VISUAL ABSTRACT ART
BIO
Francesca Melotti completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Architecture at the University of Parma, Italy. She worked in different architecture studios in Modena, Florence, and Berlin, focusing on renovation, interior design and exhibition projects.
After moving to Berlin in 2016, she developed her painting practice through improvisation, alongside her career in architecture. Exploring her passion, she came to recognize what had always been present in her process: a meditative and intuitive approach to painting that brought her to inner spaces of reflection—on the body, the mind and the outer world.
She began creating photography-inspired abstract landscapes in early 2019. Over time, her intuition led her practice to become more abstract and experimental, using a variety of tools—from spatulas to pieces of wood, and eventually her own body. She often uses her hands and parts of her arms to throw and smear the acrylic paint. Her creative process incorporates sound, allowing sensory perception to influence her subconscious expression.
Along her artistic journey, she embraced a consistent yoga practice that deepened her connection with her inner instinct and opened the way to a more meditative approach to life. This practice became a guiding force, grounding her in the values she chooses to follow. In 2024, she became a certified Vinyasa and Restorative yoga teacher. Today, she continues to explore the intersection between art and yoga—two paths that merge and create new spaces of observation, open to multiple interpretations.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Francesca Melotti’s artistic practice is a journey that weaves together inner exploration and perception of the external world, engaging in a continuous dialogue between the visible and the invisible. She sees creation as an act of crossing boundaries, redefining limits, and embracing shifting perspectives.
For her, the canvas becomes a space of meditation and transformation, where reality is reshaped through personal interpretation. Art is both a mirror and a distance—an experience of immersion and detachment. Each work represents a passage, an invitation to enter the unknown. Creating becomes an ongoing search, a process of opening up to what has yet to be discovered.
She does not usually feel the need to explain her work, as it emerges from a spontaneous flow she intuitively follows. While she may occasionally reflect on the work during the process, deeper insights often surface afterwards, revealing fragments of the subconscious. She prefers to leave interpretation open, allowing space for individual perception, thought, and imagination to shape new meanings—acknowledging that nothing is fixed, and everything remains in motion.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
07/11/2025 - 22/11/2025 - LiTE-HAUS, BERLIN
SPLASH - Collective Exhibition
VERNISSAGE 07/11/2025 FROM 18:00 UNTIL 21:00
PAST EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
25/04/2025 - ZEMIN ART SPACE, BERLIN
FERTILE CHAOS - VOLTZ 16:00 - 3:00
Art & Sound experience
04/04/2022 - LOOPHOLE, BERLIN
SILENT ART AUCTION 19:00 - 21:00
50% of art sales donated to Ukraine Humanitarian Fund
04/03/2022 - 27/03/2022 - GALERIE KUNGERKIEZ, BERLIN
KM35 Studio - Mixed Media Exhibition
ARTISTS
Kathryn Williamson
Francesca Melotti
Maria Koch
KM35 Studio is a cooperation of Berlin based artists in Neukölln.
VERNISSAGE 04/03/2022 FROM 19:00 UNTIL 21:00
13/11/2021 - 27/11/2021 - ORVILLES'S, BERLIN
Solo show "Abstract Explorations"
The exhibition presents the instinctive process of creation of the artist, featuring paintings as well as video and photographic collaborations. The exhibited artworks, influenced by external impulses and subconscious analysis, show part of different phases of the research of the artist.
VERNISSAGE 13/11/2021 FROM 18:00 UNTIL 00:00
03/10/2021 - CURA, BERLIN
Exhibition at the ambient floor in collaboration with Melantonia Collective
09/09/2021 - INTRA - ABOUT BLANK, BERLIN
Solidarity event with exhibitions, performances and ambient live music acts
Exhibition in collaboration with Inherencia Records
25/09/2020 - INTRA - SUICIDE CIRCUS, BERLIN
Ambient music event
Exhibition in collaboration with Inherencia Records
11/12/2019 – TAKE PLACE - INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE, BERLIN
She took part in the performative project conceived by the artist Ming Lu. Takes Place I filled the 20-square meter gallery space with a group of artists. Presented through the window wall towards the street, the work consisted of live encounters between people, while the material is the artists or the artists’ presence.