Raffaella della Olga was born in Bergamo, Italy, she lives in Paris.

Having for more than a decade chosen to turn analog and work most exclusively with modified typewriting machine, Raffaella della Olga has with this tool found a way to write and draw her own path to abstraction. What started as a concept (to be an « analog artist » in digital ages, to find freedom through mechanical gestures) has rapidly turn into an infinite exploration of the space of the page.
Expanding her domain of abstraction, she also works on geometrical pattern fabrics of great length on which she carves at regular intervals with a cutter. The fabrics are then presented folded once on themselves, hung on a neon tube, allowing Raffaella to infuse a layer of three-dimensionality in which the patterns cover themselves thus bypassing the flatness of their printed status.
In 2022, Raffaella della Olga began her entry into painting, her vertical adventure, with a series of works based on the same model of the grid, identified as a wall, typed on a monochrome background. From this series onward, a vast field of experimentation opened up, ranging from almost naked black-on-white graphics to textural and tinting effects that are truly painterly.

Education
1997 Law degree
2003 Graduated at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano

Solo Show
2022
Typed Paintings, Three Star Books, Paris
2020
LINE UP, Three Star Books, Paris
2019
Criss Cross, with Sébastien de Ganay, Silvia Steinek galerie, Wien 
Pagi-Nazioni, Galerie Florence Loewy-Books, Paris
2018
Dépliements, Galerie Dilecta, Paris
ALINEA, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
2017
Stoffe, curator Caroline Hancock, Galerie Dilecta, Paris
2011
MetaOdisseo, Treignac Projet – Sam Basu, Treignac (FR)
2010
Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard–Constellation, text Raimundas Malašauskas, N.O. Gallery Milano
2007
D102D, text Franco Raggi, N.O. Gallery, Milano

Group Exhibitions
2023
Souvenir Nouveau – Le Grand Café – Saint Nazaire (FR), curator Anne Bonnin
THE TASTE OF OTHERS by Three Star Books, CFAlive, Milano
OFFSET by Claude Closky, Le Centre Des Livres D’artistes  Le CDLA
2022
AOULIOULE, Curators Sylvie Fanchon and Camila Oliviers Fairclough, Musée régional d’art contemporaine  Occitanie
2021
Children of Compost, Curator Joana P.R.Neves, Frac Picardie and Drawing Lab Paris
Forsythia, Lilac and Geranium, with Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Elsa Werth and Mary Ellen Solt, Cabinet du Livre d’artistes, Rennes
2020
Your Friends and Neighbors, High Art, Paris
2019
ShipShape  A parallel curating by Tomas Cunha Ferreira, Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art -Anozero’ 19, Coimbra
TOIO – The Other Is Oneself,  Curator Fiona Liewehr, Wien
Street Art, a project by Camila Oliveira Fairclough and Elsa Werth, Paris
Aplats et Plages Colorés, curated by Aurélie Noury, Cabinet du Livre d’Artiste, Rennes
 i_n_t_o_t_o, Kunstverein am Rosa -Luxemburg, Berlin
Poetic Boom Boom, an exhibition about Visual Poetry, curator Mattia Solari, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso
2018
Make it yourself, group exhibition, curator Yves Chatap and Pascale Obolo, Dakar
Synonymie ambiante, group show at Frac Paca Marseille, a project by Jérôme Mauche
2017
The plates of the present, so far, curated by Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-ey Tang, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
2015
Pliure [Prologue – La part du feu], Curator, Paulo Pires do Vales. Fondation Gulbenkian, Paris
Aladdin Game Un Nouveau Festival/Air de jeu, Centre Georges Pompidou
Dust: the plates of the present, Curator Sonel Breslav, Baxeter St Camera Club of New York, New York
2014
Black Coffee, Paris, organised by Camila Oliveira Fairclough
2013
An exbition happening everywhere, at all times, with everyone, curator Mathieu Copeland, MoMA, New York
A Spoken Word Exhibition, Suite for Exhibition(s) and Publication(s), first movement. Satellite 6, Jeu de Paume, Paris. A proposal by Mathieu Copeland
Transmission, Galerie Karima Celestin, Marseille. A proposal by Caroline Hancock
The plates of the present, photogram projet organised by Thomas Fougeirol et Jo-ey-Tang
A world in a box (a bittersweet salon) , The Matchroom Social Club, Margate, Kent. Curator  Peter Fillingham and Andy Barratt
Abstraction manifeste, Le Quartier Centre d’art contemporain, Quimper, curator, Keren Detton
2012
Marrakech Press, Halles de Porrentruy – Suisse, curators Mathieu Copeland, Philippe Decrauzat
incipit, with Camila O. Fairclough, an invitation of C. Marcasciano, La Permanence, Clermont Ferrand
2011
Le choix du texte est un faux problème, trame en 3 actes by Samon Takahashi, Cneai, Paris
2010
Trasforming State, The WhyNotPlace, Connaught Place, New Delhi. Text by Paola Cabal
2009
Art-O-Rama. A project with David Adamo and Davide Bertocchi. N.O. Gallery, La Belle de Mai, Marseille

