BEATRICE SPADEA




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Projects and exhibitions

WEAVINGS

I CARRY THE FOREST INSIDE
batik and eco print on silk

CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A VOICE
ceramic sound sculptures 

MUTAFORMA
Papier-mâché sculptures 

ERBARI
batik on silk

FOREST REVERIE 
works on paper

CURSES, SPELLS AND OTHER MAGICS
duo show with Elisa Bertaglia (2024)

NOTES FROM ANOTHER WORLD 
solo show (2023)

SITE SPECIFIC WORKS 

PAPER SCULPTURES 


Limited Editions

Inner Maps, 2025
Textile series
Available here

Rivedere la foresta, 2024
Limited Edition Print

Surreal Landscapes, 2023
Limited Edition of scarves

BEATRICE SPADEA
b.1995
Italy





Beatrice Spadea’s practice explores the intersections of imagination, perception, and memory, investigating how these dimensions shape our experience of the world. Her work moves through spaces where dream, fantasy, and poetry emerge, opening reflective and alternative perspectives.

Her earlier works engaged with shared natural and cosmic symbols, which formed the starting point of her research. Over time, her focus has shifted toward a sensory crisis and a growing estrangement from the natural world, and how this disconnection shapes inner life and perception. The forest often appears as a central presence, understood as both a physical and psychic space of renewal, coexistence, and resonance.

At the core of her current practice are textile works developed through batik-dyed silks and hand-assembled pieces on a loom. Through slow, process-based techniques, she explores themes of identity, transformation, and voice, allowing forms to frag- ment, shift, and reorganize. Ceramic sculptures and sound operate in dialogue with the textile works, extending the investigation of resonance and presence. Through these materials, she seeks to awaken perception and build an imaginary ecosystem where matter and sound reconnect us with the living world.





Solo (2024)The Portal of Timeless Dreams, temporary public installation, Via Borgonuovo 1, Milan

(2023) Notes From Another World, solo show, Galleria Martina Corbetta, Giussano, MB

(2021) One Step Closer to the Sky, solo show JC Gallery Mayfair, London - England




Selected group exhibitions (2025) Seamspells, Forci Art Foundation, Tenuta di Forci, Lucca, LU
(2025) Mondi Sottili, Studio DeTales, Milano, MI
(2024) Curses, Spells and Other Magics, di Elisa Bertaglia e Beatrice Spadea Galleria Marti- na Corbetta, Giussano, MB
(2022) Roots Of Day, group show, JC Gallery Mayfair , London - England
(2022) C.R.A.C. Crepe, Rotture, Alterazioni e Cicatrici, group show Artiglieria, Contemporary Art Center, Torino, TO





Awards
(2023) ArtPrize 2023, group show, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US
(2022) Combat Prize 13° Edition, group show, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno
(2021) Arte Laguna Prize 15° Edition, group show Arsenale, Venezia 
(2020) Winner of Nice&Fair Contemporary Visions Paratissima, Torino





Residencies
(2025) Forci Art Foundation, Textile Art residency, Tenuta di Forci, Lucca





Education (2015-2018) Bachelor’s Degree in Painting, Three-Year Program – Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera






Last Updated 04/02/2026
Photo © Cosimo Filippini



Bestiario Notturno, 2024
batik on pongee silk, 125x400 cm

For Curses, Spells, and Other Magics, a two-person exhibition (2024), I presented some of my first batik works. At that time, my research was focused on the study of herbals and bestiaries, sources where observation, symbolism, and imagination coexist.

One of the earliest batiks I realized was
a large-scale silk piece, four meters long, unfolding into an imaginary forest. From a distance, it evokes a nocturnal landscape; as one approaches, surreal elements gradually emerge. It is the moment when imagined creatures leave their hidden shelters and come into view. Moving closer, it becomes immediately clear that this is not a real forest. Leaves and plants draw inspiration from medieval herbals, while some images reference illustrations from the Voynich Manuscript.

I have always been fascinated by the way reality and imagination intertwine, how one continuously shapes and transforms the other. In these early works, the forest already appeared as a threshold space: a place where knowledge slips into speculation, and where the visible opens onto the unknown.







Photo © Cosimo Filippini

Danza Magica, 2024
batik on pongee silk, 205x140 cm





Photo © Cosimo Filippini



Florilegio, 2024
batik on pongee silk, 45x30 cm





Photo © Cosimo Filippini



Notturno, 2024
batik on pongee silk, 166x100 cm





Photo © Cosimo Filippini



Beatiario Notturno, 2024
batik on pongee silk, 38x22 cm



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