Giulia Cenci

Giulia Cenci was born in Cortona, Italy, 1988 and now lives and work in Amsterdam and Tuscany.


In her process of observation Giulia Cenci selects elements that are irrelevant details of industrial objects or parts of our environment, capable of expressing vulnerabilities, promises and failures of human activity. The consequences of our past, the structure of society and the conditions of the self in a contemporaneity defined by products and avatars, suggest to the artist visions of hypothetical habitats. Here, discarded objects and natural elements merge with animal and human prototypes, organized in serial groups or isolated in search of subjectivity. The figures and the structures form environments devoid of logical hierarchical order. Concepts such as species or gender are questioned, in an attempt to overthrow a real form of dominance of a group or of an individual over another. These installations show a constant sense of duplicity: belonging to forms and designs known and repeated in our present and an exasperation of sculptural actions, in an attempt to obtain strongly impure objects. Technique and technology, repetition, similarity and the idea of reproduction populate surroundings where the visitors’ bodies often are part, becoming additional matter reacting with “the rest”.


Her works have been exhibited among others at the 59th Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams, the High Line in New York, MUDAM in Luxemburg, Goldsmith CCA in London, the MAXXI in Rome, the Pecci Center in Prato and the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene.

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Biography

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2025
I, the hollow men Curated by Arturo Galansino, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
2024
F, Secondary Growth, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
I, le masche Curated by Marta Papini, Radis - Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Rittana
USA, secondary forest Curated by Cecilia Alemani, High Line Art, New York
I, me as a wolf, while trying to reproduce myself several times , Spazio Treccani Arte, Roma
2023
I, equal minds, SpazioA, Pistoia
F, être rares Curated by Alessandra Prandin, CAP Saint-Fons, Lyon
NL, dry salvages, Pakt, Amsterdam
2021
NL, backland, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
I, Tallone di Ferro Curated by Eva Francioli, Sergio Risaliti, Museo Novecento, Firenze
2020
LU, Giulia Cenci Curated by Marie-Noëlle Farcy, MUDAM, Luxembourg
I, fango, SpazioA, Pistoia
2019
I, Da lontano era un’isola Curated by C. Rekade, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano
2017
I, ground-ground, SpazioA, Pistoia
ES, a través, Carreras Mugica (Hall), Bilbao
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2025
I, From Cindy Sherman to Francesco Vezzoli. 80 contemporary artists Curated by Daniele Fernaroli with the scientific support of Vincenzo De Bellis, Palazzo Reale, Milano
2024
UKR, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
I, Sensitive Skins Curated by Antonio Grulli, Mai 36 - Circolo, Milano
I, Diario Notturno Curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Chiara Bertini, Fanny Borel, MAXXI L’Aquila, L’Aquila
I, Colorescenze Curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Elena Magini, Centro Pecci, Prato
I, Among the Invisible Joins. Works from the Enea Righi Collection Curated by Bart van der Heide, Frida Carazzato, Brita Köhler and Leonie Radine, Lorenzo Paini, MUSEION, Bolzano
2023
I, Che sarà sarà Curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Michele Bertolino, Palazzo Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene
CH, The Chimera Complex Curated by Antonio Grulli, Mai 36, Zurich
LUX, Face to Face Curated by Marie Noelle Farcy, MUDAM, Luxembourg
I, Eccentrica Curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Museo Pecci, Prato
UK, Unruly Bodies Curated by Natasha Hoare, Goldsmith CCA, London
I, Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curated by Arturo Galansino, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
2022
ES, Strange. Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection Curated by Juan Antonio Alvarez Reyes, CAAC, Sevilla
I, The Milk of Dreams Curated by Cecilia Alemani, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
2021
I, Panorama Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Procida
I, Nulla è perduto Curated by Anna Daneri, Lorenzo Giusti, Gamec, Bergamo
I, Prima che il gallo canti. Works from Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection Curated by Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Mark Rappolt, Palazzo Re Rabaudengo, Guarene
I, METAMORPHOSIS Curated by Giovanni Berera, Paolo Bolpagni, Sonia D’Alto, Villa Olmo, Como
2020
SK, Shapeshifters Curated by nna Johansson, Konstmuseum, Malmo
F, Metallo Urlante, Campoli Presti, Paris
2019
CH, Comrades of time Curated by Whatspace, Hardspace, Basel
F, Jeune création internationale Curated by Palais de Tokyo, 15th Lyon Biennale, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
2018
I, FutuRuins Curated by D. Ferretti, D. Ozerkov, with D. Dalla Lana, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
I, That’s IT! Curated by L. Balb, MAMBO, Bologna
NL, Hybrids Curated by C. Driessen & D. Jablonowski, Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, park De Oude Warande, Tilburg
FI, Still Light Curated by Taru Elfving, Hiap, Helsinki
2017
USA, Sessile Curated by J. Minkus, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, New York
2016
I, The Lasting. L'intervallo e la durata. Curated by S. Cincinelli, GNAM, Rome
2014
I, Le leggi dell’ospitalità Curated by Antonio Grulli, P420, Bologna

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