Serena Vestrucci
Delving into the interstice of everyday experience and inspiring by unexpected encounters with common objects, the works of Serena Vestrucci (Milan, 1986) interrogate and transform the ordinary via a diverse range of artistic processes and language impositions. Fascinated by artifacts, situations, images, and materials from the everyday (like flags, crayons, fried calamari, seasonal fruits), the artist turns these elements into the subject and the feedstock of her artistic experience. By altering and shifting them to spheres of action different from their original context, Vestrucci focalizes on these elements, transforming their appearances and filling them with new connotations, in an instantaneous and illusory poetic, barely visible and yet only apparently simple. The outcome are works that, in their visual immediacy, overturn the perception of the artwork, modifying its semantic value and inviting the viewer to reimagine how we observe and interpret the surroundings. Imbued with a subtle irony toward contemporaneity, Vestrucci’s works probe the obviousness of small things, giving voice to what is often hidden, forgotten or sidelined. Through a playful, yet direct and provocative language, the artist elevates the ambiguity to a foundational element for a more accurate understanding of reality.
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, she moved to Venice, where she earned a master’s degree in Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Venice.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Renata Fabbri, Milan (2021); Gallery of Modern Art, Verona (2017); Archaeological Museum Antonio Salinas, Palermo (2017); Marsèlleria Permanent Exhibition, Milan (2016); Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa (2015); and Otto Zoo Gallery, Milan (2013). Her work has been featured in group shows at Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw (2022); Made in Cloister Foundation, Naples (2022); Imago Mundi Foundation, Treviso (2021); Pastificio Cerere Foundation, Rome (2020); Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa (2020 and 2015); Palazzo Del Medico, Carrara (2020); Michetti Foundation Museum, Francavilla al Mare, Chieti (2020); Casa Testori, Novate Milanese (2019); Blitz, Valletta, Republic of Malta (2019); Italian Cultural Institute, New York (2018); Italian Cultural Institute, London (2018); Santa Maria della Scala Museum, Siena (2018); Palazzo Reale, Milan (2017 and 2015); Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (2017, 2012 and 2010); FRISE Künstlerhaus, Hamburg, (2014); Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno (2014); Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin (2014); GAM Gallery of Modern Art, Milan (2012); Venetian Institute of Sciences, Humanities and Arts, Venice (2012); and Stedelijk Museum, The Netherlands (2011). In 2017 she won the 18th edition of Premio Cairo and she was selected by the City of Milan to conceive and produce a permanent work in the frame of the public art commission ArtLine Milano.
Delving into the interstice of everyday experience and inspiring by unexpected encounters with common objects, the works of Serena Vestrucci (Milan, 1986) interrogate and transform the ordinary via a diverse range of artistic processes and language impositions. Fascinated by artifacts, situations, images, and materials from the everyday (like flags, crayons, fried calamari, seasonal fruits), the artist turns these elements into the subject and the feedstock of her artistic experience. By altering and shifting them to spheres of action different from their original context, Vestrucci focalizes on these elements, transforming their appearances and filling them with new connotations, in an instantaneous and illusory poetic, barely visible and yet only apparently simple. The outcome are works that, in their visual immediacy, overturn the perception of the artwork, modifying its semantic value and inviting the viewer to reimagine how we observe and interpret the surroundings. Imbued with a subtle irony toward contemporaneity, Vestrucci’s works probe the obviousness of small things, giving voice to what is often hidden, forgotten or sidelined. Through a playful, yet direct and provocative language, the artist elevates the ambiguity to a foundational element for a more accurate understanding of reality.
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, she moved to Venice, where she earned a master’s degree in Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Venice.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Renata Fabbri, Milan (2021); Gallery of Modern Art, Verona (2017); Archaeological Museum Antonio Salinas, Palermo (2017); Marsèlleria Permanent Exhibition, Milan (2016); Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa (2015); and Otto Zoo Gallery, Milan (2013). Her work has been featured in group shows at Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw (2022); Made in Cloister Foundation, Naples (2022); Imago Mundi Foundation, Treviso (2021); Pastificio Cerere Foundation, Rome (2020); Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa (2020 and 2015); Palazzo Del Medico, Carrara (2020); Michetti Foundation Museum, Francavilla al Mare, Chieti (2020); Casa Testori, Novate Milanese (2019); Blitz, Valletta, Republic of Malta (2019); Italian Cultural Institute, New York (2018); Italian Cultural Institute, London (2018); Santa Maria della Scala Museum, Siena (2018); Palazzo Reale, Milan (2017 and 2015); Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (2017, 2012 and 2010); FRISE Künstlerhaus, Hamburg, (2014); Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno (2014); Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin (2014); GAM Gallery of Modern Art, Milan (2012); Venetian Institute of Sciences, Humanities and Arts, Venice (2012); and Stedelijk Museum, The Netherlands (2011). In 2017 she won the 18th edition of Premio Cairo and she was selected by the City of Milan to conceive and produce a permanent work in the frame of the public art commission ArtLine Milano.

