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BLANCHE
Born 1984 in Pisa, Italy. Lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

Blanche is one of the youngest visual designer in the Italian scene. She was born in Pisa in 1984, in 2003 she moved to Bologna, where she continued with her studies and begun to work as a vj. She has worked together with many italian and foreign djs and producers and, in the last years, she has participated in many international festivals. In 2005 she begun to work on audio-visual projects and videoclips, in collaboration with musicians as Metuo (myspace.com/metuo), Flushing Device (Betulla rec.), Populous (Morr Music), Autobam (Leeuram). In the latter year she has approached video-art and she has realized video and exhibitions centred on faded fells, overlapping of planes of vision, play of transparencies. Now she lives in Madrid, where she studies “Realizacion audiovisual”.
Participations: MarryKlain 07 (Munich); Festival della Creatività 07 (Firenze); Illustrative 07 (Berlin); Poesia Detta 07 (Bari); Estate Fiesolana 07 (Firenze); Festival dell'economia 07 (Trento); DoRave 07 (Faenza); Elita Festival 07 (Milano); Visual Berlin 06 (Berlin); Nextech 06 (Firenze); Freeshout 06 (Prato); Leaning City; Festival 06 (Pisa); Muv Festival 06 (Firenze); Elettrowave 06 (Arezzo); Fabbrica Europa 06 (Firenze); Homework Festival 05 (Bologna).
Screenings: Nu media fest 07 (Cologne); Digital Art Festival 07 (Bahia Blanca/Argentina); Slowtime 07. Quicktime as an artistic medium. (Cologne); Videominuto Pop Tv 07(Centro di Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato); HellomynameisBLANCHE Sesto Senso (Bologna, 2007); Blanche 4 BMW Serie 1 OneLikeNoOne Gennaio 07; Generacomunicazioni 06. Centro Arte Contemporanea Casa Masaccio (Arezzo).

ELISA CANDUCCI
Born 1975, in Bologna, Italy. Lives and works in Milan.

She graduates at the Domus Academy. Interaction Designe Institute Ivrea in Milan in 2006 and in the same year she attended a MA in Interaction Design. In 2002 she graduates at the Academia di Belle Arti in Bologna. In 2001 she studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid for a Scholarship with the Erasmus exchange program.
Selected solo shows: 2003 Villa Serena, Bologna; Autoclichè, curated by A. D’Orazio, A. Zanchetta.
Selected group shows: 2007 Play Graphic, curated by Silvia Chiarini, Agenzia04, Bologna; Transalpino, Fuori Salone, DotDotDot Studio, MIlan & Design; Mai, erstererster Studio, Berlin; 2005 Public Abstraction: ordine e immaginazione, International Art Prize Ermanno Casoli; Comune di Serra San Quirico, curated by Valerio Dehò (catalogue); 3rd, Galleria Interno & dum dum, Bologna, curated by A. Zanchetta e G. Gavioli; Flash Art Show, Sofitel (Galleria Andrea Arte Contemporanea, Vicenza), Bologna; 2004 Q13 Building, Galleria Civica, Venezia Mestre, curated by A. Zanchetta (catalogue); Pilots, Galleria Nipple, Bologna, curated by A. Zanchetta; Intrecciano, Foro Boario, Modena, curated by A. Zanchetta e M. Mango (catalogue); Colectiva M.A.V., M.A.V. (Magatzems d’Art Valencià), Valencia; curated by A. De Falco; 2003 Ravenna for Art, Galleria Ninapì, Ravenna, curated by S. Cicognani, A. Zanchetta; 2001 Corsie: 32 artisti in contemporanea, Granarolo dell’Emilia (BO), curated by C. Pozzati; 1999 Corsie (1) - Rassegna d’arte in quattro tempi, Galleria Sessantaquattro Baricellarte; Baricella (BO), curated by C. Pozzati (catalogue).

HSIA-FEI CHANG
Born 1973 in Taipei (Taiwan), Lives and works in Paris

2007 “Global Feminism”, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier; 2006 “32 portraits, Place du Tertre”, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris (solo); “ON/OFF”, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg; "ART FAB, la Femme, l'Art, l'Europe, Femmes d'Europe à St Tropez", St Tropez; "Notre Histoire", Palais de Tokyo, Paris; 2005 "Girls, Girls, Girls", Centre d'art de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Suisse; "Inhabituel", La Fabrica del Vapore, Milano, Italie (Dena Foundation For Contemporary Art); 2003 "Echo Blossom", Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo EL GALLO, Salamanca (solo); 2001 "Traversée", Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; "Tirana Biennial 1 ", Tirana (Flash Art); "Post-Production", Galerie Continua, San Gimignano; "Trans Sexual Express Barcelona", Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona; 2000 "The sky is limited-2000 Taipei Biennial", Taipei fine Art Museum, Taïwan .

ELEONORE DE LARDEMELLE
Born 1979 in Nancy, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.

