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Artists
SAGG Napoli
b. 1991, Naples, Italy; lives and works Naples, Italy.
SAGG Napoli is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, performance, sculpture, spoken word, and digital media. Working across personal narrative and collective cultural identity, her work examines questions of class, gender, regional belonging, and the construction of Southern Italian identity within broader European cultural frameworks. Central to her practice is an engagement with what she describes as a 'South Aesthetics,' reclaiming visual languages often associated with excess, spectacle, ornamentation, or social marginality and repositioning them as sites of agency, resistance, and emotional intensity. Her works frequently move between vulnerability and theatricality, combining autobiographical elements with performative gestures that explore discipline, endurance, catharsis, and embodied experience. Drawing on influences ranging from popular culture and street aesthetics to ritual, sport, and online self-fashioning, SAGG Napoli treats performance as both a social condition and a survival strategy. Digital culture also plays a significant role within her practice, with social media functioning not simply as documentation, but as an active space for experimentation, identity construction, and the circulation of contemporary image culture.
SAGG Napoli's recent solo exhibitions include Champ Lacombe, London (2026); Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2026); Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable, but yet ’m scord’ ’e te scurdà, zaza, Milan (2025); Cuore spezzato e testa alta, Import Export, Warsaw (2024); Pisces don't drown, Galerie Champ Lacombe, Biarritz (2022); and Si na buji pi cosc lisc e o'smalt ngopp all'ogn – You're a Lie with Smooth Thighs and Painted Nails, Jupiter Woods, London (2017). Selected group exhibitions include EDEN: Wet Work Over Lap, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2026); In the Moment, National Museum, Oslo (2025); Basel Social Club, Basel (2025); Con il cuore in una mano e l'arco nell'altra, Musée Rodin, Paris (2024); Mental Pictures, Import Export, Warsaw (2023); Baroque, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz (2023); Performance & The City, Art Verona, Verona (2021); and Too Much, Glasgow International, Glasgow (2020).
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Exhibitions
Champ Lacombe, London, UK (solo)
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal (solo)
Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable, but yet ’m scord’ ’e te scurdà, zaza, Milan, Italy (solo)
EDEN: Wet Work Over Lap, Kim? , Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia (group)
Cuore spezzato e testa alta, Import Export, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
In the Moment, National Museum, Oslo, Norway (group)
Basel Social Club, Basel, Switzerland (group)
Sempre contratta, curated by CURA Magazine, Basement Roma, Rome, Italy (solo)
BETTY bee, zaza, Naples, Italy (solo)
BETTY BEE & SAGG NAPOLI, zaza, Milan, Italy (group)
Ruined, Condo London, Import Export at Rondo Gallery, London, UK (group)
Home Feelings, Import Export, Warsaw, Poland (group)
Con il cuore in una mano e l'arco nell'altra, Musée Rodin, Paris, France (group)
Alea iacta est, Vistamare, Milan, Italy (group)
Baroque, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz, France (group)
DESIDERIO 23, zaza, Naples, Italy (group)
Porous Cities, South Parade at Feria, Marseille, France (group)
Mental Pictures, Import Export, Warsaw, Poland (group)
Pisces don't drown, Galerie Champ Lacombe, Biarritz, France (solo)
Progress isn't a straight line, solo booth with Import Export, Artissima, Turin, Italy (solo)
Basel Social Club, Basel, Switzerland (group)
Drama, with Stefania Batoeva, Import Export Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
Galleria Spazia, Bologna, Italy (group)
Herald Street Gallery, London, UK (group)
Performance & The City, Art Verona, Verona, Italy (group)
Too Much, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK (group)
Unbothered and Moisturised, Eaton Workshop, Hong Kong (group)
All Small Things, Milan, Italy (group)
Radical Self-Love, Curated by Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria (group)
Selbstbildnis, Société, Berlin, Germany (group)
Vendi Napoli e poi muori, Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy (group)
Pride and Prejudice: New Practices of Dignity, Department OBECNISCI , Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (two-person) (solo)
Fake things are flamable - e cos favz s'appiccn, Like a Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare, Italy (solo)
Si na buji pi cosc lisc e o'smalt ngopp all'ogn – You're a Lie with Smooth Thighs and Painted Nails, Jupiter Woods, London, UK (solo)
Mirrors, Milan, Italy (group)
The Shift, Flat Time House, London, UK (group)
in one's own time, Emalin, Naples, Italy (group)
Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (group)
BRZ5, FARE, Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milan, Italy (group)
Tara has no rooms inside, London, UK (group)
TREATYoSELF, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK (group)
Les pieds poudrés, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria (two-person) (group
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