Beatrice Taponecco was born in Sarzana, La Spezia, in November 1987. She graduated in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara and, since 2024, has been an Honorary Academician of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence. She lives and works in Carrara, in her atelier in Torano.
Her artistic poetics revolves around forms capable of expressing delicacy, strength, and above all the emotions that the artist’s gaze and sensibility capture through direct observation of nature.
She has received recognition in national and international sculpture competitions, held solo exhibitions, and taken part in major group shows. Among her solo exhibitions are A Tu per Tu. Beatrice Taponecco – Piergiorgio Balocchi, curated by Maria Mancini at Palazzo Binelli in Carrara; Sentire la Forma, curated by Laura Barreca, project-room#1 at mudaC | Museum of Arts Carrara; Venezia Madre, curated by Paolo Asti and Valerio Dehò; and Forme nel Verde in San Quirico d’Orcia, curated by Carlo Pizzichini. She has also participated in important group shows, such as the 10th VAF Foundation Prize at MART Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto and at the Stadtgalerie Kiel.
She has won several significant awards, including: First Prize in the Ideas Competition for an artwork dedicated to the five finalists of the Premio Strega in 2019; First Prize in Corti Milano 2020 for a monumental sculpture in Via Manzoni 48, Milan; and First Prize in the International Public Competition held as part of the CREW Project of the Interreg Italy–Slovenia Programme 2021–2027, for the creation of a public sculpture on the Slovenian border.
Her presence in the artistic world is further strengthened by participation in international sculpture symposia and the creation of large-scale works for private commissions.
Among her most recent works is A Leaf is the Divine in the Universe, created in 2023 for the Museo d’Arte sul Mare in San Benedetto del Tronto, a monumental sculpture carved directly onto the surface of a breakwater block.
Selected as one of the 15 finalists of the 10th VAF Foundation Prize, she is currently exhibiting seven marble works at the Stadtgalerie Kiel and at MART in Rovereto.
Her works are held in major public and private collections, including the prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence.
Texts on the work of Beatrice Taponecco have been written by Valerio Dehò, Alessandro Chiodo, Francesco Galluzzi, Piergiorgio Balocchi, Massimo Bertozzi, Bruno d’Udine, Angelo Tonelli, Paolo Asti, Luisa Passeggia, Maria Mancini, Laura Barreca, Cinzia Compalati, and Serena Redaelli.