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Elisa Strinna
Born in 1982, Padua, IT | Lives and works in Rotterdam, NL
Education
European Ceramic WorkCenter (EKWC) |, Tilburg, (NL) | 2024-2025
Jan van Eyck Academie | Maastricht, (NL) | 2018-2019
DSRA Document and Contemporary Art | 1 year of post-diploma | at European School of Visual Art (ÉESI) | Poitiers (FR) | 2016-2017
Art and the Politics of Individuation | SAAS FEE Summer Institute of Art, Import Projects | Berlin (DE) | 2016
SOMA Summer | SOMA | Mexico City (MX) | 2015
MA in Visual Arts | Art and Design | IUAV | Venice (IT) | 2007-2010
Erasmus | École Supérieure des arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg | Strasbourg (FR) | 2003-2004
BA/MA in Painting | Fine Arts Academy | Bologna (IT) | 2001-2006
Artist Residence
2018-2019 Jan Van Eyck Academie | Maastricht (NL)
2017 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon | Seoul (KO)
2014 Shanghai Prize | East China Normal University | Shanghai (CH)
2010-2011 6ARTISTA Prize | Pastificio Cerere Foundation | Rome (IT)
2010-2011 Citè Internationale des arts | Paris (FR)
2008-2009 Ateliers BML | Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation | Venice (IT)
Exhibitions and Site-Specific Interventions (selection)
2025
My Body Is A Plant | solo exhibition | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2024-2025
Exhibitions series curated by Nuno Faria | Arpad Szenes | Vieira da Silva Museum | Lisbon (PT)
2024
The Antarctic Gardener | ART CENTRAL 2024 | Hong Kong Art Fair (HK)
From the Earth to the Moon |performance at Boijmans Depot | curated by IAMAIR | Rotterdam (NL)
2023
Metabolic Staffage | curated by João Vasco Paiva | LEHMANN + SILVA | Porto (PT)
Blind Sun, for Pole der Unzugänglichkeit | curated by Johanna Janßen | Galerie im Turm | Berlin (DE)
The Garden of Banes, Parco CARTA, environmental intervention curated by Alessandro Fonte and Shawnette Poe | Calabria (IT)
Becoming Earths | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
Future of Our Soil | International Rotterdam film Festival (IFFR) | Rotterdam ( NL)
Reflections on Disturbances between Borders | Labinac collective by Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, Jone Kvie, Elisa Strinna, Philipp Modersohn | Napoli (IT)
2022
Underland Chapter 4: Calm before the Storm | Radius CAA | Delft (NL)
”A STICK IN THE FOREST” – ON POSSIBILITIES OF DESIGN. Works by LABINAC | Sprovieri Gallery | London (UK)
documenta 15 | Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road | KazimKumba | Kassel (DE)
Adesso No. | curated by Bruno Barsanti & Gabriele Tosi | Manifattura Tabacchi | Florence (IT)
YOU WILL FIND ME IF YOU WANT ME IN THE GARDEN | curated by Marta Bianchi, Laura Marcolini, Maria Paola Zedda | Careof | Milan (IT)
A Stick in The Forest | Labinac collective by Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, Jone Kvie, Elisa Strinna, Philipp Modersohn| Napoli (IT)
Art Island | with Tanja Engelberts | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Forteiland IJmuiden (NL)
2021
Blind Sun/Trade Winds in the Age of Underwater Currents | curated by Niekolaas Johannes | Lekkerkerk | A Tale of a Tub (NL)
2020
Waves between us | curated by Alison Karasyk, Camille Regli, Katie Simpson | Palazzo Rebaudengo |
Guarene (IT)
2019-2020
Blind Sun/Sol Cego | curated by Delfim Sardo | Culturgest Porto / Fidelidade Arte | Lisbon-Porto (PT)
2019
Open Studios | curated by Huib Van der Werf | Jan Van Eyck Academie | Maastricht (NL)
Offline Browser | curated by Hsu Chia-Wei & Hsu Fong-Ray | Hong-gah Museum | Taipei (TW)
2018
Elisa Strinna | curated by Elettra Stamboulis | MAR | Ravenna (IT)
Hortus (In) conclusus | curated by Pierre Dupont | Maca Alcamo | Alcamo (IT)
The Intelligence of Machines | Marina Bastianello Gallery | Venice (IT)
2017
This Algo is like a Tiger | Fonderia Battaglia | Milan (IT)
Back to Marginality | curated by Sewon Oh | GEUMCHEON Seoul Art Space | Seoul (KO)
2016
If I were You I’d call me Us | Marina Bastianello Gallery | Mestre-Venice (IT)
