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Born in Assisi, Italy, in 1987, Eugeni is currently a PhD Fellow at the University of the Arts Bremen. She graduated in International Relations from the University of Perugia, Italy, in 2011. In 2018, she earned an Art Diploma in "Advanced Ideas of Filmic Spaces and Conceptual Photography" under Rosa Barba at the University of the Arts Bremen, followed by a Meisterschüler (Master) degree in 2019. In 2023, she completed a second Master's degree in Fine Arts with a focus on Moving Image at IUAV University Venice.
From 2016 to 2022, Eugeni was a recipient of the Cusanuswerk Foundation scholarship. In 2019, she was awarded the "Karin Hollweg Preis" together with Mattia Bonafini. Currently, she holds an Artist Residency Grant at the Zentrum für Kunst, supported by Bremen Senate of Culture (2023–2026).
Eugeni is the co-founder of Sineumbra (Artistic Temporary Alliances), an ongoing artistic project. Since 2020, she has led the project’s artistic direction.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024, Venice, Italy, Orsoni Venezia 1888, “Becoming with" / 2023, Faber, Fondazione Fedrigoni Fabriano, Cartire storiche Miliani, Fabriano, / 2023, De Tranquillitate Animi, Castello925, Venezia / 2022, (in collaboration with Elard Lukaczik), Galerie Feiertag, Kassel / 2020, Bremen, Kunsthalle, “SOMA”(in collaboration with Mattia Bonafini) / 2018, Bremen, Arbeitnehmerkammer, Galerie im Foyer, “De Tranquillitate animi” / 2018, Isola del Liri, Italy, Teatro Stabile, “Serenità, stasi, movimento e caos” / 2017, Guangzhou, Guangzhou Book Center, “POPOLARE” film screening / 2016, Bremen, Kultur Bunker, „Cher“ Film Premiere / 2014, Germany – Bremen, Immigration Office Gallery, “What ́s left”
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2024, Venice, Italy, Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa, “Relazioni Alchemiche”, 2022, Venice, Italy, Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa, Debris / 2020, Gera, Germany, Neuen Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, “Anders – Ästhetik der Differenz” / 2019, Bremen, Weserburg, Museum for modern art, Bremen, “ ̄\_( )_/ ̄ ” Meisterschülerinnen 2019 /2017, Palermo, Cafe interna- zionale / Roma, The Independent MaXXi, national museum of 21st-century arts, “Counter-production” summer-school and action-intervention /2017, Bremen, GAK, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, “von seitenlinien” / 2017, Bremen, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst – Barbara Claassen-Schmal, “Bleiche 21” / 2017, Bremen, Schwankhalle, “#17 How to build a structure to be alive inside?”,collective performance curated by Every Oceans Huges (Emily Roysdon) / 2016, Halle, Burg gallery in Volkspark, “Kunsthoch 46” / 2015, Berlin, UDK, University of the Arts Berlin, “Kunsthoch 43“ / 2014, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Alexander Hall, “exex”
FESTIVALS
2023, Pondicherry India, Manifest Dance-Film Festival, film screening / 2019, Djerba, Houmt Souk, (Tunesien) International Media Festival, “Seedjerba”, site specific installation / 2019, Wismar, City hall, “lichtcampus”, light intervention / 2018, Como, (Italy), Chiostrino Artificio, “Aduevoci”, philosophy und music festival, film screening / 2017, Bremen, Schauburg Cinema, III film-festival Bremen, “Film-expansion”, film Premiere and live-performance
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Luisa Eugeni (Assisi, 1987) è un’artista visiva attualmente ricercatrice ed insegnate all’Università d’arte di Brema, Germania. È candidata al dottorato in Arti Performative all’Università di Leiden (Olanda). Si laurea in Scienze Politiche, con una tesi in Relazioni Internazionali, all’Università degli Studi di Perugia (2011). Si specializza poi in Idee espanse di spazi cinematografici (2018) e in Body and Space Concepts (2019) alla Hochschule für Künste di Brema. All’Università Iuav di Venezia conclude un master in MOVIES Moving Images Arts (2022-23). È cofondatore e attuale coordinatore del gruppo Sineumbra. Ha esposto alla Kunsthalle, al Museo Weserburg, alla GAK e alla Galerie für Gegenwartigekunst di Brema (2021). È stata direttore artistico del progetto Hybrid Museum of the Neighbourhood alla Jacobs University di Brema (2021-22) progetto sperimentale sulla memoria legata allo spazio e alle tecnologie ibride. Artista in residenza a Guangzhou (2017), Djerba (2019), Formine (2020), attualmente al Cairo (2023) ospite di ARD Art institution e a Brema al Zentrum für Kunst (2023-2026). A novembre 2023, per la Fondazione Fedrigoni Fabriano, presenta Faber, un’opera site-specific per le Cartiere Fabriano, mentre per Orsoni Venezia 1888 sviluppa un progetto site specific inaugurato a maggio 2024.
PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
►2023-2026 Studio Residency Grant at Zentrum für Kunst, sponsored by Senat für Kultur Bremen
►2019 Hollweg Prize, together with Mattia Bonafini
►2016-2021 Cusanuswerk foundation scholarship holder
►2014 DAAD scholarship, University of Guelph, Canada
RESIDENCIES
► 2024 Cairo, Egypt, ARD Art Institution
► 2023 Fabriano, Italy, Fedrigoni Fabriano Foundation
► 2021 Formine, Italy, Formine Association for the Promotion of German-Italian Scientific and Cultural Exchange e.V.
► 2017 Guangzhou, China, Art co-op foundation
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS
►10.2023–02.2024: Teaching assignment at the University of the Arts Bremen, in collaboration with Dr. Mona Schieren: seminar "Watering and Walking: Hydrofeminist Art Practices."
►11.2020–03.2021: (DE) Bremen, Jacobs University – Development of an aesthetic museum concept for the “Hybrid Neighbourhood Museum”, a virtual museum on the Jacobs University campus using augmented reality technologies and historical content. The entire *“Portal to the World”* project was initiated and led by Prof. Dr. Jakob Fruchtmann. Eugeni designed the museum’s aesthetic concept, apps, and various media, and coordinated collaboration with designers Leonard Rokita and Clemens Gensch as well as historian Rüdiger Ritter.
►05.2022: (IT) Venice – In collaboration with Biennale Urbana, preparation and support to the workshop “La Bohème: Out of Venice”, a project developed by Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich University.
►02.2019–07.2019: (IT) Venice – German Pavilion, 58th Art Biennale (Italy). Part of the coordination team for the summer school “Beyond Repair”, in collaboration with Natascha Süder Happelmann (Natascha Sadr Haghighian), Ernest Ah, Biennale Urbana, Mona Schieren, and Ingo Vetter.
►10.2018–01.2019: (IT, AT, DE) Marzamemi, Vienna, Bremen – Co-development and Fieldwork Research logistical support for an interdisciplinary project between the sculpture class of Prof. Ingo Vetter (University of the Arts Bremen) and architecture students from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, "Six Characters in Search of an Author."
