Gaia Giani, is a visual artist, creative producer and curator based in Milan, Italy.
She has a degree in philosophy and wrote her thesis on Pina Bausch’s dance theater. She is trained as a visual artist, and works in various mediums, including video, photography, sound and performance. The thematic center of her work is intimist poetics and its relation to landscape and memory. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 2023, she created the sound performance Die Wald Liste, in collaboration with musician Margareth Kammerer (official premiere September 29, 2024, as part of BAW - Bolzen Art WeeK), produced in association with Lungomare Bolzano, part of FLUX. An open rehearsal occurred in October 2023 at CLER, Milan. In 2022, Attraversare, a short film set in Pollino Park in Basilicata, a dream narrative composed of collective memories and told in Albanian, was presented at MUSME, Matera. In 2020, 132 Moons, Festival Filmmaker, was broadcast at Fuori Orario, RAI TRE. Her 2019 short film, You Sleep Like a Stone, a single continuous shot of a walk in Ticino Park, premiered at BX Gallery Belfast, Filmmaker Festival, and CLER gallery. The Unknown Zone – Childhood (2017), screened at Cinema Cineteca Oberdan, Beltrade. The Unknown Zone is a documentary about the mystery of childhood set in a small Montessori school. In 2015, Gaia made the documentary Solo, about a couple of French dancers, the Dupuys, in which she investigates the relationship between life and dance.
Sound Performance
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2024 Playlist Playlast. The impossible Karaoke – Partecipative Performance – Micamera, Milan
2023 Die Wald Liste, 50 min, spoken words, CLER
Film
2022 Attraversare 5 min, sound, Musme di Matera, for Associazione Parco del Pollino, Basilicata.
2020 132 Moon, 8 min. Filmmaker Film Festival. Fuori Orario, Rai 3.
2019 You Sleep like a Stone, 11:40 min, 16 mm, Belfast Gallery, Ireland. Festival Filmmaker, Cler, Milano.
2017 La zona oscura – L‘età bambina, director, doc. 28’, Filmmaker Festival 2017 – First Screening. Cinema Beltrade, Provincia di Trento, Masetto.
2015 Solo, director, doc 20’, prodotto da Takla, Filmmaker festival 2015
2015 Un/limited Love, director, screening at Ars-prima, video art festival
2009 Cesura, video installation, Micamera
Photography
2022 the Mutation. Walking with Manzoni – photo Mike Slack – Curated by Gaia Giani – Casa Zarilli -Marimo – New York University
2022 Work in progress You Sleep Like a Stone, photobook on memory and landscape.
2018 Io vedo la luna, exhibition on schools, Cinema Beltrade
2018 Abecedario del futuro, photobook published by Mare Culturale Urbano in collaboration with Tipografie Reali
2016 Il futuro era ora, photographic work on the mainly migrants primary school Radice Lombardo in via Paravia in Milano for Mare Culturale Urbano.
2013 Io sono stato qui, self-published photobook on the Casa dei bambini and the Montessori primary school in via Porpora.
2012 Curation of the exhibition You and Me and Everyone We Know, for Festival della fotografia etica Lodi.
2010 Il cinema indipendente italiano, portraits of Italian independent filmmakers curated by Luca Mosso in collaboration with Filmmaker, exhibited at Cinema Anteo di Milano.
Workshop
2023 Walking and Shooting places – Inside a Neighborhood – Politecnico Architettura – USI - Swiss
2022 The Continuous Shot – Storytelling without words -(raccontare senza parole).
Two days intensive workshop on the long take at Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti – Naba Milan
2021 – Workshop with teen-agers on landscape – creation of diorama, in collaboration with youth politics form Trento County.
2015-2019 Photography workshops in the primary school La Casa dei Bambini, Montessori School,
2014 tutor: Workshop at NABA Academy. Focus on directors who worked with archive and found footage. Harun Farocki, Peter Forgac, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi
2011-2012 Tutor for a photographic course at CESVI. How to narrate your personal story self-portrait and memoir. The workshop was open to migrants of first and second generation. The response was an exhibition from the title You, Me and Everyone We Know invited at festival di Fotografia Etica di Lodi.
