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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Savignano sul Rubicone
2012 (I)


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Solo Exhibitions

00A Gallery
Meran (BZ) - Italy
17 June 2016 – 26 June 2016

Group Exhibitions

VIA EMILIA. UN CHILOMETRO
Sin_tesis lab#04 > Guido Guidi
Consorzio di Bonifica
Via Garibaldi, 41
piano terra
Savignano sul Rubicone

Collective Exhibition: 14.15.16 September 2012

Curated by Stefania Rössl und Massimo Sordi with Guido Guidi

A selection of works made by young photographers that attended the workshop Un chilometro, directed by Guido Guidi in June 2012. Next to the young authors’ section, which is a real laboratory of images (it’s a preview for the festival), there will be a projection room with hundreds of photographs taken during the workshops directed by Mark Zanta (2009), Andrew Phelps (2010) and Simon Roberts (2011). The images are a precious contribution for the understanding of our present territory and also an important resource for the patrimony of the photographic records of Savignano Immagini. Soltanto un chilometro

The work of the Merano-based artist reflects on places of lived experience and memory, approaching the landscape from a perspective free of preconceptions and stereotypes, in order to grasp and highlight its most ordinary features and reveal how nature, over time, invariably reasserts itself as a dominant and dialoguing presence—even in the face of human intervention—ultimately generating a single, truly anthropized environment. The essence of photography unfolds as an experience of re-educating the gaze, one that leads to the exploration of unfamiliar and diverse places, with travel as the primary modus operandi in the genesis of the works.

“My story will be faithful to reality, or at least to my personal memory of reality, which is really the same thing,” wrote J. L. Borges. Morandini’s images are the outcome of an exploration of reality lived as an intense experience and conceived as a fundamental component of knowledge. Seeing—or rather, looking—through the camera lens becomes a way of reinventing how that reality is conceived.

The works on display, all belonging to the same series but presented in thematic groups, reflect on the theme of obstructed vision; on the contrasts between recent architectures and abandoned constructions; on the aesthetic consonances between natural and artificial presences; and on the eternal recurrence of forms shaped by both nature and humankind.

Camilla Martinelli
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