Artist Statement
My practice begins with a question: what happens to a system of control when imperfection is its starting point?
The question comes from my own body. I live with a condition that causes a tremor: every line I draw deviates, involuntarily. The imperfection precedes the gesture. It is a condition, not a choice. Rather than correct it, I place it at the centre of the work.
Within minimalism and geometric abstraction, I construct systems of repetition, geometry and negative space, where hand-drawn lines carry their deviation. Minimalism removed the body to perfect the system. I put it back in, visibly. Balance shifts, rhythm stumbles, and control reveals itself for what it is: a construction.
Each line is a quiet resistance. Drawn slowly, one after the other, no line ever repeats: I discover each line as I draw it. The gesture is final. This is not a failure of the system but what it is built for. Each work tests the question in a new system, and the perspective expands without closing.
From a distance, the structure holds. Up close, it breathes: hesitation, vibration, the trace of a body. Between the two, in that gap, is where the viewer stands. The question returns to them.
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My current body of work, Expanding Perspectives, unfolds across three series. In Threshold, fragile systems hold their ground, suspended between tension and surrender. In Expanding Horizon, painted wood enters space itself: casting shadows, shifting depth, redefining where the work ends and the room begins. In Asymmetric Disruption, still worked in studies on paper and unstretched canvases, colour vibrates against geometric form, setting structure in motion.
Biography
Milena Quattrocchi (1979) is a visual artist working in geometric abstraction through repetition, negative space and control. She works in a narrow palette, often black and white with a single colour, where contrast alone carries the tension. An involuntary tremor runs through every line she traces. This imperfection is not something she corrects. It is the starting point of a practice she carries every day.
Italian-Swiss, she trained for twenty years in Swiss graphic design, specializing in visual systems, before becoming a self-taught visual artist. She works today between design and painting, in her studio in Vevey (CH).
She paints from small intimate pieces on paper to larger pieces on canvas and wood. As the same discipline of control moves from the wall into the room, her practice extends into installation: painted wood elements and free-hanging, unstretched canvases move with the space around them. For each medium, ecology is not a constraint but a condition, one more rule the system has to meet.
Since 2024, her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad, including her two solo shows Imperfections Alignées (Galerie Lac, Vevey, 2024) and Expanding Perspectives, Phase 1 (Mosaic Room, Vevey, 2025).
Member of Visarte Vaud since 2025 (newcomer), she is selected in 2026 by the Musée Artistes Femmes (MAF) in Lausanne for the MAF Academy, «Established Artists» category.
Portfolio available upon request.
Exhibitions
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March 29-31, 2024 >
Group show, The Holy Art Gallery, Barcelona (ES)
The Holy Art Magazine, Issue 1 - June 24
May 1-31, 2024 >
Group show, Cipriarte Gallery, Venezia (IT)
June 13-16, 2024 >
Group show, ARTEXPO BASEL2024, Basel (CH)
July 1-31, 2024 >
Group show, Nicoleta Gallery, Berlin (DE)
September 5-7, 2024 >
Group show, 2x10Hz, Popup31, Vevey (CH)
June 20-28, 2025 >
Group show, Kollectiv 5, Galerie Karin Wunderlin, Zürich (CH)
May 8-June 28, 2026 >
Group show, Cartes de visite, Espace VV, Visare Vaud, Lausanne (CH) -
November 8-23, 2024 >
Solo show, Imperfections Alignées, Galerie Lac, Vevey (CH)
March 13-June 26, 2025 >
Solo show, Expanding Perspectives, Mosaic Room, Vevey (CH) -
November 30-1/December 2024 >
Live Painting, Imperfections Oniriques, Open Studios, Vevey (CH)
December 6, 2025 >
Live Painting, Imperfections Oniriques, Open Studios, Vevey (CH) -
August 2025
Shower Curtain ZigZagZurichNovember 2025
Snowboard Summit Foundation x NideckerJune 2026
Skateboard Summit Foundation x LGS Board Manufacture