ABOUT CATERINA
Video Credit: Joy Wanders
about caterina
Caterina Roppo is an Italian multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between sculpture, installation, and avant-garde textile research, working between Milan and Palma de Mallorca. At the core of her work lies the belief that trauma is not an exception but a structural condition of the present.
Through the material innovation of Trayma fabric, a “stone made of thread” created through Jacquard processes and manual interventions, Caterina deconstructs the solidity of rock and recomposes it into three-dimensional textile structures. Her works act as interlocutors that register pressure, erosion, and care, revealing the co-dependence between the human body and the material world.
A finalist of the Arte Laguna Prize and the protagonist of cultural diplomacy projects such as SEVA and Il Vuoto di Trayma, her art transforms the “wound” into a habitable material, offering tools for acceptance and the reconstruction of identity. Her work does not seek immediate resolution but insists on the possibility of change inscribed within matter itself.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
FEEDback, Urban Romanticism, solo exhibition, Palazzo Giustignani, Genoa, Italy, 2023,
curated by Eric Goldemberg
curated by Eric Goldemberg
Everybody Has Pain Somewhere, solo exhibition, Piazza del Carmine, Milan, Italy, 2025,
critical text by Domitilla Dardi
Galateo Ancestrale, solo exhibition, CULT EDIT, Complesso Museale Santa Maria delle
Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco, Naples, Italy, 2024, curated by Domitilla Dardi
Being Worldless, solo exhibition, Casino dell’Aurora Pallavicini, Rome, Italy, 2024,
curated by Domenico de Chirico
Being Worldless, solo exhibition, Palazzo Cagnola, Milan, Italy, 2024, curated by
Domenico de Chirico
Shard of Stones, solo exhibition, Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey, 2024, curated by
Michele Spinelli
Eidos, duo exhibition with Léa Dumayet, Galleria Ipercubo, Milan, Italy, 2023, curated
by Gabriela Galati
Selected Group Exhibitions
Weave the Wave, group exhibition, FX Gallery and Central Slovak Gallery, Slovakia,
2025, curated by DeepArtSpace
Transformations, group exhibition, Museu de la Pell, Igualada, Spain, 2025
Turkish Textile Biennial, group exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, 2025, curated by Nihat Özdal
Arte Laguna Prize, Finalists’ Exhibition, group exhibition, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy,
2024, curated by Giulia Colletti and Chiara Canali
Il Vuoto di Trayma, group exhibition, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy, 2024
XTANT, group exhibition, Mallorca, Spain, 2024
CRAMUM, Reti, group exhibition, Milan, Italy, 2024, curated by Sabino Maria Frassà
Contemporary Istanbul, group exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, 2023, curated by Tarek Hourani
Baitball 03, group exhibition, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, Italy, 2023,
curated by Michele Spinelli
Documentary
TRAYMA (docufilm) –Watch the video
SEVA (docufilm) – Watch the Movie
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Luxembourg Art Prize, Certificate of Artistic Merit, 2024
Arte Laguna Prize, Finalist, Venice, IT, 2024
Arte Laguna Prize, Sustainability Special Mention, Contarina, Venice, IT, 2024
Arte Laguna Prize, Business for Art, Incalmi and Bios Line, 2024
CRAMUM Prize, Finalist, Milan, IT, 2024
CONFERENCES & TALKS
Crafting Value, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, London, United
Kingdom, 2025
FEEDback – Urban Romanticism, public talk, Genoa, Italy, 2025
FEEDback – It’s About Time!, public lecture, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya,
Barcelona, Spain, 2024
FEEDback – It’s About Time!, public lecture, Curtin School of Design and Built
Environment, Perth, Australia, 2024
PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGUES
Il Vuoto di Trayma, artist book, 2024
Eroi & Sopravvissuti, CRAMUM, 2024
CRITICAL TEXTS
Domitilla Dardi, Everybody Has Pain Somewhere, 2025
Domenico de Chirico, Being Worldless, 2024
Gabriella Galati, Eidos. La forma del pensiero, 2023
Michele Spinelli, Trayma, 2022
SELECTED SPECIAL PROJECTS
Marcel Wanders and Caterina Roppo, Fischbacher 1819, Paris and Milan, 2025
Moooi Selected Project, Introvert Chair, Moco Museum, London, 2025
Video credits: Joy Wanders