Alessia Cargnelli
Alessia Cargnelli (She/her, b. 1990 in Trieste, Italy) is a visual artist and researcher based in Belfast.
Alessia is a former co-director of artist-led initiative Catalyst Arts Gallery (2016-2018) and currently a PhD researcher at the Belfast School of Art, with a combined theory and practice-based study on artists collectives and feminist-led collectives dedicated to social justice, civil action and activism in the island of Ireland. She is 2020-21 Research Associate at the Centre for Contemporary Art of Derry~Londonderry.
She completed her BFA at IUAV University and MA at Ca’Foscari University in Venice, Italy. With a background in artist moving image practice, subsequently informed by artist-led initiatives and collaborative productions, Alessia’s interests expand towards alternative forms of education, feminist methodologies, collective self-organisations, activism, and artist moving image production and programming.
Along with artist Emily McFarland, she is co-founder of Soft Fiction Projects (2018-ongoing), an artist-run initiative dedicated to producing digital and printed matter on artist moving image culture.
Selected recent projects include: Francesco Fabbri Foundation: Shortlisted Artists for Annual Prize 2020, Pieve di Soligo (Italy) 2021; TULCA 2020, new commission [with Soft Fiction Projects] curated by Sarah Browne, Galway 2020; Working Document, residency [with Soft Fiction Projects], Catalyst Arts 2020; MAKING SPACE, Residency, Public Programme and Exhibition [with Soft Fiction Projects], Guest Projects, London 2019; SHOP [with Soft Fiction Projects], PS2, Belfast 2019; PROGRESSIONS, group exhibition, the Gallery, Ulster University, Belfast 2019; URGENCIES, group show and public programme curated by Catherine Hemelryk [with Soft Fiction Projects], CCA Derry~Londonderry 2019; DORIS at Printing Plant, publication launch and performative event [with Soft Fiction Projects], Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL) 2018; 100th Young Artists Group Show, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (IT), 2016/ 2017; Time present, Public Commission for Belfast City Council + PlaceNI, Belfast 2016; White Nights, Residency and Exhibition, Digital Arts Studio, Belfast 2016; Le lait du miroir, Group Exhibition, Space Le6b Saint Denis, Paris (FR) 2015; The secret garden of… , new work commissioned by Fantom edition + ArtHub Asia as part of Invisible Cities, International Fés Photo Festival, Fez (Morocco) 2014.
Alessia is a former co-director of artist-led initiative Catalyst Arts Gallery (2016-2018) and currently a PhD researcher at the Belfast School of Art, with a combined theory and practice-based study on artists collectives and feminist-led collectives dedicated to social justice, civil action and activism in the island of Ireland. She is 2020-21 Research Associate at the Centre for Contemporary Art of Derry~Londonderry.
She completed her BFA at IUAV University and MA at Ca’Foscari University in Venice, Italy. With a background in artist moving image practice, subsequently informed by artist-led initiatives and collaborative productions, Alessia’s interests expand towards alternative forms of education, feminist methodologies, collective self-organisations, activism, and artist moving image production and programming.
Along with artist Emily McFarland, she is co-founder of Soft Fiction Projects (2018-ongoing), an artist-run initiative dedicated to producing digital and printed matter on artist moving image culture.
Selected recent projects include: Francesco Fabbri Foundation: Shortlisted Artists for Annual Prize 2020, Pieve di Soligo (Italy) 2021; TULCA 2020, new commission [with Soft Fiction Projects] curated by Sarah Browne, Galway 2020; Working Document, residency [with Soft Fiction Projects], Catalyst Arts 2020; MAKING SPACE, Residency, Public Programme and Exhibition [with Soft Fiction Projects], Guest Projects, London 2019; SHOP [with Soft Fiction Projects], PS2, Belfast 2019; PROGRESSIONS, group exhibition, the Gallery, Ulster University, Belfast 2019; URGENCIES, group show and public programme curated by Catherine Hemelryk [with Soft Fiction Projects], CCA Derry~Londonderry 2019; DORIS at Printing Plant, publication launch and performative event [with Soft Fiction Projects], Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL) 2018; 100th Young Artists Group Show, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (IT), 2016/ 2017; Time present, Public Commission for Belfast City Council + PlaceNI, Belfast 2016; White Nights, Residency and Exhibition, Digital Arts Studio, Belfast 2016; Le lait du miroir, Group Exhibition, Space Le6b Saint Denis, Paris (FR) 2015; The secret garden of… , new work commissioned by Fantom edition + ArtHub Asia as part of Invisible Cities, International Fés Photo Festival, Fez (Morocco) 2014.
Belfast, Ottobre 2019, part of Premio Fondazione Fabbri, Treviso 2020
Tentativi di caduta, installation at Forte Carpenedo, Marghera (Venice) 2015
Prima Neve, small editions of postcards 2017
White Nights, video still, 2016
Time present, in collaboration with M. Ciaramitaro, part of '100th Young Artists Group Show', Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice 2016-2017
