Valentina Pini   Biography 1982 Born in Tessin, Switzerland 2002 Maturité économique, collège Cantonal de Mendrisio, Tessin 2004-2005 Academy of Fine Arts, class: post-conceptional arts, Vienna 2005 Erasmus assistant at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna 2002-2007 Haute école d’art et de design, Geneve; diploma passed with distinction Lives and works in Geneva Exhibitions 2004 ATHENEE "vous etes ici", Geneva LELOCLE "Le Locle Prints", Le Locle 2005 FLUC "medialisierung arbeit spatilisierung (re)politisierung", Vienna ATELIERHAUS DER AKADEMIE "imported", Vienna  BILDHAUERATELIERS "Grüss Gott", Vienna GALLERY AREA 53 "Weibliche Positionen zur Skulptur", Vienna MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS "Real Presence", Belgrad 2006 COLOGNE FINE ART, white8 Gallery, Villach DUPLEX "noir ET/OU blanc", collective exhibition, Geneva ART SALZBURG, white8 Gallery, Villach WHITE8 GALLERY "Close", Villach 2007 BASTA Espace d’art contemporain: "Ballade pour un serre cueille", Exposition collective, Lausanne VILLA DU JARDIN ALPIN "closer", exhibition with Marta > Riniker-Radich, Meyrin VILLA DUTOIT "déjà ailleurs", collective exhibition, Geneva 2008 ISLAM - Ein Dialog, white8 Gallery, Villach PLATTFORM08, Ewz-Unterwerk Selnau, Zürich LES HALLES DE LA FONDERIE "La possibilité d’un alliage", collective exhibition, Carouge Young Art Europa 08, Young Art Museum, Wien 2009 Unter 30 VII: Preisträger Kiefer Hablitzel Stipendium 2009 - Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun Outside - Inside, white8/VIENNA Galerie, Wien Vegas Gallery, London Changing, white8/VILLACH Galerie, Villach 2010 Museo Cantonale d`Arte Lugano, Lugano "Gittering Bathing Cup"