Carmela De Falco
Naples, Italy / 1994
Lives and works in Naples
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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: 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: 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.

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