EDUCATION
2023 - 2025
MA FINE ARTS | Institut Art Gender Nature
FHNW – HGK, Basel (CH)
2021-2023
(PREDIPLOMA) MEDIA ART | Eli Cortiñas
Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig (DE)
2018 - 2021
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Design and Arts - major art
Free University of Bolzano, Bozen (IT)
WORKSHOPS & ART RESIDENCIES
2025
WORKSHOP LA FUNDACIÓN BOTÍN Edible Sculptures | Shimabuku
Santander (SP)
2022 - 2023
WORKSHOP Autonomy, Collectivities and Role play | Ana Maria Millan
Leipzig (DE)
2020 - 2021
ARTISTIC PRACTICE Words on a Body | Otobong Nkanga
Bozen (IT)
group exhibitions
2025 JUNGKUNST | Halle 710 Winterthur Neuhegi
2025 Revolt Against the Sun!, curated by Margaux Bonopera & Chus Martínez, Kunsthaus Baselland
2025 A FRIEND OF A FRIEND OF A FRIEND, curated by Cruz Nazar, Der Tank, Basel (CH)
2024 STRIVING FOR COMMON ACCESS, curated by Catherin Schöberl, Pascale Grau & Raphael Reichert,
Projektraum M54, Visarte Region Basel (CH)
2024 DUENDE! curated by Filipa Ramos, Atelier Mondial, Basel (CH)
2024 SALON, Pandibosco, curated by Emily Mary Whitaker & Salphinah Savin, Basel (CH)
2023 Processing Stones, Pre-diploma Exhibition HGB, Eli Cortiñas, Leipzig (DE)
2023 Reading Stones - Stones in a Process, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig (DE)
2022 Shoot & Think/Negotiation Images, curated by Eva Leitolf & Giulia Cordin, Foto Wien Festival, FreiRaum/MQ-Wien, Wien (AU)
2022 Speed Exhibition, curated by Christin Lahr & Stephan Riebel, HGB Saal, Leipzig (DE)
2022 Rundgang HGB,curated by Christin Lahr, Leipzig (DE)
2021 Interpretation of “Fossils“, Free University of Bolzano (IT)
2020 - 2021 Willi The Cat, curated by Massimo Bartolini & Luca Trevisani, Fondazione Antonio dalle Nogare, Bozen (IT)
2020 Attitudes Become Reform, curated by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Stefano Riba, Gerhard Glüher,
VR-Exhibition, produced by Free University of Bolzano (IT)
2019 Tree Time, curated by Massimo Bartolini & Luca Trevisani, Bolzano (IT)
2019 Violent Images, curated by Eva Leitolf & Giulia Cordin, Bolzano (IT)
2018 KiniCO, curated by Chiara Ducchi, Anomalia, Basalgo di Pinè - Trento (IT)
2018 Genre as Genre / Documenting Ideas, curated by Stefano Graziani & Giulia Cordin, Free University of Bolzano (IT)
2017 Gäste Ospiti Guests, Free University of Bozen (IT)
publications
2025 VIOLENT IMAGES, Eva Leitolf, Giulia Cordin, Nero Editions, ISBN: 978-88-8056-322-8
2022 Vertical Perspective, Dominant Perspective, Giulia Cordin in conversation with Irene Sabine Rainer und Marco Ferrari - Parallel Spaces, p. 10 - 17; ISBN 978 88 942888 89
2022 shared space, Shoot & Think, Negotiating Images Volume 1, Eva Leitolf, Giulia Cordin, ISBN 978 88 942 888 72
2022 SHOOT & THINK - alto.bz- Redaktion (10.04.2022)
2020 Nello, con lo, attraverso lo spazio: “WILLI the Cat” alla Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare Allegra Bag- gio Corradi - Franzmagazine (November12, 2020)Nello, con lo, attraverso lo spazio: “WILLI the Cat” alla Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare Allegra Bag- gio Corradi - Franzmagazine (November12, 2020)
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