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 women’s position in society, motherhood, trauma and forgotten figures in political and art history. The artist addresses notions of historical amnesia and unearths buried narratives, specific and universal. She creates a dialogue with the past to render visible those made invisible, 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.’
Jean-Marie 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: Fillon fillette ou Jeannette, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 200 cm.; 59 x 78 3/4 in.
Artist Interview
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1985
Born in Venice
2008
Graduated at 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
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF), Paris
Centre culturel régional Opderschmelz, Dudelange
Collection de la Ville de Montrouge, Mountrouge
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
FRAC – Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
MASP, São Paulo
Musée National de l'Histoire de l'Immigration (MNHI), Paris
URDLA, Villeurbanne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Fondazione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (forthcoming)
2022
Kitchen Knife
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2020
Pétrichor
Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris
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
Lab Labanque, Béthune
2018
Correspondances
Villa Médicis, Rome
Intermezzo
VNH Gallery, Paris
2017
Face au temps
Centre d'Art Nei Liicht de Dudelange, Luxembourg
2016
Nous autres
La Conserverie, Metz
2015
Tout geste est renversement
Galerie M. Muller, Paris
2014
Verstern Muto
Lab Labanque Bethune, Richebourg
2013
Centre culturel l'Escale, Levallois
[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
2023
L’île Intérieure, curated by Jean-Marie Gallais
Fondation Carmignac, Villa Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, Hyères
Chronorama. Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
L'ALMANACH 23
Le Consortium, 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
Le Consortium, Dijon (catalogue)
Femmes Modèles: Agrégation #7
Musée Saint-Croix de Poitiers, Poitiers
Time and Time Again – Works from the Vermeire-Notebaert Collection
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem
2021
Stretching the Body
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebardengo, Torino
2011–2021 Galerie I'inlassable
Monteverita, Paris (catalogue)
Artistes à la Une Togeth'Her
Monnaie de Paris, Paris
Carta bianca. Una nuova storia – 49 artisti x 49 copertine
Museo Civico Gigi Guadagnucci – Villa La Rinchiostra, Massa
2020
Avec un parfum d'aventure [With a Hint of Adventure]
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon
Real Utopias
Maison R&C, Marseille
Made in France
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
In front of the sea
Passerelle Center for Contemporary Art, 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
MASP, São Paulo
NordArt 2019
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, La Goulotte, Vézelay
One way or Another
La Box, Bourges
Hommage to Leonardo da Vinci
Château du Rivau, Lémeré
2018
DécalageS
Château d'Oiron, Oiron
White Blood, Blue Night
La Traverse - centre d'art contemporain d'Alfortville, 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 Médicis, Rome
2017
White Blood, Blue Night
CAC La Traverse, Alfortville
Sans Tambour ni trompette (Chap.4)
Le Parvis, Tarbes
Double Trouble
CI.Gallery, Paris
3d Frissiras Award of European Painting
Frissiras Museum, Athens
Art is Hope 2017, 100 artists mobilized against AIDS
Various venues, Paris
Kunstschorle
Projektraum Ventilator, Berlin
Tous, des sang mêlés
MAC VAL, Musée Départemental 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
Microsalon #7
L’inlassable Galerie, Paris
Peindre dit-elle #2
Musée des Beaux Arts, 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 Aquitaine, Bordeaux
On n'en saura rien
Rencontres d'Art contemporain, Cahors
Les 15 ans de Premier Regard, curaté par Marc Donnadieu et Henri Jobbé-Duval
Bastille Design Center, Paris.
Un si joli village
Les Ateliers des Arques, Les Arques
Dix ans de résidences
Chamalot
W/W
Maison des arts plastiques Rosa Bonheur, Chevilly-Larue
De leur temps #5
Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
La candeur conquérante
Galerie RDV, Nantes
Micro Salon #6
L'Inlassable Galerie, Paris
Bastion!
Centre d’Art Nei Liicht, Dudelange
Sobre as Águas
Luciana Caravello Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro
2015
Où poser la tête
FRAC Réunion, Piton Saint-Leu, Réunion Island
Jusqu'à ce que rien n'arrive
Maison des arts, Malakoff
Painting Now
Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan
Art is Hope
Piasa, Paris
Ca ira mieux demain, une proposition de Branded
Galerie ALB, Paris
La ligne rouge
Galerie Maïs Muller, Paris
Peindre, dit-elle
Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart
Sans Tambour ni trompette (Chap.2)
L'Artothèque Espaces D'Art Contemporain, Caen
Documents 1929–2015
URDLA, Villeurbanne
Furiosités
Galerie Frédéric Lacroix, Paris
Ma voix
Le Silo U1, Château-Thierry
Miroir ô mon miroir
Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris
Odradek
Les instants chavirés, Montreuil
Le musée passager
Région Ile de France
2014
Bastion!
Artopie, Meisenthal
Sans tambour ni trompette (Chap.1)
La Graineterie, Houilles
Optima mihi in chartis
Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich
Des Lucioles
Galerie Maïa Muller, Paris
Kabinet d'estampes
Le Kabinet, Brussels
Silent Faces
Galerie 22,48m², Paris
Si nous continuons à nous parler le même langage
Chez Treize, Paris
2013
Teken Contemporary drawing
Entrepot fictief, Ghent
Art is Hope
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Friends & Family
Galerie Eva Hober, Paris
La Belle Peinture #2
Ile Maurice
Young International Painters
Espace Morin, Paris
De leur temps IV
Centre d'art Le Hangar à bananes, Nantes
La Belle Peinture #2
Palais Pisztory, Bratislava
L'Abri
Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris
Microsalon #3
L’inlassable Galerie, Paris
Tracing Coordinates, un projet No title Gallery
Palazzo Malipiero, Venice
2012
By word of mouth
Galerie S/Z, Zurich
Regards
Centre Jeanne Hachette, Ivry-sur-Seine
57e Salon d'art contemporain de Montrouge
Le Beffroi, Montrouge
Ubiquités
Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris
Microsalon #2
L’inlassable Galerie, Paris
Paper Jam #2
Treize, Paris
2011
Zeichenerklärung, Berlin
Hell is hot!
Sam Art Project Foundation, Villa Rafet, Paris
Microsalon #1
L’inlassable Galerie, Paris
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dilecta (Ed.): Giulia Andreani, Paris, 2019
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications (Eds.): Giulia Andreani, Berlin, 2022
Videos
Publications
Giulia Andreani
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications 2022
With texts by Flavia Frigeri and Erik Verhagen
€ 60.00
Giulia Andreani: Kitchen Knife
Exhibition Poster
2022
€ 20.00
Selected Press
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
