Self-portrait as an aztec statue with dog nose and eagle headpiece, 2023, drawing and collage with graphite and oil pastel from handmade carbon paper, on Taiwanese gampi paper, cm 155 x 118
Marta Roberti (Brescia, 1977) lives between Rome and Warsaw.
After completing a dregree in Philosophy in Verona, she stu-died Multimedia art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera.
Drawing is her main medium which she uses in installations and animated videos through which she explores the relationship between East and West, studying and reworking myths and their representation. Through the use of copying paper, she creates images that are formed simultaneously on two sur-faces, one part remains imprisoned on the sheet of carbon paper while the other is transferred to the new support.
Marta Roberti’s work focuses on the role of women through an ecofeminist lens. She reinterprets myths and goddess ico-nography, giving voice to what has historically been margi-nalized: the feminine, nature, and the animal.l, proposing an identity in constant metamorphosis—open to care, reciprocity, and deep interconnectedness with all living beings.
In 2020 she won the Cantica Award, and her work Bestiary of the Other World became part of the collection of the National Institute of Graphic Arts.
Her most recent solo exhibitions include: Giungla a Palazzo, curated by Silvia Evangelisti, Palazzo Boncompagni, Bologna (2025); Due mondi - e io vengo dall’altro, curated by Cecilia Canziani, z2o Sara Zanin, Rome (2025),Rivelazioni, curated by Morgane Lucquet Laforgue, Museo di Sant'Orsola, Florence (2024); Dior Cruise A/W 2024, curated by Paola Ugolini & Maria Alicata, Musée Rodin, Paris (2023); Cuando era Ahora, ICC Mexico, CDMX (2023) and Cose che non accaddero mai ma che sempre sono, curated by Ilaria Mariotti, Villa Pacchiani, Centro Espositivo, Santa Croce sull'Arno (2023). She has participated in numerous international exhibitions and festivals, the most recent: Why look at animals?, EMΣT, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (Upcoming, May 2025); Acquisizioni. Da Parmigianino a Kentridge, curated by Maura Picciau, ICG, Rome (2024); Naturae. Ambienti di arte contemporanea, curated by Melania Rossi, Scuderie e Parco del Castello di Miramare, Trieste (2024); L'animale che dunque sono, VIII edizione, Festival del Paesaggio di Anacapri, curated by Arianna Rosica and Gianluca Riccio, Anacapri (2024); Diorama. Generation Earth, curated by Chiara Gatti and Elisabetta Masala, MAN, Nuoro (2024); Hovering, curated by Manuela Lietti, Capsule Venice, Venice (2024), Infinita Infanzia, curated by Saverio Verini, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto (2024); L'Oro Blu, curated by Leonardo Regano, Museo dei Bronzi Dorati e della Città di Pergola, Pergola (2024); AGUA QUE QUEMA, curated by Karla Niño de Rivera, Anahuacalli Museum, CDMX (2023); Ipercorpo: InPresenza, curated by Davide Ferri in collaboration with Miral Rivalta, EXATR, Forlivese Arena (2023); VITA NOVA, A New Life, curated by Myna Mukherjee & Davide Quadrio, Alankar Gallery and Gyan Museum, Jaipur, India (2022).
In 2020 she won the Cantica Award, and her work Bestiary of the Other World became part of the collection of the National Institute of Graphic Arts.