"My work unfolds like an image that opens on the depths of a living body, offering the viewer an inner experience. It is a meditation on the birth of forms and the different times of the artwork, from fabrication to destruction, to constitute a cycle of metamorphoses. My pieces are baroque entities thought as living architectures, activated by performances, or simply by the wandering of the visitors. They are elaborated in a back-and-forth movement from the structure to the surface, from the skeleton to the drapery, according to a ritualized process of creation, which participates in the meaning and the poetry of the forms that it generates."

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Born in 1986, Thionville, France
Lives and works in Paris, France

Few key dates

2007 DNAP (with the congratulations of the jury), École nationale supérieure d’art de Nancy. 
2010 Diplomed from the Beaux-arts de Paris (with the congratulations of the jury). Grant at the Beaux-arts of Paris and Takasago, Japan.
2011 32nd international prize of the Takifuji Foundation, Japan.
2012 Rothschild Fundation’s grant, Paris.
2017 Participate in the exhibition Intériorités, Centre d’art Labanque, Béthune ;  "ATM Tempo", Hermès Fundation ; Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan. 
2018 Participate in the exhibition Encore un jour banane pour le poisson rêve, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
2019 Personnal exhibition À cœur battant, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Arras ; Residency LVMH Métiers d’art, Manifattura Renato Menegatti, Villaverla, Italy. 
2020 Fabrica, 1st personnel exhibition at the Galerie Papillon, curator Léa Chauvel-Lévy.
2021-2023 Residency at l'Atelier Vermorel and creation of works for the Maison Vermorel, City and Agglomeration of Villefranche-sur-Saône

Recent press

"Sabrina Vitali's bold work is the very expression of what undermines the baroque body. Not only the sculptures she proposes to us are of a definitive fragility, not only the relations of these sensualities with our bodies bring us to the future anthropy, but the impossibility in which she puts us to be able to enjoy the permanence of things is a major metaphysical statement." Jean de Loisy, 2011

"Sabrina Vitali has been chosen for the 4th LVMH Métiers d'art artist residency. She was offered a work on metal at the Menegatti factory in Veneto. The result is works of great poetry that reveal a floating world, in constant metamorphosis." Patricia Boyer de Latour in Connaissance des arts, January 2020


Solo exhibitions

2024
À travers les paupières closes, Galerie Papillon, Paris

2020
Fabrica, curator : Léa Chauvel-Lévy, LVMH Métiers d'art, Galerie Papillon, Paris

2019
À cœur battant, curators : Mélanie Lerat and Grégory Fenoglio, L'être lieu et Musée des Beaux-arts d'Arras 

2018
Disclosure, Beppu, Japan
Journey through a body, curator : Jean Baptiste Lenglet, in collaboration with Adrien Grigorescu, Virtual Dream Center

2017
Mémoire du soleil, Centre d'art Pollen, Monflanquin
Aveuglement, Centre d'art Pollen, Monflanquin

2016
Anatomic Sun, Galerie Ya Gins, Maebashi, Japan
Le soleil se montrant l'entrebâillement d'une porte à deux battants, Musées de Sens

2015
Dévoilement, Centre d'art l'Yonne en scène, Collège des Champs Plaisants, Sens

2013
À une madone, curator : Katy Alliou, Belvédère du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris

2010
Porca Miseria, Beaux-Arts de Paris


Group exhibitions

2023
Experience Pommery #17: Forever, Domaine Pommery, Reims

2020
4 solos 1 expo, Galerie Papillon, Paris
Claustrum, Galerie Edouard Escougnou, Paris

2018
Vertiges, curator : Léa Bismuth, last part of the trilogy La Traversée des Inquiétudes Centre d'art Labanque, Béthune
Encore un jour banane pour le poisson rêve, curator : Sandra Adam-Couralet, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2017
Intériorités, curator : Léa Bismuth, 2nd part of the trilogy La Traversée des inquiétudes Centre d'art Labanque, Béthune

ATM tempo, exhibition of Emmanuel Saulnier, curator : Rieko Setsuda, Foundation Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan 

2016
Tensions, Galerie Geraldine Banier, Paris 

2015
Miroir d'ombres, Art Exprim, Paris
Opening studio, Centre d'art Maeb Ashi Works, Maeb Ashi, Japan

2014
AIMS, Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild, Paris
Aphrodisia, curator : Sinziana Ravini, Galerie Delesalle-Hourton, Paris

2013
Ornicar, Galerie du CROUS, Paris

2012
Apparition, ENSCI-Les Ateliers, Paris
Question de goût, curator : Yann Lapoire, Guyancourt

2011
Le vent d'après, curator : Jean de Loisy, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Anésidora, Beaux Arts de Paris

2008
Jeune sculpture contemporaire, curator : Philippe Cyroulnik, ÃŽle Nancy, Andrésy

2007
Recto-Verso, Galerie de Beaux-Arts de Metz


Awards

2023
Prix Balzac pour la création contemporaine, nommé en duo avec Mallory Gabsi

2012
Bourse des Fondations de Rothschild, Paris

2011
32ème Prix Internationale de la Fondation Takifuji, Japon

2010
Bourse Beaux-arts de Paris et Takasago, Japon 


Residences & Grants

2021-2023 
Residency at l'Atelier Vermorel and creation of works for the Maison Vermorel, City and Agglomeration of Villefranche-sur-Saône

2019
Residency LMVH Métiers d’art, Manifattura Renato Menegatti, Villaverla, Italy

2018
Residency Beppu Project, Beppu, Japan
Residency L’être lieu, Arras.

2017
Residency Centre d'art Pollen, Monflanquin

2016
Residency Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes du Patrimoine, Sens

2015
Residency Art Center Maeb ashi Works, Maeb ashi, Japan
Residency Art Center Yonne en scène, Perrigny

2012
Residency AIMS, Ecole Jules Vallès, Saint-Ouen
Foundations Rothschild's Grant, Paris

2010
Grant of Beaux-arts de Paris and Takasago, Japan


Collections

Collections LVMH


Studies

2007
DNAP, with congratulations of the jury, École Nationale Supérieur d'art de Nancy

2010
DNSEP, with congratulations of the jury, École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Paris, atelier Emmanuel Saulnier Séminaire Danse et Arts Plastiques conducted by Daniel Dobbles

2012
Master Creation and Contemporanean Technology, École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle - Les Ateliers, Director : Patricia Ribbault

2013
Diploma AIMS, Recognized by State