Individuating | Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg | Berlin (DE)
2015
On Still Life | curated by Veronica Caciolli | Mart Museum (IT)
Solar Anus | curated by Srdjan Tunic | SOMA | Mexico City (MX)
Flags | curated by Elena Forin | Giardini della Biennale Greenhouse | Venice (IT)
Open Studio 10.0. A Naked Singularity | curated by Estudio Carlos Garaicoa | Madrid (ES)
30 projects for a Contemporary Art park | curated by Roberto Pinto and Sara Dolfi Agosti | Palazzo Reale | Milan (IT)
Materia | curated by Massimo Palazzi | Novi Ligure | Alessandria (IT)
Wunderkammer | curated by Art Stays | Ptuj (SL)
Still Life Remix | curated by Ilaria Bonacossa | Antinori Art Project | Florence (IT)
Tre Mostre | curated by Trial Version | Florence (IT)
2014
Time ago when the Earth was flat | Marina Bastianello Gallery | Venice (IT)
Open museum, Open city | curated by Hou Hanru | MAXXI Museum | Rome (IT)
Opposti | Shanghai Prize | Bund Art Center 33 | Shanghai (CN)
A white noise | curated by Andrea Bruciati | Assab One | Milan (IT)
2013
International Art Prize 5x5 | EEAC | Castellon (ES)
2012
The Artist’s Profession | curated by Marcello Smarrelli | Incontri Internazionali d’Arte | Palazzo Taverna | Rome (IT)
Modern Monsters | Taipei Biennial | curated by Anselm Frankie | TFAM | Taipei (TW)
About Caravaggio | Contemporary visions & illusions | curated by Anna Imponente | Tuscolano Museum | Aldobrandini Stables | Frascati (IT)
YYZ UNLIMITED | YYZ artist outlet | Toronto (CA)
RE-Generation | curated by Ilaria Gianni and Maria Alicata | MACRO Testaccio Museum | Rome (IT)
Helicotrema | curated by Blauer Hase | Serra dei Giardini | Venice (IT)
2011
Adelita Husni-Bey / Elisa Strinna | curated by Vincenzo de Bellis | MACRO | Rome (IT)
Studio Visit | curated by Andrea Bruciati and Eva Comuzzi | GC.AC. Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art | Monfalcone (IT)
2010
CAMERE # 11, Elusive | curated by Jimmie Durham | RAM | Zerynthia | Rome (IT)
2009
Opera 2009 | curated by Mara Ambrozic and Stefano Coletto | Viafarini | Via Farini | Milan (IT)
And Yet it Moves | curated by Pieternel Vermoortel, Inti Guerrero, Julia Klaring, Garrone Foundation, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa/Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation | Guarene d’Alba (IT)
Exhibition as Labinac
Labinac is a Art/Design collective by Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, Jone Kvie, Elisa Strinna, Philipp Modersohn
2024 What We Always Did | Labinac at Martins&Montero Gallery | Brussels (BE)
2023 What We Always Did | Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Casa Zalszupin | São Paulo (BR)
2023 Reflections on Disturbances Between Borders | Labinac Napoli | (IT)
2022 A Stick in the Forest – On Possibilities of Design | Works by Labinac at Sprovieri Gallery | London (UK)
2022 A Stick in the Forest | Labinac Napoli | (IT)
2020 Broken | Callie’s Berlin | (DE)
Awards | Grants
2024 Mondriaan Fund (NL) | Voucher Lyon Biennale
2024 Het CultuurFonds (NL) | Scholarship
2024 I&D CBK Rotterdam (NL) | Stipend
2023 Het CultuurFonds (NL) | Grant
2023 Practical Contribution, CBK Rotterdam (NL) | Grant
2022 Artist Project | Gemeente Rotterdam
2021-2022 Artist Project | Mondriaan Fund (NL) | Grant
2020-2021 N.A. Project Fund | Stipend
2021 Makersloket | Stichting Droom en Daad (NL) | Grant
2020-2021 O&O | Cbk Rotterdam (NL) | Grant
2018-2019 Jan van Eyck Academie | Maastricht (NL) | Stipend
2018 Guberti Award, Ravenna (IT) | Award
2016-2017 Document and Contemporary Art | EESI (FR) | Stipend
2013 Celeste Prize | Video and Animation Section | Pan | Naples (IT) | 3rd Place
2013 Combat Prize | sculpture section | Livorno (IT) | Winner
2011 Movin’up | Padua (IT) | Grant
2010-2011 6ARTISTA Prize | Rome (IT) | Stipend and Grant
2009 Lions Award | Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation | Venice (IT) | Grant
Workshops | Lectures | Screenings
2024 The Antarctic Gardener | International Environmental Film Festival ‘Planet On’ | Bogotà (CO)
2023 In the World of Plants | AKI | Enschede (NL)
