Marinella Senatore

Marinella Senatore was born in Italy in 1977. She currently lives and works in Berlin.

She has been Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She attended the National Film School in Rome, the Fine Art School in Naples, and is graduated with a degree in Art at the University of Castilla-La Mancha where she is completing her PhD. 

Marinella Senatore is a filmmaker and artist, she works with video, photography, drawing, installation and sound; in her projects, often developed in collaboration with institutions, museums, and universities, she attempts to involve entire communities in the creative process. The viewer becomes participant, and the hierarchy between the artist as author and the public as recipient can be questioned and rewritten.

Connecting personal events with collective processes, fact and fiction, history and chronicle, her work fosters the construction of an archive of shared narratives that create a sense of community. 

Her work has been exhibited widely in Italy and abroad, including among others ILLUMINATIONS, 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice; DUBLIN CONTEMPORARY, Dublin; 11th HAVANA BIENNAL; Moscow International Biennale 2012; MACRO Museum, Rome; Riso Museum, Palermo; MADRE Museum, Naples; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and more.                       

In 2011 she won the fellowship of American Academy in Rome; in 2010 the New York Prize, the XXI Bellisario Award and Terna Prize; in 2009 she won the scholarship of Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris for the ArtOmi International Artists Residency, NY.