Bea Bonafini is an interdisciplinary artist based between London and Barcelona. Through painting, tapestry, ceramics, and drawing, she explores the fluid boundaries between states of being. Her work exists in a state of flux, adapting to its context, mirroring the way identities are never fixed but continuously reshaped by experience and place.

Bonafini’s practice crosses cultures, where symbols and materials intermingle, dissolving rigid distinctions. Her works act as living surfaces—unstable, fragmentary, and in perpetual transformation—where images, gestures, and textures migrate, shedding their original meanings to reappear in new, unexpected forms. Through a process of layering and reconfiguration, she revives cross-cultural mythologies, allowing them to merge and dissolve into contemporary, personal narratives.

Shifting between monumental and intimate scales, her works become transient sanctuaries, protected spheres that act as receptacles for a lost spirituality. Strongly influenced by archaeology and literature, she constructs a space where histories, myths, and identities are continuously dismantled and reassembled, embracing the fluid nature of our shared existence.

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).