Giulia Andreani


Giulia Andreani, born in Venice in 1985, is an Italian artist who lives and works in Paris. She is represented by .
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Education

Andreani graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 2008. She continued her studies in the history of art, graduating with a master's degree in contemporary art from Paris IV-Sorbonne University in 2010.

Works

Andreani focuses on the pictorial genre of history painting. She collects images from libraries, archives and family albums which she transposes into her works and painting using only the colour Payne's grey.
In 2012, she took inspiration from Italian cinema to trace the history of Europe between the 1920s and 1960s. She directed a series of dictators, for which she chose photographs representing teenagers. In the series entitled Daddies, Hitler's generals are presented as good fathers.
In 2013, she painted the portrait of Margaret Thatcher looking uncomfortable whilst holding newborns in her arms.
In 2015, she worked on the representation of women serving male power during the First World War, portraying women at work in men's clothes in roles such as firefighters or railway workers.
In 2018, she presented L'intermezzo , a project from a 2017 residency in a maternal center in the suburbs of Paris. She combined images of Cuban soldiers from the 2000s with portraits of young mothers. The title of the project was a reference to Les Guérillères, a feminist novel by Monique Wittig published in 1969.
In 2022, she had a entitled 'Kitchen Knife' at Galerie Max Hetzler Bleibtreustraße 45 location.
Andreani was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022.

Awards

Public Collections

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Centre culturel régional Opderschmelz, Dudelange
Collection de la Ville de Montrouge, Mountrouge
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
MASP, São Paulo
Musée National de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, Paris
URDLA, Villeurbanne

Solo exhibitions

Kitchen Knife, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Pétrichor, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris Pigs and Old Lace, Galerie Max Hetzler, London La cattiva, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, Dole Art Must Hang, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris Correspondances, Villa Médicis, Rome Intermezzo, VNH Gallery, Paris Silent faces, 22.48 m2, Paris Giulia Andreani & Agathe Pitié, Galerie de l'Escale, Levallois si passa la frontiera, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris Peintures et dessins, Hôtel du département de l’Eure, Évreux Journal d’une iconophage, Galerie Premier Regard, Paris I shot him down, L’inlassable Galerie, Paris

Group exhibitions