Camilla Pontiggia

Camilla Pontiggia is an artist and filmmaker based in South Africa. She holds an MA in Fine Arts (with distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Her transdisciplinary mode of work crosses fluidly between installation, film, sound, textile, photography, performance and writing. Using her multicultural and multilingual heritage, Pontiggia thinks with and through gut sensations in search of alternative forms of knowing, being, doing, and resisting that might offer a counterpoint to Western normative options.

Pontiggia’s solo exhibitions include Mending A Kitchen Table (2025, Johannesburg), and Things I Found Nelle Viscere (2024, Johannesburg SA, Padua ITA). She is the recipient of the Womxn To Watch Award, and A Tierney Fellowship finalist.