Ambra Durante (*2000, Genoa) has been living in Berlin since 2007 and published in 2020 with the Wallstein Verlag the book Black Box Bluesa narrative in image and text about the reason to mourn life and how it can be continued. In 2022, the adaptation premiered at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.

Lack of sleep is my eye shadow Lack of sleep is my eye shadow 2021 at Galerie Friese was Ambra Durante's first ever exhibition. She draws on any material: canvas, cardboard, shopping bags, shooting cards. She uses whatever she has to hand for her simple and complicated picture stories. In 2021, she received the Anke Bennholdt-Thomsen Prize from the German Schiller Foundation. In 2022, she had her first institutional solo exhibition Alles ist jetzt Everything is now in the exhibition rooms of the Fritz and Hildegard Ruoff Foundation in Nürtingen. Her solo exhibition What if my thoughts will never stop talking What if my thoughts will never stop talking opened as part of illust_ratio 10 in Rüsselsheim. In 2022, she was awarded the Art Karlsruhe Prize for the best one-artist show. The prize is an alliance between the state and the city, endowed with a purchase budget of 15,000 euros and also serves the ongoing expansion of the Art Karlsruhe Collection. Her exhibition Enfant Terrible Enfant Terrible together with works by William N. Copley took place at Galerie Friese in 2023. Her exhibition Leben und Form at Herrenhof Mußbach in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Ambra Durante was selected by the jury for the New Positions funding program at Art Cologne 2023 New Positions auf der Art Cologne 2023 ausgewählt. Insight of a good girl's mind is the title she has given her booth. sie ihrem Stand gegeben hat. Ambra Durante lives and works in Berlin.