She studied at the Ecole des Beux Arts in Bourges, DNSEP art section and she graduated in 2004. In 2003 she had a degree at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, where she studied scenographys.
Selected Group shows: 2007: White Lab, Agenzia04, Bologna, Italy-, Les 10 ans de la galerie, Galerie Aire de Paris, Paris; Mise à poil, Galerie Miss China, Paris; Format A4 in progress, Galerie Miss China, Paris; 2006: Explosition, Espace Charles III, Nancy; Les trétaux, Maison de la Culture Bazin, Nancy; Le Labo DTF, Le Vertigo, Nancy; Etoile d’un jour, Centre d’art Camille lambert, Juvisy; 2004: Objet de transit, Galerie Transpalette, Bourges.
Selected Video, installation, performance: 2007 Festival video; Profection de "Meurtre", Sélection Internationale; Nouveaux cinémas, Festival de courts-métrages numériques, Parisà; Projection de "Clip", "Cendrillon", "Meurtre"; Video screening, La Manifattura, Bologne, Italie; Scénographies Anniversaire de l’Association, Maison d’animation et de Formation, Courcelles; 100 ans de l’association UFCV, Paris; 2005 Installation, 15 "vidéos/tableaux", Café Egyptien de La Baleine_Nantes et la Caire (Egypte); 2004 Performances collectives, Cabaret, Beaux-Arts, Bourges; Esso expresso, Bourges; 2003 Assistante des vidéastes: Messieurs Delmotte, Festival vidéo Bandits-Mages, Bourges; Philippe Jacq Strasbourg; Scénographie, Festival Nouvelle Danse, Espace Pole Sud, Strasbourg.

ORIETTA FINEO
born in Gravina of Apulia, lives and works in Apulia.

She studies painting at Academy of Fine Art in Bologna. She graduates in 2002 with a thesis on Art Criticism – her supervising professor is Silvia Evangelisti. She studies make-up for the theatre/cinema at Academy of Cinematographic Art. That is how she begins to cooperate with the theatre and this experience marks her own pictorial research on the concept of Space/Time whose protagonist is the “body” which lives in this dimension. The “body” considered as an act, as a memory as the passage through which past and future flow into present.
Collective exhibitions 2006 “Trado” Akcent Gallery, Synagogue, Nitra, Slovakia, “Voyeur” Michalsky’ Dvor Gallery, Bratislava, 2007 “Start Biennale” Art&Forte Gallery, Mondatori area , Venice.
Solo Exhibition Galleria Zero-uno, Barletta, Febbraio 2008

CLAUDIA GAMBADORO
born in Catania, 1972. She lives and works in Catania and Milano.

Recent awards: 2007 “Latin Union Prize for the Young Creation 2007” (scolarship in Santiago of Chile); Price Sicily/Europe curated by Carmelo Strano, Culture Assessorship of Catania. 2006 The jury’s honorable mention Videominuto International video festival, Contemporary Art Center Luigi Pecci, Prato. 2000 Movin’Up, Kunsthaus Tacheles of Berlino. Curated by GAI
Recent residencies: 2007 Isidem, Workshop with Artur Zmiewskij, curated by Salvatore Lacagnina, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Arts Montevergini, Siracuse. 2006 Premio Campigna, workshop and artists’ residence with Henri Olivier, curated by Claudia Casali, Forlì. 2005 Cantiere videoarte, workshop and artists’ residence with Dimitris Kozaris, curated by Fiammetta Strigoli, Siena.

Selected exhibition: 2007 Tina b. The Prague contemporary art festival, curated by Monika Burian and Rosanna Musumeci, Lapidarium National Museum, Prague (Catalog Cz/En); Young renewable energies, curated by Flavia Fossa Margutti, MART Rovereto; ViDea, curated by Massimo Bignardi and Claudia Gennari, Frac Baronissi (catalog); Choices.it, curated by Salvatore Lacagnina, City Contemporary Arts Gallery Montevergini, Syracuse; Artevideoar(te)mpoattivo, curated by Fiammetta Strigoli, Plasma, Firenze. 2005 Guardami – Percezione del video. Curated by Fiammetta Strigoli and Tra Art, Palazzo Le Papesse, Siena (catalog). 2003/01 Finalist at the European and Mediterraean young artist’s Biennal, Athen 2003 / Sarajevo 2001, curated by Rosanna Musumeci, Ambra Stazzone, Lucilla Brancato and GAI Catania(catalogs); 2000 Die Blaue Begeisterung, curated by Dario Quinones, Bernhard Draz, Italian Culture Institute and GAI, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlino (catalog)
She is at Artefiera Bologna 2008 with Galleria Vernon, Prague.
References galleries: Vernon Gallery of Monika Burian in Prague and Artecontemporanea Gallery of Rosanna Musumeci in Catania.

CLAUDIA SCHMAKE
born in 1963 in Witten, Germany, lives and works in Berlin.

She studies Fine Art at Kassel University, HdK Berlin and Gerrit-Rietveld-Academie, Amsterdam. After graduating she studies at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 1991 Meisterschüler Kunstakademie.Recent awards/residencies: 2008/09 H.& N. E. Freund Fellowship/Washington University and Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA. 2006 DaimlerChrysler grant/Casa di Goethe, Rome. 2005 International Research Centre for the Arts, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Selected personal exhibitions: 2008 Plane Space, New York, USA; “Anke Becker. Claudia Schmacke” Casa di Goethe, Rome. 2007 Rebecca Container Gallery, Genua. 2005 Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan; Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany. Selected collective exhibitions: 2007 “Vorgebirksparkskulptur”, Vorgebirgspark Cologne, Germany. “Rolli contemporanei”, Palazzo De Marini, Genua. 2004 “First International Lodz Biennale. The critics choice“, Lodz, Poland. 2003 “A River Half Empty“, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA.