WILHELMINA MERANTE & LEYLA RIGGIO
WORKS

  • Shelf Paintings
Metal Paintings
Rhythmic Woods
Communal Tools
Silver Saints



CV

Wilhelmina Merante + Leyla Riggio is an artist duo based in Milan. After more than a decade of collaboration across various projects and identities (Dafne, BB5000, The Garden), they formalized their joint practice in 2025. Their work spans sculpture, painting, and multimedia, with a consistent focus on the relationship between form, material, and symbolic resonance.

Their practice investigates how matter can embody concepts of collective experience, emotional weight, and spiritual presence. Materials such as metal and wood are approached not only for their physical properties, but as vessels of cultural, historical, and affective significance. Their works often emerge through processes of repetition, tension, and variation producing forms that oscillate between structural clarity and poetic suggestion. Their artistic language is both restrained and evocative, drawing on craft traditions, architectural references, and abstract symbolism. 




info@meranteriggio.com
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SELECTED SHOWS
2025
New cult-like images or Come il patto tra adulti diventa un trattato di strategia affettiva
(two person show with Collezione Nancy Delroi), Collezione Nancy Delroi, Milan (IT)





SELECTED SHOWS AS DAFNE (Wilhelmina Merante + Leyla Riggio + Filippo De Marchi)
2023
Untitled (Seduta in ufficio circondata da teste e corpi) (group show), Hosted by MRZB and Sergey Kantsedal, Europalace Uffici, Turin (IT)

2022
+39 334 2928559 (solo show), Massimo, Milan (IT)
Escalation (group show), Associazione Barriera, Turin (IT)


SELECTED SHOWS AS BB5000 (Leyla Riggio + Giada Carnevale + Arcangelo Costanzo + Francesco Saverio Costanzo + Filippo De Marchi)
2019
Devon (solo show), Grand Palais, Bern (CH)

2018
Campari (solo show), curated by Domenico de Chirico, Horizont Galéria, Budapest (HU)
Smoke Inside (solo show), Aldea, Bergen (NL)

2017
Mount Analogue (group show), Platform Stockholm, Stockholm (SE)
Broken Air (two person show with Ivana Bašić), Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn (NY)
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream (group show), curated by Clelia Colantonio, Fondazione Baruchello, Rome (IT)
Dangerous Together (group show), Prairie, Chicago (IL)
Salamandrina (solo show), Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig (DE)

2016
Higher State Of Consciousness (group show), Studio E1, Paris (FR)
CORAZÓN (group show), BB5000 studio, Milan (IT)
Body Holes (group show), curated by New Scenario, Berlin Biennale 9th/ Fear of content, Berlin (DE)
ON-SCREEN AND OFF (group show), curated by Domenico de Chirico, Bid Project Space, Milan (IT)

2015
ℋyperℜruin (solo show), Davide Gallo Gallery, Milan (IT)


SELECTED SHOWS AS THE GARDEN (LEYLA RIGGIO + FILIPPO DE MARCHI)
2017
Magic Wand & Granular Cloud (group show), curated by Diesel Project Space, AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp (B)
Biennale of Future Contemporary Arts 2017 (group show), curated by Suburban Contemporary Arts, Copenhagen (DK)