About
Nicola Morandini has always been dedicated to exploring the territory, discovering the beauty and uniqueness of the ordinary.
He develops photographic projects with a preference for medium format analogue, often imposing voluntary spatial and temporal limitations on himself in search of synthesis and essentiality.

Since 2015, Nicola Morandini has been a member of the 00A Centre for Contemporary Photography, founded by fellow photographers and friends Christian Martinelli and Andrea Salvà to foster dialogue around contemporary photographic culture. He’s involved in the project Analogue Attitude, conceived by the collective 00A.
       
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Solo Exhibitions
Kronplatz>12
Galleria Gusmeri Fine Art
Brescia (Italy)
2025

The Light Within The Shadow
PEA Pedagogy Ecology and the Arts Conference
Meran (Italy)
2025

Kronplatz>12
00A Gallery
Trento (Italy)
2024

The Passer River Project
Kunstraum Mitterhofer
Innichen
(Italy)
2023

The Passer River - Assonances
Palais Mamming Museum
Meran (Italy)
2022

Moon Landing
00A Gallery
Meran (Italy)
2020

Corti_Circuiti
Studio DoDiCi
Brescia (Italy)
2016

Eppur c’è luce nei miei pensieri
Casa Basaglia Haus
Meran (Italy)
2008
Group Exhibitions
ECO. Verso un’ecologia della mente
Macello/Teatro Pratiko,
BAW (Bozen Art Weeks)
Bolzano (Italy)
2025

Double Face
with Claudia Dolci
Cantine di Torre Mirana
Trento (Italy)
2025

Catalogo Aperto 2025
Centro Trevi
Bolzano (Italy)
2025

Exposure Time
00A Centre for Contemporary Photography
Meran (Italy)
2025

GLUE Itinerant | Urban | Culture
Arci Bolzano-Bozen 
BAW (Bozen Art Weeks) 
Bolzano (Italy)
2024

EDEN (Junk city)
Filmclub, Capitol Garden 
BAW (Bozen Art Weeks) 
Bolzano (Italy)
2024

Artists for Meran-0
Palais Mamming Museum 
Meran (Italy)
2022

Galleria Popolare
BAW (Bozen Art Weeks) 
Bolzano (Italy)
2021

00A Photo Project
00A Gallery
Meran (Italy)
2018

Bye Bye for Now
00A Gallery
Meran (Italy)
2017

Vie Emilia. Un chilometro
SI-FEST
Savignano sul Rubicone (Italy)
2012

Altstadt(Er)Leben
Kunst Merano Arte 
Meran (Italy)
2009
Awards
Catalogo Aperto 2025
Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano
Ufficio Cultura della Ripartizione Cultura italiana
Artoteca
2025
Books
Kronplatz>12
by 00A Centre for Contemporary Photography
ISBN-A: 10.979.12210/82098
Limited edition of 100 exemplars
2024

The Passer River - Assonances
by 00A Centre for Contemporary Photography
Limited edition of 100 exemplars
2023

Moon Landing
by 00A Centre for Contemporary Photography
Limited edition of 30 exemplars
2020

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Nicola Morandini        
Topographical
Photography
“We should always answer to the invitation of the maps, believe in their promises, cross the country and stay for a few minutes at the border of the territory to close inauspicious chapter”.

Sylvain Tesson, On the Wandering Paths, 2018“Dovremmo sempre rispondere all’invito delle carte, credere alle loro promesse, traversare il paese e sostare qualche minuto al confine del territorio per chiudere i capitoli infausti.”

Sylvain Tesson, Sentieri neri, 2018„Man sollte immer der Einladung der Karten folgen, an ihre Verheißungen glauben, das Land durchqueren und an der Grenze verweilen, um ein unheilvolles Kapitel zu schließen.“

Sylvain Tesson, Sur les chemins noirs, 2018

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Kronplatz ►12
South Tyrol - Italy
2021

Nicola Morandini’s work exemplifies the very vocation of 00A: a 12-exposure medium-format roll, shot, developed, printed, and framed by the photographer himself. Yet its relevance lies not only in its entirely analog technical approach, but in the attitude that Morandini brings to his artistic practice—an attitude that defines him as “00A”: an attentive, patient, slow, and latent way of working; a devotion to detail; a subversion of the everyday; a poetics of the unexpected; an aesthetics of immateriality.
Kronplatz ►12
Alto Adige - Italia
2021

