In a practice that encompasses collaged drawing and bronze work, Lea Mugnaini (b.1992) probes the primordial to create organic figures that inhabit symbolic worlds. Traces of dreams, memories, and places are synthesized into a visual vocabulary that spans the mythological and the elemental: a procession of forms that is at once figurative and abstract emerge. Culled from the collective unconscious but still deeply tethered to the artist’s immediate environment, each piece evokes a realm in which the viewer can interact, imagine, and play.

Mugnaini received her Meisterschüler Fine Arts from the Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, DE in the class Monica Bonvicini in 2022. Her debut solo institutional exhibition, La Partición de la Lombrina is currently being held at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Mexico City, MX, curated by Karla Niño de Rivera Torres (2025). She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at KWADRAT Gallery, Berlin, DE (2023) and HOTO, Berlin, DE (2023). Her work has recently been included in exhibitions at NARANJO 141, Mexico City, MX (2025); König Galerie, Mexico City (2024); and Museum Reinickendorf, Berlin, DE (2023). Mugnaini lives and works between Mexico City, MX and Berlin, DE.

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