Liliana Moro
Works
River sand, plinth, glass display case
display case: 20 x 30 x 20 cm baseboard: 120 x 30 x 20 cm
Silver spray paint, stand
129 × 30,5 × 24,5 cm
20 cm horn loudspeaker, audio '51, 25 versions of the folk song Bella Ciao sung in different languages around the world
Environmental dimensions
Installation view, PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 2024. Ph. Lorenzo Palmieri
Installation view, PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 2024. Ph. Lorenzo Palmieri
Photo print on Dibond
60 × 84 cm; 67 × 87 × 4 cm framed
Installation view, GNAMC, Rome, Italy, 2005. Artwork in the museum's collection.
Installation view, 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale, 2019. Ph. Irene Fanizza
Permanent Installation, ArtLine, Citylife, Milan, 2023. Ph. Alberto Fanelli
Yellow construction site boards, umbrellas, plastic chairs, concrete
Environmental dimensions
Installation view, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz, 2023. Ph. Marco Cappelletti with DSL Studio
12 speakers, 12 iron stands, mixer, amplifier, audio, cables
Environmental dimensions
Neon light, magenta colour argon tube
105 × 62 × 4 cm
Blue Neon
170 × 115 cm
10 backpacks, various sizes
Variable dimensions
Installation view, Platea | Palazzo Galeano, Lodi (MI), Italy, 2026, Ph. Alessio Belloni
Installation view, Platea | Palazzo Galeano, Lodi (MI), Italy, 2026, Ph. Alessio Belloni
Wallpaper
Environmental dimensions
Installation view, PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, 2024. Ph. Lorenzo Palmieri
Installation view, Almanac, London, UK, 2018
White glass globe, 40 cm diameter, lamp, aluminum tube,
Variable dimensions
Photo print on Dibond
87 × 120 cm; 96 × 132 × 4 cm framed
Biography
Liliana Moro was born in 1961 in Milan, where she lives and works.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2026.
Liliana Moro is a visual artist whose practice spans environmental works, drawing, collage, sculpture, theatrical projects, and sound installations. Emerging in the late 1980s, Moro has been a key voice in redefining the artistic landscape of the 1990s through incisive, poetic, and often understated explorations of space, sound, and everyday experience. Her work often engages the role of the viewer and the mechanisms of perception, exploring the relationship between subjective experience and external space. Through a free and essential artistic language, Moro foregrounds the political dimension of art, understood as a space of relation between the work, the viewer, and their shared context.
She graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where she studied with Luciano Fabro. Her research began in the 1980s, when she co-founded, together with other artists, the Spazio di Via Lazzaro Palazzi in Milan, where she presented her first solo exhibition in 1990. Over the course of her career, Moro has taught at the Brera Academy in Milan and at IUAV University in Venice, and has served as Visiting Professor for the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como.
Liliana Moro has exhibited in group and solo shows at numerous institutions, including: Museo MAXXI, Rome (2026); Platea | Palazzo Galeano (2026); PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2024); Artline Milano, permanent public artwork, Milan (2023); Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (2023); GNAM Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2021); LVIII Venice Biennale, Venice (2019); Cubo Garutti - Museion, Bolzano (2018); Museo MAXXI, Rome (2016); Triennale di Milano, Milan (2015); Fondazione Zegna All’Aperto (permanent artwork), Trivero Biella (2015); MAMbo, Bologna (2013); Mart, Rovereto (2012); Quadriennale di Roma, Rome (1996/2008); Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2008); Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles (2007); Minimalia, MoMa PS1, New York (1999); De Appel, Amsterdam (1999); Moderna Museet, Stockhom (1998); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (1994/2021).
Her works are in public and private collections in Italy, France, Belgium and United States, such as Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Museo Pecci, Prato; FNAC, Paris; FRAC Centre, Orléans, France; FRAC Rhone-Alpes / Nouveau Musée, MAXXI, Rome; MAMbo, Museo d’arte moderna, Bologna; Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, New York.
Liliana Moro was one of the three artists invited to represent Italy at the Venice Biennale in 2019. She has also taken part in: I Biennal de Valencia (2001); Quadriennale, Rome (1996/2008); Venice Biennale in the context of XLV Biennale Aperto, Venice (1993); Documenta, Kassel (1992).
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