Carmela De Falco
Naples, Italy / 1994
Lives and works in Naples
Carmela De Falco trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, ENSA-Dijon, Adbk Munich and EN-SAD-Paris. Her research subverts and alters codified cultural orders through an investigation of language and the physical and mental spaces inhabited and crossed by individuals and communities.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Listening with eyes, watching with ears, DES BAINS, (London, 2026); Memomirabilia, Museo Gaetano Filangieri (Naples, 2024); Abitando il Tempo, Latte project (Faenza, 2022); It’s funny to play alone, LO.FT (Lecce, 2021)
Recent group exhibitions include: Admiranda e Arcana Naturae, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, (2026); Plural Matters | La Storia al Plurale, Complesso Monumentale Purgatorio ad Arco, (Naples, 2025); Borderless, Meditennaea Biennale (Gorizia, 2025); Il Sol dell’Avvenir, Fondazione Made in Cloister (Naples, 2025); Background Noise, DES BAINS Gallery (London, 2024); Cutting Clouds, Museo Made (Naples, 2024); Letters Around a Garden, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco (Naples, 2024); GOAL, Fondazione Morra Greco (Naples, 2023); The Power of Thought, Residenza delle Arti (Bern, 2023); There is no time to enjoy the Sun, Fondazione Morra Greco (Naples, 2021); Fleeting, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Munich, 2018). Between 2023 and 2024 she participated in residencies at Hangar-Lisbon and Fondation Fiminco-Paris, and she is the winner of the SIAE-Nuove Opere call.
Carmela De Falco has been selected for the Institut français and Cité des arts residency programme, joining 53 artists from 42 nationalities in Paris between April 2026 and April 2027.
Her works can be found in private and public collections including: Morra Greco Foundation, Naples; Gaetano Filangieri Museum, Naples; Cassa di Risparmio di Cento, Ferrara; Latin Quarter Museum-Condominio, Naples.
Our Exhibitions
Parole
2025
frosted glass, newspapers, antenna
122 x 85 x 0,5 cm
Identical shirts
2024
cotton, resin
122 x 85 x 0,5 cm
Absorbing the world and if anything regurgitating it up in another, unknown, language
2024
aluminium
1,5 x 650 x 1,5 cm
reward and punishment
2024
charcoal, resin, sugar, eggs, food colouring
22 x 27 x 22 cm (each)
reflecting, reflecting, the voice (score)
2024
adhesive paper
variable dimension
Open and closed
2024
aluminium, chromium plating
23 x 17 x 18 cm
untitled (an always open door) #1
2023
porcelain, silver pigment
8 x 3 x 1 cm
Untitled (home, sweet home)
2019
Sugar, iron
120 × 11 cm
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Listening with eyes, watching with ears, DES BAINS gallery, London, UK
2024 Memomirabilia, curated by Alessandra Troncone and Gianluca Riccio, Museo Filangieri, Naples, IT
2023 Fino a dove il mio corpo riesce ad arrivare, curated by Martina Campese and Collettivo Damp, organised by AttivaCultural project, Negozio, Portici (NA), IT
2022 Abitare il Tempo, curated by Francesca Cerfeda, Latte project, Faenza, IT Contenere il tempo, curated by Marta Ferrara and Lucas Memmola, special project for ArtDays Campania, Naples, IT
2020 It’s funny to play alone, curated by Rosita Ronzini and Alice Caracciolo, LO.FT, Lecce IT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Admiranda e Arcana Naturae, group show at Fondazione Morra Greco, curated by Giulia Pollicita, Naples, IT
2025 Ruina, Festival del Paesaggio Anacapri, curated by Arianna Rosica and Gianluca Riccio, Villa San Michele, Capri, IT; Flânerie, curated by Dani Issler, Au Passage, Paris, FR; Displaying Extraction, curated by Luigi Savio, Free University of Bolzano, IT; BORDERLESS, Mediterranea 20 Young Artists Biennale, curated by Misal Adnan Yıldız and Tia Čiček, Gorizia and Nova Gorica, SI; Il Sol dell’Avvenire, biennial program Rebirth, idea by Teresa Iarocci Mavica, curated by nonlineare, Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples, IT
