Artist and performer of Mediterranean origin, Margherita Isola lives and works on an itinerant basis, currently in Barcelona. She holds a degree in History of Performing Arts and she trained in contemporary dance at the Biennale Danza of Venice.

Since 2007 she works as a visual artist mixing different practices and media: textile art, embroidery, performance, printmaking, collage, installation, public art and community works.

Margherita addresses issues related to feminism, migration, colonialism, capitalisation of Gaia and inter speciesism, in order to rethink new forms of coexistence and interconnection.The artist has presented works and performances at the Biennial CharleroiDance, Museum of Lace and Fashion- Brussels, Choreographic Centre- Rio de Janeiro, National Museum of Natural History and Science- Lisbon, Centre of Studies and Documentation of Macba, Barcelona, among others. In 2021 she received a grant to develop Guerrilla Drugstore, an ongoing project which has been included in the publication Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses and Tools, organized by the MACBA Museum, Rijksakademie and WHW.

In 2021 Isola won the grant Premis Barcelona with Huerta Hertz, an inter-species fiction about plants and the Mediterranean region, conceived site specific for the Historical Botanical Garden of Barcelona. Since 2020 together with the artist Marina Alegre she has been developing Pacha Manas, a project that addresses the criminalisation of abortion in Brazil, through women’s circles, plants and embroidery. Inspired by this project, the artists organized the book Pacha Manas: sewing conversations on abortion published by Funilaria Editora, in 2022.

Credits foto Morena Bellini