CV
Education
2007-2010 Master of Painting, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy
2004-2007 Bachelor of Painting, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy
2004-2007 Humanistic studies, Liceo Ginnasio Statale Daniele Manin, Cremona
Exhibitions
Site specific projects
2023 Topografia dell'attesa, artist's room at Padiglione A, Flashback Habitat, Torino, for the project Stanze Viventi / Living Rooms by Flashback Habitat
2016 Saudade do Futuro, site specific installations for Museu Amadeo De Souza-Cardoso, Amarante, Portugal (JCE Biennale artist in residence);
Solo exhibitions and project rooms
2018 Mattang, MARS, Milan (Italy), curated by Fabio Carnaghi
2016 Punti di sospensione, Museo Gipsoteca Antonio Canova, Possagno (Treviso, Italy), curated by Fabio Carnaghi;
2016 Topografia del vuoto, project room for the group show Epicentri, Terme di Como Romana, Como (Italy), curated by Fabio Carnaghi;
2015 Nowhere is a cloud, Castello Visconteo, Legnano (Italy) curated by Fabio Carnaghi;
2011 Giulia Berra, Cart project, Galleria Cart, Monza (Italy), curated by Monica Villa
Main group exhibitions
2024 Be Natural /Be Wild 4 edizione, Spazio Cultura della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Biella, Biella, Italy
2023 Bien 2023. The Sun, Globus, Kranj, Slovenia
2022 Talent Prize 2022, Museo delle Mura, Rome, curated by Inside Art
2021 1.5 degrees. To reach or not to reach the climate goal, Group Global 3000 e.V., Berlin, Germany, curated by Team GG3
2020 The Looking glass and through it, Museum of Art St Petersburg of the 20th and 21st century, St Petersburg, Russia, in collaboration with Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Pietroburgo
2019 HABITAT. Relazioni Trasversali Casa delle Letterature, Rome (Italy), curated by Collettivo Curatoriale of Luiss Master of Art
2019 Talent Prize 2019, Mattatoio Roma, Rome (Italy), curated by Elena Pagnotta and Fabrizia Carabelli
2019 Premio Fondazione VAF, Stadtgalerie, Kiel (Germany)
2019 VIII Edizione Premio Fondazione VAF, Mart, Rovereto (Trento, Italy), curated by Daniela Ferrari and Denis Isaia
2018 Exhibition of the finalists' projects of Un'Opera per il Castello 2017, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples (Italy);
2017 Jovem Criação Europeia 2015/2017, Museu Municipal Amadeo De Souza Cardoso, Amarante (Portugal), curated by Antonio Cardoso (JCE);
2017 Jeune Création Européenne, Museu de l'Empordà y Casa Empordà, Figueres (Spain) curated by Mario Pasqualotto (JCE);
2017 Giovane Creazione Europea #7paesi#56artisti#1città, Spazio Ratti, Como (Italy), curated by Andrea Ponsini, Veronica Vittani, Francesca Testoni (JCE)
2016 Starptautiskās biennāles “Eiropas jaunrade” izstāde, Centrum Sztuki i Nauki “Bruzis”, Cēsis (Latvia), curated by Alberto Di Gennaro & Dāvis KaĦepe (JCE);
2016 Biennale of the Young European Art, Wrocław Congress Center – Centennial Hall, Wrocław (Poland), for Europejska Stolica Kultury Wrocław 2016, curated by Ewa Sułek (JCE);
2016 JCE Jeune Creation Biennale, Kunstbygningen i Vrå, Hjoerring (Denmark), curated Henrik Godsk (JCE);
2015 Tuttifrutti Habitat, Premio Arte Rugabella 2015, Villa Rusconi, Castano Primo (Milan, Italy), curated by Fabio Carnaghi;
2015 Biennale d'art contemporain Jeune Création Européenne, Le Beffroi, Montrouge (Francia), curated by Andrea Ponsini(JCE);
2015 VI Concorso di Scultura "Antonio Canova", Villa Rizzardi, Negrar (Verona, Italy);
2015 Notre avenir est dans l'air, Antiquarium Alda Levi, Milan (Italy), curated by Fabio Carnaghi
2015 Goodesign - The natural circle, Goodesign 2015, Salone del Mobile collateral event, Cascina Cuccagna, Milan (Italy), curated by Officina Temporanea (Elisa Ossino, Stefania Vasques, Alberto Zordan);