Il lavoro di Nicola Morandini incarna la vera vocazione di 00A: un rullino medio formato da dodici pose, scattato, sviluppato, stampato e incorniciato dallo stesso fotografo. La sua rilevanza, tuttavia, non risiede soltanto nell’approccio tecnico interamente analogico, ma anche nell’attitudine che Morandini porta nella propria pratica artistica—un’attitudine che lo definisce come “00A”: un modo di lavorare attento, paziente, lento e latente; una devozione per il dettaglio; una sovversione del quotidiano; una poetica dell’inatteso; un’estetica dell’immateriale. 
Kronplatz ►12
Südtirol - Italen
2021

Die Arbeit von Nicola Morandini verkörpert die eigentliche Berufung von 00A: eine 12-Aufnahmen-Mittelformatrolle, vom Fotografen selbst aufgenommen, entwickelt, gedruckt und gerahmt. Ihre Bedeutung liegt jedoch nicht nur im vollständig analogen technischen Ansatz, sondern auch in der Haltung, mit der Morandini seiner künstlerischen Praxis begegnet—eine Haltung, die ihn als „00A“ auszeichnet: eine aufmerksame, geduldige, langsame und latente Arbeitsweise; eine Hingabe zum Detail; eine Subversion des Alltäglichen; eine Poetik des Unerwarteten; eine Ästhetik des Immateriellen.
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Exhibitions

00A GALLERY
Trento (TN) - Italy
Solo Exhibition: 12 October 2024 – 03 November 2024
Nell'ambito della 20.Giornata del Contemporaneo 2024 promossa da AMACI.

GALLERIA GUSMERI FINE ART
Brescia - Italy
Solo Exhibition: 19 September 2025 – 07 November 2025

Book

Curated by: Carla Cardinaletti
Contributors: Andrea Salvà, Carla Cardinaletti, Marco Cillis
Pages: 56
Size: 230x160 mm
Print: CYMK Digital
Binding: Paperback sewn thread
Paper: Fedrigoni Materica Cobalto 250 gr/mq - Fedrigoni Arena Smooth Extra White 140 gr/mq
Designed by: Nicola Morandini
Printed by: MEDUS Druckwerkstatt - Meran (BZ) - Italy
ISBN: 979-12-210-8209-8
ISBN-A: 10.979.12210/82098

Limited edition of 100 exemplars (© 2024 00A Centre for Contemporary Photography)

Award

CATALOGO APERTO 2025
Centro Trevi
Bolzano (BZ) - Italy
Award and Collective Exhibition: 13.06.2025 – 05.08.2025

“KRONPLATZ ►12 is a tribute to Light—captured, stored, guarded, handled, mastered, and finally returned by Morandini with unmatched care and skill. The twelve photographs are the result of a journey that began in August 2021 on the Ried–Gipfel cable car in Val Pusteria, ascending to over 2,000 meters on Plan de Corones, and ultimately finding their destination in Trento in 2024.
The photographs exhibited at 00A Gallery reveal the dialogue between light and shadow that Morandini, as their bearer, offers us: the light impressed at Kronplatz is kept in darkness inside the roll of film stored in the Morandini–Schwarz home refrigerator, and only later emerges under the red bulb of the Merano darkroom, where the negative becomes positive through the enlarger. Long before the photosensitivity of the paper materializes the photographer’s gaze—channeled through his Mamiya 6—there is the sensitivity of the artist himself, able to rest his eyes on the everyday and reinterpret it through unexpected visions. The latency of the images in his photographic projects resides first and foremost in his imaginative capacity.

With KRONPLATZ ►12, Morandini traces the circularity of the Plan de Corones panorama—one of South Tyrol’s quintessential tourist destinations—while subverting its vocation. Through his metonymic sequence he returns a non-place, where the human trace, as if by enchantment, remains only hinted at, wrapped in an immaterial atmosphere. The spatial limits of the film become a metaphor for human movement within a suspended natural environment in which nothing can be clearly traced back to its context, yet everything feels familiar. The analog photographer’s own sense of time reverberates through the works he presents: timeless shots in which the viewer’s eye, searching for the visible, ultimately surpasses it". 

Carla Cardinaletti
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