Elisa Storelli

Elisa Storelli (1986) is a swiss italian artist based between Brissago and Berlin. She calls her practice chronomorphology: an artistic investigation studying time as an everchanging construct and how the multitude of time concepts interact with social structures. Storelli holds a diploma from the UdK Berlin. She has been a research fellow of the DiGiTal graduate program in Berlin 2020-2021. In 2021 she completed a Meisterschüler:innen year with Prof. Dr. Rosa Barba. Storelli’s work has been shown at GAK, Bremen; Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna; Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; and La Rada, Locarno among others. 

http://elisastorelli.ch 

RESUME

Studies

Meisterschüler Kunsthochschule Bremen, with Prof. Dr. Rosa Barba (2021)
Meisterschüler at University of the Arts Berlin, with Prof. Dr. phil. Alberto de Campo (2014)
Diplom at University of the Arts Berlin, with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski (2013)
Année propédéutique, écal Lausanne (2007/08)

Grants/scholarships

Residency Zug, Landis & Gyr Foundation (2022)
perception misconception, Neustart Kultur - Modul D, Deutscher Künstlerbund (2021-2022)
DiGiTal - Berliner Hochschulprogramm für Wissenschaftlerinnen und Künstlerinnen, BCP Berlin (2020-2021)
«Close distance» - vorstellen.network , Pro Helvetia (2020)
perception misconception, Pro Helvetia (2020)
Mars Song, Pro Helvetia (2019)
Residency Warsaw, Pro Helvetia (2017)
System Sin 1.0, Swisslos Ticino (2015)

Residencies

Landis & Gyr Foundation Zug, (CH) (2022) (upcoming)
La dépendance, St. Imier with Axelle Stieffel, (CH)
Expanded body #2 _ Inhabiting Time, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (I) (2018)
A-I-R Laboratory Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (PL) (2017)
Atina art residence, Atina (I) (2015)

Teaching/academic research

Artistic research, (DiGiTal Programm), UdK Berlin (2020 - 2021)
Temporal structures: time | reality, Workshop at Vilem Flusser archive, UdK Berlin (2020)
Osci/Modulation, workshop with Constantin Engelmann, UdK Berlin (2015)

Exhibitions (solo and group), performances, lectures, …

2022
Atomistic, Kunstraum Neun Kelche, Berlin (D)

2021
EXP: je voudrais commencer par sauter, Museo scienza, Milano (I)
vorstellen.network&Rehfeldt’s mail art archive, Berlin (D)
Last notes before entering the building, GAK, Bremen (D)
Auflösung Teil I - Performance, Galerie Historischer Keller, Berlin (D)
Gallery Delivery Osnabrück, https://gallerydelivery.de, Osnabrück (D)
Coming together to stay apart, Open Space Domshof, Bremen (D)
EXP: je voudrais commencer par sauter, Teatro Sociale, Bellinzona (CH)
Digital Arts and Science. Online Abschlussevent des programms DiGiTal

2020
EXP: je voudrais commencer par sauter, Festival Conformazioni, Palermo (I)
Nine to Five, Grand Palais, Bern (CH)
Reclaiming space – Wem gehört das Weltall?, Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin (D)
The relashionship between the human and the clock, Sitterwerk, St. Gallen (CH)
Language and Reality conference at Vilem Flusser archive, Berlin (D)
EXP: je voudrais commencer par sauter, Kulturhaus Helferei, Zürich (CH)

2019
If It Moves, it’s Outmoded?, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Wien (A)
alterPHD, 1.1, Basel (CH)
EXP: je voudrais commencer par sauter, La rada, Locarno (CH)
International independent initiative amateur academy, Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin (D)
HEY, MARS!, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (D)
Insonne, Sonnenstube, Lugano (CH)
One Sunray through the Earth, Alte Münze, Berlin (D) H2O Institute, Gessnerallee, Zürich (CH)
Werkschau 2OG, Alte Münze, Berlin (D)

2018
EXP: je voudrais commencer par sauter, LAC, Lugano (CH)
Statement, io artista, Ex Macello, Lugano (CH)
Lo Spazio Ritrovato, Openair Biennial, Morcote (CH)
Werkschau 2OG, Alte Münze, Berlin (D)
Atomistic, Progetto 6000 & Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich (CH)

2017
MY ART GOES BOOM, Villa Dutoit, Genève (CH)
Atomistic, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (PL) Festival of Futures Now, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (D)
What is time?, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (PL) Time Piece (Beginnings), https://www.daydreamers.biz/