2014 Giovani Scultori alla Permanente - Premio Liliana Nocera, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan;
2014 Overview, Premio Arte Rugabella 2014, Villa Rusconi, Castano Primo (Milan, Italy), curated by Fabio Carnaghi;
2014 Giorni Felici, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese (Milan, Italy), curated by Marta Cereda;
2012-2013 Agorà - Miniartextil 2012 at Villa Olmo, Como (Italy), Le Beffroi, Montrouge (France), international exhibition of contemporary textile art curated by Luciano Caramel;
2012 Nature | Culture, Arte accessibile Milano (AAM Fair), Spazio Eventiquattro, Milan, Italy, curated by Arianna Beretta;
2011: Ghiggini Prize, Ghiggini 1822 Gallery, Varese, Italy;
2011 Numerouno en papier, Circoloquadro Cultural Association, Milan, curated by Arianna Beretta;
2010: Numerozero, Circoloquadro Cultural Association, Milan, Italy, curated by Arianna Beretta;
2009: Ritratti, Galleria Obraz, Milan, Italy, curated by Barbara Nahmad, text by Arianna Beretta
Main grants & awards
2024 Finalist of Be Natural/Be Wild 4 edizione
2023 selected for the Textile Art Biennial Bien 2023. Sonce - The Sun, Kranj, Slovenia
2022 Winner of Premio Speciale Emmanuele F.M. Emanuele (special prize) of Talent Prize 2022
2019 Winner of Premio Internazionale Generazione Contemporanea
2019 Finalist of Talent Prize 2019
2018 Finalist of Premio Artistico della Fondazione VAF
2017 Finalist of Un'Opera per il Castello, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples
2015 Winner of VI Concorso di Scultura "Antonio Canova"
2015 Finalist of Premio Arte Rugabella 2015, Tuttifrutti Habitat
2015 selelected for the itinerant Biennale d'art contemporain Jeune Création Européenne, Montrouge (France), Hjoerring (Denmark), Wroclaw (Poland), Cesis (Latvia), Como (Italy), Figueres (Spain), Amarante (Portugal)
2015 Finalist of CoCoCo (Como Contemporary Contest
2014 Finalist of Giovani Scultori alla Permanente - I edizione del concorso "Liliana Nocera"
2014 Finalist of Premio Arte Rugabella 2014, Overview
Artist residences
Culture Moves Europe residency action "BIEN Life" In Kranj, Slovenia, organized by Zavod Carnica (Carnica Institute) with Layerjeva Hiša. This residency project was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union, 22nd March 2024 - 30th April 2024
Artist residence In Berlin, Germany, with Fresh A.I.R. scholarship, promoted by Berliner Leben Stiftung in collaboration with Urban Nation - Museum for Urban Contemporary Art - 12 October 2020 - 31 March 2021
Artist residence in Amarante, Portugal, with JCE Biennale, Municipality of Amarante, Museo Municipal Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, 3rd May 2016 - 28th July 2016
Work and collaborations
2022 - currently: Professor of Artistic Anatomy at Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, Turin
2017: Seminary for the workshop "Antico e Nuovo", for the 5th year students of Architectural Design and History, Politecnico di Milano, Mantua, Italy
2009-2010: Didactic tutor (Artistic Anatomy, Body Semiology and History of Applied Arts, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan
Talks
Giulia Berra, Maura Tacchinardi and Andrèe Bella for Città Bioma, a project by Lunedì Sostenibili e Vegapunk, Vegapunk, Milan 23rd February 2015;
Giulia Berra, Exuviae, San Fedele Gallery, Milan, 14th December 2014
Giulia Berra, Costruire visioni. Incursioni fra Arte e Architettura, 21st November 2013, Casa dell'Architetto, Monza (Italy);
Giulia Berra, Una città che ci rappresenta?, 21st May 2013, A.1.3 hall, Politecnico di Milano, Mantua (Italy)