Born in Munich, Germany, Tania Welz has lived and worked in Rome for over 20 years.

Through burns, cuts and paddings of humble materials contrasting with precious inserts, Welz sets in motion a metamorphosis, a constant progression of decline and renewal, within an infinite cycle of appearance and disappearance.

Her work is as a series of snapshots in which a wide range of material worlds intertwine, damage and repair each other- only for a moment and then they separate again- in an attempt to show this fleeting instant of life, to freeze a moment of beauty before it will inevitably disappear.

Her work received various awards and was exhibited in international group and solo exhibitions in China, Dubai, Warsaw, Los Angeles, Belgrade, London, Munich and Rome.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2022  Museo Castromediano, Lecce, Italy2019 ‘the Dedica Anthology’, Palazzo Naiadi, Le Dame Art Gallery           curator Gianfranco Valleriani, Rome, Italy2019 Gallery Benjamin Eck, Munich, Germany2018 ‘le trame del mondo – interlacement’, curator Raffaela Salato          Piazzadispagna9, Rome, Italy2012 Gallery Caffe Concerto, Modena, Italy2012 Gallery Böhmler im Tal, Munich, Germany2011 Gallery laranarossa, Latina, Italy2010 Gallery Opera Unica, Rome, Italy

Group exhibitions

2025 (upcoming November) Shanghai exhibition,  Arte Laguna Prize, 2025, curator doctor Huang Yi, EKA Tianwu in Jinqiao, Pudong, Shanghai, China

2025 02.08. – 03.08 COR – Spazi Pubblici Palpitanti , Cortili d’arte , Fratta di Tarzo, presentation of the work ‘Fainting slowly’ Cor edition created during the art residence at Tarzo, Italy

2025  23 January – 28 February 2025

Material Metamorphosis: The Alchemy of Objects, Clay, and Paint

Sabino de Nichilo, Arvin Golrokh, Luis Gomez de Teran, Thorsten Kirchhoff, Alessandro Procaccioli, Tania Welz, Anna Zanichelli

Montoro 12 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2024 Roots, Metamorphosis,  Mixtures  II International biennal of contemporary fibre art, curated by Barbara Pavan, Museum of Embroidery and Textiles, Valtopina, Italy

Promoted by Scuola Ricamo Valtopina and the Municipal Administration with the patronage of the Region of Umbria, the Province of Perugia, CEDRAV, Umbria Ecomusei, CCIAA Perugia, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno, Club UNESCO Foligno and Fonti del Clitunno ODV.

2024 Fainting slowly, Art Installation, Villa Sciarra 27.06.2024, exhibition project ‘opera‘, curated by Eugenia Querci e Elena Lago, Rome

2024 Oikoumene, Group show, SCD studio, progetto espositivo curato da Barbara Pavan, Perugia, MA Monteluce art district, 18.05.- 29.06.2024, Italy

