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EMERGENCIES, REFRACTIONS, REFLECTIONS

8 settembre 2022

Claudia Vitari

EMERGENCIES, REFRACTIONS, REFLECTIONS

Traces of humanity among identity, otherness, exclusion, and integration

in the work of Nikola Grozdanov and Claudia Virginia Vitari

Archivio Emily Harvey – San Polo 387 – 30125 Venezia

18/9 – 25/9, 2022 – everyday 3-7 PM

Opening 17/9, 2022 5-8 PM

Curated by Roberto Mastroianni

With the generous support of The Emily Harvey Foundation

On the occasion of the first edition of The Italian Glass Weeks, in the spaces of the Emily Harvey Archive (18/9 – 25/9 2022) takes place the duo exhibition of Nikola Grozdanov and Claudia Virginia Vitari, two artists who have chosen glass as their primary expressive medium to give form to complex semiotic and nar- rative devices which center on an investigation of humanity, the forms of social disciplining, exclusion, and marginalization.

www.emilyharveyfoundation.org

www.theitalianglassweeks.com

Interstitial Identities. Exhibition and Artist talk at The Glass Factory Boda

20 ottobre 2021

Claudia Vitari

Interstitial Identities
Solo exhibition by Claudia Virginia Vitari

Interstitial Identities
Solo exhibition by Claudia Virginia Vitari
The Glass Factory, Storgatan 5 – 361 97 Boda Glasbruk

23.10 / 21.11 2021

The installation combines two themes from Vitari’s latest work: Identitá Interstiziali, O-Platz and Identità Interstiziali, LAGERMOBI, Osservazioni.
The installation gives form to a representation of the space and relationships that emerge in the existential interstitial situation typical of the condition of a migrant person.

www.theglassfactory.se

Solo exhibition: Identità Interstiziali

17 giugno 2021

Claudia Vitari

IDENTITÀ INTERSTIZIALI – MOSTRA
in occasione della Giornata Mondiale del Rifugiato

“IDENTITÀ INTERSTIZIALI”

mostra personale di CLAUDIA VIRGINIA VITARI

Polo del ‘900 – Galleria delle Immagini – Palazzo San Celso – Corso Valdocco 4/A, Torino

19 giugno – 29 agosto 2021

Il Museo Diffuso della Resistenza apre la nuova stagione espositiva con una mostra personale di Claudia Virginia Vitari. L’iniziativa si inserisce in un programma di eventi offerti dai musei torinesi e scalati intorno alla Giornata Mondiale del Rifugiato.

Dal 2014 Claudia Virginia Vitari si occupa di migrazioni, rifugiati e richiedenti asilo. L’installazione esposta combina due temi del suo progetto più recente: Identità Interstiziali.

Claudia Virginia Vitari (Torino, 1978) vive e lavora a Berlino e focalizza il suo lavoro su lunghi progetti di ricerca e di collaborazione su temi sociali quali la criminalità e la detenzione, soggetti con diagnosi di malattia mentale, rifugiati e richiedenti asilo. Le grandi installazioni realizzate dall’artista sono accompagnate dai disegni e serigrafie che illustrano in dettaglio alcune delle storie che compongono l’installazione (alcune sono esposte in questa occasione).

O-Platz nasce dall’osservazione della vita e delle proteste di un gruppo di richiedenti asilo (per lo più provenienti da Paesi africani) protagonisti di manifestazioni a Oranienplatz a Berlino nell’arco di mesi. Le persone ritratte dall’artista hanno partecipato alla protesta e i testi utilizzati nell’installazione mettono in luce la situazione di stallo nelle loro vite dovuta a ragioni burocratiche.

Lagermobi, Osservazioni invece si concentra in particolare sulla vita e le difficoltà dei richiedenti asilo ospitati in alcuni campi profughi di Berlino che l’artista ha visitato grazie a un gruppo di attivisti. I soggetti ritratti sono persone conosciute nei campi di accoglienza e le frasi stampate sui disegni sono state scelte o scritte direttamente dai protagonisti.

Il lavoro Identità Interstiziali propone quindi un confronto tra due “esperienze interstiziali” distinte ma correlate: la protesta e l’attesa.

