Artist Name: Virginia Ariu
Residency Dates: September – October 2025
Born: 1992
Hometown: Turin, Italy
Lives & Works: Zürich, Switzerland
URL: virginiaariu.com | Instagram @vd6
Gallery: City Galerie Wien, Vienna
Education:
2017 – MA in Visual Arts, Écal, University of Art and Design Lausanne, CH
2015 – BFA in Painting, Albertina Fine Arts Academy, Turin, IT
Bio/Statement:
Virginia Ariu’s intersectional practice spans sculpture, photography, collage, painting, and readymades, drawing inspiration from personal explorations in literature, current events, art history, and beyond. These diverse influences often converge in immersive installation displays. Ariu’s solo exhibitions include Exercises of Abstraction, Sentiment, Zürich, CH (2025); Miart Art Fair, duo booth with Olivia Coeln, (with City Galerie Wien) Milan, IT (2025); What’s Got into Me, City Galerie Wien, Vienna, AT (2024); What Where / Was Wo, with Vittorio Santoro, Lighthaus, Zurich, CH (2024); End No. 1, Come Over Chez Malik’s, Hamburg, DE (2021); The Brink, Almanac Projects, Turin, IT (2020), Pierced, Forgo, Berlin, DE (2020); House Show, Brooklyn, New York, US (2019).
Ariu has also participated in group shows, such as Pretty People, Windhager von Kaenel, Zug (2024); Everything Tends to Ascend (Part II), Nonada Gallery, Rio de Janeiro (2024); Everything Tends to Ascend (Part I), Société Interludio, Turin (2024); Bureau Bollito, Robert Walser Zentrum, Bern (2024); EMOZIONALE 3 Part 2, City Galerie Wien, Vienna (2023); Didactic Poetry, Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn (2023); Fourth Wall, Hamlet, Zürich (2022); Wäre ich Feuer, würde ich die Welt wegbrennen, Foundation BINZ39, Zürich (2022); La Chambre, Düsseldorf Photo+, Visual and Sonic Media Biennial, Düsseldorf (2022). She has also taken part in art residencies at La Becque in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland (2023), Sihl Delta, Zürich (2022), and SOMA Summer in Mexico City (2017).
