Sabina Damiani
Born 1985 in Kopar, Slovenia (ex YU), based in Croatia.
BA Visual Arts and Education, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Italy (2004 – 2008)
MA Photography, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, Italy (2008 – 2011)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 – All Waters belong to Water / Sve Vode pripadaju Vodi, Mala galerija, Poreč
2022 – Personal, Remont, Beograd
2015 – Dove da qui, KIC Gallery, Zagreb
2014 – Migrations Archive, Anex Gallery, Pula
2013 – Altrove, Galerija SC, Zagreb
Migrations Archive, Civic Museum, Umag
2012 –Altrove, Brighton Photo Fringe (Brighton Photography Festival), The Phoenix, Brighton
De-constructing, Dom Omladine, Beograd
2011 – De-constructing, Gallery MMc Luka, Pula, Croatia
Sovrapponendo at Italian Pavilion in the World, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice/Zagreb
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Extract):
2017 – Mass Tourism, Decumanus Gallery, Krk
Pazin Scrapbook, Kaštel, Pazin, Croatia
2016 – Sounds in Deep Silence, Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils (Latvia)
Stories from the Edge, MLZ Art Dep, Trieste
Stories from the Edge, Kunsthaus, Graz
Black work, Forum Tomizza, C.I. Koper/Capodistria
2015 – Walking on the barrier, Forum Tomizza, Grin Gallery, Umag
2014 – Artefatto “Crossing Over”, Museo del Commercio, Trieste
Transpotable 01, Gallery Vladimir Buzancic, Zagreb
2013 – 97a Collettiva, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venezia
6th Photodistorzija, Photography biennial, Poreč
Lavoro/Work/Vore, SPAC – Villa di Toppo Florio, Udine
2043 Qui at Palazzo conTEMPORANEO, Udine
2012 – Lomoshow, Bristol Festival of Photography, Bristol
Dimenzije, Fonticus, Grožnjan
ArtUM 2, Civic Museum, Umag
2011 – ArtUM 1, Civic Museum, Umag
Sotiri Photography Prize finalists exhibition, Korce (Albania)
State of the Arts Italian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, Venice
2010 – Immagini in Tasca, Palazzo Frizzoni, Bergamo
Workshops and Labs (selection):
2019 – European Social Innovation Academy, Torino – EK funded academy for social innovators, semi-finalists of the yearly award program and focusing on plastic pollution.
2018 – Spatial design, maps, human rights (Laura Kurgan & Thomas Keenan) – Summer School as School, Stacion Center for Contemporary art Pristina, Kosovo
2017 – Life on the Internet – speculative design workshop on possible future implications of an entirely online based society
2016 – Tracking tradition – interpretations of traditional heritage through innovative practices and new media – a project led by the designer’s collective Oaza from Zagreb in which we have created tools and ways that led to the contemporary interpretation of traditional, immaterial heritage such as local stories and popular beliefs in the area of the Istrian peninsula, Croatia (project team: Sabina Damiani – Tanja Šuflaj – Tea Zbašnik).
2016 – Inappropriate Monuments – a study group within an organization for valorization and preservation of the Antifascist sculptural and architectonical heritage in the ex-Yugoslavian area. Planning and solving pressing issues of the current right wing politics that is pushing modernist and antifascist heritage to dissolution and decay.
2015 – Stories from the Edge – project for exploring interactions between the layer of hyper-identity and identity along the Adriatic coast, curated by Daily Rithms Collective, Graz, contributing artist
2015 – MOOC Managing the Arts curated by Goethe Institut, online course on managing and curating contemporary arts.
2014 – Tourism, architectural development, visual and cultural Perceptions of land use along the Adriatic coastlines, photography workshop with David Kendall (Goldsmiths, London, UK), Rovinj, Croatia
2013 – Art out of the Center, online course with Nicola Trezzi (Flash Art NY), hosted by CartC Budapest
2008 – Bookbinding and Book Arts, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK
Publications:
THE UNIVERSAL SEA (Pure or Plastic), Foundation for Enterpreneurship –Faltin Stiftung and Institute for Art and Innovation, Berlin, 2019 – Essay publication
Residencies:
2022, 2021 – Photo residency in Verzasca Valley, Ticino, CH
2021 – Biljet – curatorial residency, Biševo island, Croatia
2017 – likeU – International young curator’s meeting and residency, Zenko Foundation and Dofa Fund, Ukraine
2016 – 1st International Photography Symposium, Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia
