Elisa CALDANA (Elisa CALDANA & NAGASAKA Aki)

Profile

Elisa Caldana is an Italian artist currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Graduated from Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule, Frankfurt in 2013. Working primarily with sculpture, installation, film, performance, and writing, she researches on the relationship between the political and the imaginative, through a practice of accumulation, manipulation, and reproduction of found objects and stories.


Recent Exhibitions
"That's IT" Group exhibition, MAMbo Museum, Bologna, Italy, 2018
"Topography of Terror (19.12.2016)" Two-person exhibition, ar/ge kunst kunstverein, Bolzano, Italy, 2017
"Step by Step" Group exhibition, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin, Italy, 2016
"say my name, say my name" Group exhibition, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2013
"When in Rome", group, Malta Contemporary Art, Valletta, Malta, 2011

Awards, Grants
Hessische Kulturstiftung Atelier Grant (managed by Acme Studios), London (2014)
Städelschule Portikus e.V., Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2013)
Movin' Up, Giovani Artisti Italiani, Italy (2012)

About works / performance

Non-relational objects (series), 2010-ongoing, Installation, Mixed media, dimensions variable, Photo: "Nameless Monument" Courtesy of the artist

Topography of Terror (19.12.2016) 2017, CGI Film, Full HD, Color/Surround sound, 31 min. Narrator: Khalid Abdalla,
© Elisa Caldana and Diego Tonus

The Island Behind The Horizon, 2015, HD video, color/sounds, projected 11 min. 19 sec., looped,
Courtesy of the artist and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

In Another Country, 2013-2016, Performance, Documentation of the performance at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

RINGE, 2013, Nordic gold, steel, wood, jewellery display box, Box: 23 x 16,5 x 2,5 cm; rings: dimensions variable
© Studio Elisa Caldana

Untitled, 2009, Twenty-day performance, Photo: "Shampoo" Photographic documentation of the performance
© Studio Elisa Caldana