Provided with confident intuition in search of one‘s own position appears the artwork of Nina Pettinato, who’s starting to establish an individual, poetical-precise artwork. […] Pettinato creates her art concept as an remarkably homogenous outline, which attends simultanously to the media of painting, drawing and photography.

Whether there is a natural or imaginary nature, fantastic or real landscapes, whether there are deserted lakesides at dawn or squatting figures, which are sitting opposite to each other in front of bleak trees: The painted as well as the photographic images appearing both very intensively and are all marked by an atmospheric quality, which is innate and distinctive.

Because within the artistic techniques which Nina Pettinato selects there aren’t barely hierarchies so far. The strength of the images isn’t defined by the medium or by particular technique. It unfolds out of the intensity of a sight alone, in which exact study and sensitive sensation alone lead to the narration of existential perception of the surrounding world.

Dr. Thomas ELSEN: Schwabens junge Kreative.
In: edition:schwaben (04/2009), S.74.

Nina Pettinato studied Visual Communication / Fine Art at HfG Offenbach, Academy of Art and Design, and was awarded her diploma in 2008. In 2009 she received the Kunstpreis des Bezirks Schwaben one of the most important art awards for young emerging artists in Bavaria, enabling the laureate to go abroad by the means of a travel grant. Nina Pettinato’s work has been exhibited in several shows including the exhibition Expanded Lines at Salzburg’s galerie 5020, 2008 and at Silent Spaces – Räume der Stille at H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast Augsburg, 2009. In 2009 her photographic series Inkubation was selected for participation in NEU/NOW, an multidisciplinary on- and offline event curated by ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts). Nina Pettinato lives and works in Southern Germany near Munich.