Stefania Galegati

Stefania Galegati (Bagnacavallo, 1973) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and at Brera with Alberto Garutti. She was part of Via Fiuggi, a group of young artists who lived together in Milan in the late nineties. She works with different media by grafting mechanisms of semantic displacement into things and people. She first exhibited in 1994 at Viafarini. In 2003, she won the International Studio Program at PS1 MoMA in New York. Over the next 4 years, she lived without a fixed residence between New York, Buenos Aires, Tanzania, and Europe.

Since 2008, she has been living in Palermo, where she has put down roots with her family. From 2015 to 2018, she managed the Caffè Internazionale, a local bar, multicultural centre, and work of art. Currently, she teaches painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. She has been working with Pinksummer, Genoa, since the beginning, and with Francesco Pantaleone in Palermo since 2007. She is a founding member of the association Femminote, which is involved in the collective purchase project of Isola delle Femmine (PA). She is the founder and president of the association Counterproduction, which deals with radical pedagogy and has been running the Summer School of Contemporary Art in Palermo since 2015.

She has created two permanent works in Bagnacavallo (RA): in 2019, the second Monument to the Fallen, and in 2023, Stories of Mud, dedicated to the girls who helped during the flood. In 2024, she won the first BPER prize at ArteFiera in Bologna.