For over thirty-five years, Alessandra Bergero — artist and producer known as Monna — has worked at the crossroads of art, culture, and audiovisual production. Her creative journey began in the 1980s in New York City, the vibrant epicenter of international avant-garde movements, where her curiosity pushed her to document the energy of the alternative scene, from graffiti artists to Downtown drag queens. In this context, she took on the role of observer and witness, translating lived experiences into an autonomous visual language that blends performance, photography, and moving image. Her visual narratives were returned to the urban space through monumental projections on skyscraper facades or among the skeletons of abandoned factories, before finding their way back to the very places where they were born.
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Between 1985 and 1990, in parallel with her artistic practice, she curated selections of independent American films for the Florence Film Festival and organized special events for the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, including Alberto Sordi for Italy on Stage and Italian New Films at MoMA.
In 1992, she returned to Italy, where she launched and directed Natur Art, a multimedia festival dedicated to the intersections between culture, science, and sustainability. Her ability to combine creative vision with organizational expertise became a defining trait of her practice.
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In 1997, she curated an exhibition on Andy Warhol’s Factory and was invited by Achille Bonito Oliva to curate the U.S. section of Tribes of Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. The following year, she founded Italy’s first film commission — the Italian Riviera–Alpi del Mare Film Commission — pioneering a new model of audiovisual development that attracted major international productions, including Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema, and television projects such as Life After People for History Channel.
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Throughout her career, Monna has continually expanded her artistic research, embracing new technologies — from 35 mm slides and Super 8 film to early video cameras and contemporary digital tools — while maintaining the spirit of freedom and experimentation that has always defined her vision.
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Today, Monna Productions develops “GLOCAL” projects: sustainable productions rooted locally but designed with a global perspective. Her artistic and production work embodies a continuous dialogue between creative vision and operational expertise, between the underground energy of New York’s art scene and the structured dynamics of international audiovisual production.