materials and conceptual thinking, giving shape to three-dimensional textile works that explore trauma as both wound and transformation. With her project Trayma, Roppo constructs an intimate narrative where pain becomes a space for aesthetic reconciliation and inner healing. Her installations, created through complex techniques such as Jacquard flottés, evoke the spirit of places and the layered nature of collective memory.
Recognized by cultural institutions and therapeutic communities alike, Roppo is known for her ability to merge art with personal growth and healing processes. Her visual language is poetic, suspended between materiality, memory, and the spirituality of place. Her works have been featured in leading art and design publications, including Artribune, Exibart, Il Sole 24 Ore, and Marie Claire Maison, establishing her as one of the most influential voices among the emerging alchemists of the contemporary Italian art scene.
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UPCOMING
EU–Sri Lanka Match-Making 2025
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
FEEDback - It’s About Time! With-Gallery (Perth, Australia)
Everybody has pain somewhere, Piazza del Carmine ( Milan, Italy)
2024
Galateo Ancestrale CULT EDIT, Complesso Museale Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco (Naples, Italy)
Being Worldless, Casino dell’Aurora Pallavicini (Rome, Italy)
Being Worldless, Palazzo Cagnola (Milan, Italy)
Shard of Stones, Martch Art Project (Istanbul, Turkey)
Vettor Art Project, (Bari, Italy)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Turkish Textile Biennial, Wave (Istanbul, Turkey)
2024
Arte Laguna Prize, Finalist Exhibition (Arsenale, Venice, Italy)
Il Vuoto di Trayma (Arsenale, Venice,Italy)
Xtant, (Mallorca, Spain)
Kaplan Project, (Mallorca, Spain)
Cramum, Group Show, Reti (Milan, Italy)
2023
Beautifool Minds: Group Show, Cavallerizza (Turin, Italy)
Contemporary Istanbul: Collectors Dinner, Mandarin Hotel (Istanbul, Turkey)
Baitball #03: Group Show, Fondazione Pino Pascali (Polignano, Italy)
2022-2020
Eidos: Ipercubo (Milan, Italy)
The Doors: Augmented Reality Solo Show, Piuarch Studio (Milan, Italy)
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AWARDS & RECOGNITION (2024)
Certificate of Artistic Merit Luxembourg Art Prize
Arte Laguna Prize: Finalist, Arsenale Nord, Venice
Business for Art: Incalmi, Bios Line
Sustainability: Special Mention by Contarina (Arsenale Nord, Venice)
CRAMUM Prize: Finalist (Milan)
FEEDback Prize: Finalist, Bienal International de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires (UIC Barcelona)
Prisma Art Prize: Finalist (Rome)
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TALK AND CONFERENCE
FEEDback - It’s About Time! UIC Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, (Barcelona, Spain)
FEEDback - It’s About Time! Curtin School of Design and the Built Environment ( (Perth, Australia)
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ILLUSTRATION PROJECTS
2024, 2021: Cover Illustrations for Panorama Collezione
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SPECIAL PROJECTS
Moooi Selected Project (Milan 2025)
Marcel Wanders & Caterina Roppo x Fischbacher 1819 (Milan,Paris 2025)
Community: Textile Exhibition, Spazio Calabiana (Milan, 2023)
Superpower: Textile Exhibition, Spazio Calabiana (Milan, 2022)
Magnifiche Passioni: Textile Exhibition, Spazio Krizia (Milan, 2021)
Various Textile Exhibitions in Milan, spanning from 2015-2020
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CRITICAL TEXTS
Everybody has pain somewhere by Domitilla Dardi (2025)
Being Worldless by Domenico de Chirico (2024)
Eidos, La forma del pensiero by Gabriela Galati (2023)
Trayma by Michele Spinelli (2022)
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CATALOGUES AND PUBBLICATIONS
Il Vuoto di Trayma 2024
Eroi & Sopravvissuti (CRAMUM) 2023
Nice & Fair (Paratissima) 2023
Video credits: Joy Wanders