About — Artistic practice rooted in memory and form
As the world gave way to chaos and fear, I was learning that life, with its fragile tenacity, is what deserves my every attention. It is from this quiet and powerful awareness that my art is born.
Every creative gesture is, for me, an act of memory and transformation. My works are inner journeys, fragments of my lived experience that take shape as form, light, and shadow. They tell the story of who I was and who I am becoming, weaving together wounds and rebirths, roots and metamorphoses.
Once, my expression was driven by the urgency to exist; today, it arises from care, from listening, from the slowness that knows how to welcome.
My art comes to life from a memory: the light of a candle lit in a bunker during the war. From that flame, fragile yet alive, was born my need to imagine, to create worlds.
Even now, I paint to preserve that light and give it a voice.
CINQUE PETALI
— A hand-drawn animation born from my most intimate memories.
It is a gesture of care and transformation, shaped by the need to give voice to what within me asked to be heard.
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EXCLUSIVE COLLABORATION
INTERIOR DESIGN
‘‘Physys’’ Vases at Salone del Mobile 2025 with Living Divani, Milano
‘‘Physys’’ meets Zinelli&Perizzi, Via S. Sebastiano, 1, 34121 Trieste
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 ‘’Room of Her own'' with Tacit Collective, Leslieville
2022 LUCE, Palazzo Costantino di Napoli, Quattro Canti, PA
2022 Lilian Caraian, Sala Veruda
2021 Lilian Caraian Award, Sala Veruda
2019 Young Art Selection, Sala Giubileo
2018 Animality, Lux Art Gallery
2017 Young Art Selection, Sala Giubileo
2017 LYNX Award, Lux Art Gallery
2017 Michele Cea Award, Spazio Seicentro
AWARDS
2022 Ex Tempore Prize Coseano
2021 I Prize ‘‘L. Caraian’’ Figurative Art
2019 Ex Tempore Prize Coseano
2019 Scholarship Fine Art School AU
2018 Europe Prize Coseano
2018 Ex Tempore Prize Coseano
2017 Michele Cea I Prize 2nd Edition
2017 Special Prize LYNX
PRESS & INTERVIEW
2025 ‘‘Alchemy 21’’ for ‘‘Home & Garden Colorado’’, Fall 2025 Beaumier Interiors
2024 ‘‘Andrea Solaja: Shadows of Art, Nature and War’’, interview with Hue&Eye
2023 ‘‘Vivere di Arte con Andrea Solaja’’ Ep. 5, Baxa podcast
2022 The Mocla Magazine, ‘‘Intervista con Andrea Solaja’’
2022 Rise Art, ‘‘The Figurative Artist of Light and Dark’’
2019 Catalogo dell’Arte Moderna 54, Mondadori
2018 Young Artist Gutenberg Edition
2017 Serbia Reconsidered - Contemporary Artist from Serbia, Imago Mundi