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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The Passer River
South Tyrol - Italy
2021

Stretching for 42 km, the Passer stream is one of the major tributaries of the Adige in the province of Bolzano.
The common thread of the images of this photographic “marathon” is sound, that which is generated by the waters of the Passer, and not the sight of the river.
The course of the river has become a trace for me, a path to follow to immerse myself in a familiar territory with the spirit of an explorer, avoiding fixed rules, preconceptions or prejudices. By “losing myself” through the Passeier Valley, without a well-defined project, I simply reactivated my curiosity, letting myself be surprised by chance, finding even in apparently common and ordinary things ideas for analysis and observation that have progressively suggested new insights and interesting deviations or retreats.
As it has been increasingly the case for me, it was the final phase of this alienating exploration, reviewing and selecting the images, which inadvertently gave me a few mental short circuits generated by sequences or combinations of images unconsciously interlinked and curiously assonant, in form, colours and, of course, sounds.
Assonanze
Alto Adige - Italia
2021

Con una lunghezza di 42 km il torrente Passirio è uno dei maggiori affluenti dell'Adige nella provincia di Bolzano.
Il filo conduttore che lega tra loro le immagini di questa "maratona" fotografica è il suono, quello generato dalle acque del Passirio, e non la vista del fiume.
Ecco che il corso del fiume è divenuto per me una traccia, una pista da seguire per immergermi in un territorio già noto, con lo spirito di un esploratore, rifuggendo regole fisse, preconcetti o pregiudizi. "Perdendomi" lungo la val Passiria, senza un progetto ben definito, ho semplicemente riattivato la mia curiosità, lasciandomi stupire dalla casualità, trovando anche nelle cose apparentemente banali ed ordinarie spunti di analisi e di osservazione che di volta in volta hanno suggerito nuove intuizioni ed interessanti deviazioni o ripiegamenti.
Come sempre più spesso mi accade, è stata la fase che chiude il cerchio di questa esplorazione straniante, ovvero quella di revisione e di selezione delle immagini, a regalarmi inavvertitamente piccoli corti circuiti mentali generati da sequenze o abbinamenti di immagini tra loro inconsciamente legate e curiosamente assonanti, per forme, colori e, naturalmente, suoni.
Assonances
Südtirol - Italen
2021

Mit 42 km Länge ist die Passer einer der größten Nebenflüsse der Etsch in der Provinz Bozen.
Der rote Faden, der die Bilder dieses fotografischen 'Marathons' verbindet, ist nicht der direkte Blick auf den Fluss, sondern das Geräusch, das das Wasser der Passer erzeugt.
Für mich ist der Flusslauf zu einem Weg geworden, einem Pfad, dem ich folge, um in ein Gebiet einzutauchen, das ich bereits kenne, mit dem Geist eines Entdeckers, ohne feste Regeln, Vorurteile oder Vorverurteilungen. Als ich mich im Passeiertal “verirrte”, ohne einen klar definierten Plan zu haben, liess ich mich durch meine Neugier leiten, ließ mich vom Zufall überraschen und fand selbst in den scheinbar banalen und gewöhnlichen Dingen Einsichten und Beobachtungen, die von Zeit zu Zeit neue Eingebungen und interessante Abweichungen oder Umwege nahelegten.
Wie so oft war es die Phase, in der sich der Kreis dieser entfremdenden Erkundung schließt, d.h. die Phase der Durchsicht und Auswahl der Bilder, die mir ungewollt kleine mentale Kurzschlüsse bescherte, die durch Sequenzen oder Kombinationen von Bildern erzeugt wurden, die unbewusst miteinander verbunden waren und in Bezug auf Formen, Farben und natürlich Töne seltsam assonant waren.

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Exhibitions

PALAIS MAMMING MUSEUM
Meran (BZ) - Italy
Solo Exhibition: 23 June 2022 - 28 July 2022

KUNSTRAUM MITTERHOFER
Innichen (BZ) - Italy
Solo Exhibition: 15 Juli 2023 - 06 October 2023

Book

Curated by: Marco Cillis
Pages: 82
Pictures: 60
Size: 230x160 mm
Print: CYMK Digital
Binding: Paperback sewn thread
Paper: Fedrigoni Materica Ardesia 250 gr/mq - Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum White 140 gr/mq
Printed by: MEDUS Druckwerkstatt - Meran (BZ) - Italy

Limited edition of 100 exemplars (© 2022 Nicola Morandini) - OUT OF STOCK

Press

Review “FranzMagazine” - Contemporary Culture in the Alps - by Francesca Fattinger

Il Fotografo


Radio Interview - "ZEPPELIN" with Paolo Mazzucato - 23.06.2022 RAI BZ (from minute 48 onward) 




The sense of wandering Nicola Morandini conveys in this photographic project is only apparent, with its sudden shifts in rhythm often changing the pace and the sonorous world of each location accompaying every shot.
Instead, it leads one on a sort of secular – yet highly spiritual – pilgrimage of exploration, in which each stop is part of a larger semiological investigation of the valley and is represented by progressive dual focusses that reveal undiscovered relations, whispering unsuspected subtexts. We call them assonances, but they are the mixture between the deeper structure of the Passeier Valley and the result of an anthropic presence at times mimetic, as the fisherman amidst the rocks, at other times distracted, at others rapacious, almost always an accomplice to nature: a sequence of imperfect rhymes that open to the imaginary.
What is it that ties the rusty pieces of iron soaring over the foam of the stream to the furrows that time has dug in the rock? Why does a cloud reflected in the water accompany a pile of gravel in the middle of a medow? By what logic does a freshly shorn alpaca coexist with a monstrous wooden creature sprung from the river? The rules of the game are simple and can be traced back to the coexistence of similar rhythmic sequences resolved with heterogeneous materials, or to the proxemics of the subjects portrayed, or to the ability to suggest or evoke common archetypes or – as for the abandoned hotel – to tell the relationship between the interior and the external through the same object. Photographs tell stories that have yet to be written, or rather that are written in ever changing characters in the eyes of those who behold them and accept to be accompanied by the echo of the Passer, flowing nearby.
Walking is clearly an aesthetic practice, as is the moment one rests – which coincides with a shot – and the wonderous moment in which the landscape reveals itself to our eyes at the apex of a fluvial synaesthesia: the rhythm of the water leaping weirs in rapid sequence or the vague crystalline roar of a whirlpool or the lively gait among the emerging rocks, when the water takes on an aeriform consistency and seems to set on the observer’s skin, giving him a sense of cool relief.
Between the Timmelsjoch and the city, the narrative force of the stream submits images that lend themselves to limitless interpretative keys; there is even a bathing suit entangled in the foliage of a shrub, but that's another story ...

Marco Cillis
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