Nazzarena Poli Maramotti was born in Montecchio Emilia, in 1987. She got a Panting Degree in the Urbino Academy of Fine Arts and in the Nürnberg Academy of Fine Arts.
Her first institutional solo exhibition is Jardin Planétaire (2025), held at Palazzo da Mosto, Reggio Emilia, curated by Silvia Bottani.
Nazzarena Poli Maramotti has received several awards and distinctions as an artist, including the Mediolanum Painting Prize (2019), the Debütantenförderung of the State of Bavaria (2016), and the Euromobil Under 30 Prize (2014).
His works have been exhibited in Italian and international institutions, including the Triennale di Milano; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Palazzo del Governatore, Parma; Antico Mercato, Syracuse; Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna; MAC, Lissone; Morat Institut, Freiburg im Breisgau; Neues Museum, Nuremberg; and Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg
A+B Solo show
2024, La danse des faux pas. Un rituel
2016, Wanderdüne 57°38’53”N 10°24’22”E
2012, Portraits. Anatomia di un ritratto
Group show
2013, Between Signs and Measure
2013, Oltre il pensiero. Quattordici ricerche attraverso la materia
Nazzarena Poli Maramotti’s work develops through a constant oscillation between gesture and form. Her paintings emerge from layered colour and gestural interventions, creating dense, dynamic surfaces from which recognisable elements—figures, fragments of landscape, natural forms—appear. These references remain unstable and partial, poised on a threshold where the mark coalesces into an image, only to dissolve again.
Her practice is rooted in the painting process itself: broad brushstrokes, shifts in rhythm, and a continuously moving surface make the evolution of the image visible as it unfolds. Her engagement with traditional subjects—portrait, landscape, and still life—serves as a point of departure for exploring relationships between colour, light, material density, and visual construction. The repetition of these subjects reduces narrative weight, allowing her to focus on the possibilities of painting, working through addition and subtraction while keeping the subject minimally recognisable.