Giulia Bruno is an artist based in Berlin who works with photography and video. She has a MA in Biology at the Università degli Studi in Milan. She studied Photography at CFP Bauer and Filmmaking at Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti, both in Milan. Her artistic and photographic research centers on technology, language and political and cultural activism. Giulia Bruno’s work explores the intersection between landscapes contradictions with reference to issues such as climate change, biodiversity and language justice. Her works have been exhibited internationally, and her film “Capital” won first prize at Visioni Italiane. ArtReview’s Future Greats selected her artistic research on language as a technological act in 2018. She is collaborating with Armin Linke for many years. Recently they developed the exhibition “Earth Indices” in collaboration with scientists from the Anthropocene Working Group for the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt. “Matar la Nube,” created in collaboration with Paola Raheli, in exhibition in Mexico City with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute and Error, is the first chapter of an ongoing research project. It examines the ambiguities and contradictions of contemporary definitions of nature and its functions.

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stratigrafie operative
exhibition
November 12 - December 12, 2023 Vaporetto ACTV: line 1, line 2 

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

photo Giulia Bruno

earth indices | anthropocene curriculum
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.

matar la nube
exhibition
August 8 – December 12, 2022 Plomo Gallery CDMX Mexico

Giulia Bruno in collaboration with Paola Raheli
Plomo Gallery CDMX Mexico with the support of Error and Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Mexico City,CDMX, Mexico 2022

photo Giulia Bruno

earth indices.processing the anthropocene
exhibition
May 5 – Oktober 10, 2022 Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin,

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

artReview
review
Future Greats, 20.02.2018, ArtReview

Giulia Bruno, selected by Mark Rappolt