Di Palma Renata

Born in Milan, he has lived in Trento since 1994, a former teacher at the Italian and art primary school. For years he has dedicated himself to watercolor painting, drawing and fresco, having perfected what has always been his passion with very good teachers: Umberto Sancarlo, Toti Buratti and the Andromeda Studio in Trento, Sergio Tamassia of the Pandora art school in Sorano (Gr), Silvia De Bastiani.
He has exhibited in group exhibitions in the city of Trento, Rovereto and in the Province; since 2006 he has participated in the “Street Painters” initiative of the Feste Vigiliane in Trento; he has exhibited in solo exhibitions, in 2005 at the Circoscrizione di Povo, a suburb of Trento, in 2007 and 2011 at the Barycentro in Port’Aquila in Trento, in 2015 at the Regione Trentino Alto-Adige.
Since 2007 she has participated in the project “La piazzetta degli artisti”, an initiative conceived by Barycentro, a social cooperative, to bring art to the streets and public spaces.
In 2007 she designed a fresco workshop for primary schools with the educational section of the MART in Rovereto.
From 2012 to 2017 she was a member of the Gruppo Acquarellisti Trentini GAT, participating in annual group exhibitions organized by the group in Trentino.
From 2013 to 2020 she was president of the Associazione ARRT, Artisti Riuniti Rovereto Trento, which deals with performing and visual arts.
In 2014 she participated in the group exhibition in Merano Facè Arts organized by the curator Mary Sperti.
Since 2016, she has participated annually in the art event-exhibition against child abuse “Anime senza voce”, in Ravenna, Cervia, San Marino, Ferrara, with installations and works on the theme.
In April 2017, she participated in the group exhibition “Vis a vis” at the Don't panic association in Treviso and participated in the exhibition Hazel Marie Cole Goodness Award "Beauty for goodness, art helps life". In the summer of 2019, she exhibited in Rome, as part of the group exhibition “Rome in 100 centimeters squared” at the Galleria Spazio 40.
At the beginning of 2020, she exhibited at the Alda Merini Museum House in Milan in a two-person exhibition with her friend and artist Alda Baglioni. Since the same year, he has been among the founding members of the Kunst Grenzen – Arte di frontiera Association, based in Roverè della Luna, in the province of Trento, participating in thematic exhibitions on the program such as "Grenzen", the monographic biennial of illustrated poetry "Versi in-forma", the food and wine biennial of the Arts "SatunArs", "Ali di farfalla" against violence against women, the charity exhibition "Opere SOS per Radio Music Trento", "La civiltà rurale - 2021 edition", the exhibition of artist's books "Donazione Archivio Virginia Milici" at the Kunst Grenzen gallery, "Garda See Art" at the Forte di Nago, the traveling exhibition "Rotolo-Art", participates in the exhibition "Omaggio a Bruno Munari" both in the local edition and also at the Museum "Brescello e Guareschi, il territorio e il cinema", and presents the novel Theo Solveig: Bensalem 2052 by Giorgio Ragucci Brugger, participates in the exhibitions of ArTre Auction House of Trento.
In 2024, he is part of the Kunst Grenzen artists exhibiting at the ancient Hospice of San Floriano for "L'Autonomia è un'Arte - Autonomie ist eine Kunst" in collaboration with the Autonomous Region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, he participates in the artistic exchange Italy-Mexico "Flying Art", he participates in the vineyard workshops "A spass per i Lòmeri" and in the annual exhibition "Presepiamo".
He participates in the Mail Art - Postal Art movement at an international level; in 2013 he launched the Mail Art project "Music to the Peoples", subsequently exhibiting the works received in Trento and in the province of Vicenza. In 2015 he proposed the project "Montagne", exhibiting in Trentino in Castelbeseno and at the SAT (Società Alpinisti Tridentini) in Trento. In 2018/2019 with her artist friend Paola Toffolon she created the project “Life is what happens...”, exhibiting the works in Trento. In the Arte Postale projects she uses mixed techniques, collage, printing.
As a teacher she proposed painting workshops and in the years 2016-17 she designed and created a mural together with the students at the Moggioli primary school in Trento.
She loves to photograph and illustrate her travel experiences with sketches and small watercolors, producing Travel Diaries, participating in the Urban Sketchers projects.
Her painting is figurative, the favorite subjects are details of ancient buildings, doors, windows, passages and ravines, but also aspects of nature, trees, trunks, twisted branches, leaves and stones, everything that evokes a story, a life, a past, even if only imagined or dreamed.