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NAGI GIANNI
Nagi Gianni's artistic practice explores the forms, movements, and representations of the body. Through sculptures, installations, and performances, he questions the human condition, its vulnerabilities, and alienations in its confrontation with alterity. Metamorphosis becomes a space of emancipation, redefining the relationship between the intimate and the external, inner life and visibility. His sculptures, derived from casts and bodily fragments, capture tensions and postures, engaging in dialogue with the living body in his performances. Masks and prostheses shift the body's boundaries, opening up possibilities for its mutations. Drawing from an imaginary world populated by spectral, animal, and cyborg figures, Nagi Gianni challenges societal and bodily norms, inviting an exploration of dimensions such as dreams and the invisible, beyond the rationalizing frameworks of Western thought.
His work has been presented in Switzerland and internationally, in art centres and independent art spaces (Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Zabriskie Point , Espace Labo Geneva, Tinguely Museum Basel, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, Bally Foundation Lugano, CCA Zamek Ujazdowski Warsaw, Elizabeth Garden New York, ...) as well as in theaters (Arsenic Lausanne, Théâtre de l'Usine Genève), and festivals (Festival Antigel, Loftas Fest Vilnius, Binálé Budapest, ...)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
- Screens, Sand Dunes and the Contours of Your Face - CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
2018
- I Need a Gangsta - TOPIC, Genève
2015
- Parade of wandering bodies – Xpo gallery, Paris
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GROUP SHOWS
2024
- Irrévérances - galerie Amarrage, Paris, c. Nathan Selighini
- Ninfe, Campane Subacquee e Pesci Giganti - visarte & Bally Foundation, Lugano, c. Sibilla Panzeri
2023
- Loftas Fest - Vilnius
- Binálé Budapest, c. Viola Lukacs
- Chrysalides - CAC Genève, c. Andrea Bellini
2022
- Bourses BLCG de la Ville de Genève - CAC Genève
- BANG BANG - Histoire:s translocale:s de la performance - Musée Tinguely, Bâle
2021
- de l’Ekumen :: Pétrel I Roumagnac duo - g. Valeria Cetraro, Paris
2020
- Estrangement Sessions - Luma Westbau, Zürich
2018
- swiss performance award - Museum Tinguely, Basel
- 24H-shop, c. Patricia Bianchi - Kir Royal, Zürich
- TMF 24/7, c. Elena Montesinos - Halle Nord, Genève
2017
- Slowly vanishing...feathers! Glittered and burned. - Listrik, Montreux
- de rêves, acte 1, jardin, c. Marie-Salomé Peyronnel - Elizabeth Street Garden, New York USA
2016
- Kabaret de Künstler, performance program by Manuel Scheiwiller for Manifesta 11 - Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
2015
- The Day After - Espace Labo, Genève
- Tribal Tribu-te, YP - Centre d’art Métaxu / galerie L’Axolotl, Toulon
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STAGE WORKS
2023
- Glitters of Darkness - ‘ECLIPSES’, CAC Genève, Flux Laboratory, Bally Foundation
2022
- ‘Still Crashing’, ARSENIC- centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), TU Théâtre de l’Usine (Genève), Festival Antigel
2021
- ‘Antilopes’, TU Théâtre de l’Usine (Genève), ARSENIC - centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne)
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RESIDENCIES
2024
- Bourse et résidence du Canton de Genève - Berlin
2023
- Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris
2019
- Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
2018
- danceWEB @ ImpulsTanz international dance festival, Vienna
AWARDS AND GRANTS
- Bourse Simon Patiño (2023)
- Bourses BLCG de la Ville de Genève 2022 (nominé)
- PREMIO Schweiz 2021 (nominé)
- Ateliers d’artiste de la Ville de Genève 2019-2022
- Prix Suisse de la Performance 2018 (nominé)
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EDUCATION
2011-2014 bachelor in Visual Arts - performance
Geneva Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design de Genève
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2015-2016 master in Visual Arts
Bruxelles Erg Bruxelles