Annalù Boeretto
Annalù Boeretto (born 1976 in San Donà di Piave, Venice, Italy) is a distinguished contemporary Italian artist whose work unfolds at the intersection of material alchemy, imagination, and poetic metamorphosis. Living and working in her stilt house by the Piave River and in her studio in Jesolo, Venice, Boeretto has developed a unique sculptural language that transforms industrial and organic materials into dreamlike, suspended worlds.
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (1999), Annalù’s practice spans sculpture, installation, painting, and mixed media, centered on themes of transition, evolution, and inner transformation. She assembles seemingly incongruous elements such as resin, paper, bark, glass wool, bitumen, sand, cement, and roots into compositions that evoke portals between states of being—works that feel both grounded and ethereal, where forms expand, dissolve, and re-form in a choreography of light and substance.
Annalù’s art often manifests as “dreamcatchers,” mandala-like structures, spirals, and imaginary architectures that suggest metamorphosis and passage through time. Her use of resin and glass—especially Murano glass—brings a luminous fragility to her work, marrying classical craft with contemporary experimentation and creating sculptural narratives that resonate with both intimacy and symbolic depth.
Since 2001, her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including the Venice Biennale (2001 and 2011) and major presentations in Hong Kong, the United States, and Europe. She has received multiple awards such as the Arte Laguna Prize, the Zaha Hadid Award, the Stonefly Prize for Contemporary Art, and other international recognitions, and her works are held in public and private collections around the world.
Through a visionary blend of material experimentation and symbolic resonance, Annalù Boeretto’s sculptures invite viewers into realms of transformation, memory, and metaphor—capturing fleeting moments of emergence and dissolution in forms that feel timeless, alchemical, and deeply poetic.
