GIULIA ANDREANI
Giulia Andreani (b. 1985) repurposes personal memorabilia and archival photographs through painting to address forgotten histories, often through a feminist lens. Recalling the collage of Max Ernst and Hannah Höch, the artist uses watercolour and acrylic to reproduce, alter and combine motifs from these photographs generating new layers of meaning. Working primarily in Payne’s Grey, a blue-grey hue at once warm and cold, Andreani presents figurative work untainted by the artifice and power of painterly colour. The artist also looks to the aesthetics of Italian cinema including Pietro Germi’s tragicomic neorealism, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s hyper-mannerism and Luchino Visconti’s decadent lighting.
Themes central to Andreani’s practice include the perception of women in art and society, the contemporary and the historical, motherhood, trauma and forgotten figures in politics and art history. Addressing notions of historical amnesia and unearthing buried narratives, both specific and universal, the artist creates a dialogue with the past to reconstruct prescient stories that can guide us into the future.
‘When you see a Giulia Andreani exhibition, it comes back to haunt you for a long while, with memories of faces, gazes, gestures, details, an item of clothing, an attitude, an accessory... Her pictures engage us not only while in their presence, but also long afterwards through memory, in the same way as a sentence from a novel or a scene from a film keep jumping out at us, without our asking them to. [...] Faced with strange scenes, and goaded on by curiosity, the viewer sets out in search of clues that they will not always find. For as they know, enigmas are at play beneath seemingly harmless, unremarkable appearances – battles that may be violent or silent, visible or imperceptible, but always both private and political.’
J. M. Gallais, ‘Cave Pictricem (Beware the female artist!)’, in Giulia Andreani, exh. cat., Labanque, Béthune; Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole; Paris: Dilecta, 2019, p. 42
Image: Conservative Ghost (Aetas Ferrea), 2024, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 97.5 cm.; 51 1/8 x 38 3/8 in. Photo: Charles Duprat
Artist Talk
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1985
Born in Venice, Italy
2008
Graduated from the Fine Arts Academy (Accademia di Belle Arti), Venice
2010
Master in Art History at Sorbonne University, Paris
2017–2018
Residency at Villa Medici, Rome
Lives and works in Paris, France
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Artissima Collection d’art contemporain á Lyon
The Arts Club Dubai
Bibliothèque nationale de France – BnF , Paris
Centre Culturel Régional opderschmelz, Dudelange
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Collection d’art de la Ville de Montrouge
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana – MASI, Lugano
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand – MASP
Musée de l’histoire de l’Immigration, Paris
Pinault Collection, Paris
URDLA, Villeurbanne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Cold Painting
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon
Sabotage
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
2024
L’improduttiva
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
2023
L’improduttiva
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
2022
Kitchen Knife
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2020
Pigs and Old Lace
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
2019
La cattiva
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole
Art Must Hang
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Bacia la Sposa / Brucia la Strega
Labanque, Béthune
2018
Correspondances
Villa Medici, Rome
Intermezzo
VNH Gallery, Paris
2017
Face au temps
Centre d'Art Nei Liicht de Dudelange, Luxembourg
2016
Nous autres
La Conserverie, un lieu d'archives, Metz
2015
Tout geste est renversement
Galerie M. Muller, Paris
2014
Verstern Muto
Labanque, Béthune
2013
[Non] si passa la frontiera
Galerie Bendana-Pinel, Paris
2012
Journal d'une iconophage
Premier Regard, Paris
I shot him down
Musée National de la Résistance, L’inlassable Galerie, Paris
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
On Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2025
Les mondes de Colette
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Fata Morgana: Memories of the Invisible
Palazzo Morando, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
Sorcières (1860-1920): fantasmes, savoirs, liberté
Musée de Pont-Aven
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Les yeux dans les yeux
Couvent des Jacobins, Pinault Collection, Rennes
Stories of Your Lives, curated by Eugenio Re Rebaudengo
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis
Copyists
Centre Pompidou-Metz
On Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
2024
Peintures fraîches
Louvre Lens - Galerie du temps
Through the Floods
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
Pasolini in Chiaroscuro
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
Stranieri Ovunque / Foreigners Everywhere
60th International Art Exhibition – La biennale de Venezia, Central Pavilion, Giardini, Venice
On Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
2023
Les Nuits d’Été
Villa Noailles, Hyères
Au hasard des oiseaux
3rd International Biennial of Saint-Paul-de-Vence
L’île Intérieure
Fondation Carmignac, Villa Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, Hyères
Chronorama Redux
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
L'ALMANACH 23
Consortium Museum, Dijon
De leur temps (7) – Un regard sur les collections privées françaises
FRAC – Grand Large, Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque
2022
Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Manifesto of Fragility
The 16th Lyon Biennale, Lyon
The Drawing Centre Show
Consortium Museum, Dijon
Femmes Modèles: Agrégation #7
Musée Saint-Croix de Poitiers
Time and Time Again – Works from the Vermeire-Notebaert Collection
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem
2021
Stretching the Body
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Artistes à la Une Togeth'Her
Monnaie de Paris
2020
With a Hint of Adventure
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon
Made in France
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Facing the sea
Passerelle - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brest
Summer show
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Ciò che vedo. Nuova figurazione in Italia
Galleria Civica di Trento, The Mart, Trento
2019
De leur temps (6)
Collection Lambert, Avignon
En différé
Musée d'Angoulême, Angoulême
Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000
Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Some of us: an overview of the French Art scene
NordArt, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf
Made in France
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Décoloniser le corps
Eternal Gallery, Tours
Collection Nina & Jean-Claude Mosconi
Fondation Christian & Yvonne Zervos, Vézelay
One way or Another
La Box, Bourges
Hommage to Leonardo da Vinci
Château du Rivau, Lémeré
2018
DécalageS
Château d'Oiron
White Blood, Blue Night
La Traverse - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Alfortville
Sans tambour ni trompette
Faux Mouvement, Metz
Portrait de l'artiste en jeune femme
Centre d'art La Halle, Pont-en-Royans
Viva Villa !
