Margaretha Gubernale
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→ Collection of Olympic Fine Arts Beijing, International Oil Painting, 2008
→ Inspiration International Vol 6, 2018
→ Le scelte di Puntelli, Mondadori, 2019/20
→ Atlante dell’Arte, De Agostino, 2020, 2024, 2026
→ arché, Annalisa Puntelli Sacchetti, Book Vol. I, 2019/2022
→ logos, Annalisa Puntelli Sacchetti, Book Vol. II, 2022
→ psyche, Annalisa Puntelli Sacchetti, Book Vol. III, 2022
→ The First Berliner Artbook, Caranfil, 2020
→ Book Catalogo dell’Arte Moderna, No 55, gli artisti italiani dal primo Novecento ad oggi, rubrica Movimento d’Avanguardia, Giorgio Mondadori, 2019/20
→ Art Now Book Internationally, recognized Artist, Petru Russu, 2024
→ El Greco Book, 2025
→ Collectors Art Prize, Legends of our Time, Book, 2025
→ Top Investable Artists, 2026
Magazines:
→ World of Art, 11. Berlin Biennale, 2020
→ Art Universal, Salvatore Russo, 2021
→ World of Art, La Biennale Venezia, 2022
→ Artstyle Magazine, La Biennale di Venezia, Postumano Metamorfico, 2022
→ Art Leaders Tomorrow, Contemporary Art Curator, 2024
→ Art Investment & Collector’s Guide, 2024/2025/2026
→ Future of Art Global, Masterpiece Award, Contemporary Art Curator, 2024
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As an international artist, MARGARETHA GUBERNALE, of Zug, Switzerland, has participated in many group and solo exhibitions worldwide, including:
→ 1993 – Exhibition at Montserrat Gallery, New York, USA.
→ 2011 – Exhibition at Agora Gallery, New York, USA.
→ 2012 – Exhibition at Broadway Gallery, New York, USA.
→ Exhibitions in Miami
→ Exhibitions in Canada.
→ Exhibitions in Germany
→ Exhibitions in France
→ 2014 – Group exhibition with Salvatore Russo at Salle Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.
She took part in further exhibitions in:
→ England
→ Spain
→ Malta
→ Austria
→ China
→ Switzerland
→ Numerous exhibitions in Italy.
→ Among other exhibitions, she received the 1st Prize Margherita Hack from Spoleto Arte in 2016, which included a free solo exhibition in Milan.
→ February 2018 – Participation in Art Capital, Grand Palais – Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, France.
→ 2019 – Participation in SwissArtExpo, Zürich Main Station, Switzerland.
→ 2020 – Participation in Art Capital, Grand Palais – Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, France.
→ 2020 – Participation in SwissArtExpo, Zürich Main Station, Switzerland.
→ 2021 – Participation in SwissArtExpo, Zürich Main Station, Switzerland.
→ 2021 – Participation in the three-month exhibition Poeta Massimo Troisi, dedicated to the film director and actor of “Il Postino”, at Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy.
→ 2021 – Participation in an exhibition in Procida, Italy.
→ 2021 – Participation in the exhibition Artisti da Museo in Rome, Italy.
→ 2023 – Participation in numerous digital exhibitions at various international locations with Artboxy.
→ 2023 – Digital solo exhibition at EuropaArt, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
→ 2023 – Exhibition at MAD Gallery, Some of her pictures were streamed in four episodes on one of the screens at Times Square.
→ 2024 – Participation in Art Capital, Palais Éphémère, Paris, France.
→ 2024 – Participation in month-long aircraft exhibition at Vueling, Spain, through Contemporary Art Management
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Margaretha Gubernale has received many awards, including:
→ 2008 – Gold Medal, Olympic Fine Art, Beijing, China
→ 2017 – 60 Top Artists Award, Metropolitan Art Museum, Las Vegas, USA
→ 2020 – Top 60 Masters ATIM Award, Grimandi Gallery, New York, USA
→ 2020 – Paolo Levi Prize, Palazzo Clerici, Milan, Italy
→ 2024 – Masterpiece Award, Future of Art Global, Contemporary Art Curator magazine
→ 2024 – Trophy, Organization EDMC-Europe, Les Éditions des Musées et de la culture-Europe
→ 2025 – El Greco Award
→ 2026 – Collectors Art Prize – Art Legends of Our Time, Contemporary Art Collector
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→ Galleri Soho, Valhallagatan 20, 72460 Västerås, Sweden
→ Spoleto Arte, Salvo Nugnes, 36061 Bassano del Grappa, Italy
→ Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
MARGARETHA GUBERNALE was born in Zug, Switzerland, in 1941. As a little girl, she imitated her father, a master baker and confectioner, in his shop. as he garnished cakes. When she graduated from the state business school, which emphasized general education, she was primarily interested in painting and used her pocket money to buy art prints by Chagall, Delacroix, Dali, Picasso and Munch, etc. and use them to wallpaper the ceiling and pay for organ lessons. She married Calogero, a captain from Sicily. She has two adult children, Mario and Helena.
At the time of the birth of a new building law and the organization and construction of the national roads to Ticino, she worked as a clerk for a National Council and his secretary of law. When she was young, her parents gave her a room, which she converted into a gallery where she exhibited alongside other visual artists, including the teacher at the Basel School of Applied Arts. She learned a lot from these artists. However, her work was denounced en masse in the local newspapers by the “art bishops” of Zug, as they vehemently advocated abstractism at the time and would not allow anything else. So began her odyssey with exhibitions abroad. In the meantime, her husband died and she has lived alone for 23 years, solely because of her art.
Even in her early works, Margaretha Gubernale was looking for a way to reach everyone in the world with her thoughts, which she only achieved with a figurative representation, because through abstract painting Christ and salami appeared in one picture and only confirmed the viewer's thoughts. Her painting could not be limited to figurative painting, but she also did not want to be inferior to the freedom of abstract painting. She considered the surreal style but felt it didn't fully achieve her intended effect. So, she looked for a solution, which she found in Symbolism.
Here she can represent her thoughts figuratively and extend this form metaphysically beyond herself in a parable, thus breaking all narrative boundaries, weaving in abstract and surrealistic elements and reaching every thinking person in his soul with the help of colour and form, provided he is of good will to connect the earth with the spiritual sky and to give priority to ethics. She learns a lot from nature and feels the divine within her, which inspires her. She prefers the colour blue as a spiritual colour and often addresses philosophical and magical topics. For them, blue is the air as an incentive for fire and has three physical states: dry, rainy and icy and expands as a continuation of light.
Margaretha Gubernale was looking for a way of representation with which she could harmoniously bring together physical and spiritual ideas in a figurative and symbolic form. With this style she allows the message of her metaphysical parables to be expanded beyond all limits. To do this, she simultaneously uses surrealistic and abstract as well as figurative elements to connect everything on earth with heaven. Therefore, she likes to use the pure and airy colour blue in many facets of feeling and intellect. In addition, her artistic work contains technical elements insofar as they help to underline the main idea. The sources of her images are nature, philosophy and music.