La mostra sarà visitabile fino al 29 agosto, dal martedì` alla domenica, ore 10-18.

Visite guidate il 20 e il 24 giugno, ore 12 e ore 16. Prenotazione obbligatoria: t. 011 01120780 | receptionsancelso@polodel900.it

Informazioni: t. 011 01120780 | info@museodiffusotorino.it

KUNST BLEIBT! A GROUPSHOW BY THE XTRO-ATELIERS

28 maggio 2021

Claudia Vitari

Claudia Vitari. Le Città Invisibili, David (2012). Detail

Silkscreened glass, iron, light

PRESENTATION OF THE CATALOG FOR THE XTRO-ATELIERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY

AND GROUP EXHIBITION AT SCHÖNE WEIDE GALLERY

OPENING: FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 19.00 P.M.
OPENING HOURS:
THURSDAY TO SUNDAY, 12 P.M. TO 6 P.M.
FINISSAGE: FRIDAY, JULY 2, 12:00 TO 18:00
Wilhelminenhofstr. 48 A | 12459 Berlin
info@galerie-schoene-weide.de
www.galerie-schöne-weide.de

KUNST
BLEIBT!
10 YEARS XTRO ATELIERS OBERSCHÖNEWEIDE
The XTRO ateliers in the Rathenau Hallen in Oberschöneweide have been active for ten years: more than 40 ateliers with more than 60 artists. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary a first catalogue of the XTRO studios will be published in an edition of 2000 copies.
We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the catalog on June 11, 2021, starting at 7 p.m. at the Schöne Weide Gallery, about 400 meters from the XTRO Ateliers.
The exhibition accompanying the presentation can be visited until July 2, 2021.

Wilhelminenhofstr. 48 A | 12459 Berlin info@galerie-schoene-weide.de www.galerie-schöne-weide.de

Intimo e Politico: Group exhibition

28 gennaio 2021

Claudia Vitari

Identitità Interstizialili, Hussein 1019. Silkscreeneening on rice paper. 50×50 cm

Intimate and Political
Claudia Hans, Eugenia Martínez, Nico Mingozzi, Claudia Virginia Vitari
Opening January, 28 2021
Raffaella de Chirico Arte Contemporanea

PROJECT ROOM: Via Giolitti, 52 – Torino
Exhibition: 28 January – 20 February 2021

11 AM – 8 PM

www.dechiricogalleriadarte.com

INTERVIEW: OBJETOS CON VIDRIO/ ART GLASS OBJECTS

29 ottobre 2020

Claudia Vitari

I am very happy to share with you this interview with me made by María E. Diaz de Vivar for Objetos con Vidrio.

“Claudia Virginia Vitari (Italian artist based in Berlin) communicates in a poetic way, giving suggestions to reflect and get an idea of how our society works. The artist collects stories from those marginalized by society.”

https://objetosconvidrio.com/claudia_vitari_glass_art/

https://www.instagram.com/objetosconvidrio/

AIR BERLIN, a show by Intermission Collective

8 ottobre 2020

Claudia Vitari

On show: Claudia Vitari, “Identità Interstiziali” (2014-0ngoing)

Air Berlin

GROUPSHOW

Opening on Friday, 9. Oktober 2020 19:00

Villa Heike
Freienwalder Straße 17
13055 Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

Opening times:
10.-24. Oktober 2020
Thursday – Sunday 14:00 -19:00

CATALOGUE COMING SOON

https://www.intermissioncollective.com/home

LOCKDOWN, Online solo show

29 marzo 2020

Claudia Vitari

CLAUDIA VITARI
LOCKDOWN

ON LINE EXHIBITION

Opening, March, 31
6.30PM

From March 31 to April, 19 2020

For extra details and prices:
raffaella@dechiricogalleriadarte.it

LOCKDOWN is the first of the three on line exhibits of the gallery program that wants to adapt its way to this historical moment and, if possible, make people reflect and give some original and innovative points of reflection, that should be one of the the primary purposes of contemporary art, not underevaluating its consolatory power. Vitari tells us about compulsory detention, mental deseases that often means a metaphorical prison but also real, and in worst cases, social death; she also tells about immigration that contains topics as closing of borders and confinement in refugees shelters are very close to the concept of this exhibit.

