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ELISA STRINNA
Elisa Strinna is an Italian multimedia artist based in the Netherlands who works with sculpture, film, and sound. By studying different infrastructures – from information to biotechnology – she critically investigates the interconnection between humanity, nature, and technology. Through her research, she seeks ways to question the modern approach that views the planet as a collection of materials to be exploited endlessly.
In her immersive installations, she creates microcosms, organic and mysterious atmospheres of enigmatic origin, where the dominant binary logic of the rational mind fades. In these hybrid worlds, it becomes difficult to draw a clear separation between the natural and artificial, geological and human, spiritual and material.
Strinna’s work has been exhibited at IFFR (2023), Radius CCA (2022), documenta fifteen (2022), Tale of a Tub (2021), Culturgest Porto (2020), Fidelidade Arte Museum (2019), Hong-gah Museum (2018), Serra dei Giardini of the Venice Biennale (2015), MART Museum (2015), MAXXI Museum (2014), EACC Museum (2013), Taipei Biennial (2012), MACRO Museum (2011), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (2009), among others. She received an MFA in Visual Arts from IUAV (Venice, 2011) and a post-diploma in Documents and Contemporary Art from ÉESI (France, 2017). In 2018/19, Elisa Strinna participated in the international residency programme at Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.
Education
2010-2007
MA in Visual Arts. IUAV University, 31-03-2007, Venice, IT;
2006-2001
MA in Fine Art. Fine Arts Academy, 26-11-2006 Bologna, IT;
2016-2017
DSRA Document and Contemporary Art. 1 year of post-diploma, EESI, Potiers, FR;
2016
Art and the Politics of Individuation. SAAS FEE Summer Institute of Art, Berlin, DE;
2015
SOMA Summer. SOMA Mexico, Mexico City, MX;
Residences
2018-19
Jan van Eyck Academie. Maastricht, NL;
2017
Seoul Art Space Geumcheon. Seoul, SK;
2017
Fonderia Battaglia. Milan, IT;
2014
Shanghai Prize. East China Normal University, Shanghai, CN;
2010-2011
6ARTISTA Prize. Pastificio Cerere Foundation, Rome /Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, IT/FR;
2008-2009
Ateliers BML. Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation, Venice, IT;
Grants and Stipends
2023
Grant: Prince Bernhard Cultuur Fund
2023
Grant: Practical Contribution, CBK Rotterdam, NL;
2022
Artist Grant: Mondriaan Fund, NL;
2022
Grant: Projectsubsidies Cultuur Gemeente Rotterdam, NL;
2021-22
Artist Grant: Mondriaan Fund, NL;
2021
Artist Grant: Droom en Daad, NL;
2020-2021
Stipend: O&O CBK Rotterdam, NL;
2020
Stipend: [N.A.!] Project, FR;
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
The Garden of Banes, Parco CARTA, environmental intervention curated by Alessandro Fonte and Shawnette Poe, Calabria, IT
2021
Blind Sun. Caroline O’Breen Gallery, Amsterdam, NL;
Blind Sun. Trade Winds in the Age of Underwater Currents. Curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL;
2020
Blind Sun/ Sol Cego. Curated by Delfim Sardo, Culturgest Porto, Porto, PT;
2019
Blind Sun/ Sol Cego. Curated by Delfim Sardo, Fidelidade Arte, Lisbon, PT;
2015
On Still Life. Curated by Veronica Caciolli, Mart Museum, Rovereto, IT;
2011
Adelita Husni-Bey /Elisa Strinna. Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, MACRO, Rome, IT;
Selected Group Exhibitions
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;
Becoming earths, curated by Sonia D’Alto at Gallerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, NL;
Reflection Between Borders, Labinac Napoli, IT
2022
Underland Chapter 4: Calm before the Storm, at Radius CAA, Delft, NL;
documenta fifteen. Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road, KazimKuba, Kassel, DE;
A STICK IN THE FOREST” – ON POSSIBILITIES OF DESIGN. Works by LABINAC at Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK;
Adesso No. Curated by Bruno Barsanti e 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 Napoli, IT
2020
Waves between us. Curated by Alison Karasyk, Camille Regli, Katie Simpson, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, IT;
2019
Hadean Stories -Blind Sun. Open Studios. Curated by Huib Van der Werf, Jan Van Eyck Academie,Maastricht, NL;
2018
Offline Browser. Hong-gah Museum,TW;
2018
Hortus (In) conclusus. Curated by Pierre Dupont, Maca Alcamo, IT;
2017
Back to Marginality. Curated by Sewon Oh, GEUMCHEON Seoul Art Space, SK;
2015
Flags. Curated by Elena Forin, Giardini della Biennale Greenhouse, Venice, IT;
2014
Open museum, Open city. Curated by Hou Hanru, MAXXI Museum, Rome, IT;
2012
Modern Monsters. Taipei Biennial 2012. Curated by Anselm Frankie, TFAM, TW;
2009
And Yet it Moves. Curated by Pieternel Vermoortel, Inti Guerrero, Julia Klaring, Garrone Foundation,
Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, IT/ Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Guarene d’Alba, IT;
Selected Screenings
2023
The Antarctic Gardener, in Unnatural Landscapes at Science New Wave Festival XVI, New York, US organized By Imagine Science Films;
2023
The Antarctic Gardener, in Encounters in the Third Phase – A short-film programme at She Makes Noise at La Casa Encendida in Madrid, SP;
2023
The Antarctic Gardener, for New Harvest, Amsterdam Art Week, Eye Filmmuseum, NL;
The Antarctic Gardener, for Future of Our Soil, International Rotterdam film Festival IFFR), Rotterdam, NL;
The Upwelling, Screening at Je bois le désordre du monde, Curated by Camille Lévy Sarfati and El Warcha studio, Kadist, Tunis, TN;
The Upwelling, Screening, Lumbung Film, Amore, Basel, CH;
2022
The Upwelling, Screening at Stories of Water, OnCurating project Space, Zurich, CH;
The Upwelling, Screening, Lumbung Film, Laboratoire Kontempo, Kinshasa, COD;
The Upwelling, Lumbung Film, Cultural Centre of Strombeek, BE;
The Upwelling, Gloria Cinema, documenta fifteen, DE;
The Upwelling, Screening at MareBox, IT;
Selected Talks and Workshops
2023
In the World of Plants, AKI (March-June), Enschede, NL (guest teacher);
2022
Third Stone from the Sun, talk with Iain Chambers, Alessandra Marino Al-Mish lab, Elisa Strinna KazimKuba, documenta fifteen, Kassel, DE (organizer);
2020
ArteVisione. Online workshop curated by Careof, Milan, IT (participant);
2019
Infrastructure, Dark Radiation, and Public Affect. InLab, organized Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (organizer).
Selected Publications
2022
Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road, Edited with text by Iain Chambers.
Text by Bev Koski, Elisa Strinna, Hamza Badran, Joen Vedel, Jone Kvie, et al., Walther Konig, 2023
2020
Chain Reaction. Catalog curated by Delfim Sardo, publisher Culturgest 2020, Lisbon, PT;
2018
Offline Browser. Catalog of the exhibition, publisher Hong-gah Museum, TW;
2014
Death and Life of Fiction. Modern Monsters. Taipei Biennial 2012, publisher Taipei Fine Arts Museum, TW;
2014
Open Museum, Open City. Curated by Hou Hanru, Mousse Publishing, IT;
2011
Elisa Strinna. Monographic catalog curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Mousse Publishing, IT;
2009
And Yet it Moves. Curated by Pieternel Vermoortel, Inti Guerrero, Julia Klaring, Archive Books, DE;