Elisa Strinna

ecology - experimental - nature - sculpture - installation

Elisa Strinna's work investigates the relationships that many different living beings establish with one another and with the spatial, geographical, and biological context they inhabit.
In practical terms, Strinna creates indiscriminate connections between technology, the natural world, and the human world, thus searching for spaces to think about the world out of the usual notions of progress guided by the logic of material accumulation, technological development, and resource exhaustion .
Her interventions can be described as Cosmological fantasies, spaces of multiplicity, and unexpected relations/correspondences among very different beings. Here the dominant binary logic of the rational mind fades, revealing syncretism, symbiosis, and hybridization, systems of relationships that require practices other than those of hierarchy and domination. (Nuno Crespo)

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    • And Their World Was Beautiful

    Performance

    • 03-03-2024 t/m 03-03-2024
    • In collaboration with: IAMAIR
    • Location: Boijmans Depot, Rotterdam

    Metabolic Staffage

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 25-11-2023 t/m 15-01-2024
    • In collaboration with: curated by João Vasco Paiva
    • Location: LEHMANN + SILVA Gallery, Porto

    The Garden of Banes

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 26-09-2023
    • In collaboration with: curated by Alessandro Fonte and Shawnette Poe
    • Location: Parco Carta, Soveria Mannelli

    Blind Sun for Pole der Unzugänglichkeit

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 19-07-2023 t/m 14-09-2023
    • In collaboration with: curated by Johanna Janßen
    • Location: Galerie im Turm, Berlin

    Becoming Earths

    Exhibition / presentation

    Future of our Soil

    Other

    CALM BEFORE THE STORM

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 10-12-2022 t/m 12-02-2023
    • Location: RADIUS CCA, Delft
    • Presentation of the short film THE ANTARCTIC GARDENER CALM BEFORE THE STORM is the fourth and final exhibition of the UNDERLAND year program. The eight artists in this group exhibition provide insight into the need for preservation and shelter when living environments become progressively volatile and unpredictable.
    • http://www.radius-cca.org/en/exhibitions/underland-chapter-4-calm-before-the-storm

    Jimmie Durham and A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 18-06-2022 t/m 25-09-2022
    • In collaboration with: documenta fifteen
    • Location: KazimKuba, Kassel
    • mmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road is a collective that came about from the idea of ​​Jimmie Durham to gather together a group of artists to form “a community on the road” and to contribute in collaboration with him to documenta fifteen.
    • https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/lumbung-members-artists/jimmie-durham/

    Blind Sun. Trade Winds in the Age of Underwater Currents.

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 29-05-2021 t/m 08-08-2021
    • Location: Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam
    • In Trade Winds in the Age of Underwater Currents, A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, presents three solo exhibitions of artists who, in different ways, research the phenomena of deep sea mining, coastal ecology and underwater cable network
    • http://a-tub.org/en/program/trade-winds-in-the-age-of-underwater-currents

    Waves between us

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 03-10-2020 t/m 15-11-2020
    • In collaboration with: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
    • Location: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Guarene, Guarene d'Alba
    • Collective exhibition curated by Alison Karasyk, Camille Regli, Katie Simpson Young Curators Residency Program 2020, coordinated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti

    Blind Sun (Sol Cego)

    Project

    • 24-01-2020 t/m 31-08-2020
    • In collaboration with: Culturgest Porto
    • Location: Porto,
    • In the exhibition Blind Sun we are invited to take a journey through a series of microcosms in which we discover various and complementary aspects of our world. But the exhibition is not about the geology and history of the planet and the development of terrestrial platforms and surfaces; rather, Strinna's works form an interrogative, critical and poetic gaze on nature and its existence not as formal and material magnitude, but as spirit and magic (Nuno Crespo). Solo curated by Delfim Sardo
    • https://www.elisastrinna.com/

    Blind Sun (Sol Cego)