2016
(ulti)mate Event, Diskurs, Berlin (D)
Grand Tour – Le acque dell’ovest, Verbania – Locarno (I/CH)
More than Half, La rada, Locarno (CH)
Premio giovani artisti 2016, Max Museo, Chiasso (CH)

2015
Time piece (Additive Synthesis Bell), Motto, Berlin (D) - solo show
Time piece (Bell), Atina (I)
Notes for a travelogue - acceleration expected crash, - spinning, fused-muses.com
Future Now, SomoS - Berlin Art House, Berlin (D)

2014 Trillenium, Kim bar, Berlin (D)
Meisterschüler Ausstellung, UdK Berlin (D)
Oblivium, Zweigstelle, Berlin (D)
Zona dynamic, month of performance art, Berlin (D)

2013
>Addicted2random, Händel Haus, Halle Saale (D)
The Ways Things May Go, Club Transmediale – Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)
The Ways Things May Go, EMAF, Osnabruck (A)
>1000Hertz, SomoS, Berlin (D)

2012
The Ways Things May Go, Ars electronica, Linz (A)
Filme der UdK zum doppelten Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (D)
The society for non trivial pursuits, Feed soundspace, Berlin (D)
Filmbühne: Neue Arbeiten aus der UdK, Volksbühne Berlin (D)

Publications

Last notes before entering the building, Kettler Verlag (2021)
Artist Network Theory magazine, ed. Axelle Stieffel (2020)
Notes for a travelogue (EXP:) - artist publication (2018)
Lo spazio ritrovato, rassegna di arte pubblica, ed. Daniele Agostini (2018)
35°60’S, 150°38’ W, Mottobooks and La Rada - artist publication (2016)
System Sin1.0, Mottobooks - artist book (2015)
Between Walls and Windows Architecture and Ideology, Hantje Cantz (2013)

PORTFOLIO
Temporal Clusters

2020 — watercolor, yarn 

Temporal clusters are mind maps of Storelli’s artistic practice and are used as a tool in her artistic research, ‘chronomorphology’: the study of how time develops and changes shape. One cluster is a diagram of notions. Concepts are positioned and connected in relation to one another to create a resonance of meanings. This form of diagrammatic writing is used by the artist to navigate through her thinking and to describe a possible correlation of ideas. Sometimes these associations have developed into artworks; sometimes they could become one.

Time Piece (Martian Deadbeat)

2018 — aluminium, stainless steel, steel, electronic and mechanical components

Time Piece (Martian Deadbeat) is a clock built to tick with every Earth Second. Yet the pendulum is manipulated to swing as it would on Mars: because the gravity on Mars is weaker, the ticking is about 20% slower. The work is inspired by sci-f. Mars is a metaphoric planet; many stories take place on its fantasized ground, with the intent to paraphrase terrestrial situations or dreams. The sculpture therefore beats to the time of imagination, transferring the martian ticktocking to Earth. It also reminds us that a time standard such as the Second is relative and that the shape of time we are used to, made of minutes and hours of a fxed duration, is nothing else but a convention. 

The clock beats to the time of imagination, transferring the martian ticktocking to Earth.

Atomistic

2017 — Time Piece (Seconds) — aluminium, led lights and electronic components (8 x 5 m), Neocortex — sound composition, duration approx 45 min. In collaboration with Constantin Engelmann

Atomistic is a dialogue between two artworks: Time Piece (Seconds) and Neocortex. Both works deal with ideas about the perception of time continuity and its division into smaller parts. Each of them, however, engages another of our senses. One is a polyrhythmic arrangement of pulsating lights, an impression-evoking visual work; the other is a slow-motion noise composition, an auditory experience. The first is one continuous oscillation, the latter is a narration developing in time, with a clear beginning and end. It is by combining the two in space that a multi-sensual experience is triggered. The two artworks influence and complement one another: one is eternal, the other represents an event. Thanks to the development of the sound narration it is possible to peer at Time Piece (Seconds) for a longer time. The auditory stimuli from Neocortex mislead our visual reception: sometimes the lights seem to pulsate differently.  

The Mysterious Island

2016 — Time Piece (The Mysterious Island) — light, steel, electronic and mechanical components

Time Piece (The Mysterious Island), a public installation that relocate to Locarno the passing of time on Ernest-Legouvé Reef. Discovered in the beginning of the 20th century, near the location of the fictitious Lincoln island of Jules Verne’s book ‘The Mysterious Island’, the reef has since been reported in many atlases, even though it doesn’t appear to exist anymore. Time Piece (The Mysterious Island) is a night sundial that shows the time with a beam of light, representing the shadow that a vertical sundial would produce on the island. Light becomes the shadow of a neverland.