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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Moon Landing
Pantelleria - Italy
2019

The research that Nicola Morandini presents under the title Moon Landing is the outcome of an exploration— as often occurs in his work—through the alphabet of a place: the island of Pantelleria. His shots are measured syntagms of a broader phrasing, allowing us to decipher a territory by reconstructing its boundaries, its identifying features, the textures of its building materials—an operation that goes beyond narration and creates space for the viewer to build interpretive paths rooted in their own lived experience.
Moon Landing
Pantelleria - Italia
2019

La ricerca che Nicola Morandini presenta sotto il titolo di Moon Landing è l’esito di un’esplorazione- come spesso avviene nel suo lavoro- attraverso l’alfabeto di un luogo, l’Isola di Pantelleria. I suoi scatti sono misurati sintagmi di un fraseggio più ampio che ci permettono di decifrare un territorio, ricostruendone i confini, i caratteri identitari, le texture dei materiali da costruzione, in un’operazione che va oltre la narrazione, che dà spazio all’osservatore di costruire percorsi interpretativi che pescano nel vissuto di ognuno. 
Moon Landing
Pantelleria - Italien
2019

Die Arbeit, die Nicola Morandini unter dem Titel Moon Landing präsentiert, ist das Ergebnis einer Erkundung – wie so oft in seiner Praxis – durch das Alphabet eines Ortes: die Insel Pantelleria. Seine Aufnahmen sind präzise gesetzte Syntagmen eines größeren Bildgefüges, die es ermöglichen, ein Territorium zu entziffern: seine Grenzen, seine identitätsstiftenden Merkmale und die Texturen der Baumaterialien. So entsteht eine Arbeit, die über reine Narration hinausgeht und dem Betrachter Raum lässt, eigene Interpretationswege zu entwickeln, gespeist aus dem persönlichen Erleben.
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Exhibitions

00A GALLERY
Merano (BZ) - Italy
Solo Exhibition: 24 January 2020 – 06 March 2020

Book

Curated by: Marco Cillis
Pages: 24
Size: 210x210 mm
Print: CYMK Digital
Paper: 250 g Bilderdruck matt
Binding: staple stitching
Insert: removable 15x15 cm analogue photograph (carta ILFORD MULTIGRADE IV RC)
Limited edition of 30 exemplars (© 2020 Nicola Morandini) - OUT OF STOCK

Press

Il Giornale di Pantelleria

Il Fotografo

Francesco Levi

Pantelleria is a complex text, far from the common imaginary that turns an island in the middle of the sea into a locus amoenus to aspire to. It is an austere island when seen through the eyes of a tourist: no beaches, a persistent and often bothersome mistral wind, few comforts. Yet it is also a surprising place when observed with the curious eye of someone intent on understanding the deeper reasons behind a rural landscape marked by dry-stone walls, clusters of white dwellings resting upon a rugged and restless topography, and a lush vegetation that defies the logic of its latitude.
The “moon landing” evoked in these images works on a double scale: that of the horizon—revealing fragments of sky that recount distant profiles, traveling clouds, and shafts of light that define a stark black-and-white—and that of proximity, of detail, in the ability to transform the domed roofs of the dammusi—the island’s traditional dwellings—into something other, so that the lime-coated surface becomes the skin of an arcane planet upon which strange creatures cast their shadows.

True to his own codes, the photographer also offers us poetic short circuits—small antinomies that capture the fortuitous dialogue between elements far apart from one another: an abandoned cistern, a waiting dog—an operation that transcends the (aesthetic) study of place and opens itself to narrative.

Marco Cillis
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