Born in Paris in 1988 to an Italian father and a Moroccan Sephardic mother, Nina Bernagozzi is a French artist.
She graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2013 and also studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden. During the final years of her studies, under the supervision of Alain Bonfand, she conducted research into blindness and the emotional role of light in the cinema of Ingmar Bergman. This reflection on perception, darkness and light laid the foundations for her interest in the coexistence of contradictory states, which would gradually come to permeate her painting.
Her work has also been shaped by a sustained interest in plants and the processes of transformation within the living world. Trained in permaculture, she began creating a dye garden and developed La marchande de quatre saisons, a culinary and artistic investigation guided by the seasons. Her work has notably been presented at Galerie Jousse Entreprise in Paris and Galerie Andréhn-Schiptjenko.
Today, Nina Bernagozzi works primarily with inks on paper. Water occupies a central place in her painting, both as a material and as an agent of transformation. It intervenes in the very process through which the image takes shape, allowing forms to emerge whose identities remain unstable: a single form may contain several others, appearing even as it already seems to dissolve.
Between figuration and abstraction, her painting explores the coexistence of multiple states and the transformations that take place between them. Water, through its fluidity and metamorphoses, becomes the site of a broader reflection on what moves through and transforms us — between appearance and disappearance, permanence and change, resistance and surrender. Rather than fixing things in a definitive state, Nina Bernagozzi seeks to keep open the moment in which they might still become something else.
Born in Paris in 1988 to an Italian father and a Moroccan Sephardic mother, Nina Bernagozzi is a French artist.
She graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2013 and also studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden. During the final years of her studies, under the supervision of Alain Bonfand, she conducted research into blindness and the emotional role of light in the cinema of Ingmar Bergman. This reflection on perception, darkness and light laid the foundations for her interest in the coexistence of contradictory states, which would gradually come to permeate her painting.
Her work has also been shaped by a sustained interest in plants and the processes of transformation within the living world. Trained in permaculture, she began creating a dye garden and developed La marchande de quatre saisons, a culinary and artistic investigation guided by the seasons. Her work has notably been presented at Galerie Jousse Entreprise in Paris and Galerie Andréhn-Schiptjenko.
Today, Nina Bernagozzi works primarily with inks on paper. Water occupies a central place in her painting, both as a material and as an agent of transformation. It intervenes in the very process through which the image takes shape, allowing forms to emerge whose identities remain unstable: a single form may contain several others, appearing even as it already seems to dissolve.
Between figuration and abstraction, her painting explores the coexistence of multiple states and the transformations that take place between them. Water, through its fluidity and metamorphoses, becomes the site of a broader reflection on what moves through and transforms us — between appearance and disappearance, permanence and change, resistance and surrender. Rather than fixing things in a definitive state, Nina Bernagozzi seeks to keep open the moment in which they might still become something else.
She graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2013 and also studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden. During the final years of her studies, under the supervision of Alain Bonfand, she conducted research into blindness and the emotional role of light in the cinema of Ingmar Bergman. This reflection on perception, darkness and light laid the foundations for her interest in the coexistence of contradictory states, which would gradually come to permeate her painting.
Her work has also been shaped by a sustained interest in plants and the processes of transformation within the living world. Trained in permaculture, she began creating a dye garden and developed La marchande de quatre saisons, a culinary and artistic investigation guided by the seasons. Her work has notably been presented at Galerie Jousse Entreprise in Paris and Galerie Andréhn-Schiptjenko.
Today, Nina Bernagozzi works primarily with inks on paper. Water occupies a central place in her painting, both as a material and as an agent of transformation. It intervenes in the very process through which the image takes shape, allowing forms to emerge whose identities remain unstable: a single form may contain several others, appearing even as it already seems to dissolve.
Between figuration and abstraction, her painting explores the coexistence of multiple states and the transformations that take place between them. Water, through its fluidity and metamorphoses, becomes the site of a broader reflection on what moves through and transforms us — between appearance and disappearance, permanence and change, resistance and surrender. Rather than fixing things in a definitive state, Nina Bernagozzi seeks to keep open the moment in which they might still become something else.