Morena Luciani Russo,(1975) is an Italian visual artist, performer and scholar of Feminine cosmologies and archaic traditions and cults of Old Europe. She lives in the Susa Valley mountains, in the North West of Italy.
Her research moves between art and shamanism, in a fusion between contemporary language and ancestral symbols. An iconographic and anthropological journey into a multidimensional world, full of creatures on the border between human, animal and plant, a Feminine who expresses the power and sacredness of nature and other possible worlds.
In performative-ritual work, she creates collective experiences in which to restore life and meaning to the symbols and narratives that have inhabited our internal landscapes since the beginning.
She’s an author and shamanic teacher, widely recognized across Italy.
Morena Luciani Russo (1975) è un’artista visiva, performer e studiosa delle cosmologie femminili e delle antiche tradizioni e culti dell’Antica Europa. Vive tra le montagne della Val Susa, nel Nord-Ovest dell’Italia.
La sua ricerca si muove tra arte e sciamanesimo, in una fusione tra linguaggi contemporanei e simboli ancestrali. Un viaggio iconografico e antropologico in un mondo multidimensionale, popolato da creature al confine tra umano, animale e vegetale: un Femminile che esprime la potenza e la sacralità della natura e di altri mondi possibili.
Nel lavoro performativo-rituale crea esperienze collettive che restituiscono vita e significato ai simboli e alle narrazioni che abitano i nostri paesaggi interiori fin dall’inizio.
È un’autrice e un’insegnante di sciamanesimo, ampiamente riconosciuta in tutta Italia.
Education
2000 — Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology, with a thesis exploring Prehistoric Art and the Symbolic Roots of Shamanism.
1994-1997 Scuola d’Arte ARTE-STUDIO of Luca Vigna, Turin.
She continued as a self-taught artist.
Selected exhibitions & projects
2021 — Wisdom Across the Ages, selected by the jury of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, Annual Symposium / ASWM Gallery
2014 — FIGURIAMOCI – Visions Beyond the Myth. Four Artists for Four Goddesses, National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
2014 — Omaggio alla Potnia, Casa delle Donne, Rome; guest exhibition, Marija Gimbutas: Twenty Years of Goddess Studies
2011 — Città Materna, Palazzo Farnese, Civic Museum of Contemporary Art, Ortona
2008 — Paratissima, Turin
2006 — HYPE Project, Milan / Amsterdam
2000 — VIAFARINI, Milan, Careof Archive / gallery workshops
2000 — Murazzi, Turin, curated by Luca Beatrice
1999 — Finalist, Io Espongo, Azimut, Turin