LOVELY-RATZ About

Projects
Bio
Linda Pietrobelli (2001) and Bri Zamengo (2002) graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Arts at IUAV University of Venice.
In 2023, they formed the collective “LOVELY-RATZ”, born from the desire to work together, engaging with the dimension of the other and considering it as necessary for the development of thought.

Statement
By combining performance and photography to explore human dynamics, our research focuses on interpersonal relationships and social roles through queer and transfeminist perspectives, placing relational processes at the core of practice.
  Collaboration is both a method and an ethical position: we understand artistic research as a shared process shaped by relations between people, objects, spaces, and practices, aiming to create spaces for encounter, reflection, and empathetic connection.
  Our work unfolds between aesthetic exploration and conceptual inquiry through performative and embodied practices. We investigate how the body engages with and reconfigures space through perception. Garments act as carriers of identity, bridging fashion and performance as intertwined languages.
  We engage with territory, nature, and communities, using situated and adaptive methodologies informed by care, slowness, and presence. Objects, gestures, and collective actions function as relational mediators, activating shared memory and forms of belonging.
  These processes aim to generate temporary communities and micro-utopian spaces, where affective and political forms of resistance can emerge within everyday life.

CV

    Exhibitions
    - “Falìa* Artists in Residence 2024”, Group exhibition curated by Alice Vangelisti, Lozio —  July 2025
    - “Nessuno ha parlato di divertimento”, Group exhibithion curated by Lorenzo Lazzari with the collaboration of Eleonora Bonino, IUAV, Venice — June 2025
    - “Club Breakfast”, Group exhibithion curated by Jacopo Miliani with the collaboration of Giuliano Tarlao, Magazzini Ligabue, Venice — June 2025
    - “ALEA”, Group exhibithion curated by Daniele Zoico with the collaboration of Eleonora Bonino, IUAV, Venice — June 2024
    - “supportovivo”, Group exhibithion curated by Thomas Braida and Alessandra Messali, Spazio Punch, Venice — January 2024
    - “Piccoli luoghi”, Group exhibithion curated by Andrea Pertoldeo and Silvia Zaccaria with the collaboration of Mario Ciaramitaro, Magazzini Ligabue, Venice — July 2023
    - “PESSE-CAN”, Group exhibithion curated by Francesco Zucconi, Simona Arillotta and Nicoletta Traversa, Magazzini Ligabue, Venice — June 2023
    - “FARE”, Group exhibithion curated by Diego Tonus and Daniele Zoico, IUAV, Venice — February 2023

    Performance
    - “UNDER STANDING THINGS”, by Bianca Scout with the collaboration of Laurie Loads, Argo16, Venice — May 2025
    - “sync”, by Lydia Ourahmane with the collaboration of Daniel Blumberg, La Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte, ASAC Library, Venice — April 2024
    - “After a long day”, Performance by Linda Pietrobelli and Bri Zamengo, Castello Gallery, Venice — October 2023
    - “SHARING - Unguided tours from voyages into our clothes”, Group performance curated by Muslin Brothers with the collaboration of Laura Pante, Magazzini Ligabue, Venice — May 2023
    - “Ora, tra un po’, con calma, devo farlo”, Group performance curated by Jacopo Miliani with the collaboration of Stefano Mudu, Magazzini Ligabue, Venice — May 2023

    Artistic residency
    - MAC Studi d’Artista, Artists in residence curated by Caterina Benvegnù and Stefania Schiavon, Padova – on going
    - Falìa*    , Artists in residence curated by Alice Vangelisti, Villa di Lozio (BS) — September 2024

    Artistic and Project Assistance
    - “The Power Plant Research”, Assistants for the transdisciplinary artist Isabel Burr Raty supported by nadine (Brussels) and Viernulvier (Ghent) — July-November 2024

    Publications
    - “This is the place where we meet”, (146 pages, 29,7x19 cm) – self-published, 2026
    - “Lozio Settembre 2024”, (127 pages, 15,5× 21,5 cm) — self-published, 2025
    Included in the group exhibition Falìa* AIR 2024 — Lozio, 2025
    Featured in the official residency catalogue.
    Selected for the second edition of NUSCA (Nothing Until Something Comes Along), Independent Festival dedicated to Cinema and Publishing — Venice, 2025

    Workshop
    - “UNDER STANDING THINGS”, Music and movement workshop held by Bianca Scout and Laurie Loads, Venice 2025
    - “OSSERVAZIONE #14”, Graphic design workshop held by Studio Iknoki in collaboration with POP Adriatico, Trieste 2024
    - “OSSERVAZIONE #04”,  Participatory art workshop held by Giulia Iacolutti in collaboration with POP Adriatico, Trieste 2024
    - “CORPO MATERIA NELLO SPAZIO”, Seminar on Somatic Movement and Choreographic Practices held by Laura Pante, Venice 2024 
    - “Laboratorio di Moda e Performance”, held by Jacopo Miliani in collaboration with Stefano Mudu, and Muslin Brothers in collaboration with Laura Pante, Venice 2023