Performance/Reading
2014
1 2 3 4 x 24 SLW permutations, Pavillon Vêndome, Center of Contemporary Art Clichy, curator Manuel Segade, On the Roof. (performance)
I care You care We all care for Icarus, OuUnPo (collective performance), European Night of the Museum, Gibellina – Sicily, in collaboration with Fondatione Orestiadi
2013
Reading of “ Une Exposition à être lue, Volume 4 (1-2-1) Jeu de Paume, Paris
Fear-Hope Fear-Hope, « Godzilla and the Phoenix » OuUnPoJapan, Embassy of Sweden, Tokyo
The heaven inside the mountain, « Godzilla and the Phoenix » OuUnPoJapan, Zou-No-Hana,Yokohama
So What Do I Do With My Money ? MNAC Bucharest in collaboration with SambataSonora (performance) Curator Ruxandra Balaci
2012
OuUnPo Beirut, curators Fatos Üstek and Sara Giannini. Text by Marco Pasi (reading/performance)
Recreative Temporary Orbit, OuUnPo Vision Forum, collectives performances in Porto
Réduire l’asymétrie du champ de bataille, with L. Cepeda, Inc Livros, Porto
Réduire l’asymétrie du champ de bataille #1, « incipit »with Camila Oliveira Fairclough. An invitation by Colombe Marcasciano, La Permanence, Clermont Ferrand
Down the Stairs Climb a Mountain. Sauf Lundi, Florence Diemer, Paris (reading/performance)
2010
Impossible Speakers’ Corner – Lodhi Garden, New Delhi (performance)

Public and private collection:
M+ Hong Kong
MET Museum, Thomas J. Watson Library – New York
Getty Research Institute, L.A (USA)
Beth Rubin DeWoody, L.A. (USA)
CCS Bard- Marieluise Hessel Collection of Contemporary Art (USA)
NY Public Library (USA)
Haas Arts Library of Yale (USA)
CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiques (France)
University of Applied Arts Vienna ( Austria)

Publication/ Press
2020
gestes d’écriture, artpress dossier by Sally Bonn
LINE UP, with Three Star Books, Paris (artist book)
2019
Publication The Other is Oneself, by Salon Fur Kunst Buch Wien
Portfolio at Mouvement Magazine 07/2019
2016
Contribution at La Revue Initiales 09 Pierre Klossowski
2015
Pliure. Prologue ( la part du feu). Editions Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian – Délégation en France
Dust: The plates of the present, Editor Sonel Breslav, with essays and contributions by Robin Cameron, Thomas Fougeirol, Mara Hoberman, Flora Katz, Brett Littman, and Jo-ey Tang. http://www.secretarypress.com/dustplats-of-the-present-
A Perimeter Issue 1: Welcome Charliemoon http://aperimeter.com/index.html
Nod Magazine (University of Calgary) Issue #17: Welcome Charliemoon
2013
OuUnPo(RTO) Ouvroir dʼUnivers Potentiels Vol.9 – Book and Audio CD. Graphic
Design Abâke
Une exposition à être lu/An exhibition to hear read – Volume 4 (1-2-1). Graphic Design Mathieu Copeland
2010
The Transforming State, Religare arts initiative Ltd, texte Paola Cabal.
2008
CAREOF: da un archivio di archivi, tre progetti impossibili, Chiara Agnello, COMBO/3

Residencies
2010
The WhyNotPlace residency, Connaught Place, New Delhi.
2009
CAMAC, Art_ Science_Technology, Marnay sur Seine, France