Giulia Bruno is a Berlin-based artist working with photography, video, language, and media. With a background in Biology and studies in photography and film, her research explores the intersections of technology, nature, cultural activism, and language, focusing on climate change, biodiversity, and artificial landscapes. Her practice revolves around an obsessive image-making process aimed at capturing time and tracing transformation through a continuous revisiting of places and landscapes. Her work has been exhibited internationally; her film Capital received the Visioni Italiane award. She co-founded Studio Poor with Paola Raheli. She collaborates with artist and musician Giuseppe Ielasi, with whom she is currently developing an audio-visual performance for the new exhibition space Voce at Triennale Milano and upcoming tours, working on the concepts of materiality in image and sound.
city in the cloud: data on the ground exhibition 2025
Research and Photography: Giulia Bruno City in the Cloud: Data on the Ground investigates the hidden architectures, ecologies, and energies that sustain digital infrastructures. The exhibition traces the physical foundations of the so-called “cloud,” revealing its entanglement with urban, environmental, and social systems. Through photography and research, Giulia Bruno explores the material and conceptual dimensions of data infrastructures. Her work examines how technological landscapes intersect with human perception, translating the abstract flows of information into tangible spatial and visual experiences. By bringing into focus the architectures of computation and their environmental imprints, her practice opens a critical reflection on the relationship between image, system, and territory.
Curator: Damjan Kokalevski Research Advisor: Marina Otero Verzier Research and Photography: Giulia Bruno Photography: Catherine Hyland Curatorial Assistants: Ramona Kornberger, Leo Paulmichl, Māra Starka Public Program Coordinator: Sarolta Szatmári Student Assistant: Yuval Ehud Exhibition Design: CP WH Graphic Design / Motion: Wiegand von Hartmann Interactive Exhibits: 3E8.STUDIO
Publication: The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by ARCHITANGLE, edited by Cara Hähl-Pfeifer, Damjan Kokalevski, and Andres Lepik, available at the Cedon Museum Shop.
Thanks to: Giuseppe Ielasi for editing and sound composition Paola Raheli dedition,, love and support
Photo Giulia Bruno, 2025
Photo Giulia Bruno, 2025
city in the cloud: data on the ground The Architecture of Data publication 2025
Published by ARCHITANGLE, edited by Cara Hähl-Pfeifer, Damjan Kokalevski, and Andres Lepik, available through the Cedon Museum Shop.
https://architangle.com/book/the-architecture-of-data
Research and Photography: Giulia Bruno
City in the Cloud – Data on the Ground investigates the hidden physical infrastructures behind the digital world.
Data may appear immaterial, but it relies on extensive global networks: the extraction of raw materials, the deployment of thousands of undersea cables, and an exponentially growing number of energy-intensive data centers.
While these data infrastructures shape global economies and politics, they do far more by profoundly impacting local communities, ecosystems, and labor conditions — realms so often rooted in (neo)colonial structures of exploitation.
The contributions in this volume call for greater transparency, critical awareness, and care toward the material foundations of the data economy — as essential conditions for more equitable and accountable digital futures.
Bringing together voices from architecture, media studies, technology, art, and political theory, City in the Cloud – Data on the Ground explores the elemental, spatial, and temporal dimensions of the architecture of data. The volume maps the ecological, social, and political costs of living in a hyper-connected digital world and opens perspectives for rethinking digital infrastructures in the context of planetary resources, justice, and long-term responsibility.
With contributions by:
James Bridle, Giulia Bruno, Teresa Fankhänel, Cara Hähl-Pfeifer, Max Hallinan, Mél Hogan, Catherine Hyland, Damjan Kokalevski, Andres Lepik, Niklas Maak, Marija Marić, Anna-Maria Meister, Marina Otero Verzier, Trevor Paglen, Godofredo Enes Pereira, Andra Pop-Jurj, Alison Powell, Māra Starka, and Rafael Uriarte.
Cover Photo Giulia Bruno, Catherine Hyland 2025
Photo Giulia Bruno, 2025
the archive as an operational strati-graph. A conversation with Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke publication 2025
Holotipusis an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to Zoology, Systematics and Taxonomy. Special issues are dedicated to editorials and scientific papers focused on Art and Biology Read the full article →
The conversation The Archive as an Operational Strati-Graph explores the archive as a living system — a dynamic and layered structure where data, images, and knowledge sediment and re-emerge through processes of observation, documentation, and translation. Through the dialogue between Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke, the text investigates how archives operate as tools of knowledge production and as infrastructures that shape our understanding of the environment, technology, and society. The “operational strati-graph” becomes a conceptual framework to think about how visual and informational strata interact, overlap, and transform over time. The conversation was published in Holotipus, a journal dedicated to interdisciplinary reflections on archives, documentation, and visual culture.
