Self-portrait as an aztec statue with dog nose and eagle headpiece, 2023, drawing and collage with graphite and oil pastel from handmade carbon paper, on Taiwanese gampi paper, cm 155 x 118
Marta Roberti (Brescia, 1977) lives and works in Rome.
After graduating in Philosophy in Verona, she graduated in Multimedia art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera. Drawing is her main medium and she declines it in installations and animated videos through which she explores the relationship between East and West, studying and reworking the myths and their representation. Her artistic production has always found inspiration in the idea that the ego has no boundaries and that it is not only human.
Her most recent solo exhibitions include: Rivelazioni, curated by Morgane Lucquet Laforgue, Museo di Sant'Orsola, Florence (2024); Dior Cruise A/W 2024, curated by Paola Ugolini & Maria Alicata, Musée Rodin, Paris (2023); Cuando era Ahora, ICC Mexico, CDMX (2023) and Cose che non accaddero mai ma che sempre sono, curated by Ilaria Mariotti, Villa Pacchiani, Centro Espositivo, Santa Croce sull'Arno (2023). She has participated in numerous international exhibitions and festivals, the most recent: Why look at animals?, EMΣT, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (Upcoming, May 2025); Acquisizioni. Da Parmigianino a Kentridge, curated by Maura Picciau, ICG, Rome (2024); Naturae. Ambienti di arte contemporanea, curated by Melania Rossi, Scuderie e Parco del Castello di Miramare, Trieste (2024); L'animale che dunque sono, VIII edizione, Festival del Paesaggio di Anacapri, curated by Arianna Rosica and Gianluca Riccio, Anacapri (2024); Diorama. Generation Earth, curated by Chiara Gatti and Elisabetta Masala, MAN, Nuoro (2024); Hovering, curated by Manuela Lietti, Capsule Venice, Venice (2024), Infinita Infanzia, curated by Saverio Verini, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto (2024); L'Oro Blu, curated by Leonardo Regano, Museo dei Bronzi Dorati e della Città di Pergola, Pergola (2024); AGUA QUE QUEMA, curated by Karla Niño de Rivera, Anahuacalli Museum, CDMX (2023); Ipercorpo: InPresenza, curated by Davide Ferri in collaboration with Miral Rivalta, EXATR, Forlivese Arena (2023); VITA NOVA, A New Life, curated by Myna Mukherjee & Davide Quadrio, Alankar Gallery and Gyan Museum, Jaipur, India (2022).
In 2020 she won the Cantica Award, and her work Bestiary of the Other World became part of the collection of the National Institute of Graphic Arts.