Cosima Montavoci was born in Venice in 1988, and after a decade spent in the Netherlands where she graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. From 2015 to 2018, her atelier has been located at the NDSM Werf, Amsterdam Noord. In 2018 Cosima chose to go back to Italy and is now based in Venice.

Since 2022 together with Lorenzo Passi, Cosima founded the Mollified Collective, That through the lens of glass casts an anthropologically ironic look at human behavior.

Cosima Montavoci's work often speaks of major existential themes such as death, creation, and memory. She loves to research and investigate small forgotten things that people often do not see or talk about, elements that she defines as "human traces" or "honest fossils." The main feature of her work is to encourage acceptance and metabolization of difficult situations or topics through an ironic attitude that accompanies each of her creations. Cosima Montavoci thinks that her own hands help her to think and, for this reason, the manual component is a very evident feature of her works.

Exhibitions

July/August 2025 - Fluid Matter II - Humanature at Sparc* Gallery, Venice. (more info will follow)

September/November 2024 - Fluid Matter I, first exhibition by Mollified Collective (C. Montavoci and L. Passi) as an incubator of contemporary glass artists, curated and organised in collaboration with Dario Dalla Lana.

May 2024 - Mollified Collective (C. Montavoci and L. Passi) part of the collective exhibition Under the skin at Gallery KA32, Berlino, Germania.

Apri 2024 - Detour exhibition by Moleskine (The works of Raffaello and Leonardo da Vinci are in dialogue with the works of the best contemporary minds who expressed themselves in a notebook) at Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan.

September 2023\January 2024 - Mollified Collective (C. Montavoci and L. Passi) part of the collective exhibition Inlaguna at Palazzo Experimental, Venice.

September 2023\January 2024 - Ex Voto by Mollified Collective (C. Montavoci and L. Passi) at Vino Vero by Lightbox, Venice

May 2023 - Soft Revolution by Mollified Collective (C. Montavoci and L. Passi) at Galleria casa Dugnani, Robecco S.N, Milano.

March 2023 - Mollified #0 was given as the first prize to the winner of the Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival.

June 2023 - Mollified’s catalog presented for the Art Night Venezia.

September 2022\ January 2024 -Duo exhibition by Mollified Collective (C. Montavoci and L. Passi) for Venice Glass Week 2022.

October 2022 - Artist book created for Moleskine Foundation Collection and permanent collection of the foundation

September 2022 Mostra collettiva Supa Store Venezia by Sarah Staton a A plus A Gallery, Venice.

May 2020 - Virtual Exhibition made by Atopos of Cosima Montavoci’s sculptures and Laura Guarnier poetry.

January 2020 - Solo Show with Trash Project at Booming Contemporary Art show, Dumbo, Bologna.

October 2019 - Giornata del Contemporaneo (contemporary art day) by AMACI – Associazione dei Musei d'Arte Contemporanea Italiani. Collective exhibition 'Scent of time' at Edge, the foundation Dhaka, Bangladesh.

September 2019 - Winner of the Festival Plastica d’A-mare with the artwork Achrome / Art-waste in Ostia, Porto Turistico di Roma.

July\August 2019 - Majhi International Art Residency Programme and exhibition 'Scent of time' with artwork Achrome / Art-waste at Combo, Venice

July 2019 - Vanitas at Rivers of Dust, collective exhibition in the hypogeum of S'Francesco of Matera

June 2019 - Disembodied body parts, personal show for the Art Night Venezia, Venice, Italy. Showcased works: Vanitas, Tomb Sculpture, MADE IN ITALY.

June 2019 - Presentation of Trash project at Ex Herion, Venice, Italy. Part of workshop and conference Re-plastic part of the F-act festival by Eatart.

June 2019 - Trash project at Studio Cannaregio in Venice, Italy. Part of the collective exhibition Cross Borders.

May 2019 - Trash Project (Contemporary fairy Tales) in Venice, Italy. Part of the exhibition Libertà, organized by Gallergry.

February 2019 - Vanitas at ex caserma Polmare in Triest, Italy for the exhibition Pheripheral Visions organized by IoDeposito.

October 2018 - Tomb Sculpture at ArtVerona in Verona, Italy.

July 2018 - Tomb Sculpture at the B#S Gallery in Treviso, Italy. Part of the collective exhibition Still Life.

July 2018 - Vanitas at Castello di Duino near Trieste, Italy in the collective exhibition Ruins - Decadenza e rovina.

May 2018 - Tomb Sculpture at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, Italy (Sala Dogana). Part of the collective exhibition Vanitas.

2018 - Vanitas at the B#S Gallery in Treviso, Italy. Part of the collective exhibition From Dust Till Dust.

2017 - Tomb Sculpture at Ca' dei Ricchi in Treviso, Italy. Part of the collective exhibition Organic Memory.

2017 - Tomb Sculpture at Villa Manin, Passariano, Italy. Part of the collective exhibition Embodied Memory, organized by IoDeposito.

2017 - Vanitas at Sala Umberto Veruda in Trieste, Italy. Part of the collective exhibition Memory as a Living Matter, organized by IoDeposito.

2016 - Vanitas at Battlefield Museum (Museo della Battaglia), Vittorio Veneto for the vernissage of "Lands of Memory" (International Contemporary Artists revealing war legacies). Event organized by IoDeposito.

2016 - Vanitas at Societa' Cormonese d'Austria, Cormons. Event organized by IoDeposito.

2015 - Tomb Sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show, Amsterdam.

2015 - Andata e Ritorno 2.0 at Ex Herion, Venice.

2014 - Vanitas at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam.

2013 - The Fall of the Knight at the Vishal, Haarlem.