Pamela Diamante (Bari, 1985) Dal 2002 al 2007 ha prestato servizio nell’Esercito Italiano congedandosi con il grado di Caporal Maggiore; successivamente ha conseguito il diploma in scultura presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari nel 2016.
Attraverso diversi mezzi espressivi (audiovisivo, fotografia, scultura e installazione), esplora la relazione tra le classi sociali e le strutture di potere politico e finanziario. La sua pratica è concepita come un processo aperto e dinamico, configurandosi in opere/dispositivi in grado di interrogare la partecipazione dell’osservatore e di agire criticamente all’interno dei meccanismi culturali e antropologici della conoscenza, della produzione economica e della comunicazione.
Dal 2022 dirige il Focus Arte Contemporanea per il BIG Bari International Gender Festival, una sezione dedicata ad artisti internazionali le cui pratiche fondono arte e politica, tra cui: Franko B (2022); Regina José Galindo (2023); collettivo DEMOCRACIA (2024); Berna Reale (2025).
Pamela Diamante (Bari, 1985) served in the Italian Army from 2002 to 2007, leaving with the rank of Caporal Maggiore (Corporal Major). She later earned a diploma in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bari in 2016.
Through various expressive media including audiovisual works, photography, sculpture, and installation. She explores the relationship between social classes and the structures of political and financial power. Her practice is conceived as an open and dynamic process, taking shape in works/devices capable of questioning the viewer’s participation and acting critically within the cultural and anthropological mechanisms of knowledge, economic production, and communication.
Since 2022, he has been directing the Focus on Contemporary Art for the BIG Bari International Gender Festival, a section dedicated to international artists whose practices blend art and politics, including: Franko B (2022); Regina José Galindo (2023); the DEMOCRACIA collective (2024); Berna Reale (2025).
Education
2016 BA in Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Bari, Italy
Awards
2025 PAC – Plan for Contemporary Art, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, Pinacoteca Metropolitana Corrado Giaquinto, Bari, Italy
2022 Covivio Prize Miart, Milan, Italy
2019 Disruption, The Imprint of Man, Artists Development Programme, European Investment Bank Institute, Luxembourg
2018 Italy – Argentina for Art, IIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 Cambiamenti Prize, Palazzo Bastogi Consiglio, Florence, Italy
2015 Artistic Excellence Award, Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and AFAM, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Le Invisibili. Esistenze Radicali, Pinacoteca Metropolitana Corrado Giaquinto, Bari, Italy
2025
Le Mangiatrici di Terra, Galleria Gilda Lavia, Rome, Italy
2024
Turn Around [Revolution], Ultracontemporary Art Place, Bergamo, Italy
2022
Stato di flusso, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
Altra Natura, public art installation, Piazza Olivetti, Milan, Italy
2021
ASYNC, Galleria Gilda Lavia, Rome, Italy
2020
Le origini, la terra, il mare, Villa Comunale, Trani, Italy
2019
Welcome Apocalypse, Galleria Gilda Lavia, Rome, Italy
2018
Arte Fiera, Rossmut Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2017
Duemilasedici, The Open Box, Milan, Italy
2016
de sti no, Rossmut Gallery, Rome, Italy
On/Off, Centro de las Artes Visuales, Matanzas, Cuba
Group Exhibitions
2026
Malta Biennale, Heritage Malta, Valletta, Malta (upcoming)
ARCOmadrid, art fair, Madrid, Spain (upcoming)
2025
BIENALSUR, Brazilian Embassy, Rome, Italy
Life Art, MO.CA, Brescia, Italy
2024
Artissima 2024, Galleria Gilda Lavia, Turin, Italy
Cantieri Montelupo 2024, Fondazione Museo Montelupo Onlus, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy
2023
Carnet de Voyage, Fondazione per l’Arte, Rome, Italy
Io sono confine / I am border, Palazzo Grillo, Genoa, Italy
Artissima, Galleria Gilda Lavia, Turin, Italy
Terra Animata, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy
Italian Contemporary Art and Artists on the Silk Road
Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China
Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
2022
VarDigitalArt, PalaRiccione, Riccione, Italy
Collettiva #2, Monitor Gallery, Pereto, Italy
Miart, Galleria Gilda Lavia, Milan, Italy
Belonging – European Investment Bank EIB Art Collection, Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
Italian Contemporary Art and Artists on the Silk Road, Visual Art Gallery BU, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2021
ArtVerona, Galleria Gilda Lavia, Verona, Italy
Premio Michetti, Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
Roma Arte in Nuvola, La Nuvola Convention Center, Rome, Italy
Italian Contemporary Art and Artists on the Silk Road
Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
CerModern Arts Center, Ankara, Turkey
Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020
PERFORMING PAC MADE of SOUND, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Stasi frenetica, Museo GAM, Turin, Italy
Rilevamenti 2, CaMusAc, Cassino, Italy
Sta come torre, Museo Castromediano, Lecce, Italy
2019
Ritmo, Castiglia di Saluzzo, Saluzzo, Italy
Mother, I See Myself in Your Eyes, Concretespace, Miami, USA
2018
Artissima, Galleria Gilda Lavia, Turin, Italy
Stato stazionario, Centro di Ricerca Arte Contemporanea, Taranto, Italy
Code Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark
Club GAMeC Prize, ex Carcere di Sant’Agata, Bergamo, Italy
Il paradigma di Kuhn, FuoriCampo Gallery, Siena, Italy
2017
Open Studio, Kooshk Residency, Tehran, Iran
NESXT, Park-Carlina, Turin, Italy
Art Project Fair XII, Rossmut Gallery, Verona, Italy
La memoria e l’oggetto, Certosa di San Giacomo, Capri, Italy
Premio Matteo Olivero, Antico Palazzo del Comune, Saluzzo, Italy
Viafarini, Milan, Italy
2016
Premio Cambiamenti, Palazzo Bastogi Consiglio, Florence, Italy
TIVaF, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Art Project Fair XII, Verona, Italy
BNL Media Art Festival, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy
Quotidiana/16, Centro Altinate, Padua, Italy
2015
Maretti Prize, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
2014
Annizero, FAL, Bari, Italy
Residencies
2022 Come2Art, Brussels, Belgium / Gradisca d’Isonzo, Italy
2019 Artists Development Programme, European Investment Bank Institute, Luxembourg
2018 IIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 Kooshk Residency, Tehran, Iran
2017 VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Milan, Italy
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