Artist Statement
My practice begins with a question: what happens to a system of control when imperfection is its starting point?
This question comes from my body. A tremor runs through every line I draw: an involuntary deviation that precedes the gesture. Imperfection is not a choice, it is my starting condition. Rather than correct it, I place it at the centre of the work.
I work with a tight palette, often black and white with a single colour, where contrast alone carries the tension. I paint intimate small-scale works on paper as well as larger works on canvas and wood. As this same discipline of control moves from the wall into the room, my practice extends into installation: painted wooden elements and loose, unstretched canvases evolve with the space around them. For each medium, ecology is not a constraint but a condition, one more rule the system has to meet.
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, the gesture repeats but no line is identical: I discover each stroke 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.
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.
Italian-Swiss, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in multimedia in 2001, then worked for twenty years in Swiss graphic design, specializing in visual systems, before becoming a self-taught artist. She works today between design and painting, in her studio in Vevey (CH).
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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May 8-June 28, 2026 >
Group show, Cartes de visite, Espace VV, Visarte Vaud, Lausanne (CH)
June 20-28, 2025 >
Group show, Kollectiv 5, Galerie Karin Wunderlin, Zürich (CH)
September 5-7, 2024 >
Group show, 2x10Hz, Popup31, Vevey (CH)
July 1-31, 2024 >
Group show, Nicoleta Gallery, Berlin (DE)
June 13-16, 2024 >
Group show, ARTEXPO BASEL2024, Basel (CH)
May 1-31, 2024 >
Group show, Cipriarte Gallery, Venezia (IT)
March 29-31, 2024 >
Group show, The Holy Art Gallery, Barcelona (ES)
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March 13-June 26, 2025 >
Solo show, Expanding Perspectives Phase 1, Mosaic Room, Vevey (CH)
November 8-23, 2024 >
Solo show, Imperfections Alignées, Galerie Lac, Vevey (CH) -
December 6, 2025 >
Live Painting, Imperfections Oniriques, Open Studios, Vevey (CH)
November 30-1/December 2024 >
Live Painting, Imperfections Oniriques, Open Studios, Vevey (CH) -
June 2026
Skateboard Summit Foundation x LGS Board ManufactureNovember 2025
Snowboard Summit Foundation x Nidecker
August 2025
Shower Curtain ZigZagZurich