Holotipusis an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to Zoology, Systematics and Taxonomy. Special issues are dedicated to editorials and scientific papers focused on Art and Biology Interview and Concept: Giulia Rispoli in conversation ersation with Giulia Bruno, Armin Linke
Photography: Armin Linke, Giulia Bruno Editing: Holotipus Editorial Team Publisher: Holotipus (Biotaxa)
Holotipusis an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to Zoology, Systematics and Taxonomy. Special issues are dedicated to editorials and scientific papers focused on Art and Biology.Submitting papers should be addressed toPublisher, Chief Editor or Managing Editor.holotipus@holotipus.itDesigned, published and printed in Italy by Holotipus pu-blisher & ActionKlavier studio,Corso Peschiera 315/A, 10141 Torino.Holotipus rivista di zoologia sistematica e tassonomia ISSN 2704-7547PublisherMatteo GrassoNABA Department of Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Via C. Darwin 20, Milano (Italy), ActionKlavier studio, Corso Pe-schiera 315/A, 10141 Torino (Italy).Edited by Cristina Baldacci & Emiliano GuaraldoUniversità Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali e THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environ-mental Humanities (NICHE), Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Dorsoduro 3484/D e Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911, Calle Crosera, 30123 Venezia.Co-Editors-in-ChiefFrancesco VitaliMusée national d’histoire naturelle de Luxembourg (Luxem-bourg).Marco ScotiniHead of the Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies Department at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Via C. Darwin 20, Milano (Italy)
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Photo cover Giulia Bruno, 2025
stratigrafie operative exhibition 2023
Vaporetto ACTV: line 1, line 2, Venice, Italy, 2023 Press article
Giulia Bruno, Armin Linke, and Lorenzo Mason for the AquaGranda project and archive. Stratigrafie Operative is an art installation with monumental and sculptural traits that flows through the city, reappropriating the very element that has become iconic of that night: a ferryboat. It was born from the joint research action of Giulia Bruno, Armin Linke and Lorenzo Mason, who have been working for the last two years on the collection and reworking of some materials kept by the Venetian institutions that actively participated in the management of the emergency caused by the exceptional tide that submerged the city, the aqua granda.
The whole process was coordinated and managed with the support of the AquaGranda project team, an archive in continuous evolution that aims to keep the memory of that event alive in order to reflect on the future of the city of Venice. Appropriating the spaces usually used for advertising, Stratigrafie Operative retraces the tale of the aqua granda from an unprecedented point of view, layering its memory through technical narratives related to the memory of that night.
Photo Giulia Bruno, 2023
Photo Giulia Bruno, 2023
earth indices. processing the anthropocene digital publication 2022
Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke Who is writing the chronicles of the planet? What are the tools and practices that allow us to read Earth’s changes? For many years, artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke have closely followed the Anthropocene Working Group’s (AWG) research on the geological evidence for the new Earth epoch of the Anthropocene. Earth Indices portrays both the natural landscapes from which anthropogenic sediments are extracted as well as the complexities of laboratory processes and the inscription devices they employ to transform the sediment into data that can be interpreted. For the exhibition, a multilayered archive was created that relates the anthropogenic traces in the Earth system to the emerging body of knowledge of a new geological epoch.
The navigable image map and PDF that appear here constitute an in progress digital publication resulting from the artistic installation presented at HKW Berlin 19.05-17.10.2022 and are part of the artwork developed and activated through commenting sessions with the scientists of the AWG hosted by Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke. Taking the installation as a starting point, this artistic archiving initiates a conversation with the process being undertaken by the AWG, as they work towards concluding their research and voting on a reference point in order to have the Anthropocene officially recognized as a new subdivision of the geologic time scale.
Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke Interview about process description of Earth Indices. Processing the Anthropocene exhibition with Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt.
Photo Giulia Bruno, 2022
Photo Giulia Bruno, 2022
earth indices. processing the anthropocene exhibition 2022
Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke The exhibition by artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke explores the scientific and social conditions producing the new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
Giulia Bruno featured in ArtReview Future Greats Giulia Bruno was featured in the Future Greats series of ArtReview (January–February 2018 issue), which highlights emerging voices shaping the future of contemporary art. In the article written by Mark Rappolt, Bruno is recognized for her ability to produce visually and conceptually dense works that resonate deeply with questions of language, technology, and perception. Her project Artificial Act. Research for a Film (2017–), presented at the Off-Biennale Budapest, serves as a central point of discussion. The work explores the constructed nature of communication and translation through the lens of Esperanto — the “universal language” — opening a reflection on power, ideology, and global interconnection. Bruno’s inclusion in Future Greats acknowledges her ongoing research at the intersection of image, science, and society, and positions her among the artists to watch in the coming years.