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 20-09-2019 t/m 03-01-2020
    • In collaboration with: Fidelidade Arte, Culturgest
    • Location: Lisbon,
    • The starting point of investigation of the exhibition Blind Sun are networks of subaquatic cables that cross the ocean and transmit information. The infrastructures that today host and connect the global knowledge system are mostly thin silicon cables covered with latex, crossing the depths of our planet. They are removed from the view of consumers of digital worlds. As well as many stories that could hinder or limit their reach, but that made the cloud possible.
    • https://www.elisastrinna.com/blind-sun

    Jan Van Eyck Academy

    Residencies / exchange

    Studio at Fondazione Bevilaqua la Masa

    • 01-11-2008 t/m 31-10-2009
    • In collaboration with: Bevilaqua la Masa Foundation
    • Location: Venice,
    • Artist Studio Grant

    And yet it moves

    Exhibition / presentation

    6ARTISTA

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-05-2011 t/m 31-07-2011
    • In collaboration with: Cité des Arts
    • Location: Paris,

    6ARTISTA

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-10-2010 t/m 30-04-2011
    • In collaboration with: Pastificio Cerere
    • Location: Rome,

    6ARTISTA: Adelita Husni-Bey /Elisa Strinna

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 25-11-2011 t/m 29-01-2012
    • In collaboration with: Macro Museum
    • Location: Rome,
    • Final Exhibition of the residency 6ARTISTA at Pastificio Cerere, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis

    Modern Monsters, 2012 Taipei Biennial

    Exhibition / presentation

    Open museum, Open city

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 24-10-2014 t/m 30-11-2014
    • In collaboration with: MAXXI Museum
    • Location: Rome,

    Shanghai Prize

    Residencies / exchange

    Summer School Art and the Politics of Individuality

    Workshop

    Soma Summer

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-07-2015 t/m 31-08-2015
    • In collaboration with: Soma Mexico
    • Location: Mexico City,
    • During SOMA Summer 2015, we focused on the idea of ​​excess and its relationship with contemporary art. It departed from the proposal of the French writer Georges Bataille, who considers excess in the form of waste or “expenditure” not as a malaise, but as an outlet of energy that needs to be spent.
    • https://somamexico.org/archivo/objeto?id=487&nombre=SOMA%20summer%20Program%202015

    International Residency at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon

    Residencies / exchange

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht

    • 2018
      Scholarship

    • R&D Grant by CBK Rotterdam

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Documents and Contemporary Art, EESI

    • 2017
      Scholarship

    • 6Artista, Pastificio Cerere Foundation

    • 2011
      Scholarship

      Scholarship

    • Artist Project Mondrian Fund

    • 2022
      Scholarship

    • Cultural Subsidies Municipality of Rotterdam

    • 2022
      Scholarship

    • Artist Project Mondrian Fund

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Makers counter Dream and Deed

    • 2021
      Collection

    • Famiglia Forin Private Art Collection

    • 2015, Bassano del Grappa
      Collection

    • Maria Thereza Alves Collection

    • 2018, Berlin
      Collection

    • Antonio Sequeira Lopes Collection

    • 2020, lisbon
      Collection

    • female artist contemporary

    • 2023, Munich
      Publication

    • And yet it moves

    • 2009
    • Exhibition
    • Archive Books - Edited by Pieternel Vermoortel, Inti Guerrero, Julia Klaring
      Publication

    • Eliza Strinna

    • 2011
    • monographic catalogue
    • Mousse Publishing - Edited by Vincenzo de Bellis
      Publication

    • Open Museum, Open City

    • 2014
    • Catalog
    • Mousse Publishing - Edited by Hou Hanru
      Publication

    • Death and Life or Fiction

    • 2014
    • Exhibition book
    • Spector Books - Anselm Franke (Editor), David Wang (Contributor), Nabil Ahmed (Contributor), Chen Chieh-Jen (Contributor), Reza Negarestani (Contributor), Jow Gong (Contributor), Joachim Koester (Contributor), James Hong ( contributor)
      Publication

    • Chain Reaction

    • 2020
    • Catalog
    • Culturgest 2020 - Edited by Delfim Sardo
      Publication

    • Jimmie Durham and A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road

    • 2022
    • Walther King - Multiple authors