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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Sa Sardigna
work in progress, in pursuit of the traces of my identity

“From a photographic standpoint, Nicola Morandini gravitates toward liminal spaces—those realms that are never pure nature, but rather the urban threshold, the inhabited countryside, remote outposts where human presence, though mute, remains unmistakable and poised to spin narrative threads.
His imagery conveys an urgency: the need to give voice to the signs that small communities have—perhaps unknowingly— elevated to markers of identity. I think of his project Sa Sardigna (the island figures prominently in his library, alongside works by August Sander, Ugo Pallis, Olivo Barbieri, Pino Musi and Guido Guidi).”

Marco Cillis Sa Sardigna
work in progress, sulle tracce della mia identità

“Fotograficamente, Nicola predilige muoversi negli spazi indecisi, in quella dimensione che non è mai natura assoluta ma frangia urbana, campagna abitata, avamposti remoti dove tuttavia la presenza antropica- benché muta, come nel progetto che qui si presenta- è evidente e pronta a tessere trame narrative. C’è un’urgenza, nella sua fotografia, di dare spazio ai segni che le piccole comunità hanno eletto- forse inconsapevolmente- a elementi identitari. Penso al progetto fotografico Sa Sardegna (l’isola è molto presente nella biblioteca, con i lavori di August Sander, Ugo Pallis, Olivo Barbieri, Pino Musi e Guido Guidi).”

Marco Cillis

Sa Sardigna
work in progress, auf den Spuren meiner Identität.

“Aus fotografischer Perspektive bewegt sich Nicola Morandini in Richtung liminaler Räume—Orte, die niemals reine Natur sind, sondern vielmehr urbane Schwellenräume, bewohnte Landschaften, entlegene Außenposten, in denen die menschliche Präsenz, obwohl stumm, unverkennbar bleibt und bereit scheint, narrative Fäden zu spinnen. Seine Bilder vermitteln eine Dringlichkeit: das Bedürfnis, den Zeichen eine Stimme zu geben, die kleine Gemeinschaften—vielleicht unbewusst—zu Markern ihrer Identität erhoben haben. Ich denke dabei an sein Projekt Sa Sardigna (die Insel nimmt in seiner Bibliothek einen prominenten Platz ein, neben Werken von August Sander, Ugo Pallis, Olivo Barbieri, Pino Musi und Guido Guidi).”

Marco Cillis

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