Marina Gasparini was born in 1966 in Gabicce Mare, Italy. She lives and works in Bologna, Italy.
Marina Gasparini has developed a multidisciplinary practice since the 1980s that combines installation, textile work, drawing, and research-based projects. Her work often employs threads, textile fibres, and emblematic visual forms to explore connections between language, geography, memory, and the natural world. Many of her projects are site-specific and emerge from the reinterpretation of iconographies drawn from different cultures and historical periods, frequently engaging with architecture, landscape, and cartography.
Gasparini’s installations, such as the project Atlas X, which uses dyed threads to recreate botanical forms, reflect her interest in craft processes, sustainability, and the symbolic networks linking humans, materials, and ecosystems. Alongside her artistic practice, she has taught graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and has participated in numerous international exhibitions and artist residencies in Europe, the United States, Japan, and India.
