BIO
Digging into archives and communities, Valentina Bonizzi’s work highlights issues of social justice in relation to the politics of time in specific contexts. She has developed her work and research with communities in Scotland, the region of Molise in Italy, Deheisheh Refugee Camp in Palestine and the city of Kamza in Albania. Valentina works with a variety of media such as film, photography, literature, sound, and actions in public spaces.
Selected exhibition include: Gjon Mili Biennial and Award (2019) Kosova National Art Gallery, Zeta Gallery in Tirana, Autostrada Biennale in Prizren, the National Galleries of Scotland, British School at Rome, Stills Gallery in Edinburgh and Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Zeta Gallery in Tirana. She has presented her work in a number of institutions such as MAXXI, Rome, Ramallah Academy of the Arts, Palestine, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Villa Romana, Florence, CCA in Glasgow, Campus in Camps, Dhiesheh Refugee Camp in Palestine. Bonizzi has published with the Journal for Flusser Studies, What legitimates photography? and the Mauritius Catalogue of the Venice Biennal: When you realised you were a: White. European. Male. She is the editor of: The Art of the Process, Notes to a Deputy, Produced by COD, Prime Minister’s Office in Albania and On Remoteness an online sound magazine, by Mnemoscape.
Bonizzi holds a Master of Research in Visual Practices from Glasgow School of Art and a PhD (AHRC funded) from the University of Dundee (Visual Research Centre). Bonizzi has received awards from Creative Scotland, Arts and Business and the Arts and Humanities Research Council by which she has been nominated for the Best Research in Film Award.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2015 PhD, AHRC Doctoral Award, Visual Research Centre, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
2010 Master of Research in Visual Practices, Glasgow School of Art
2006 Honours Degree in Literature, University of Verona
SELECTED SHOWS
2019 Gjon Mili Biennial and Award, curated by Joao Ribas, Kosova National Art Gallery, Prishtina
2019 NEON, ‘React!’ Digital Art Festival, Dundee, Scotland, UK
2019 Martesa e Atyre, Motrat Gallery, Prishtina
2019 The Transitory State of Possible Stories, Zeta Gallery, Tirana
2018 Festival Unlearning Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2017 Mobile Utopia, LICA, Lancaster, UK
2017 The Future of Borders, Autostrada Biennale, Prizren, Kosovo
2017 HOME, Mediterranea 18, Young Artists Biennale, special screening, Tirana, Albania
2017 SüdenRadio, Villa Romana, Florence
2017 Media Art Festival MAXXII, Rome
2016 Vocaboradio, Spazio Atrii, Art Fiera Verona
2016 Beyond Borders, British School in Rome
2016 Vocaboradio, Spazio Atrii,ArtVerona Fiera,
2016 Remote Orchestra, Radiofrenia, CCA, Gasgow
2016 Cartographers, CCA, Glasgow
2015 Document Film Festival, (official selection), Glasgow
2014 Diletta, The girl with a suitcase, with Robert Capa, Castel Pandone, Venafro
2013 Migration Stories: Valentina Bonizzi, (solo show) Scottish National Portrait Gallery
2013 Second Sight, Still Gallery, Edinburgh
2013 Berlinale, North Media Night Screening
2013 ULLAMH DHA, DOCVA, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
2012 Timeology, Visual Research Centre, Dundee
2011 Gate 11, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Italy
2011 Means to an end, Copper Gallery, Dundee
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2020 upcoming The Potentials of Being Unfit, La Belle Revue
2019 The Transitory State of Possible Stories, Zeta Gallery, Tirana
2018 Notes to a Deputy, COD, Prime Minister’s Office, Tirana, Albania
2016 On Remoteness, Mnemoscape Magazine Issue 4 (contributor and editor)
2016 When you realised you were a: White. European. Male. Mauritius Pavillion Catalogue, Venice Biennial
2015 What Legitimates Photography? Journal for Flusser studies
2014 A Possibility for Something Happening, on Franco Vaccari Mostyn Catalogue
SELECTED TALKS
2016 Albania Expanded Image, COD, Tirana, curated by Chamber of Public Secrets
2016 Valentina Bonizzi in conversation with Modern Edinburgh Film School, Summerhall, Edinburgh
2016 Into the Universe of Technical History, with ESTAR(SER), closing lecture of ‘Bodenlos, Vilém Flusser and the Arts’ Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
2015 It is not down in any maps true places never are with Mark Dorrian, Joseph Delappe, Isabella Streffen, Elisa Adami. Centre Space, Dundee Contemporary Art
2014 Cartographers, International Academy of Art, Ramallah, Palestine
2014 Aesthetic Journalism, with Alfredo Cramerotti, Centre Space, Dundee Contemporary Art
2013 TJ Demos in conversation with Valentina Bonizzi, Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh
2013 Film Lounge (speaker/curator) with works from Franco Vaccari, Harun Faroki, Andrea Segre, John Huston
2013 Our Dwells: in dialogue with Vilém Flusser, Metaflux Lab (Berlin), Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
RESIDENCIES
2016 DAAR/CAMPUS IN CAMPS, Bethlehem, curated by ALAGroup, Rome.
2015 ESTAR(SER), New York City
2015 Cittadella dell’Arte, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
2015 ongoing – GRAMnet, University of Glasgow artist/researcher in residency
2014 DAAR/Campus in Camp, Bethlehem, Palestine
2010/14 Cultural Documents, Molise, Italy
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2016 Nominated for Best Research in Film Award by the AHRC
2016 Creative Scotland Artist Award
2015 Arts & Business production grant
2015 Fondazione Pistoletto, Unidee grant
2012/15 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
2011 Creative Scotland Artist Award
RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS
COD, Centre for Openess and Dialogue, Prime Minister Office, Tirana, Albania (Research Associate); National Archive and Record Administration, Washington; Flusser Archive, Berlin; Istituto Geografico Militare, Florence; National Collection of Aerial Photography, Edinburgh; Mnemoscape Magazine (board member and editor); DAAR/Campus in Camps, Bethlehem; Glasgow Refugee, Asylum, Migration Network, University of Glasgow; Transnationalising Modern Languages, S.Andrews University; Sabreen Association for the Arts, Jerusalem; ESTAR(SER) NYC.
LANGUAGES
Italian (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), Spanish (fluent)