September, 07th 2025
Exhibition spread to Ameno, on Lake Orta.
CARS – Residential Project for Artists in the Cusio Area, based in Omegna.
In particular, for the current 2024 edition, as part of the AMENO QUADRIBORGO project, the research residencies will focus on the Franciscan Convent of Monte Mesma – Digitized Library.
The digitization of the Monte Mesma convent library’s collection was completed in May 2023, with a selection of the most significant texts of theological and homiletic character, typical of a convent, as well as humanistic works of literary value, such as Ripa’s Iconologia (a cornerstone in the history of art, not only Italian) and the Margarita Poetica.
May-June 2025
IL CORPO GRIDA QUELLO CHE LA BOCCA TACE
A group exhibition curated by Yari Miele. Ex Tintostamperia Val Mulini. Como. Italy.
Il corpo grida quello che la bocca tace is the title chosen for the exhibition held in the spaces of the former Val Mulini dyeing and printing factory in Como, featuring artists of various nationalities and students. The exhibition stands as a radical reflection on the concepts of temporality and corporeality—two fundamental elements of our existence. Within the exhibition, artworks will be nullified, transcended, and perhaps even dismantled.
Il corpo grida quello che la bocca tace , a quote from filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, is not just a title but a declaration of intent: an inevitable investigation into the disintegration of the certainties we have built around our perception of the physical and temporal world. In this space, art becomes a tool for exploration and understanding—an invitation to engage with the complexity of our present, to be surprised, and to discover new ways of interpreting a reality in constant flux.
November 2025
The installation within Campo quadro features the work Skin_Roman Walls, a large wall relief that echoes parts of the Roman walls of the city, commissioned by Gaius Julius Caesar in 59 BC, along with the work Expanded_Self III, a sculpture partially made from the same material that reveals the presence of a Michelangelo-like face. The silicone rubber, which preserves the form during the creation of the work, reveals itself as it opens. The ancient, both in the wall piece and in the sculpture, serves as a tool for understanding the contemporary.
The exhibition project is realized with the collaboration of: Municipality of Como, Department of Culture, Civic Museums of Como, Accademia Pliniana, Galleria Ramo, and Centro Studi Casnati, and benefits from the patronage of the National Committee for the Celebrations of the two thousand years since the birth of Pliny the Elder.
December 2024
Brigantia, a group show of a project curated by Annika Pettini, c/o careof, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan. Italy. Ph Diego Mayon.
Brigantia is a story that started to grow in 2020, during a suddenly slow moment, and that has unfolded in time and space ever since, reaching this present form, which is not a conclusion but a part of the process. Edited by Boîte Editions.
July 2024
CARS – Residential Project for Artists in the Cusio Area, based in Omegna, founded and directed by Lorenza Boisi and Andrea Ruschetti, presents CARTOGRAFIA SENSIBILE, project that stems from an idea by Lorenza Boisi, aiming at a sentimental, artistic, and poetic exploration of the Verbano Cusio Ossola area and its various distinctive features—natural, geographical, socio-historical, and anthropic, at different levels and degrees.
In particular, for the current 2024 edition, as part of the AMENO QUADRIBORGO project, the research residencies will focus on the Franciscan Convent of Monte Mesma – Digitized Library.
The digitization of the Monte Mesma convent library’s collection was completed in May 2023, with a selection of the most significant texts of theological and homiletic character, typical of a convent, as well as humanistic works of literary value, such as Ripa’s Iconologia (a cornerstone in the history of art, not only Italian) and the Margarita Poetica. Valuable 16th-century choral books have also been digitized. Exposition of the realized projet will be visible on September, 2025.
07.2023
silicon rubber, nails
250 x 150 cm
Como, the city where I have lived for about 15 years, is founded on Roman walls built by Gaius Julius Caesar in 59 BC. Parts of the ancient walls that defined the city of Novum Comum still exist today, often not visible to the public, inside private gardens and homes. Part of them are the foundations of a building founded in 1773 and still home the Alessandro Volta classical High School.
