| Tanya Leighton is pleased to announce the representation of Luisa Rabbia, whose work has been the subject of major exhibitions at Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Fondazione Merz, Turin, curated by Beatrice Merz; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, curated by Pieranna Cavalchini; and Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, San Gimignano, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. Luisa Rabbia is one of the most quietly significant figurative artists to have emerged from Italy in the last three decades. Her work occupies the space between lived experience and broader historical and political structures, drawing on literary sources and current events as equally generative material. She trained in Turin in the 1990s, in close proximity to the Arte Povera movement, absorbing its spirit while finding her own formal language. Since relocating to New York in 2000, Rabbia has adopted drawing as a primary and adaptable form of expression that allowed her to experiment with accumulative fields of mark-making, expanding through sculpture, video animation, installation, and ultimately into large-scale painting. The density of her mark-making carries a kind of physical logic, each line a record of force and duration, building toward something that exceeds the personal without leaving it behind. Through sustained attention to the psychological and social dimensions of human experience, Rabbia’s figures carry temporality, interiority, and spiritual resonance — giving form to identity, migration, loss, and resilience as conditions that are at once deeply personal and broadly collective; transcendent, yet always embedded within the living world and its systems of connection. Selected solo institutional exhibitions include Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2017); Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires (2010); Fondazione Merz, Turin (2009); Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (2009); Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2008); and GAM&C, San Gimignano (2005). Selected institutional and major group exhibitions include Meridians, Art Basel Miami Beach, curated by Yasmil Raymond and presented by Peter Blum Gallery (2025); Museo della Permanente, Milan (2025); Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (2025); Studio Museo Felice Casorati, Pavarolo, Turin (2024); Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (2022); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2024, 2021); Magazzino Italian Art Foundation, Cold Spring, New York (2020); Manifesta 12, Palazzo Drago, Palermo (2018); Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2018, 2008); Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2019, 2014); Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland (2016); Fondazione Merz, Turin (2015); Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York (2015); Maison Particulière, Brussels (2014); Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge (2013); and Museo del Novecento, Milan (2012). The gallery will present new works by Luisa Rabbia at Art Basel in June, ahead of her first solo exhibition this September during Berlin Art Week. With thanks to David and Peter Blum for the introduction and their collaboration. For further information, please visit her page on our website or contact us at info@tanyaleighton.com / +49 (0) 30 2197 2220. |
| Image: Luisa Rabbia, The Woods, 2026, oil on linen. Photo: Gunter Lepkowski. |
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