2003 PoliDesign – Milano – Semestral Workshop “How to read reality”.
She has a degree in philosophy and wrote her thesis on Pina Bausch’s dance theater. She is trained as a visual artist, and works in various mediums, including video, photography, sound and performance. The thematic center of her work is intimist poetics and its relation to landscape and memory. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 2023, she created the sound performance Die Wald Liste, in collaboration with musician Margareth Kammerer (official premiere September 29, 2024, as part of BAW - Bolzen Art WeeK), produced in association with Lungomare Bolzano, part of FLUX. An open rehearsal occurred in October 2023 at CLER, Milan. In 2022, Attraversare, a short film set in Pollino Park in Basilicata, a dream narrative composed of collective memories and told in Albanian, was presented at MUSME, Matera. In 2020, 132 Moons, Festival Filmmaker, was broadcast at Fuori Orario, RAI TRE. Her 2019 short film, You Sleep Like a Stone, a single continuous shot of a walk in Ticino Park, premiered at BX Gallery Belfast, Filmmaker Festival, and CLER gallery. The Unknown Zone – Childhood (2017), screened at Cinema Cineteca Oberdan, Beltrade. The Unknown Zone is a documentary about the mystery of childhood set in a small Montessori school. In 2015, Gaia made the documentary Solo, about a couple of French dancers, the Dupuys, in which she investigates the relationship between life and dance.
Sound Performance
””:http://
2024 Playlist Playlast. The impossible Karaoke – Partecipative Performance – Micamera, Milan
2023 Die Wald Liste, 50 min, spoken words, CLER
Film
2022 Attraversare 5 min, sound, Musme di Matera, for Associazione Parco del Pollino, Basilicata.
2020 132 Moon, 8 min. Filmmaker Film Festival. Fuori Orario, Rai 3.
2019 You Sleep like a Stone, 11:40 min, 16 mm, Belfast Gallery, Ireland. Festival Filmmaker, Cler, Milano.
2017 La zona oscura – L‘età bambina, director, doc. 28’, Filmmaker Festival 2017 – First Screening. Cinema Beltrade, Provincia di Trento, Masetto.
2015 Solo, director, doc 20’, prodotto da Takla, Filmmaker festival 2015
2015 Un/limited Love, director, screening at Ars-prima, video art festival
2009 Cesura, video installation, Micamera
Photography
2022 the Mutation. Walking with Manzoni – photo Mike Slack – Curated by Gaia Giani – Casa Zarilli -Marimo – New York University
2022 Work in progress You Sleep Like a Stone, photobook on memory and landscape.
2018 Io vedo la luna, exhibition on schools, Cinema Beltrade
2018 Abecedario del futuro, photobook published by Mare Culturale Urbano in collaboration with Tipografie Reali
2016 Il futuro era ora, photographic work on the mainly migrants primary school Radice Lombardo in via Paravia in Milano for Mare Culturale Urbano.
2013 Io sono stato qui, self-published photobook on the Casa dei bambini and the Montessori primary school in via Porpora.
2012 Curation of the exhibition You and Me and Everyone We Know, for Festival della fotografia etica Lodi.
2010 Il cinema indipendente italiano, portraits of Italian independent filmmakers curated by Luca Mosso in collaboration with Filmmaker, exhibited at Cinema Anteo di Milano.
Workshop
2023 Walking and Shooting places – Inside a Neighborhood – Politecnico Architettura – USI - Swiss
2022 The Continuous Shot – Storytelling without words -(raccontare senza parole).
Two days intensive workshop on the long take at Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti – Naba Milan
2021 – Workshop with teen-agers on landscape – creation of diorama, in collaboration with youth politics form Trento County.
2015-2019 Photography workshops in the primary school La Casa dei Bambini, Montessori School,
2014 tutor: Workshop at NABA Academy. Focus on directors who worked with archive and found footage. Harun Farocki, Peter Forgac, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi
2011-2012 Tutor for a photographic course at CESVI. How to narrate your personal story self-portrait and memoir. The workshop was open to migrants of first and second generation. The response was an exhibition from the title You, Me and Everyone We Know invited at festival di Fotografia Etica di Lodi.
2003 PoliDesign – Milano – Semestral Workshop “How to read reality”.