2023 / 2024 Squares, Group show, Galleria La Dama di Capestrano, Capestrano, Italy
2023 For Grace Received, Art Installation ‘Open Villa Sciarra’, Villa Schiarra, Rome, Italy
2023 ‘M.A.H.A.S’, Studio Rö, group showing, Design week Milan, Italy
2023 ‘XS Project’, curated by Barbara Pavan for the international fiber art magazine ‘ArteMorbida’, Bergamo art fair 13. – 15.01.2023
2022 ‘Waves of weaving‘, Domus Art Gallery, Athens, group exhibition with Yuriko Damiano, Florence Vacher, Curatrice Giulia Coccia, Greece
2021 ‘6th Textile Art of Today’, travelling exhibition with Olafur Eliasson (Denmark), Shoplifter Hrafnhildur Arnardottir (Island), Kari Anne Helleberg Bahri (Norway), Włodzimierz Cygan (Poland)
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava,Slovak Republic, Tatra Gallery, Poprad, Slovak Republic,
The Museum of Moravian Slovakia, Czech Republic, Pesti Vigadó Gallery,
2019 ‘24 hours creating a new day’, Choral Art Action,
Le Dame Art Gallery, Melia White House, London, Great Britain
site specific installation curated by Gianfranco Valleriani, Sounds: Alex Marenga
2019 ‘The Dedica Anthology’, Palazzo Naiadi, Le Dame Art Gallery,
curator Gianfranco Valleriani, Rome, Italy
2019 ‘Artist in Focus 2‘ , Drina Art Gallery, Belgrad, Serbia
curated by Natascia Radojeciv
Miloš Todorović, Tania Welz, Michele Iodice, Veljko Zejak, Alexandar Gligorijevich, Petar Mirković,
Marko Lađušić, Lola Sprenger, Nikola Kolya Božović, Dajana Vujčić, Alexandar Dimitrijević. Miloš Tomić, Milena Mijović Durutović
2019 ‘Artrooms’, International contemporary art fair for independent artists, Rome, Italy
2019 Rome Art Week, Rome, Italy
2018 ‘Between Two Seas / LA International’, curator Luigia Martelloni, group showing
with Wim Wenders, Scherezade Garcia, Andy Moses, Mei Xian Qiu, Yossi Govrin,
Uemon Ikeda, Alberti Vannetti, Lynn Aldrich, Jay Mark Johnson, Luigia Martelloni
Arena 1 Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2018 ‘Elevision’, International group showing, Dubai, Abu Dabi, UAE
2018 Rome Art Week, Rome, Italy
2017 Rome Art Week, Rome, Italy
2016 ‘4th International Emerging Artist Award’, WORLD ART DUBAI,
Showcasing winning artwork ‘All you can(not) leave behind’, Dubai, UAE
2016 Rome Art Week, Rome, Italy
2015 WIA Expo 2015 (Warsaw International Art), Warsaw, Poland
2014 ‘from Lausanne to Bejing’, 8 th International Fiber art Biennal 2014
Nantong, China
2012 Premio Internazionale Limen Arte 2011
curator Giorgio di Genova, Vibo Valentia, Italy
2012 ‘La Materia Ri-Nata’, Galleria Modulo M4, Macro, la Pelanda, Rome, Italy
2011 Gallery LaRanaRossa, Latina, Italy
2010 Gallery RvbArts , Rome, Italy
2010 Gallery Quibab, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2010 Residence in Farnese, Rome, Italy

2009 Gallery Trastart, group showing with the members of the ‘Gelatoartsalon’Awards

2025 Residenza Fratta di Tarzo , Cor.Land – Spazi Pubblici Palpitanti, Tarzo, Italy

2024 Huacui Museum Special Prize , Arte Laguna Prize edition 19, Huacui Museum Artist Residency, Shanghai, China

2019 Le Dame Art Gallery Award, winner, Le dame Art Gallery, London, Great Britain

2016 4th International Emerging Artist Award
winner in the category ‘mixed media’, Dubai, UAE

2010 25 th International Fine art Competition
winner, Juror Megan Fontanella, assistant curator Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, USA

Commissions

2003 Stage set Rai 3 ‘Correva l’anno’2009 Prorail, Dutch Railway Netwrok Prorail, commissioned artwork: Loco-motif2017 Hotel Maria Regina, artdesign concept and realization of the three floor wing of the hotel with a total of 43 small works and 12 works of big dimensions, Rome, Italy

Private Collections

Dutch Railway Network Prorail

Activities related to Art

Co-creator, co-author and presenter of the TV art – magazine ‘Art2Art’ (see part-1, see part-2), Artchannel China (艺术人文)

Pubblications

2016 The Best of 2016, 4th International Emerging Artist Award,page 862014 8th From Lausanne to Bejing Fiberart Biennale Catalogue, page 171, ISBN 978-7-112-18456-92014 Percorsi d’Arte in Italia, Enzo le Pera,ISBN 978-88-498-4249-42011 Premio Internazionale Limen Arte, 3rd edition, page 223,2010 Artis Spectrum, Profiles of Contemporary Art and Artists, Vol.23, May 2010, page 37