Serena Ferrario develops walk-in installations from drawings, video and audio recordings, and collected objects. Born in Italy to a Romanian mother and an Italian father, she grew up in Germany and Italy. Her works explore these intercultural experiences and the imprints they have left on her. In her installations, she addresses fundamental themes such as family, friendship, love, fear, and loss, as well as the social conditions young people face in Italy, Germany, and Romania. Ferrario offers visitors multiple intellectual points of reference and a multi-layered aesthetic experience. From 2010 to 2017, she studied at the Braunschweig University of Art. Ferrario was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and received the Max Ernst Scholarship of the city of Brühl in 2017. In 2018, she was awarded the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship, and in 2021 she won the Horst Janssen Graphic Prize.