- Serena Vestrucci, Testa di cavolo, 2021Bronze, four months, 21x21x20 cm.
Edition of 5+2 ap. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Testa di cavolo , 2021Bronze, four months, 16x16x18 cm.
Edition of 5+2 ap. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Testa di cavolo, 2021Bronze, four months, 15x15x26 cm.
Edition of 5+2 ap. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Testa di cavolo, 2021Bronze, four months, 16x16x18 cm.
Edition of 5+2 ap. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Testa di cavolo, 2021Bronze, four months, 22x22x14 cm.
Edition of 5+2 ap. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Testa di cavolo, 2021Bronze, four months, 12x12x14 cm.
Edition of 5+2 ap. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Testa di cavolo, 2022Bronze, six weeks, 18x16x16 cm.
Edition of 5+2 ap. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Testa di cavolo, 2021Bronze, six weeks, 15x15x14.
Edition of 5+2 ap. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Testa di cavolo, 2021Bronze, four months, variable dimensions.
Edition of 5+2 ap. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Chi riempie paga e i cocci sono suoi, 2012Reinforced glazed ceramic (plus internal metal framework), nine months, 58 cm (diameter).
Ph. Delfino Sisto Legnani - Serena Vestrucci, Fried calamari, forever, 2015Casting in bronze of two fried squid rings, subsequent gold plating bath, five months, 6x5,5x4,5 cm. Edition of 7+3 ap. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Strappo alla regola, 2013European flag canvas, cotton thread, four days, 100x110 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Strappo alla regola, 2013European flag canvas, cotton thread, four days, 100x110 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Strappo alla regola, 2013European flag canvas, cotton thread, four days, 100x110 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Strappo alla regola, 2013European flag canvas, cotton thread, four days, 100x110 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Notte in bianco, 2017B&W photo prints, fabric, frame, three days,
27,5x22,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Notte in bianco, 2015B&W photo prints, fabric, frame, three days,
26,5x20,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Notte in bianco, 2017B&W photo prints, fabric, frame, three days,
23,5x17 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Notte in bianco, 2015B&W photo prints, fabric, frame, two days,
27x22,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Notte in bianco, 2023Anonymous photos, wool, two days, 50x40 cm
- Serena Vestrucci, Notte in bianco, 2023Anonymous photos, wool, two days, 80x60cm
- Serena Vestrucci, Notte in bianco, 2023Anonymous photos, wool, two days, 60x40 cm
- Serena Vestrucci, Il momento in cui prima o poi si comincia a leccare per andare avanti, 2012Licking on canvas, acrylic, two days, 35x28 cm.
Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Batter d’occhio (0024), 2023Eye-blinks on canvas, tempera, one week, 130x185 cm
- Serena Vestrucci, Batter d’occhio, 2022Eye–blinks on canvas, tempera, four days, 60,5x40,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Batter d’occhio, 2022Eye–blinks on canvas, tempera, one week, 100x100 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Batter d’occhio, 2022Eye–blinks on canvas, tempera, four days, 40,5x60,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Batter d’occhio, 2022Eye-blinks on canvas, tempera, two days, 45x35 cm.
Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2018Eyeshadow on canvas, 35x25 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2014Eyeshadow on canvas, two days, 30x20 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2017Eyeshadow on canvas, five days, 30x24 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2020Eyeshadow on canvas, three days, 90x60 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2020Eyeshadow on canvas, three days, 90x60 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2020Eyeshadow on canvas, two days, 50x40 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2014Eyeshadow on canvas, two days, 45x35 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2018Eyeshadow on canvas, three days, 50x35 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2022Eyeshadow on canvas, three days, 100x70 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2022Eyeshadow on canvas, three days, 100x70 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2016Eyeshadow on canvas, two days, 50x40 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2022Eyeshadow on canvas, two days, 45x35 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2018Eyeshadow on canvas, seven days, 40x30 cm (dyptich).
Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2018Eyeshadow on canvas, three days, 25x35 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Trucco, 2020Eyeshadow on canvas, ten days, 255x200 cm.
- Serena Vestrucci, Ritagli di tempo, 2023Cropped book, one week, 31,5x49,7x4,5 cm
- Serena Vestrucci, Ritagli di tempo, 2022Cropped book, three weeks, 26x48,5x5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Ritagli di tempo, 2022Cropped book, two weeks, 48,5x23,5x5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Ritagli di tempo, 2021Cropped book, two weeks, 46x28x5,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Ritagli di tempo, 2020Cropped book, one month, 25,5x38,5x7,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, La dimensione del sonno, 2019Pen on pillowcase, fourteen nights, 80x50 cm. Ph Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, La dimensione del sonno, 2019Pen on pillowcase, ten nights, 80x50 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, La dimensione del sonno, 2019Pen on pillowcase, seven nights, 60x60 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, La sfera quando diventa piatta, 2011Hand-cut paper sheet, markers, about 20 minutes, 21x30 cm (circa). Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, La sfera quando diventa piatta, 2011Hand-cut paper sheet, markers, about 20 minutes, 21x30 cm (circa). Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, La sfera quando diventa piatta, 2011Hand-cut paper sheet, markers, about 20 minutes, 21x30 cm (circa). Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, La sfera diventa piatta, 2011Hand-cut paper sheet, markers, about 20 minutes, 21x30 cm (circa). Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, La sfera quando diventa piatta, 2011Hand-cut paper sheet, markers, about 20 minutes, 21x30 cm (circa). Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, La sfera quando diventa piatta, 2011Hand-cut paper sheet, markers, about 20 minutes, 21x30 cm (circa). Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Season earring, 2017Electroforming with silver 1000, five months, 6.5x5.5x2.5 cm. Edition of 4. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Season earring, 2017White bronze, five months, 6.5x5.5x2.5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Season earring, 2017Bronze, five months, 6.5x5.5x2.5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
- Serena Vestrucci, Vedovelle e Draghi Verdi, 2015-2017Permanent installation composed of ten bronze sculptures for the Contemporary Art Park ArtLine Milan. Produced by Comune di Milano, CityLife Spa, MM Metropolitana Milanese Spa, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia.
Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Vedovelle e Draghi Verdi, 2015-2017Permanent installation composed of ten bronze sculptures for the Contemporary Art Park ArtLine Milan. Produced by Comune di Milano, CityLife Spa, MM Metropolitana Milanese Spa, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia.
Ph. Alberto Fanelli - Serena Vestrucci, Vedovelle e Draghi Verdi, 2015-2017Permanent installation composed of ten bronze sculptures for the Contemporary Art Park ArtLine Milan. Produced by Comune di Milano, CityLife Spa, MM Metropolitana Milanese Spa, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia.
Ph. Alberto Fanelli

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- Serena Vestrucci
Palazzo Merulana, Rome
Mar 25 – May 21, 2023
Curated by Joanna De Vos and Melania Rossi

- Serena Vestrucci
PRIMO PIANO Palazzo Grillo
Mar 4 – Apr 8, 2023
Curated by Pierre Dupont with Anna Daneri

- Serena Vestrucci
January 12th, 2023
MAXXI Rome

- Serena Vestrucci
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
Galleria di piazza San Marco
Curated by Stefano Coletto
Oct 7 – Dec 4, 2022