about valentina

Valentina Medda is an interdisciplinary artist from Sardinia who currently lives and works in Bologna.

Her artistic practice unfolds between image, performance and site-specific interventions, inquiring the relationship between public and private, body and architecture, city and social belonging.

Her work has been exhibited in different national and international contexts, from Bologna, Milan, Cagliari to Paris, New York, Beirut, Brussels and Amsterdam, as a guest of both galleries and Performing Arts Festivals - among these the Alleanze dei Corpi in Milan, the Festival of Santarcangelo in Romagna, the AUAWIRLEBEN of Bern -CH, the OPENBARE WERKEN of Gent -BE, and Danza Urbana in Bologna.

In the last years she has been artist in residence at VOORUIT in Gent, BAR in Beirut, Cité de Arts in Paris, Flux Factory in NY, Les bains connective in Brussels, MaisonVentidue in Bologna. In 2019 she was invited to be part of MIBACT's Grand Tour d'Italie, and received, among others, the Cimetta Fund for artistic mobility, the Movin up of the Emilia Romagna Region, the IAP Mentorship of NYFA -New York Foundation for Arts, and the Tina Art PRIZE, an international award for Contemporary Art.

More recently, with her project Cities by Night Across Borders, the result of the partnership built with Orlando Festival (IT), Rosendal Teater (NO) and Femart Festival, (XZ) she has been selected as one of the 19 winners of the European grant for performing art “Perform Europe”.

You can contact her at vmedda@gmail.com