MATILDE CERRUTI QUARA is an Italian & British multimedia artist, poet, performance-maker, actor and writer whose practice expands across experimental theatre, text-based artworks and immersive installations. Rooted in language and storytelling, her work investigates identity, archetypes, systems of belief, natural forces, spirituality and rituals, sexuality and power dynamics.

EDUCATION

2022 Acting Diploma, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD), London, UK

2015 MLitt Modern Art Theory (Merit), University of Glasgow, UK

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, COMMISSIONS & PERFORMANCES

2024

A Model, MUDAM - The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, LU (performance)

2023

CIRCE, IUNO, Rome, IT (performance) | Swiss Institute Contemporary Art | Benefit Gala, New York, USA (auction donation) | When the heart of a pig has hardened, dice it small, KIRKI, Tinos, GR (group) | Preconscious Landscape, Exposed Arts Projects, London, UK (group) | New Acquisitions and Eternal Love - Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection, Monte Carlo, MC (group) | INTERGALACTIC INTIMACY - Part I & Part II, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK (immersive installation - commission)

2022

COBER, Milan, IT (commission)| From Nature to Spirit, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, IT (group) MELTDOWN, Ridley Road Project Space, London, UK (group)

2021

VASILIKI, Sfkatirias 44, Athens, GR (group) CROCODILE CRADLE, PEER, London, UK (group)

2020

PASSING TIME, passing-time.org (group — online) | Horoscope, Longtang, Zurich, CH (solo — online) | A Bedroom Ballad - DAY #52 X CAMERE D’ARTISTA, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, IT (group — online) VERDIGRIS, Jupiter Woods, London, UK (performance) | When the Gates come down, sweetie, it will all happen very fast, Jupiter Woods, London, UK (solo) | In the spirit of being with, Cripta 747, Turin, IT (group) | Nuova Atlantide, Tuscany, IT (video performance)

2019

Ti racconto un anno, Mimosa House, London, UK (performance) | Savage, Otto Zoo, Milan, IT (group) | Comizi d’Amore, Otto Zoo, Milan, IT (performance) | Weltanschauung, CASTRO Projects, Rome, IT (performative workshop)

2018

At the Foyer of Purgatory, Hot Wheels Projects, Athens, GR (solo) |TOTAL ANASTROPHES - Volcano Extravaganza, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, IT (performance) | Monaciello Disco, Museo Gaetano Filangieri, Naples, IT (performance) | Waves Meditation X Yuri Suzuki — Furniture Music, Design Museum London & Stanley Picker Gallery, London and Kingston- upon-Thames, UK (workshop & performance)

2017

SPRINT _\|/_ Independent Publishers & Artists’ Books Salon Milano, Milan, IT (performance with Anna Franceschini) | Gli alieni sono poetesse, The Sci-Fi Powerverse, CAMPerVAN c/o Jupiter Woods, London, UK (performance) Marquise, clUB Q21, q|LAB, Milan, IT, (performance)

POETRY, LECTURES & TALKS

2023

Poetry Night #2, IUNO, Rome, IT w/ Zoë Marden, Vittoria De Franchis (poetry reading) | ‘Tonight No Poetry Will Serve’ by CIRCA & Alfredo Jaar (poetry commission), London, UK & worldwide | Poetry Night #1, IUNO, Rome, IT w/ Kandace Siobhan Walker, Francesca Coppola, Allison Grimaldi Donahue (poetry reading) | La Pulce, Rome, IT hosted by Jahan Khajavi (poetry reading)

2022

Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection, London, UK (poetry reading) | Ridley Road Project Space, London, UK (poetry reading) | Montez Press Radio, London, UK (live poetry jam session with Rubie)

2021

Sfaktirias 44, VASILIKI, Athens, GR (poetry performance) | Triennale di Milano, IT (poetry reading & artist’s talk) |Liliya Art Gallery, London, UK (poetry in response to Rafaela D’Ascanio’s show Universal Yearnings) | IUAV University of Venice, IT (artist’s lecture)

2020

Laylow, London, UK (poetry reading)

2019

Laylow, London, UK (poetry reading) | Mimosa House, London, UK (poetry reading with Tomaso Binga) | Jupiter Woods, London, UK (poetry reading) | CAMPerVAN Grow Tottenham, UK (poetry reading) | Bauer Palazzo with Archive George Brecht & Archivio Conz, Venice, IT (poetry reading)

2018

Hot Wheels Projects, Athens, GR (poetry reading and artist’s talk) | RCA Queer Society, ArtBar, Royal College of Art, London, UK (poetry reading)

GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

2023 IUNO, Rome, IT (residency)

2022 Arts Council England, DYCP — Round #15, London, UK (grant)

2019 Arts Council England, DYCP — Round #6, London, UK (grant)