Approach
Agathe Rosa's attention turns to the interaction of natural light with human beings and territories. What she calls luminous matter is a force that alters our perception of spaces, engages the body before the mind, connects the visible to what cannot be seen.
Her work explores the moment of shift — where matter becomes movement, where time condenses, where constructed space reveals its phenomenological dimension. Rooted in a foundational photographic act, at the junction of scientific protocol and poetic intuition, this dual demand — rigorous and sensible — informs a plural practice: site-specific immersive installation, drawing, assemblage, video, writing.
Biography
Agathe Rosa (Annecy, 1987) lives and works between Marseille (Fr) and Turin (It).
A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Marseille (2011, jury honours), she holds qualifications as a lecturer in Arts and Techniques of Representation and taught for ten years at ENSA Marseille.
Her work has been presented in institutions including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museo de Arte Helio Oiticica (Rio de Janeiro), Manifesta 13 Biennale (Marseille), La Chartreuse CNES (Villeneuve-lès-Avignon) and the Museo Santa Maria della Scala (Siena).
Her works are held in public and private collections, including the Collections of the Musées de la Ville de Marseille (2026) and AgiVerona (2024). She is represented by the gallery "Société Interludio", supported by Documents d'Artistes PACA, and was the beneficiary of an Art & Sciences research grant from the Centre Pompidou & Labex Plas@par (2017).
STUDIO
contact@agatherosa.com
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GALERIE : SOCIETE INTERLUDIO, Cambiano (IT)
societeinterludio@gmail.com
DOCUMENTS D'ARTISTES PACA ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Dossier
Hîgo website
Solo exhibition
2025 . Araguar. Société Interludio. Cambiano (It)
2022 . L’altro canto. Recontemporary. Torino (It)
2021 . 20 tonnes de bronze, 250 de granit. with Emma Grosbois. Galerie Zoème. Marseille (Fr)
2018 . Ce qui pourrait-être. with Clara de Asis. La photographie Marseille #08.Zoème. Marseille (Fr)
2018 . Particular Memory. Point Zéro. La Grande Motte (Fr)
2018 . Sensor. E22. Lieu Multiple. Montpellier (Fr)
2017 . Advection Carico Massimo. Livorno (It)
2017 . Carnet. Project «Sussurri». Sator Print. Siena (It)
2016 . Mi sono svegliata prima dell’alba. Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea «Raffaele de Grada». San Gimignano (It)
2015 . L’art en jeu. Galerie l’inattendue. Mairie de Paris. Paris (Fr)
2015 . Sistema Colloidale. as Rosaricci. Sonar, Casa della musica. Colle di Val d’Elsa (It)
2012 . Bar éphémère #8. Centre culturel Saint-Exupéry. Reims (Fr)>
2012 . Photonics. Collective Oidem. Pont Simone de Beauvoir. Paris (Fr)
Group exhibition
2024 . Poems without word. Curator: Stanislao Vialardi. Studio la città. Verona (It)
2023 . Desiderio - Atto primo. Société Interludio. Cambiano (It)
2023 . Desiderio - Preludio. Société Interludio. Torino (It)
2023 . Io sono confine / I am border. Curator: Pierre Dupont et Anna Daneri. Palazzo Grillo. Genova (It)
2022 . Living Room, Performing Textile. Curator: Andrea Lerda. Associazione Art-ur. Cuneo (It)
2022 . L’ora innocente. Societe Interludio. Torino (It)
2022 . Passi nello spazio. avec Fare Mente locale. Nottilucente, San Gimignano (It)
2021 . OnAir, Carico Massimo, Online Gallery, https://on-air.caricomassimo.org/
2021 . Festival Art & Sciences. Rencontres et recherche. Sorbonne Université. Paris (Fr)
2020 . Les Communs. La Chartreuse CNES avec E22. Villeneuve Lez Avignon (Fr)
2020 . Rue d'Alger. with Emma Grosbois. Curator: Alessandro Gallicchio with Simone Frangi, Marine Schütz and Pierre Sintès. Manifesta 13 Biennale. Institut Culturel Italien. Marseille (Fr)
2019 . Fluxos do Desvio. Curator: Keyna Eleison. E22. Museo de arte Helio Oiticica. Rio de Janeiro (Br)
