Simona Filippini is a photographer, director and curator of participatory projects linked to women’s and new citizens representation. She collaborates with many national and international magazines, where she publishes texts and photographs. She works also on visual education of the youngest through seminars and workshops, in synergy with schools and museums throughout the italian territory. She founded in 2008 the CAMERA 21 – contemporary photography association Selected exhibititions and curatorial projects.

2025

PORTRAIT/SELF – PORTRAIT
FROM THE ACTA INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE

Curated by Manuela De Leonardis
Head of the ACTA INTERNATIONAL Archive, Rome
Magazzini Fotografici, Naples, September 25 – October 26

Photographic works by:

Paola Agosti, Muzna Al Musafir, Sandro Becchetti, Piergiorgio Branzi, Massimiliano
Camellini, Franco Cenci, Mario Clementi, Pasquale De Antonis, Simona Filippini,
Stefano Fontebasso De Martino, Leonard Liberato, Giorgia Fiorio, Frank Horvat,
Giuseppe Leone, Lucideddu (Lucia Cadeddu), Hassan Meer, Dino Pedriali, Marialba
Russo, Virginia Ryan, Ivo Saglietti, Jack Sal, Enzo Sellerio, Chrystie Sherman, Angelo
Turetta, Lim Young-Kyun

2024

Roma ChilometroZero – collective exhibition, curated by Alessandra Mauro, produced by Leica Camera Italia and ContrastoBooks, Museo di Roma in Trastevere.

The Photo Solstice #6 artist residency promoted by the Fondazione Sardegna and curated by Marco Delogu

2023

Presente Perfect/Passato Prossimo curated by Manuela De Leonardis, collective exhibition celebrating the gallery’s tirthy years of activity. Acta International Gallery

Premio Terna Driving Energy 2023 –curate by Marco Delogu, collective exhibition, Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma

Parco della Fotografia – solo exhibition curated by Maurizio Beucci, in the Roma KilometroZero project by Leica Italia, Leica Store Rome.

Present Perfect/Passato Prossimo curated by Manuela De Leonardis, collective exhibition celebrating the gallery’s tirthy years of activity. Acta International Gallery

2022

RomeLOVE #14 – solo exhibition curated by Chiara Capodici, organized by T con Zero in the events of Contemporaneamente Roma – Acta Internationale Gallery, Roma.

La Città che (non) c’è – exhibition, in the streets of Pigneto district in Rome, curated by Chiara Capodici and organized by La città che (non) c’e

Paesi – exhibition curated by Lina Pallotta – with ADF – Women Photographers Association, thanks to Sistema Museale Medaniene

Paesi curated by Lina Pallotta – ADF with Musei Medaniene, exhibition  EurPhotoProject  Festival di Fotografia curated by Marco Delogu – La Nuvola, Roma

2021

Pagpupulong  curated by Sara Palmieri, site specific exhibition, Rione Roma, Basilica di Santa Pudenziana, Roma

The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, curated by Manuela De Leonardis, exhibition – Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno 

RomeLOVE, curated by Chiara Capodici, solo exhibition Magazzini Fotografici, Napoli

Scolpite curated by Paola Riccardi, exhibition Associazione Donne Fotografe, Brescia Photo Festival

Argento Vivo, curated by Monica Polledri, solo exhibition,  Assemblea, Roma

2019

Taccuini Romani, Vedute di Diego Angeli, Visioni di Simona Filippini curate by Silvana Bonfili and Chiara Capodici solo exhibition, Museo di Roma in Trastevere – October 2019/ March 2020

42 gradi Nord/12 gradi Est – video – co.directed with Elisabetta Portoghese, Festival dell’Umanità Castelnuovo di Porto

The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, curated by Manuela De Leonardis, exhibition – Auditorium Diocesano la Vallisa Bari, Italy

The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, curated by Manuela De Leonardis, book presentation, Museo Pignatelli, Napoli

The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, curated by Manuela De Leonardis, book presentation, Museo Macro Roma

The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, curated by Manuela De Leonardis, book presentation, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Roma

2018

Un’altra Storia – video – co-directed with Lina Pallotta – Museo Villa Pignatelli casa della fotografia, Napoli

BOX21ritratti in Piazza, performance and video, Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto

A scuola anch’io – video – Università La Sapienza, Facoltà di Scienza della Formazione, Roma

The blood of women – Traces of red on a white cloth, curated by Manuela De Leonardis, Exhibition – Ospedale Clinicizzato S.S. Annunziata, Chieti

2017

BOX21ritratti in Piazza, performance and video, Emerging Talents, Museo Macro, Roma

RomeLOVE, solo exhibition, Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto

2016

DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, book and project presentation, Leboudoir 2.0, Les Rencontres d’Arles

2015 

RomeLOVE, book presentation, Farhenheit book shop, Roma

BOX21ritratti in Piazza, performance and video, Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto

2014

RomeLOVE, book presentation, NonostanteMarras, Milano

BOX21ritratti in Piazza, performance and video, – Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto

In Itinere – video – Castelnuovo Fotografia, Castelnuovo di Porto

DonnexDonne – Exhibition – Galleria del Cembalo, Roma

Italiani per Costituzione – video – co-directed with Matteo Antonelli, Sala del Consiglio Comunale, Milano 

2013

Italiani per Costituzione – video – co-directed with Matteo Antonelli, FotoGrafia, Festival Internazionale, Museo Macro, Roma

25 – video – co-directed with Eva Tomei, Teatri di Vetro, Municipio XI, Roma

In-visibile Scampia – video – co-directed with Manuela Fugenzi, Museo Villa Pignatelli Casa della Fotografia, Napoli

2012 

IN/OUT ritratti sul lavoro – video – co-directed with Eva Tomei, Fotografia, Festival Internazionale, Museo Macro, Roma

BOX21 ritratti in Piazza, performance and video – co-directed with Eva Tomei, Teatri di Vetro, Municipio XI, Roma

2011 

Desperate Housewives – video – Obiettivo donna/Officine Fotografiche, Roma

BOX21ritratti in Piazza, performance and video – co-directed with Franco Mapelli and Eva Tomei, XVII Municipio, Roma

2010 

DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, exhibition and book presentation, Biblioteca delle Donne di Bologna

Femminile, Plurale, book presentation, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Roma

2009 

DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, project exhibition – Palazzo Valentini, Roma

DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, project presentation – Università La Sapienza, Facoltà di Scienze della  comunicazione, Roma

DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, project exhibition – La Feltrinelli, Udine

DI LEI, donne globali raccontano, project exhibition – Istituto italiano di cultura di Marsiglia

A CASA, itinerant exhibition in Roma, Torino, Milano, Firenze, Napoli

2008

Agenda photos by Tony Gentile, curatorial project, – Centro studi Luigi Di Sarro, Roma

Il mio compagno di viaggio photos by Davide di Gianni, curatorial project,  s.t. foto libreria galleria, Roma

2007

Napoli/Forcella Dentro/Fuori, curatorial progect,  FotoGrafia, Festival internazionale di Roma

2005 

Alza gli occhi e guarda_Forcella, solo exhibition – Palazzo Reale, Napoli

Alza gli occhi e guarda – ehibition on maxi billboards on Forcella’s district walls, Napoli

2003 

Roma City, solo exhibition, Galleria Acta International, Roma

2Rome, solo exhibition, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, New York

Fuori e dentro i monasteri – exhibition – Galleria Sala1, Roma

Roma City – exhibition, FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale, Mercati di Traiano, Roma

2002

Duemila Roma – exhibition, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona

Dippold  the optician – solo exhibition, Galleria Zadig, Roma