The president of the Accademia Pliniana in 2023, the year in which the city of Como celebrates the two
thousandth anniversary of the birth of its most illustrious Roman citizen Pliny the Elder, invited me to create a work that reflects on the origins of the city while opening a dialogue between the present it is gone. My idea was to focus attention on the subject of the walls kept inside the courtyard of the Volta High School. By creating a skin of silicone rubber, I sealed the texture of those ancient walls forever. Not only. The work recounts the passage of time thanks to the dirt that has clung to the rubber.
The transferred traces bring with them the signs, like scars and the shades of color, like the stains of an old lady, tired but proud. The solidity of these precious walls that have spanned the centuries still stand there today, waiting for them to be made worthy of our contemporary gaze.
13.05 - 16.07.2023
IN THE FLESH:
INTIMATE PERSPECTIVES ON THE COLLECTIVE
Lucrezia Costa, Ilaria Cuccagna, Gianna Dispenza
text by Edoardo Durante
An exhibition in Galleria Ramo that presents the interpretation of the human figure, as a complex and multifaceted identity. Different hybrids and multidisciplinary practices can be seen as the starting point for a tension that takes shape in the sensitive and intimate sphere of an individual.
17.12.2022 - 05.02.2023
An exhibition in Galleria Ramo that presents an intimate selection of artists specially chosen by two founders and by the seven represented artists.
15.06.2022
PELLE CRUDA I ILARIA CUCCAGNA
An artbook published on occasion of Pelle Cruda exhibition thanks to Fondazione Museo Mecrì.
Graphic designer: Ilaria Pittassi.
Texties by: Pettini, Stephani and Morinini Pe.
Photo credits: Cuccagna, Rava, Caporale, Galleria Ramo, Archivio UBC-SA, Rogantini Temperli.
Translation: Patricia Hampton
Printed by: Mastergraph spa
22.03.2022
PELLE CRUDA I ILARIA CUCCAGNA
The first exhibition of 2022 at the Fondazione Museo Mecrì, features artworks by the artist Ilaria Cuccagna (*1981, Cesena). The exhibition begins with a homage to an archaeological discovery by Aldo Crivelli in 1946 of an ancient bronze foundry storeroom in Arbedo (Ticino) dating back to the Iron Age. Connecting and creating an archaeological dialogue; a common action and a reflection through the materials, such as bronze, with Ilaria Cuccagna’s works. The exhibition is curated by Diego Stephani, in collaboration with Annika Pettini.
21.04.2022
UN TEMPO LUNGO
Galleria Ramo, in collaboration with Matèria, is pleased to present a double solo show: Un tempo lungo, by Ilaria Cuccagna and Giulia Marchi.
04.11.2020
ART VERONA DIGITAL 2020
ILARIA CUCCAGNA & GIANNA DISPENZA
Galleria Ramo is pleased to participate, in its first fair, with a project by two emerging artists represented by the gallery:
Ilaria Cuccagna (b.1981, Cesena, IT)
Gianna Dispenza (b.1990, Portland USA)
14.10.2020
INROADS
ILARIA CUCCAGNA
A video project for Galleria Ramo curated by Annika Pettini.
"We ask ourselves what beauty is, looking into what remains of our eyes, we wonder about the direction to take. The splendor leads us to silence, contemplation, a change of breath and emotion.It is a space in which we can exist, it is misunderstanding and therefore a stimulus, the possibility of experiencing our spiritual and bodily senses."
05.06.2020
DA IERI A OGGI
LINEE DEL CONTEMPORANEO IN TICINO
LA COLLEZIONE
Through a hundred works Museo d’Arte di Mendrisio collection presents a multi-colored exhibition, marked by diversity. My work acquired by the Macconi Foundation will be exhibited on this group show.
20.02.2020
URBAN CORPORIS
THE CITY AND THE SKIN
Urban Corporis, the city and the skin is a book of architecture, art, philosophy and urban studies to nourish the urban body. The book contains my work MIGRATIO, Mdina-Valletta.