Bio & Contact

Info and assignments: alessiarollo@gmail.com

Alessia Rollo

Alessia Rollo is a visual artist born in 1982 in South Italy where she lives and works.

She is interested ub social issues and  she deliberately mix a documentary approach with a factionary one.

Her projects are focused on Mediterranean where she works on contemporary issues in order to offer a personal point of view on this area andoften oriented to expand a sense of community through re-appropriation of histories, memories and visual material.

She got many international exhibitions in solo and group shows.

Solo Exhibitions

2025

“Parallel Eyes”: Ragusa Foto Festival, Ragusa, Italy

2024

“Parallel Eyes”: Biblioteca Herziana, Roma, Italy

“Parallel Eyes”: Spazio Bunker, Sassari, Italia

“Queer è ora”: Parco Bocconi, Milano, Italy

“Queer è ora” Biblioteca di Trani, Italy

“Parallel Eyes”: Radar Festival, Trani, Italy

“Don’t play with food”: Yeast Festival, Italy

“An endless day”: Agrino festival, Greece

“I nomi scritti sull’acqua”: Collateral Stella Maris, Italy

2023

“Soon the whale planet will dance”: Nanchino Museum, China

“Parallel Eyes”: Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy

“Parallel Eyes”: Pinacoteca e Museo del fuoco, Novoli, Italy

2021

“An endless day”,Gallery NetPlus, France

2020

“Fata Morgana”Italian Embassy, Madrid, Spain

2019

“How to build a temple, how to build the true”: Italian culture istitute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

“The Matter”: Santa Maria de Armenis, Matera, Italy

“The Matter”: Skalad, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

“Dialoghi Italiani”: Galeria Cero, Madrid, Spain

2018

“Fata Morgana”: See beyond the sea, PHest, Monopoli, Italy

“Fata Morgana”: Galleria Space Place, Nigni Tagil, Russia

“Fata Morgana”: Gallery Photograph, Tokyo, Japan

2015

MadPhoto Gallery “We eat what we are” – Madrid, Spain

2013

Teatri Koreja, Rassegna “Senso plurimo”, Lecce Italy

Galleria “MadPhoto” Madrid, Spain

2011

Festival di fotografia internazionale e arti visuali Lleida, Catalugna, Spain

Esposizione, Kikekeller OpenSpace, Madrid, Spain

2010

In-domestico, Galeria OFF, EFTI, Madrid.

In-domestico, UCA, Universidad de Cadiz, Sala Kúrsala, Cadice, Spain

Visio, Goethe Institute, Salvador de Bahia, Brasil

Group Exhibition

2025

“Female in Focus”, 10 14 Photography Gallery, London, UK

“Viva!”: Agrigento, Italy

2024

“Parallel eyes”: Mia art fair, Milan, Italy

2023

“Parallel eyes”: Mia art fair, Milan, Italy

“Parallel Eyes”: Museo Pino Pascali

 

“Parallel eyes”: Rakfaf fine art festival, Rak Al Khaima, Emirati Arabi

2022

“Parallel eyes”: Trajectories’: itinerary inspired by Tina Modotti Work. Italian Cultural Institute Mexico City

“Parallel Eyes”: Athene Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.

2021

“Parallel Eyes” Bitume Fotophest, Museo Castromediano di Lecce, Italy

“Parallel Eyes” Futuro Arcaico, Bari, Italy

“Parallel Eyes” Futuro Arcaico, Tirana, Albania

2020

“Fata Morgana” Mediterrean Fluxus, Naxos, Greece

2019

“Off Land. An ideal place, at least” PHotoEspaña, Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, Spain

“Belonging to the story” Museum of Photography of Helsinky, Finland

“Fata Morgana”: Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Atene, Greece

“Fata Morgana”: Encontro da Imagen, Braga, Portugal

“Fata Morgana”: Verzasca Foto Festival, Swizerlad

2018

Lens Culture Award, London Photo, Uk

PhotoEspaña Real Jardin Botanico, Spain

Arles Cosmos, France

Unseen Amsterdam, Netherland

Addis Fotofest, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia

2017

Mia Artfair, Milano, Italy

Set up Bologna Italy

“Urban layers”,Triennale di Milano, Italy

2016

Bitume Photofest, Malaga (Spain), Thesalonikky (Greece), Lecce (Italy)

Galleria Bluorg “Pieni e vuoti”, Bari Italy

2015

Biennal of Young Mediterrean artist, Fabrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy

Planar Gallery, Bari, Italy

2014

Esposizione “Frida en celo”, Galleria Art nit campos, Campos, Maiorca, Spain

Esposizione “Low art”, Galleria ARTcore Gallery, Bari Italia

2013

Esposizione “Beat 5”, Must museo storico: Lecce, Italy

Esposizione “Double”, Galeria Ars and Art; Galatina, Italy

Si fest off, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy

Books

2021

“An endless day” Edition de Juillet, France

2019

The MAtter, European Eyes on Japan, Japan

2019

Fata Morgana, Ediciones Anomalas, Spagna 

Residencies

2022

Return2Ithaca, Ithaca, Greece

2020

Istituto italiano di cultura, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2019

Festival der Regionen, Austria

2019

European Eyes on Japan, Mashiko, Japan

2019

Istituto italiano di cultura, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2013

Mo.ta, Museum of transitory art., Slovenia
2011

Default, Masterclass in residency, Lecce, Italy