Biografia Laura Santamaria
Born in Monza, 1976.
Lives and works in Milano.
Exhibition - solo
2005
LO SPIRITO DELLA CASA, Associazione Culturale Borgovico33, Como
2003
Camera Obscura, Bibliothek Sommerakademie, Salzburg
1999
White Circle, Great Hall Loughborough University, Loughborough UK
Selected exhibitions - group
2008
Zooart, Ex Giardino Zoologico, Cuneo (curated by C. Giraud, M. Giuggia, D. Olivero, P. Sasia)
Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, Poirino (TO)(curated by Jorge Peris)
PLENER KATOWICE 2007, Galeria ZPAP Art Nova2, Katowice
PLENER, Muzeum Zwiazek Polskich Artystow Plastykow, Katowice
2007
PRESENZE VIDEO SONICHE, Audio Visioni al Castello, Castello di Cervelletta, Roma (curated by Veronica d’Auria, Le momo electronique group)
JEUNE CREATION EUROPEENNE 2 Galerie im Traklaus, Salzburg, Palazzo Ducale Genova, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet e Llobregat (Barcelona), Museo Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Amarante (Porto) (curated by A. Sainte Fare Garnot, A.Ponsini, S. Solimano, E. Marasco)
2006
ARTE E SUD, Castello di Acicastello (Catania) (curated by Antonio Arevalo, Rosa Anna Musumeci, M. Giovanna Chiavaro, Archivio GAI)
JEUNE CREATION EUROPEENNE, Salon Itinerant d’ Art Contemporain, Theatre de Montrouge,
Montrouge (Paris), Centre d’Exposition Municipal de Klaipeda, Klaipeda (Lituania) (curated by A. Sainte Fare Garnot, A. Ponsini, S. Solimano, E. Marasco)
ARHIPELAG, piazza Transalpina, Nova Gorica and Gorizia (curated by Krea, Limb, Prologo)
100 STILI, Triennale, Milano (curated by Zero2)
TALK TO THE CITY, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano (curated by CareOf)
D.A.B. DESIGN PER ARTSHOP E BOOKSHOP, Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena (curated by Anna Mattirolo, Angela Vettese, Aldo Cibic, Ornella Corradini)
2005
BIJCEM, BIENNALE DEI GIOVANI ARTISTI DELL’EUROPA E DEL MEDITERRANEO,
Castel Sant’ Elmo, Napoli
SASSI VIVACI, Museo all’Aperto del Paesaggio, Barge (CN)
2004
SOMMERAKADEMIE FINAL EXHIBITION, Media in Flux Class, Castello di Hohensalzburg, Salzburg
ACHTUNG! Galerie im Alcatraz, Hallein (A) (curated by Geoffrey Hendricks)
RE: INVITO1, Sala dell‘ Annunziata, Imola (curated by Claudia Nanni and Antonija Macaca)
2003
SOMMERAKADEMIE FINAL EXHIBITION, Castello di Hohensalzburg, Salzburg
TRACCE DI UN SEMINARIO, Viafarini, Milano (curated by Angela Vettese, Giacinto di Pietrantonio)
2002
CITYDANCEFLOOR, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano (curated by Emmanuel Mathez and Archivio dei
Giovani Artisti Milano)
VIA LIBERA, exhibition of the Corso Superire di Arti Visive Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Visiting Professor Giulio Paolini, Ex Chiesa di San Francesco, Como (curated by Angela Vettese, Giacinto di Pietrantonio)
VISUAL-E, Cuore, Milano (curated by Emmanuel Mathez and Archivio Giovani Artisti Milano)
2001
MENOTRENTA, Premio Città di Savigliano Gianni Delzanno, Museo Civico A. Olmo, Savigliano (curated by Ass. Cult. Marcovaldo and Giorgina Bertolino)
1999
SALON I, Museo della Permanente, Milano (curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio and Laura Cherubini)
Workshop
2008
Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, Poirino (TO)(visiting professor Milovan Farronato)
Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte, Poirino (TO)(visiting professor Jorge Peris)
2006
Wherever we go, Viafarini, Milano (visiting professor Maja Bajevic)
2005
Biennale sul web, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano (visiting professor Studio Azzurro)
2004
Media in Flux, Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg (visiting professor Geoffrey Hendricks)
2003
Installation-Object-Komposition-Situation, Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg (course with Guillaume Bijl)
2002
Corso avanzato di Arti Visive, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (visiting professor Giulio Paolini)
2000
Planine, Bojan Gagic, Privlaka (HR) (visiting professor Josip Zanki)
Residence
2007
Plener, Association of Polish Artists and Designers ZPAP, Katowice
2005
Fondazione Valparaiso, Mojacar (E)
Partecipation at Web projects
2006
TRANSMISSION.06/Mimesis web archiv, curated by ProgettoZeroPiù, in collaboration with
LabMimesis, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa , IUAV Venezia, Diesel
CALL FOR ARTISTS, web archiv, curated by Sunderland arc, Sunderland City Council, Cultural
Masterplan, Sunderland, England
To Gail, 6 moments in 5 lines you asked me for:
10:30 I look straight ahead of me; everything is silent. I measure the discomfort feigning indifference.
(Unspecified time) Each movement of the air presses against my resistance.
21:22 I’m struck by the words while I’m actually forgetting them.
(Unspecified time) Gianandrea!
17:39 No longer the sun the moon is already up.
(Unspecified time) I feel hands, cheeks, shoulders, legs. I swallow.
My heart returns to its normal beat.