Luisa Turuani

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Milan, Italy

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Duplex | Satellite Residency, Lisbon, Portugal (2025); Prize Winner, nctm e l’arte: Artists-in-Residence XIX Edition, Milan, Italy (2024); Artist-in-Residence, TAD Residency, Contemporary Locus, Monastero del Carmine, Bergamo, Italy (2024); Finalist, exibart prize, exibartlab, Rome, Italy (2024, 2023, 2021); Artist-in-Residence, Dialogos Part Six, Italian Institute of Culture in Nairobi/Kuona Artists Collective, Nairobi, Kenya (2022); Artist-in-Residence, Special Prize Arte Laguna: Villa Rechsteiner Residency, Oderzo, Italy (2022); Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy (2022, 2019); Artist-in-Residence, Opera Viva Barriera di Milano, il Manifesto, Flashback Association, Turin, Italy (2020); Prize Winner, Video, Premio Combat Prize, Fortezza Nuova, Livorno, Italy (2019); Prize Winner, Photography, Nocivelli Prize, Associazione Culturale Techne, Brescia, Italy (2018); Artist-in-Residence, Synchronicity, Hangzhou, China (2016).

Website: https://www.luisaturuani.it/


Luisa Turuani is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Milan, Italy. Her practice focuses on the point beyond which a situation turns into its opposite, among them: the border between love and violence, failure and success, eternity and temporary. With the intentions of raising questions instead of giving answers, her work offers a poetical and ironic way to face the fears and the obsessions typical of current society. Luisa holds a MFA in Sculpture from the Brera Academy in Milan. During the last few years, she won some grants and awards; in 2022, her project “1 second 1 gram” won the Italian Council Edition 11, a grant promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture; between 2022 and 2023, the project involved many institutions, among them: Modo asbl (Bruxelles, Belgium), La Rada (Locarno, Switzerland), OnCurating Project Space (Zurich, Switzerland), the International Museum of Ceramics (Faenza, Italy), Careof (Milan, Italy), BAC (Berna, Switzerland), Kuona Artists Collective (Nairobi, Kenya). Since 2024, the publication regarding the project is part of the the Stedelijk Museum library. She also won nctm e l’arte: Artists-in-Residence (2024); Special Prize Arte Laguna (2022); Opera Viva – Il Manifesto (2020), Combat Prize (2019), O.R.A. Prize (2019), Nocivelli Prize (2018); she was finalist at Arte Laguna Prize and Exibart Prize. She was artist-in-residence at Duplex AIR (Lisbon, Portugal, 2025); TAD Residency (Bergamo, Italy, 2024); Dialogos Part Six (Nairobi, Kenya, 2022); Synchronicity (Hangzhou, China, 2016). Among the most important exhibitions: “Dialogos Part Eight,” Curva Pura Gallery, Rome, 2025; “Gaze Off,” Lugano, Switzerland, 2022; “Travel Diary,” the first crypto art exhibition in Italy, snark.art, 2021; “Artagon Live,” in collaboration with the Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France, 2020; “Domani Qui Oggi,” collateral event of Quadriennale 2020, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; “Biennial UK Young Artists,” Nottingham, 2019; “GQ-Passion for the path of art,” Cardi Gallery, Milan, 2019. Her works are visible in many publications, among them: 222 Emerging Artists Worth Investing In, Exibart Editions; Human Landscape, Rubbettino Editore; BienNoLo, Postmedia Books; Frangit Nucem Cos’è l’arte contemporanea?, Skira Editions.