Giulia Bruno is an artist based in Berlin working with media languages, photography and video. She has MA in Biology at the Università degli Studi in Milan, and a Master in Photography at CFP Bauer and in Filmmaking at Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan, Italy. Her artistic research is on themes such as technology, political and cultural activism with a focus on definition of Nature andLanguage, and the contradictions that arise in their interactions.Her work explores artificial and natural landscapes, with reference to issues such as climate change, relationship between life and science, pop and culture, biodiversity and language. Her works have been exhibited internationally, and her film “Capital” won first prize at Visioni Italiane.In 2018, her artistic research on language as a technological act was selected for ArtReview’s Future Greats. She is collaborating with Armin Linke for many years, and recently they developed the exhibition “Earth Indices” in collaboration with scientists from the Anthropocene Working Group for the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt in Berlin. Her latest work, “Matar la Nube,” created in collaboration with Paola Raheli, was exhibited in Mexico City with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute and Error Gallery. This work is the first chapter of an ongoing artistic research project that examines the ambiguities and contradictions of contemporary definitions of agriculture and climate change in connection to the urban and ancestral landscape, and the original creation of language, myths, and their functions. She teached at Design Academy in Eindhoven. She founded with Paola Raheli “ Studio Poor” where they explore media and drawing and textiles and perifical ordinary movements. She is currently Professor at ISIA Urbino University in Italy.
stratigrafie operative exhibition 2023
Vaporetto ACTV: line 1, line 2, Venice, Italy, 2023
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.
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.
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.
