Luisa Eugeni

Luisa Eugeni (Assisi 1987) is a visual artist with a specific interest in performing arts, living and working in between Bremen and Venice. 

In 2011 Eugeni graduated in International Relations at the University of Perugia, thesis in Political philosophy. She specializes then in Expanded Ideas of Cinematic Spaces and Conceptual Photography (2018) and obtains a Meisterschülerjahr (2019) University of the arts Bremen. 2019 winner together with Mattia Bonafini of the Hollweg Prize. In 2023 achieved a second Master in Moving Images at Iuav University of Venice. During the 58th. Venice Biennale she curated the Summer School Beyond Repair for the German Pavilion. Co-founder and current coordinator of the interdisciplinary group Sineumbra, in 2020, as Sineumbra, presented the exhibition SOMA at the Kunsthalle Bremen, curated by Eva Fischer-Hausdorf. 

She was artistic director of the Hybrid Museum of the Neighborhood project at Jacobs University, an experimental project on memory related to space and hybrid technologies (2021-22).

Currently she collaborates in Venice with Biennale Urbana (BURB). 

As Sineumbra, she is now developing with dancers and the Umbra Opera Orchestra a project supported by the Fondazione Fedrigoni Fabriano on the 'archive of the artisanal performing act', relating to the 800-year history of Fabriano paper production. 

 

https://www.sineumbra.eu/

RESUME

Awards:
From 2016 to 2022, scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk Foundation.
2019, together with Mattia Bonafini winner of the Hollweg Prize, Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation

Art Residencies:
2023, Fabriano, Italy, Fondazione Fedrigoni Fabriano
2021, Formine, Italy, Association for the Promotion of German-Italian Scientific and Cultural Exchange 
2017, Guangzhou, China, CO-OP EduLab


Solo exhibitions:
2022, Zwickau, Remote Gallery, "Is it still free here?"
2021, Bremen, Kunsthalle, "SOMA"
2018, Bremen, Chamber of Labour, Galerie am Foyer, "De Tranquillitate animi".
2018, Isola del Liri, Teatro Stabile, "Serenità, stasi, movimento e caos"
2017, Bremen, Schauburg Cinema, "Film-expansion", sponsored by Theater Bremen and Filmbüro / 2017, Guangzhou, Guangzhou Book Center, "POPOLARE.
2016, Bremen, Kultur Bunker, "Cher" Film Premiere
2014, Bremen, Immigration Office Gallery, "What's left?

Collective exhibitions (selection):
2023, Venice, Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa, “Debris”.
2020, Gera, Neue Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, "Anders - Ästhetik der Differenz" 
2019, Djerba, Houmt Souk, International Media Festival, "Seedjerba"
2019, Bremen, Weserburg, Museum for modern art, " ̄\_( )_/ ̄ " Master students 2019
2019, Wismar, City hall, "Lichtcampus"
2018, Como, Chiostrino Artificio, Philosophy and Music festival "aduevoci"
2017, Palermo, Cafe internazionale / Roma, The Independent MaXXi, "Counter-production" 2017, Bremen, GAK, "von seitenlinien"
2017, Bremen, Gallery for Contemporary Art - Barbara Claassen-Schmal, "Bleiche 21
2017, Bremen, Schwankhalle, "#17 How to build a structure to be alive inside?"
2016, Halle, Burg Gallerie in Volkspark, "Kunsthoch 46"
2015, Berlin, UDK, Berlin University of the Arts, "Kunsthoch 43"
2014, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Alexander Hall, "exex"


Interdisciplinary projects:

2023, Venice, in collaboration with Biennale Urbana, preparation and coordination of the workshop Drucken und Denken, project developed by Michael Guenzburger, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
2022, Venice, in collaboration with Biennale Urbana, preparation and coordination of the workshop La Bohème: Out of Venice, project developed by Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, ETH University Zurich
2020/ 2021, Bremen, Hybrid Museum of the Neighbourhood - artistic collaboration for a virtual museum on the campus of Jakobs University, with augmented reality technologies and historical content. Initiated and directed by Dr. Professor Jakob Fruchtmann. Eugeni designed the aesthetic concept for the museum, the apps and the various media, in collaboration with designers Leonard Rokita and Clemens Gensch and historian Rüdiger Ritter.
2019, Venice, German Pavilion, 58th Art Biennale (Italy) Part of the coordination team for the summer school Beyond Repair, in collaboration with Natascha Süder Happelmann (Natascha Sadr Haghighian), Ernest Ah, Biennale Urbana, Mona Schieren and Ingo Vetter.
2019, Venice, Lithuanian Pavilion, 58th Art Biennale, participation in Sea & Sun (Marina) performance.
2018, Sicily - Vienna - Bremen - Coordination and conceptual co-development of an interdisciplinary research project between the sculpture class of Professor Vetter (HFK Bremen) and architecture students of the Vienna Art Academy, "Six Characters in search of an Author".

 

PORTFOLIO

Eugeni explores in her artistic work and through her multimedia approach, philosophical themes such as belonging and individual and collective identity. Her is an intimate research and an authentic confrontation with existential and political questions, which she translates into poetic aesthetic forms.  

Since 2017, she started experimenting forms of interdisciplinary alliances and personal relations, with performers from dance theater, musicians, film makers, photographers, fashion and graphic designers, but also mathematicians, architects, writers and artisans. The immersive environments realized aim to investigate contemporary tragedies through film, spaces, objects, live bodies, music, literature.