Penelope’s White Wall / Winner Celeste Prize 2017
Maria Luigia Gioffre
artist / photographer
Maria Luigia Gioffrè (b.1990) was born in a small village in southern Italy. After a BA in Political Science, she approached photography and theatre and she graduated with her MA from Central Saint Martins School of Arts (UAL) in London.
Her research explores language as performative process at the core of a multidisciplinary practice on narration, time and absence. Starting as photographer, Maria Luigia drives forward a work which leads from visual to performance. Her poetics mainly play with love and lost transforming the personal in universal and vice versa.
Her works have recently been selected for: Celeste Prize Award (2017), Tate Modern Exchange (2017), Art Night London Associate (2017), Zurich meets London Festival (2016).
Maria Luigia Gioffre
artist / photographer
Maria Luigia Gioffrè (b.1990) was born in a small village in southern Italy. After a BA in Political Science, she approached photography and theatre and she graduated with her MA from Central Saint Martins School of Arts (UAL) in London.
Her research explores language as performative process at the core of a multidisciplinary practice on narration, time and absence. Starting as photographer, Maria Luigia drives forward a work which leads from visual to performance. Her poetics mainly play with love and lost transforming the personal in universal and vice versa.
Her works have recently been selected for: Celeste Prize Award (2017), Tate Modern Exchange (2017), Art Night London Associate (2017), Zurich meets London Festival (2016).
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Penelope’s White Wall / Winner Celeste Prize 2017
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The Sovereign Art Foundation / Art PrizesVarious deadlines 2023The Sovereign Art Foundation runs regional art prizes that promote contemporary artists while raising funds to support expressive arts programs for children. Their supporters enjoy a remarkable opportunity to engage with the art world while supporting a worthwhile cause, and participating artists receive exhibitions, cash awards and access to a global audience. (more…)
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FOLIO/IstanbulThierry ClechFrom the Black Sea, in foggy weather, we navigate along the Bosphorus towards the Golden Horn. From one side of the strait to the other, white marble palaces appear as if emerging from a dream. (more…)
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The Laboratory of the FutureMay 20 – Nov 26, 2023The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, titled The Laboratory of the Future, will be open to the public from Saturday May 20 to Sunday November 26, 2023 at the Giardini and the Arsenale, and at Forte Marghera; it will be curated by Lesley Lokko and organised by La Biennale di Venezia. (more…)
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Meredith Monk: CallingOct 21, 2023 – Mar 17, 2024Meredith Monk: Calling celebrates the visionary work of artist Meredith Monk, inviting visitors to explore and discover the work of one of this era’s most original artists. The exhibition translates her live performances and concerts into encounters with immersive video- and sound installations in the alcoves and open public space of the 700-year old church. (more…)
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Ingel Vaiklaartist / filmmakerIngel Vaikla is a visual artist and filmmaker from Estonia. She studied photography in Estonian Academy of Fine Arts (BA) and film in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent (MA). In her work she questions the relationship between architecture and its users, and the representation of architecture in camera based mediums. (more…)
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Marie Heleen Samrotzki: How Do You Want to Feel Today?Oct 15 – Nov 12, 2023The wall gives hold. It doesn‘t move. [ . . . ] It divides. It encloses. [ . . . ] It protects and endangers. It guides and restricts. It hurts. (Excerpt from the self-published zine It Remains Unchanged). (more…)
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Matthias Brunner: Magnificent Obsessions Saved My LifePublicationBiographies can be as various as human lives. And yet Magnificent Obsessions Saved My Life really is an outlier, a (auto)biography of a different kind that retraces milestones and turning points in the life of a post-war artist from a dysfunctional family, set against the backdrop of his ’68 generation’s experiences (more…)
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WITCHES! About bodies, knowledge and powerOct 7, 2023 – Jan 14, 2024From the 15th century to the present day, this theme has also been used to shape a wide variety of images of femininity in art: the ugly old woman as well as the young, seductive femme fatale. The witch was and is a fascinating motif in works since Albrecht Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the male perspective on the subject has been contrasted with a female, positive view (more…)
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Kanta Nomura / The Yoshida Dormitory Students’ HistoryPublicationThe Yoshida Dormitory is a self-governing dormitory that historically played a central role for students attending Kyoto University in Japan. Throughout the decades, it served as a place where the community gathered (more…)