2024 Artissima - Main Section, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, special project “Lettere intorno a un giardino”, curated by Marta Ferrara and Mario Francesco Simeone, Turin, IT; Background Noise, curated by Giulia Pollicita and Clara Rodorigo, DES BAINS gallery, London, UK; Cutting Clouds, curated by Marta Wrombleska and Marta Ferrara, Museo Madre, Napoli, IT; Lettere intorno a un giardino, curated by Marta Ferrara and Mario Francesco Simeone, galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, IT; open studios #2, atelier 3, Fondation Fiminco, Paris, FR
2023 Worksite, curated by Marta Ferrara and Nicola Piscopo, Quartiere Latino, Naples, IT; GOAL!, curated by Giulia Pollicita, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT; Quartiere Latino #5, curated by Marta Ferrara and Nicola Piscopo, Quartiere Latino, Naples, IT; La potenza del pensiero, curated by Antonello Tolve, Residenza delle Arti, Berna, CH
2021 Premio Francesco Fabbri, a cura di Carlo Sala, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo IT; There is no time to enjoy the Sun, curated by Federico del Vecchio, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT; Exit Strategy, curated by Lucas Memmola, Naples IT
2019 In sei atti, under the coordination of Cesare Pietroiusti, Casa Morra, Naples, IT; L’Altra Fede, curated by Pasquale Pennacchio and Rosaria Iazzetta, Santa Fede Liberata, Naples, IT
2018 Sette Opere per la Misericordia, Fondazione Circolo Artistico Politecnico, Naples, IT VI biennal of Young Italian Photograpghers, Centro Italiano Della Fotografia D’Autore, Bibbiena, Arezzo, IT 68° International Premio G.B Salvi, curated by Riccardo Tonti Bandini, MAM’S, Sassoferrato, Ancona, IT Fleeting, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich, DE
2016 31 rendez-vous des jeunes plasticiens, curated by Salvatore Lombardo, Centre Culturelle de Saint Raphael, FR Atelier Multiples, curated by Carlos Castillo Gonzalez, ENSA-École Nationale Supérieure de Dijon, Dijon, FR
PRIZES
2023-2024 Winner of the 2023 SIAE “Per Chi Crea – New Works” grant for the solo exhibition Memomirabilia at the Filangieri Museum, Naples, IT
2023-2024 Winner of the first edition of the Nuovo Grand Tour, funded by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Institut Français, and the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris, FR
2022-2023 Winner of the grant for the project Inhabiting Time, funded by Culture Moves Europe and the Goethe-Institut, PT 2020 Finalist of the second edition of the Ducato Prize, IT
2019 Winner of the Don Franco Patruno Prize for young artists under 30, awarded by Cassa di Risparmio di Cento, Ferrara, IT
2018 Finalist of Sette Opere per la Misericordia, organized by the Fondazione Circolo Artistico Politecnico, Naples, IT
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2025 Materia e Memoria, Zeusi, ABANA IT/ENG; Memomirabilia, monographic catalogue, Baskerville IT/ENG
2024 Nouveau Grand Tour 2023–24, Italian Cultural Institute of Paris, pp. 74–75, ITA/FR
2023 Quaderni d’arte italiana #5 Comunità, Quadriennale di Roma, Treccani, pp. 126–127, IT/ENG; Artribune, March–April issue, interview by Saverio Verini, pp. 12–15, IT; Opera, Attiva Cultural magazine, edited by Martina Campese, pp. 32–41, IT
2021 Premio Francesco Fabbri catalog, IT 2020 Ducato Prize catalog, IT/ENG
2019 Catalog of the Don Franco Patruno Prize for Italian young artists under 30 IT; Independent publication In sei atti+1, Fondazione Morra, IT; Dipartimento di Scultura catalog, ABANA, IT
2018 Riflessioni, 6th Biennial of Young Italian Photographers, Centro Italiano per la Fotografia d’Autore, p. 24, IT; 68th International Prize for Young Artists G.B. Salvi, catalog, IT/EN
COLLECTIONS
Museo Gaetano Filangieri, Naples, IT
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cento, Ferrara, IT
Quartiere Latino-Museo Condominio, Naples, IT