Bea Bonafini is an interdisciplinary artist based between London and Barcelona. Her practice traces the currents between past, present and future through painting, tapestry, sculpture, and drawing.

Rooted in cross-cultural mythology and archaeology, with a particular focus on Mediterranean identity, her work explores origin stories and ancient metamorphoses. Across her practice, symbols and textures shift, dissolve, and reassemble, tracing the hidden threads that connect human experience across time.

Through extensive material research informed by context and sustainability, her work shapes narratives that are at once intimate and monumental. It celebrates collective memory and imagination across time, reweaving them into new mythologies for the contemporary era.

Selected Exhibitions

Recent solo exhibitions:
Luminescence, Renata Fabbri, Milan (2024); Acque Amare, ALA Art Foundation (2023); Il Chiostro Animato, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome (2022); A Monstrous Fruit, Setareh, Berlin (2022); Animals Of Your Lips, Bosse & Baum, London (2022); Unearthly, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg (2022); Ghosts for a Post-Modern Tale, LAAA, Mexico City (2022); Luna Piena (Stomaco Vuoto), Renata Fabbri, Milan (2021); Sfiorare Fantasmi, Eduardo Secci, Florence (2021); Twin Waves, Operativa, Rome (2019); Chimère, Chloe Salgado, Paris (2018); Shed Shreds, Lychee One, London (2018); and Dovetail’s Nest, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2017).

Recent group exhibitions:
Manifesta 15, Barcelona (2024); Diario Notturno, MAXXI, L’Aquila (2023); Italian Painting Today, Triennale Milano (2023); Imagina, Biennale di Gubbio (2023); Horizon of the Void, Artocène, Chamonix (2023); Coppa di Stelle nel Cerchio del Sole, Palazzo Abatellis Museum, Palermo (2022); Fondazione per l’Arte, Rome (2022); Kristen Hjellegjerde, London (2022); The Artsy Vanguard Fourth Edition, Miami (2021); Fondazione Sandretto, Guarene (2020); Premio Cairo, Palazzo Reale Milan (2019); and Memories Arrested in Space, The Italian Cultural Institute, London (2018).