ALESSIA CARGNELLI
Alessia Cargnelli (b. 1990, Trieste, Italy) is a former co-director of artist led initiative Catalyst Arts Gallery and member of Array Studios based in Belfast (UK). With a background in photography and video practice, subsequently informed by artist-led initiatives and collaborative productions, Cargnelli interest expands towards alternative forms of art education, self-organized artists-run models and artist moving image production and programming.
Along with artist Emily McFarland, she is co-founder of the an artist run initiative Soft Fiction Projects. Based between Belfast and Glasgow, SFP is dedicated to producing digital and printed matter on artists moving image culture, providing a platform for new artworks, collaborations, writing and exhibitions.
From 2009 to 2012 she attended a BA in Visual Arts at University IUAV of Venice (IT). In 2012 she won a fellowship in the 96th Young Artists Collective of Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. In 2014 Fantom edition and ArtHub Asia commissioned to Cargnelli a new work for the International Fés Photo Festival (Morocco). In 2015 she obtained a MA in Contemporary Art History at University Ca ‘Foscari of Venice (IT), with a dissertation on contemporary video practices that use analog techniques. Cargnelli was a visiting lecturer at University of Ulster in 2017. From September 2018 she will be PhD candidate at Ulster University of Belfast, with a research on artist-led initiatives in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Selected project as practicing artist include 100th Young Artists Group Show, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (2016-2017); Time present, public commission, curated by Belfast City Council and PlaceNI (2016); White Nights, Digital Arts Studio Residency + Arts Council of Northern Ireland SIAP (Support for Individual Artists Programme) grant award, Belfast (2016); Rafting for the Third Paradise, curated by Spazio5 and Michelangelo Pistoletto (2015); Le lait du miroir, curated by Martina Sabbadini, Space Le6b Saint Denis, Paris (2015). As writer, she contributed to Paesaggio magazine, edited and curated by Andrea Morbio and Blauer Hase Collective (Page 169, Paesaggio Taurus, 2016).
Along with artist Emily McFarland, she is co-founder of the an artist run initiative Soft Fiction Projects. Based between Belfast and Glasgow, SFP is dedicated to producing digital and printed matter on artists moving image culture, providing a platform for new artworks, collaborations, writing and exhibitions.
From 2009 to 2012 she attended a BA in Visual Arts at University IUAV of Venice (IT). In 2012 she won a fellowship in the 96th Young Artists Collective of Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. In 2014 Fantom edition and ArtHub Asia commissioned to Cargnelli a new work for the International Fés Photo Festival (Morocco). In 2015 she obtained a MA in Contemporary Art History at University Ca ‘Foscari of Venice (IT), with a dissertation on contemporary video practices that use analog techniques. Cargnelli was a visiting lecturer at University of Ulster in 2017. From September 2018 she will be PhD candidate at Ulster University of Belfast, with a research on artist-led initiatives in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Selected project as practicing artist include 100th Young Artists Group Show, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (2016-2017); Time present, public commission, curated by Belfast City Council and PlaceNI (2016); White Nights, Digital Arts Studio Residency + Arts Council of Northern Ireland SIAP (Support for Individual Artists Programme) grant award, Belfast (2016); Rafting for the Third Paradise, curated by Spazio5 and Michelangelo Pistoletto (2015); Le lait du miroir, curated by Martina Sabbadini, Space Le6b Saint Denis, Paris (2015). As writer, she contributed to Paesaggio magazine, edited and curated by Andrea Morbio and Blauer Hase Collective (Page 169, Paesaggio Taurus, 2016).