2019 . Per una nuova unione dei confini. curated by SpazioSiena. Art Verona Fiera d'arte. Verona (It)
2019 . Imprimersi - Partitura per un muro. as FML - Fare Mente locale. Libera collarte. Colle Val d’Elsa (It)
2019 . Haute Agora. invited by Quinton Architects . Pavillon de l’Arsenal. Paris (Fr)
2018 . Dotland II. Peninsula. Berlin (De)
2018 . Arts et sciences des plasmas. Centre Pompidou. Paris (Fr)
2017 . Piani sulla cometa. Curator: Stefania Margiacchi. Spaziosiena. Siena (It)
2017 . Zoème. Curator: Amrane Soraya, Editions Filigranes & Zoème. Marseille (Fr)
2016 . Bazar. Palazzo Giorgi. Siena (It)
2015 . Verso-settimana di arte e architettura. Santa Maria della Scala. Siena (It)
2015 . Made in Filandia. as Rosaricci. Pieve a Presciano (It)
2015 . Città difffusa. as Rosaricci. Montevarchi. (It)
2015 . Volumi urbani. Curator: La Città nuda. Torino (It)
2014 . Made in Filandia. With Viviane Rosa. Pieve a Presciano. (It)
2014 . La qualità dell’abitare. Curator: La città nuda. Cagliari (It)
2014 . Les uns chez les autres. Curator: Julie Navarro. Cimetière de La Villette. Paris (Fr)
2014 . Pae/saggio. as Rosaricci. Biblioteca Ginestra. Montevarchi. (It)
2013 . Acqua. as Rosaricci. Greenhouses Cioncolini & Balestri. Montevarchi (It)
2012 . Nuit Blanche de Paris. Le Batofar. Paris (Fr)
Permanent collections
2026 . Public collection . Museums of the city of Marseille (Fr)
2024 . AgiVerona. Private Collection (It)
2017 . Museo della contrada del Leocorno. Siena (It)
2015 . Biblioteca Ginestra. Montevarchi (It)
Awards
2021 . Selected for Documents d’artistes Paca. Marseille (Fr)
2017 . Arts et sciences des plasmas. Bourse de recherche. Centre Pompidou & Labex Plas@par (Fr)
2016 . TU35, la fine del mondo. Shortlisted. Centro Pecci. Prato (It)
2017 . Premio Imagornimia. Imagornimia, Associazione del Terzo paesaggio, Fare arte. Milano (It)
2015 . Fenice Contemporanea. Premio Fondazione Musei Senesi. Regione Toscana (It)
2014 . La qualità dell’abitare. Finalist. La città nuda. (It)
Residencies
2022 . Residenza Living Room. Curator: Andrea Lerda. Associazione Art-ur. Cuneo (It)
2019 . Museo de arte Helio Oiticica. E22. Rio de Janeiro (Br)
2019 . Institut Royal Météorologique. Bruxelles (Be)
2019 . Residência Artística Móvel. Rio de Janeiro (Br)
2018 . Echangeur 22. Avignon (Fr)
2018 . Lahah. with Enrico Bertelli. Paris (Fr)
2018 . Arts et sciences. Centre Pompidou & Labex Plas@par. Radioastronomical Observatory. Nançay (Fr)
2016 . Progetto Itinera. Associazione Fuori Campo. Siena (It)
Publications
2026 . "222 Artisti emergenti su cui investire 2026". Exibart.
2023 . "Le.s Sensibles, Elargir le champ de la pensée et de la réflexion" Podcast realized by Eugénie Levebvre.
2022 . Architecture et transmission des arts. Ensa Normandie, Collection ATE (FR)
2022 . Rue d’Alger - Art, mémoire, espace public. Editions MF (Fr)
2021 . Rue d’Alger. Editions MF (FR)
2020 . Revue Sculptures n° 7 - Revoir la commande - Regards sur l’art et l’espace public. Parution le 14 janvier 2021. Editeur: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
2018 . UNAN. Enrico Bertelli. Origini Edizioni & L’ahah. (Fr-It)
2017 . Mi sono svegliata prima dell’alba. Culture attive, Regione toscana (It)
2017 . Progetto per S, Simone Burratti. Nuova Editrice Magenta (It)
2013 . Acqua. Aska Edizioni (It)
Collaborations
. Fare Mente Locale.
Founder and member of the collective with Giacomo Ricci & Nicola Macchetti.
The objective is to requalify the spaces of the city of Siena by activating a collaborative dialogue with citizens and institutions.
www.farementelocale.org
. Rosaricci.
Founder and member of the duo with Giacomo Ricci
The work, mainly of installation site-specific, explores diversion and substitution. The work is characterized by mimetism, at the limit of the invisible.
www.rosaricci.org
www.unto.rosaricci.org
Formation
2011 . HMONP - "Time given for critical thinking". ENSA Marseille (FR)
2010 . Architecture degree. National and Superior School of Architecture. Marseille (FR)