Daniela Comani (born 4 February 1965 in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, Italy) is an Italian artist. Since 1989, she has lived in

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, Germany.

Biography

Comani received a

Bachelor of Fine Arts A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases. Background The Bachelor ...

degree from the

Accademia di Belle Arti This is a list of the tertiary-level schools or academies of fine art in Italy that are recognised by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of higher education. Accademie di Belle Arti The offic ...

in Bologna, Italy (1988) and a

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from the

Universität der Künste The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universiti ...

in Berlin, Germany (1993). The

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to tradition ...

work of Comani touches on subjects like history, language, gender and identity. She often works with photos and texts from newspapers, television and books that allegedly appear familiar to us. Foreignness and intimacy, history and interpretation, and the mechanisms of comprehension are her concerns. Comani's artistic practice includes photography, texts, drawings, video and installation.

Exhibitions (selection)

* 1992 – 37 Räume, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (KW), Berlin * 1993 – More than zero, Magasin, Centre National d' Art Contemporain, Grenoble * 1996 – Lesen, Kunsthalle St.Gallen, Switzerland * 2006 – Das Achte Feld – Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der Kunst seit 1960,

Museum Ludwig Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from Pop Art, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It holds many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lich ...

, Cologne * 2007 – History will repeat itself, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (KW), Berlin * 2007 – Ich war's, In 32 Tagen um den Alexanderplatz, NGBK / U2 Alexanderplatz, Berlin * 2008 – Transmediale 08 – conspire!, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin * 2008 – Bildpolitiken, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg * 2008 – HeartQuake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem * 2008 – Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bologna * 2010 – Courier, University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York * 2010 – C'était moi. Journal 1900–1999, Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest * 2011 – 54.

Biennale di Venezia The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

/ Repubblica di San Marino Pavilion,

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* 2011 – Doublespeak, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah * 2012 – Le Printemps de Septembre: History is Mine! Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse * 2013 – Authoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea, MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bologna

Artist books and publications (selection)

* Eine glückliche Ehe / Un matrimonio felice / A Happy Marriage, Edition Patrick Frey, Zürich, 2014, * My Film History – Daniela Comani's Top 100 Films, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2013, * Novità editoriali a cura di Daniela Comani, Maurizio Corraini s.r.l., Mantua, 2012, * Neuerscheinungen hrsg. von Daniela Comani, Edition Patrick Frey, Zürich, 2009, * It was me. Diary 1900–1999, Maurizio Corraini s.r.l., Mantua, 2007, * Sono stata io. Diario 1900–1999, Maurizio Corraini s.r.l., Mantua, 2007, * comanicasino, REVOLVER Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 2006, * Ich war’s. Tagebuch 1900–1999, REVOLVER Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 2005, * Double Drawings, Vice Versa Verlag, Berlin, 2000,

References

*Carolyn Kellogg, What if it were 'Mr. Dalloway'? Book covers revisited", Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2011

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Comani, Daniela 1965 births Living people 20th-century Italian women artists 21st-century Italian women artists Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna alumni Artists from Bologna Berlin University of the Arts alumni Italian multimedia artists Italian contemporary artists