Villa Méditerranée, Marseille
Inverted Odysseys
Galerie Béa-Ba, Marseille
Take me (I'm Yours)
Villa Medici, Rome
2017
White Blood, Blue Night
La Traverse - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Alfortville
Sans Tambour ni trompette (Chap.4)
Le Parvis Scène Nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées
New Horizons - 3rd Frissiras Award of European Painting
Frissiras Museum, Athens
Tous, des sang mêlés
MAC VAL - Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
Ciao Italia !
Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris
Les Arques à Meymac
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac
Peindre dit-elle #2
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole
2016
Où poser la tête
Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Ile Maurice
Ouvrages de dames #2
Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris
17° Premio Cairo
Palazzo Reale, Milan
Par les lueurs – Cent ans de guerres
Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA
Un si joli village
Les Ateliers des Arques, Les Arques
W/W
Maison des arts plastiques Rosa Bonheur, Chevilly-Larue
De leur temps (5)
Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
Sobre as Águas
Luciana Caravello Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro
2015
Où poser la tête
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de La Réunion
Jusqu'à ce que rien n'arrive
Maison des arts, Malakoff
Peindre, dit-elle
Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne - Château de Rochechouart
Ma voix
Le Silo U1, Château-Thierry
Odradek
Les instants chavirés, Montreuil
2014
Sans tambour ni trompette (Chap.1)
La Graineterie, Houilles
Kabinet d'estampes
Le Kabinet, Brussels
Si nous continuons à nous parler le même langage
Chez Treize, Paris
2013
Art is Hope
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
La Belle Peinture #2
Institut français de Maurice, Île Maurice
De leur temps (4)
Centre d'art Le Hangar à bananes, Nantes
La Belle Peinture #2
Palais Pisztory, Bratislava
L'Abri
Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris
Tracing Coordinates, un projet No title Gallery
Palazzo Malipiero, Venice
2012
Regards
Centre Jeanne Hachette, Ivry-sur-Seine
57e Salon d'art contemporain de Montrouge
Le Beffroi, Montrouge
Ubiquités
Prix Science-Po pour l’art contemporain. Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris
Paper Jam #2
Chez Treize, Paris
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
S. Bardaouil and T. Fellrath, eds., Giulia Andreani. Sabotage, exh. cat., Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Milan: Silvana Editoriale Milano, 2026
L. Calabro Visconti, E. Coccia and S. Piccini, Giulia Andreani. L'Improduttiva, exh. cat., Collezione Maramotti, Milan; Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2024
F. Frigeri,Giulia Andreani, Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, 2022
L. Delalande, et al., Giulia Andreani, exh. cat., Labanque de Béthune, Béthune / Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, Dole; Paris: Éditions Diletta, 2019
Videos
Publications
Giulia Andreani
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2022
With texts by Flavia Frigeri and Erik Verhagen
€ 60.00
Giulia Andreani: Kitchen Knife
Exhibition Poster
2022
€ 20.00
Selected Press
Monopol Magazine March 2026
Vogue France April 2024
Monopol Magazine April 2024
Harper’s Bazaar March 2023
Art Press September 2022
Connaissance des Arts July – August 2019
MEDIAPART June 2019
Boum!Bang! October 2014
Slash February 2013
Inferno Magazine February 2013
Le Monde: Lunettes Rouges June 2012
