Isabella Ducrot

1931

Born in Naples, Italy

Lives and works in Rome, Italy

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Isabella Ducrot – 2024, Belenius Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden         More and more, Galerie Mezzazin, Geneva, Switzerland                          WEAVING IS HUMAN. Isabella Ducrot... and the textile collections of the Museum of CivilizationsMuseo della Civiltá, Rome, Italy     bad flowers, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany                 Remembering flowers, Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street, London, England

Vegetal Devotion, Sandra and Giancarlo Bonollo Foundation for Contemporary Art, Vicenza, Italy
No Words
, Petzel, New York NY, USA

2023

Sessions Arts Club, London, England
La Grande Bella Terra
, Cranford Collection, London, England
La Bella Terra
, Villa San Michele, Capri, Italy
La Bella Terra
,MAXXI, Palazzo Ciampoli, Taormina, Italy
Love and Flowers
, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva, Switzerland
other things
, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England
II Miracoloso, T293, Rome, Italy 

2022

NOTHING IS BIGGER, Belenius, Stockholm, Sweden

Tendernesses, Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway 

2021

Il Miracoloso, organized by Galeria T293 and Collezione Aggovino, San Giuseppe delle Scalze, Naples, Italy

Tendernesses, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany 

2020

Opere a ripa, T293, Rome, Italy 

Subjects, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva, Switzerland 

2019

Big Aura, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany 

with Claire de Virieu, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

La bella terra, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany 

2018

In Tibet, Spazio Parlato, Palermo, Italy 

2016

Eden, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

Isabella Ducrot - Mishima. Hanjo. Letture 5, diagonale/librogalleria, Rome, Italy 

2015

Effimero, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy 

2014

Galleryske, New Delhi, India 

Bende sacre, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

Interior Daytime, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

2010 Vasi, Galleria Monty & Company, Rome, Italy 

Suoni sensi segni, Piomonti Artecontemporanea, Rome, Italy 

2008

Variazioni. Ritratti d’autore di Isabella Ducrot, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

Le commencement du monde, Galleria Monty & Company, Rome, Italy 

Russian Faces, City University of New York, New York NY, USA, curated by Diane Kelder 

La matassa primordiale, Galleria Carlo Virgilio, Rome, Italy 

2005

Montagne, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Berlin, Germany 

2002

Cancion de libertad. Le strade della ricerca sulle donne, Spalti del Maschio Angioino, Napels 

Memorie di una terra, Milan State Archives, Milan, Italy 

2001

Rimpianto dei Budda di Bamyan, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

Realms, Egizio's Project, New York NY, USA 

Fra dentro e fuori, Casa delle Letterature, Rome, Italy 

1999

Galleria Extra Moenia, Todi, Italy 

1998

Bianca di pelle, Galleria Carlo Virgilio, Rome, Italy

1997

Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Madrid, Spain 

1994

Palazzo del Popolo, Orvieto, Italy 

Galleria Bonomo, Rome, Italy 

1992

Galleria Kouros, New York NY, USA 

1991

Oeuvres rècentes, Atelier Catherine Willis, Paris, France

1989

Galleria Sauro Bocchi, Rome, Italy 

1988 Studi Barozzi, Milan, Italy 

Istituto di Cultura, Stockholm, Sweden 

1985

Libreria della Galleria Giulia, Rome, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Sweet Sixteen, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany             

2023

Zweigstelle Capitain III, Naples, Italy

Women artists. Paths in graphics from the twentieth century to today, Central Institute for Graphics, Rome, Italy

Super Super Markt, Berlin, Germany

2022

The Drawing Centre Show, Le Consortium, Dijon, France, curated by Franck Gautherot, Seungduk Kim, Tobias Pils & Joe Bradley 

Ecco s’incontrano, Zweigstelle Capitain, Rome, Italy 

Omlette papier, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany 

Swim the mountain, climb the sea, Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2021

Art and Nature, Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy 

Painting Stone, Fondazione Dino ed Ernesta Santarelli, Villa Lontana, Rome, Italy 

Io dico Io – I say I, Galleria Nazionale, Rome, Italy 

Silent Transformations, BID21ART Biennale, Internazionale Donna, Trieste, Italy, curated by Gabriela von Habsburg 

Therein /Thereof / Thereto, Standard, Oslo, Nowich, curated by Eivind Furnesvik

2020

Seven- Up, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany 

3D, MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

room enough for former teasers, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany, curated by Marcel Hiller, Christof Lötscher and Marco Zeppenfeld 

