| Monica Biancardi was born in Naples in 1972. She graduated from
the Academy of Fine Arts with an experimental thesis on theatre
photography. She began very early to collaborate with important filmmakers, both Italian and foreigner, while conducting her own research in photography. The first project, an anthropological study entitled Credere (To Believe), has been acquired by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Her first solo show Ritratti (Portraits), held at the gallery Riccardo Artivisive in Naples, has been warmly received and allowed her to show her works at the MACBA in Barcelona, in Madrid and Salamanca and at the Biennial of Photography in Brescia. She took part in the exhibition dedicated to Dadaist art curated by Achille Bonito Oliva who invited her to design a cell inside the Charterhouse of Padula. One of her portraits also won the prize Serrone, at Villa Reale in Monza. Some time ago one of the works of the Aldilà (Afterlife)project had been acquired by the new Naples Underground. In Catania, she had realized a reportage titled Journey to Librino with the collaboration of the Israeli author Mejr Shalev. In 2005 she organized, involving many women, Un abbraccio per la pace (An Embrace for Peace), a performance which took place in Piazza Castello, in the very heart of Milan and that had later been brought to Piazza Dante in Naples and to the Olive Mountain in Jerusalem where it involved Arab and Israeli women together. The year after Monica Biancardi has dedicated to her prematurely deceased father her new project: Mutamenti. After several journeys to the Palestinian territories an exhibition and the related catalogue were committed by Al Quds University in Jerusalem. Recently the municipality of Naples had invited her to present the Orientamenti project in a big exhibition at the Museo Capodimonte in Naples. |
| Monica Biancardi - Selected Group Exhibitions | |
2011 |
May be - Cam in Berlin, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin (Germany) |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Maravee Fàbrica, Castello di Susans, Majano (UD) (Italy) | |
2010 |
Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) |
| 'O Vero! Napoli nel mirino, Museo MADRE, Napoli (Italy) | |
2009 |
Still in Motion - The 10th Anniversary, LipanjePuntin artecontemporaneai, Trieste (Italy) |
| Art Verona, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Verona (Italy) | |
2008 |
Camorra, CAM, Casoria (Italy) |
2007 |
Il viaggio di Eva, Cascina Romana, San Donato Milanese, Milano (Italy) |
| May Women, Milly Pozzi Arte Contemporanea, Como (Italy) | |
2006 |
Da Dada a Dada, Castello Longobardo, Pavia (Italy) |
| Biennale della Fotografia, Brescia (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, Galleria Franco Riccardo, Bologna (Italy) | |
2005 |
Napoli presente, PAN Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Napoli (Italy) |
| Serrone, Villa Reale , Monza (Italy) | |
| 100 Artists for a Museum, Casoria, Napoli (Italy) | |
| Credere , Scavi Scaligeri, Verona (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, Galleria Franco Riccardo, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Artissima, Galleria Franco Riccardo, Torino (Italy) | |
2004 |
Artissima, Galleria Franco Riccardo, Torino (Italy) |
| Paris Photo, Conciergerie, Pris (France) | |
| Le opere e i giorni, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, Salerno (Italy) | |
| Viaggio a Librino con Mejr Shalev, Associazione Antonio Presti, Catania (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, Galleria Franco Riccardo, Bologna (Italy) | |
2002 |
Metropoli, Milano Fiere, Milano (Italy) |
2001 |
Nero di scena, Ospedale della Pace, Napoli (Italy) |
2000 |
Villes et valises, Ecole d'Architecture, Strasbourg (France) |
1999 |
...i luoghi, la memoria..., Chiesa della Pietrasanta, Napoli (Italy) |
| Monica Biancardi - Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
2010 |
Orientamenti, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) |
2009 |
Mutamenti, Kunsthaus Aarau Galerie, Bern (Switzerland) |
| Orientamenti, Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli (Italy) | |
| Tra le immagini, Museo Civico Forio d'Ischia, Ischia (Italy) | |
| Tra le immagini, MAV di Ercolano , Ercolano (Italy) | |
2008 |
Tra le immagini, Hammam, East Jerusalem (Israel) |
| Tra le immagini, Jericho Resort, Jericho (Palestine) | |
2007 |
Monica Biancardi - Fotografia 1, Figurae, Milano (Italy) |
2006 |
Mutamenti, Castel Sant'Elmo, Napoli (Italy) |
2005 |
Credere, Galleria Adora Calvo, Salamanca (Italy) |
| Al di là, Galleria Las Rozas, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Abbraccio per la pace (seconda tappa), Napoli (Italy) | |
| Abbraccio per la pace (terza tappa), East Jerusalem (Israel) | |
2004 |
Credere , FNAC, Paris (France) |
| Al di là, Galleria Franco Riccardo, Napoli (Italy) | |
| Ritratti, Lattuada Studio, Milano (Italy) | |
2003 |
Frammenti di danza, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Roma (Italy) |
| Napoli da lontano, Carlo Rendano Association, Napoli (Italy) | |
| Ritratti, Centre Cultural de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain) | |
| Ritratti, Galleria Franco Riccardo, Napoli (Italy) | |
2002 |
Ritratto con mani, Compact Art, Barcelona (Spain) |
| Credere , Galleria Immagina, Venezia (Italy) | |
2001 |
Corpuscoli - Performance, Feltrinelli, Napoli (Italy) |
| Scrittori italiani: Ritratti, Feltrinelli, Napoli (Italy) | |
2000 |
Subway , Superfly, Napoli (Italy) |
| Monica Biancardi - Private and Corporate Collections | |
| Villa Reale, Monza (Italy) | |
| Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris (France) | |
| Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma (Italy) | |
| FNAC, Paris (France) | |
| Metropolitana di Napoli, Napoli (Italy) | |
| Castel Sant'Elmo, Napoli (Italy) | |
| Hotel Romeo, Napoli (Italy) | |
| Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris (France) | |