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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Short Circuits
The Concept

"I propose to use the camera as an instrument of analytical and alienating observation, to explore a route like so many others, but carefully chosen from those furthest from the canonical destinations of tourists or art critics. With regret, we will also end up excluding the routes taken by lovers, artists and photographers in search of themselves... In short, any place where one can shed the inhibiting intention to photograph that place in order to photograph "in" that place".

Guido Guidi, sin_tesis lab#04, Savignano sul Rubicone 2012
“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
“I do not wear out my soles for the pleasure of suffering, but because slowness unveils what speed keeps hidden”.

Sylvain Tesson, Petit traité sur l’immensité du monde, 2005
Corti Circuiti
Il concetto

“Propongo di utilizzare la macchina fotografica come strumento di osservazione analitica e straniante, per esplorare un percorso come tanti altri, ma accuratamente scelto tra quelli più lontani dalle destinazioni canoniche di turisti o critici d’arte. Con rammarico, finiremo per escludere anche gli itinerari percorsi da innamorati, artisti e fotografi alla ricerca di sé stessi... In breve, qualsiasi luogo in cui si possa abbandonare l’intenzione inibente di fotografare quel luogo per fotografare “in” quel luogo”.

Guido Guidi, sin_tesis lab#04, Savignano sul Rubicone, 2012
“Dovremmo sempre rispondere all’invito delle mappe, credere alle loro promesse, attraversare il territorio e fermarci per qualche minuto al confine, per chiudere i capitoli infausti”.

Sylvain Tesson, Sui sentieri erranti, 2018
“Non consumo le suole per il piacere di soffrire, ma perché la lentezza rivela ciò che la velocità nasconde”.

Sylvain Tesson, Piccolo trattato sull’immensità del mondo, 2005
Kurzschlüsse
Das Konzept

„Ich schlage vor, die Kamera als Instrument analytischer und verfremdender Beobachtung einzusetzen, um eine Route zu erkunden, bewusst gewählt fernab der kanonischen Ziele von Touristen und Kunstkritikern. Dabei werden auch Wege ausgeschlossen, die von Liebenden, Künstlern und Fotografen auf der Suche nach sich selbst beschritten werden. Es geht vielmehr um Orte, an denen sich die hemmende Absicht auflösen lässt, einen Ort zu fotografieren, um stattdessen in ihm zu fotografieren.“

Guido Guidi, sin_tesis lab#04, Savignano sul Rubicone, 2012
„Den Einladungen der Karten folgen, an ihre Versprechen glauben, das Land durchqueren und an seinen Rändern verweilen – um ein unheilvolles Kapitel zu schließen.“

Sylvain Tesson, Auf verschlungenen Pfaden, 2018
„Ich laufe mir nicht die Sohlen ab aus Freude am Leiden, sondern weil die Langsamkeit offenbart, was die Geschwindigkeit verbirgt.”

Sylvain Tesson, Kleiner Traktat über die Unermesslichkeit der Welt, 2005

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Exhibitions

Corti_Circuiti
Studio DoDiCi
Brescia (Italy)
2016

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

Press

An interview by Allegra Baggio Corradi, published in Franzmagazine, June 2016
Photo1- Topography2
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1Vocabolario Treccani. Fotografia: [dal fr. photographie, che a sua volta è dall’ingl. photography, comp. di photo- «foto-2» e -graphy «-grafia»] Procedimento che, mediante processi chimico-fisici, permette di ottenere, servendosi di un apposito apparecchio (macchina fotografica), l’immagine di persone, oggetti, strutture, situazioni.

1 Merriam-Webster. Photography: The art or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially light on a sensitive surface (such as film or an optical sensor).
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2 Vocabolario Treccani.  Topografia: [dal gr. τοπογραϕία, comp. di τόπος «luogo» e -γραϕία «-grafia»] Rappresentazione grafica di una zona di terreno di dimensioni limitate.

2 Cambridge Dictionary. Topography: The natural features of land, esp. the shape of its surface, or the science of mapping those features.

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