The Collection

Chiara Camoni lives and works in a mountain village on the Versilian coast in northern Tuscany. Over the past decade she has built a singular practice that connects the process of craft with the spiritual world, employing materials traditionally associated with the domestic — ceramics, dyed fabrics, and loom-weaving — developed in types, or series, that share a distinct visual language. Large-scale figures made from terracotta and adorned with intricate detail recall ancestral deities, while intimately scaled works referencing Egyptian canopic jars create a direct experience with the viewer. Hanging silks are dyed with vegetation, creating evocative images that reference the female form while inviting chance into their process.

Across Camoni's practice, her works maintain a deep relationship to the place in which she works, utilizing natural materials gathered from the landscape surrounding her studio, and involving a broader community, often of women, to help realize her projects. Brought to life through collective means and deeply connected to ritual rites and practices, her works bring the spiritual languages of the past into a new history of the present.

Camoni currently represents Italy at the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale with the project Con te con tutto, curated by Cecilia Canziani, on view through November 22, 2026. Recent solo exhibitions include Erguidas, yacentes, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, 2025; Call and Gather. Sisters, Moths and Flame Twisters. Lioness Bones, Snakes and Stones, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2024; Deux Soeurs, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2021; and Sisters, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, 2018. Her work is held in the permanent collections of IAC Villeurbanne, Frac Bretagne, GAM Turin, MAMbo Bologna, MACRO Rome, and MIMA Middlesbrough, among others.