http://www.dechiricogalleriadarte.com/mostre/claudia-virginia-vitari-lockdown-783

Artist talk

21 gennaio 2020

Claudia Vitari

I will be giving an Artist talk tonight at 6:30 pm at

HAZE Gallery

Organized by temporaryspaceberlin

Claudia is Berlin based Italian artist who works a lot with glass and does amazing kinetic installations. Claudia is a storyteller who was trained as a painter and now she transfers her portraits of people with very moving stories onto a glass because the glass is fragile material like human lives. Once destroyed it cannot be amended regardless of our effort.

Artists´ Talk by Claudia Vitari

One of our first artist´s talks was hold by Claudia Vitari who is a well established Italian artist based in Berlin. During her studies at University of Art and Design in Halle she mastered various techniques in drawings. Claudia told us about her development as an artist and I have chosen one project that has caught my eye. In this project Claudia´s drawing skills were turned into an icebreaker. Claudia is a storyteller and while the artist was sketching the models, she also listened to their stories. Some people are more willing to share their life story then the others.

In her projects titled PERCORSOGALERA, 2009, the participants willingly shared their stories. It took a place in a county jail of Turin. The prisoners took a great interest in her artwork because they saw the artist as the only one who was unbiased and that made them even more willing to share the stories about their troubled lives. The projects was financed by Grant of Piedmont Region.

Before Claudia started her project in the prison, she did very intensive research and not only did she focus her attention on an attribute of confinement but Claudia also took into a consideration the effects on those who were placed in the confinement. A tool helping her to understand it, was thebook of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault. This book investigated history of confinement. His findings helped her to get better grasp how the prisons became a such influential institution whose power actually rivaled to the power of the king or church. Further the book discussed the reasons of placement in such institutions eg. unemployment and morality of such places. Another area of the artists´research was the actual construction structure of the prisons in general. These panopticon style buildings have circular floor plans with a watch tower in the middle. The person located in the tower can watch the whole diameter of in-build prison cells.

Once the preliminary research was done Claudia approached the local prison where she exhibited the outcome at the end of her project. Apart from drawing the artist´s medium is glass as reminiscent that we are all fragile and irreplaceable. Once broken and shuttered on thousands little pieces it cannot be put back. However, for the security reasons it was not possible to used the glass in the prison, so Claudia switched just this once to epoxy resin. The resin in its final form hold a very strong resemblance to glass. During many hours spent in sitting sessions drawing portraits of the inmates and building relationships with them, Claudia came with a series of clustered portraits on a silkscreen embedded in tall rectangular upright stands framed in a black metal frame illuminated from the inside. The stands were placed directly in a corridor of the prison to symbolise a path in people’s life. One of the option to access Claudia´s exhibition was to book a ticket weeks in advance and the visitor would get a change to interact with the inmates who modelled for Claudia.

Overall this particular project served as a mirror of our society and the people from behind the bars.

GROUP SHOW, Denmark

9 gennaio 2020

Claudia Vitari

Claudia Vitari, “Oplatz, Identità interstiziali”, study for installation. Silkscreening on rice paper.

I will be showing this print on the occasion of the Group Show:

Nyt og Gammelt / New and Old

Fyns Grafiske Værksted / Funen Printmaking Studio

Hans Jensens Stræde 18, 5000 Odense, Denmark

Opening: 10.1.2020, 3-5 pm

Exhibition:11.01.20– 04.02.20

https://fynsgv.dk

News

Intimate and Political Claudia Hans, Eugenia Martínez, Nico Mingozzi, Claudia Virginia Vitari Opening January, 28 2021 Raffaella de Chirico Arte Contemporanea

Air Berlin

Nyt og Gammelt / New and Old

Intimate and Political
Claudia Hans, Eugenia Martínez, Nico Mingozzi, Claudia Virginia Vitari
Opening January, 28 2021
Raffaella de Chirico Arte Contemporanea