Bea Bonafini
Bea Bonafini (Bonn, 1990) lives and works between London and Rome. She received a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2014, and a MA in Painting form the Royal College of Art, London, in 2016. She works across painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, tapestry and textiles, expanding their corresponding formal interrelationships. Bonafini’s interdisciplinary practice draws from oneiric visions, overlapping personal and ancient mythologies. Her tactile, intimate worlds center around sensuality, vulnerability and fantasy, forming swirling scenarios that are fragmented and multi-layered. Figures are evanescent and transcendental, referencing spiritual imagery where fluid bodies collide, disperse, swim, fly and fall, openings to encounters between the earthly and the otherworldly. Holistic perspectives are developed in close dialogue with architecture, where space is approached as an extension to the work to envelop the viewer. Bonafini’s solo exhibitions include Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg (2022); Bosse & Baum, London (2022 and 2019); Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome (2022); Setareh Gallery, Berlin (2022); LAAA (Laboratorio de Arte, Arquitectura y Arqueología), Mexico City (2022); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2021 and 2018); Eduardo Secci, Florence (2021); Operativa, Rome (2020); Chloe Salgado, Paris (2019); Lychee One Gallery, London (2018); Zabludowicz Collection, London (2017); and Fieldworkds Gallery, London (2017). She has participated in group exhibitions at JARILAGER Gallery, Cologne (2022); Cob Gallery, London (2021); Larsen Warner, Stockholm (2020); Rolando Anselmi, Berlin (2019); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2018), amongst others. Residencies include: Palazzo Monti, Brescia (2021); Rosa Lee Travel Grant, British School at Rome (2020); Abbey Scholarship, British School at Rome (2019–20); La Berlugane-Maleki Residency and Commission Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France (2019); Platform Southwark Studio Residency, London (2018), Fibra Residency, Colombia (2018); Fieldworks Studio Residency, London (2017); Villa Lena, Toiano, Italy (2016); and The Beekeepers Residency, Castro Marim, Portugal (2015).
Bea Bonafini (Bonn, 1990) lives and works between London and Rome. She received a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2014, and a MA in Painting form the Royal College of Art, London, in 2016. She works across painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, tapestry and textiles, expanding their corresponding formal interrelationships. Bonafini’s interdisciplinary practice draws from oneiric visions, overlapping personal and ancient mythologies. Her tactile, intimate worlds center around sensuality, vulnerability and fantasy, forming swirling scenarios that are fragmented and multi-layered. Figures are evanescent and transcendental, referencing spiritual imagery where fluid bodies collide, disperse, swim, fly and fall, openings to encounters between the earthly and the otherworldly. Holistic perspectives are developed in close dialogue with architecture, where space is approached as an extension to the work to envelop the viewer. Bonafini’s solo exhibitions include Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg (2022); Bosse & Baum, London (2022 and 2019); Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome (2022); Setareh Gallery, Berlin (2022); LAAA (Laboratorio de Arte, Arquitectura y Arqueología), Mexico City (2022); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2021 and 2018); Eduardo Secci, Florence (2021); Operativa, Rome (2020); Chloe Salgado, Paris (2019); Lychee One Gallery, London (2018); Zabludowicz Collection, London (2017); and Fieldworkds Gallery, London (2017). She has participated in group exhibitions at JARILAGER Gallery, Cologne (2022); Cob Gallery, London (2021); Larsen Warner, Stockholm (2020); Rolando Anselmi, Berlin (2019); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2018), amongst others. Residencies include: Palazzo Monti, Brescia (2021); Rosa Lee Travel Grant, British School at Rome (2020); Abbey Scholarship, British School at Rome (2019–20); La Berlugane-Maleki Residency and Commission Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France (2019); Platform Southwark Studio Residency, London (2018), Fibra Residency, Colombia (2018); Fieldworks Studio Residency, London (2017); Villa Lena, Toiano, Italy (2016); and The Beekeepers Residency, Castro Marim, Portugal (2015).

- Bea Bonafini, Burst From My Lips, 2022Gouache and watercolor on cork, 154x141x3.5 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Slippages, 2022Gouache and watercolor on engraved cork, 40x40x3 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Crush, Crushed, 2022Gouache and watercolor on cork, 78x90 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Courtship Ritual I, 2021Graphite on paper, 39x29,6x2,5 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Courtship Ritual II, 2021Graphite on paper, 39x29,6x2,5 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Prey, Pray, 2021Pastel on Sennelier card, 66x55 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
- Bea Bonafini, Air Unrevelling, 2021Pastel on Sennelier card, 66x55 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
- Bea Bonafini, Pulse, 2022Pastel on Sennelier card, 66x55 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Tumble-Dry, 2021Pastel on Sennelier card, 66x55 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
- Bea Bonafini, Everything is Alive, 2021Pastel on Sennelier card, 65x55 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
- Bea Bonafini, See Through, 2021Pastel on Sennelier card, 66x55 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
- Bea Bonafini, My soul losing itself in other souls, 2020Pastel on mixed carpet inlay, 200x125 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
- Bea Bonafini, Il Trionfo, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, 480×265 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Birds Fled From Me, 2022Pastel on mixed carpet inlay, 180x150 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Tomb Diver IV, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 200×100 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Tomb Diver IV, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 200×100 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Shape-Shifting II, 2018Pastel on wool and nylon carpet inlay, 290x420 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Let It All Out, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, 200×265 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Shape-Shifting V, 2018Pastel on wool and nylon carpet inlay, 178x218 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Bodyless, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 55×45 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Sinking Sleeper, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 55×45 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Sinking Sleeper II, 2018Pastel on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 50x40 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Silent Strengths, 2022Hand-dyed and tufted bamboo silk, 200x140 cm

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- Bea Bonafini,
- Andrea Martinucci,
- Serena Vestrucci
Oct 14 – 16, 2022
Main Section
Pav. 12 – Booth H7

- Bea Bonafini
Feb 1-4, 2019
Main Section
Pav. 25 – Booth A57

- Gaia De Megni
Apr 10-16, 2023
In all subway stations, Milan

- Tim Etchells
La Triennale, Milan
Mar 30 – Apr 2, 2023
Created by Tim Etchells and Ant Hampton