2023 The Antarctic Gardener | Labocine, (Art)ificial, Secret Garden | (US)
2023 The Antarctic Gardener | Unnatural Landscapes at Science New Wave Festival XVI, Imagine Science Films | New York (US)
2023 The Antarctic Gardener | She Makes Noise at Casa Encendida | Madrid (SP)
2023 The Upwelling | Je bois le désordre du monde, curated by El Warcha and Camille Lévy Sarfati, Kadist | Tunis (TN)
2023 The Antarctic Gardener | New Harvest, Eye Filmmuseum | Amsterdam (NL)
2023 The Antarctic Gardener | Future of Our Soil, IFFR | Rotterdam (NL)
2023 The Upwelling | Lumbung Film | Amore | Basel (CH)
2022 The Upwelling | Stories of Water | OnCurating project Space | Zurich (CH)
2022 The Upwelling | Lumbung Film | Laboratoire Kontempo | Kinshasa (COD)
2022 The Upwelling | Lumbung Film | Cultural Centre of Strombeek | Grimbergen (BE)
2022 The Upwelling | Gloria Cinema | documenta fifteen | Kassel (DE);
2022 Third Stone from the Sun | talk with Iain Chambers, Alessandra Marino Al-Mishlab, Elisa Strinna
2022 KazimKuba | documenta fifteen | Kassel (DE)
2021 The Upwelling | MareBox | (IT)
2021 Wildfires in the Lab | 2 days of Symposium about wildfires curated by Arts Cabinet | (UK)
2020 ArteVisione | curated by Careof | Milan (IT)
2019 InLab Infrastructure | Dark Radiation and Public Affect | Jan Van Eyck Academie | Maastricht (NL)
2017 The Multiple Landscape | lecture (curated by Wanderlust#) | AlbumArte | Rome (IT)
2017 Lecture | RAT School of Art | Seoul (KO)
2015 Seismic Symphonies at EOS – Educational and Outreach Symposia by EGU (European Geoscience Union) with Graziano Ferrari | INGV (Italian Institute of Volcanology and Geophysic) | (IT)
2012 Nature Addicts Fund Academy | Documenta13 | Kassel (DE)
2010 XVI Advanced Course in Visual Arts | Visiting Professor Hans Haacke | Ratti Foundation | Como (IT)
2010 Workshop with Benjamin Weil | Spinola-Banna per l’Arte Foundation | Poirino (IT)
2009 Documents | Workshop with Peter Friedl | Spinola-Banna per l’Arte Foundation | Poirino (IT)
Publications
2020 Sol Cego | Monographic Catalog
2020 Chain Reaction | Catalog of the project | edited by Delfim Sardo | Culturgest 2020 | Lisbon (PT)
2019 Offline Browser | Catalog of the exhibition | publisher Hong-gah Museum | Taipei (TW)
2018 La Tradizione del Nuovo | Giulio Guberti Art Prize | Catalog of the exhibition | Danilo Montanari | (IT)
2018 222 Artisti in cui investire | Exibart Publisher | (IT)
2016 If I were You I’d call me Us | Catalog of the exhibition | publisher Marina Bastianello Gallery | (IT)
2014 Death and Life of Fiction | Modern Monster | Taipei Biennial 2012 | edited by A. FRANKE, B. KUAN
2014 WOOD | publisher Taipei Fine Arts Museum | Taipei (TW)
2014 Open Museum | Open City | publication curated by Hou Hanru | Mousse Publishing | (IT)
2012 About Caravaggio | Catalog of the exhibition | publisher Umberto Allemandi & C | (IT)
2011 Elisa Strinna | Monographic Catalog curated by Vincenzo de Bellis | Mousse Publishing | (IT)
2010 Give & Take | edited by the Advanced Course in Visual Arts 2010 | Mousse Publishing | (IT)
2009 And Yet it Moves | Curated by Pieternel Vermoortel, Inti Guerrero, Julia Klaring | Archive Books | (DE)
Online projects
2021
Seeing Fire: Perspectives through Art and Science. Research project in collaboration with the srtist Maria Thereza Alves and the researchers in social science Abigail Croker and Kapil Yadav, ArtsCabinet | UK
2020
The Upwelling, Digital Commission Waves between us. Curated by Alison Karasyk, Camille Regli, Katie Simpson
2019
Web Playlist 2019. Helicotrema curated by Blauer Hase
Collections
My Body is A Plant -roots my nervous system, Private collection | Germany
Third Nature, Electric bones, Antonio Sequeira Lopes Collection | Portugal
The Limits of my Language, Klein Bottle, Maria Tereza Alves and Jimmie Durham Private Art Collection | Italy
Conversation on the Origin of Time, Famiglia Forin Private Art Collection | Italy
The Apple Girl, Private Collection | Italy
Vanda’s father, Private Collection | Italy
Anatomia di un Sogno, Private Collection | Italy