Biography
Giuseppe Gonella was born in Motta di Livenza (IT). His interest in the visual arts manifested itself early attending the atelier of his father Angelo, Artist and Master of Arts in the field of Mosaic and stained glass. In 2006 he won a competition for a scholarship and one Atelier at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice. In 2008 Giuseppe Gonella graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (IT). Since then his work has regularly been exhibited internationally. He lived in Venice, New York, Leipzig, and Lisbon and now he is currently working in Berlin.
Among the most important of his solo shows include: Dittico, MAC Museo Arte contemporanea, Lissone; Chasing lights, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milano; Walking Home, Magic Beans Gallery, Berlino; Mente Locale, L’atlante/Der Blitz, MAG Galleria Civica G. Segantini, Arco; De aeterno reditu, Egbert Baquè Contemporary Art, Berlino; Involved, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milano; No place left to hide, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso; Suspended oscillation, Senart 284, New York. Group shows include: Danae Revisited , Fondazione Francesco Frabbi; Praestigium/ Imago mundi, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; An endless flow, Artemis gallery; Sommer frische Kunst, Bad Gastein; Private Mythologies, galleria Giovanni Bonelli; Map of New Art/ Imago mun-di, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia; Intersections, Egbert Baquè Contemporary Art, Berlino; XV. Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano; (S)innehalten. Sense(s), L’espace de l’espace HB55, Berlino; In absentia, Correggio Museum - Palazzo dei Principi, Correggio; 54. Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia al Palazzo delle esposizioni, Torino, (IT).