Art Cologne at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

2019 Japonismes, Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Paris, France 
2018

Triptychs, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

2017

Japonismes, Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Paris, France 

Homage, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

A.I. Prove tecniche di trasmissione, Caserme Guido Reni, Rome, Italy

2016

Il sangue delle donne, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy, curated by Manuela De Leonardis 

Connections, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

2015

L’altra metà dell’arte. Un percorso al femminile nella collezione MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy

2013 Partita doppia, Nuova Galleria Campo dei Fiori / Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 
2011

L’Arte non è cosa nostra, Italian Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi

2010

Diorama letterario. Arte e ambiente, 61st Michetti Price, Museo Michetta, Francavilla al Mare, Italy

2009

Donne di Roma, Auditorium, Rome, Italy

2006

57th Michetti Price, Francavilla al Mare, Italy

2004

Epicentro, Akhenaton Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 

OutArt, Villa Sgaravatti, Rome, Italy 

Tre!, L’officina arte al borghetto, Rome, Italy 

Stracci, Galleria Navona 42, Rome, Italy 

Artivisive Teofilo Patini, Teofilo Patini Price, Castel di Sangro, Italy

2003

Art Woman, Castello Carlo V, Lecce, Italy 

Le opere e i giorni, Certosa S.Lorenzo, Padula, Italy

2001

Donne di polso, Associazione Culturale Marcello Rumma, Rome, Italy

2000

Il Viaggio, l’Immagine, Galleria Franca Mancini, Pesaro, Italy 

Kouros Gallery, New York NY, USA 

Maison de Balzac, Paris, France 

Carissime nemiche, Il Politecnico Arte, Rome, Italy 

1999

Balzac e l'Italia, Bologna; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy 

EMM - Eventi multimediali, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

1998

Disidentico, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo; Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy 

Lavori in corso, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy, curated by Giovanna Bonasegale 

Della densità del silenzio, Galleria Navona 42, Rome, Italy 

1997

Babele III, German Academy, Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy 

Arte Contemporanea, Lavori in corso, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

Della densità del silenzio, Galleria Navona 42, Rome, Italy 

1996 Art for All, Food and Agriculture Orgaization, Rome, Italy 

Cultura-Scrittura, I miei libri, Osterio Magno, Palermo, Italy 

L’arte è donna, Art Gallery, Rome, Italy 

1995

Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, 21st Biennale, Ljubljana, Slovenia 

Galleria Bonomo, Bari, Italy 

Guepiére, Galleria Guido Novi, Rome, Italy

1994

Art et jeans, Reliefs minimax, Passage de Retz, Paris, France

1993

Straniati Stracci, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy 

Italian Pavilion, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva

1990

Galleria Franca Mancini, Pesaro, Italy 

International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, 1st Biennale, Kōchi, Japan

1987

Galleria Florence Quelien, Rome, Italy 

Segno, colore, spazio, atmosfere romane, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy, curated by Federica di Castro 

1986

Ofelia '86, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris, France 

Projects

2023

Sessions Arts Club, Clerkenwell, London

2019

In mappa compescere risum (music by the class of Moritz Eggert), libretto, Nuova Consonanza, Teatro, Palladium, Rome, Italy 

2016

MISHIMA - Hanjo (music by Marcello Panni), stage design, Teatro Palladium, Rome, Italy

2012

Le quattro stagioni, stage design, Teatro Politeama, Lecce, Italy

2009

Serenata a tre, stage design, Teatro Olimpico, Rome, Italy

2005

Miseno e Cuma (produced by Bruno Amman), mosaics, MetroNapoli, station Piazza Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy

2003

Premio le signore dell'Ippica, Premio Lydia Tesio, Capannelle Racecourse, Rome, Italy

2002

Gran ballo di Ferragosto (organized by the city of Rome), Rome, Italy 

La Maschera d'Oro (organized by the city of Rome), Rome, Italy

1998

Le donne nelle Forze Armate, conference, State University, Milan, Italy

1997

Flamenco y Kathak, stage design, Teatro Olimpico, Rome, Italy 

1995

Festival del Suono, stage design, Orvieto, Italy

1994

Il costume mediterraneo, seminar, Gibellina, Italy

1992

Festa di San Rocco, tapestry, Gibellina, Italy

Public Collections

        

Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway

Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy

MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland 

Le Consortium, Dijon, France