Photo credits: Ana Lui for Eurowings
ABOUT
A multidisciplinary artist working between Milan and Palma de Mallorca, Caterina Roppo explores trauma as a space of transformation, weaving together textile art, memory, and ritual. Her practice unfolds across material experimentation, education, and cultural diplomacy, with a strong focus on healing processes and the re-signification of pain.
She is currently involved in two human-centered projects: Il Vuoto di Trayma, an itinerant educational initiative for violence prevention, and SEVA, a cultural diplomacy project supported by the European Union, Culture Relations Platform, British Council, and University of the Arts London. The first chapter of SEVA takes place in Sri Lanka, with the support of the Italian Embassy in Colombo, where a group of women processes trauma through the ancient batik technique, reclaiming and redefining their identities. A first cut of the documentary will be presented at the Terrae Film Festival 2025.
Roppo rejects all intellectual, social, and economic hierarchies, embracing a horizontal artistic language free from paternalistic intent. Her practice, nourished by deep listening and symbolic rituality, takes shape as a secular and almost spiritual path of transformation through pain.
Selected for the international exhibition Transformations (Creación Textil, Museu de la Pell Cal Boyer, Barcelona, 2025), she has been a finalist in numerous awards, including the Arte Laguna Prize (18th/19th edition, Arsenale Nord – Venice), receiving special mentions for sustainability (Contarina) and the intersection of art and business (Incalmi, Bios Line). Other recent recognitions include the Cramum Prize, FEEDback Prize (UIC Barcelona), and Prisma Art Prize (Rome, 13th edition).
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UPCOMING
TRANSFORMATIONS, Museu de la Pell, Igualada (Barcelona, Spain)
SEVA (docufilm), Terrae International Film Festival, Patù (Italy)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
FEEDback – It’s About Time!, With-Gallery, Perth (Australia)
Curator: Eric Goldemberg
Curator: Eric Goldemberg
Everybody has pain somewhere, Piazza del Carmine 9, Milan (Italy)
Testo Critico Domitilla Dardi – Mostra promossa da Fischbacher 1819 per ArtWeek e DesignWeek
Testo Critico Domitilla Dardi – Mostra promossa da Fischbacher 1819 per ArtWeek e DesignWeek
2024
Galateo Ancestrale, CULT EDIT, Complesso Museale Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco, Naples (Italy)
Curator: Domitilla Dardi
Curator: Domitilla Dardi
Being Worldless, Casino dell’Aurora Pallavicini, Rome (Italy)
Curator: Domenico de Chirico
Curator: Domenico de Chirico
Being Worldless, Palazzo Cagnola, Milan (Italy)
Curator: Domenico de Chirico
Curator: Domenico de Chirico
Shard of Stones, Martch Art Project, Istanbul (Turkey)
Curator: Michele Spinelli
Curator: Michele Spinelli
Vettor Art Project, (Bari, Italy) Curator:Michele Spinelli
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Turkish Textile Biennial, Wave, Istanbul (Turkey)
Curator: Nihat Özdal
Curator: Nihat Özdal
2024
Arte Laguna Prize – Finalist Exhibition, Arsenale Nord, Venice (Italy)
Curators: Giulia Colletti, Chiara Canali
Curators: Giulia Colletti, Chiara Canali
Il Vuoto di Trayma, Arsenale Nord, Venice (Italy)
Curator:s: Giulia Colletti, Chiara Canali
Curator:s: Giulia Colletti, Chiara Canali
Xtant, (Mallorca, Spain), Curator: Kavita Parmar
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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CULTURAL DIPLOMACY PROJECTS
EU–Sri Lanka Match-Making 2025
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