BIO
Giulio Squillacciotti, born Rome (I) 1982.
Represented by Pietrosanti Agenzia Letteraria (I) + C41 (FR, NL)
giuliosq AT gmail.com
Artist and film-maker, his work is based on surveying possible allegorical narratives, the mutation of traditions and the metaphorical sophistication of real events. Using film, documentary, text, theatre and scenography, Squillacciotti produces investigations, the result of multidisciplinary research, that revisit history, constructing narrative speculations from subjective perspectives, tales, artifacts, religious beliefs, architecture and popular culture.
After an education in Medieval Art History and Humanities in Rome and Barcelona, he studied Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Architecture in Venice. He was Fellow Resident at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He recently received the MIC Italian Ministry of Culture Cinema Development Fund, the MEDIA Creative Europe and Screen Ireland funds to develop a feature film set in Ireland during the 2009 economic recession co-produced by Italy (Emma Film), Ireland (Wildcat Pictures) and Poland (Lava Films). He teaches at NABA University in Milan and has led workshops and talks at numerous European institutions.
His work has been exhibited and screened internationally at, among the others, the MUBI platform, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Les Rencontres Internationales at Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Louvre Museum and Gayte Lyrique in Paris, the Berlin Haus der Kultur der Welt and Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Neues Museum in Weimar, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Screen Space and Monash Gallery in Melbourne, the Manifesta 8, Le Magasin CNAC in Grenoble, Cinema Akil in Dubai, the New York Photo Festival and Dumbo Video in New York City, the Art Institute of Boston, the Instant Image Hall and Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Ballroom Marfa in Texas, Het Nieuwe Instituut of Rotterdam, Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture and Istanbul Modern Museum, the Bonniers Konsthal in Stockolm, Fundacion Proa in Buenos Aires, CAC in Vilnius, the Beirut Art Centre in Lebanon, OCAT in Shanghai, the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade and at numerous International Film Festivals; in Italy, among the others, at PAC, Triennale, Careof, MACRO, MAXXI, the 16th Rome Quadriennale, MAMbo, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, GAMeC.
EDUCATION
2018-2019
Jan Van Eyck Academie - Residency Fellow.
Maastricht, The Netherlands
2007-2009
MA in Visual Arts - Faculty of Design and Arts.
University of Architecture IUAV. Venice, Italy
2009
Advanced Course in Visual Arts - with Walid Raad.
Fondazione Antonio Ratti. Como, Italy
2004
Visiting Scholar - Aesthetics, Anthropology, Romanic Spanish and Catalan Art.
Faculty of History and Geography. University of Barcelona UB. Barcelona, Catalunya (E)
2002-2006
BA in Medieval Art History - Faculty of Humanities.
Sapienza University of Rome. Italy
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS and FUNDS
2025
MIC Cinema - Feature Film Development Fund (I)
2024
SCREEN IRELAND - Feature Film Writing Fund (IRL)
2023
MEDIA Creative Europe - Feature Film Development Co-Production Grant (IE, I, PL)
PAC (piano per l’Arte Contemporanea) - Production Grant (I)MIC Cinema - Feature Film Development
2021
BEST STORY - London Fashion Film Festival. London, United Kingdom
2020
LIMBURG FILM FONDS NL - Production Grant recipient
BRAND CULTUUR FONDS NL - Production Grant recipient
KANNUNIK SALDEN NL - Production Grant recipient
2019
TALENT PRIZE 2019 WINNER - Inside Art Magazine
ITALIAN COUNCIL 2019 - Production Grant recipient. Italian Ministry of Culture.
MiBAC. Direzione Generale Arte e Architettura Contemporanee. Italy
DOMMERING FONDS NL - Production Grant recipient. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
ALTRO/VE - Research Grant. Regione Veneto | IUAV University of Architecture. Venice, Italy
2018/2019
ARTE VISIONE 2018 WINNER - Production Grant. Careof | Sky Art. Milan, Italy
RESIDENCY FELLOW - Van Eyck Academie. Maastricht, The Netherlands
STIMULERING FONDS for the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The Netherlands
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - 27th International Festival of Ethnological Film. Belgrade, Serbia
2013
MOVIN’UP, Grant program to sustain the mobility of Italian artists abroad
2011
FILM COMMISSION GRANT - Royal Spanish Academy at Rome, Italy
2010
FIRST PRIZE - Stonefly Cammina con l’Arte. Venice, Italy
FIRST PRIZE - Festarte. VideoArt Festival MACRO Testaccio. Rome, Italy
SPECIAL MENTION - Talent Prize 2010. Rome, Italy
ONE YEAR RESIDENCE - Ateliers Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
2009
ADVANCED COURSE IN VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCY. Fondazione Antonio Ratti. Como, Italy
PORTFOLIO INVITATION - The Dock. Carrick-on-Shannon. Co. Leitrim, Ireland
2008
FIRST PRIZE/GRANT - 92ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Venice, Italy
2007
CASINÒ DI VENEZIA AWARD - 91ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Venice, Italy
2005
FIRST PRIZE - II Roma Bouldering Film Festival. Rome, Italy
2002
FIRST PRIZE - La via Bionda. Binario 24, Stazione Termini. Rome, Italy
SELECTED SHOWS and SCREENINGS
2025
Wonders of the Modern World. Fondazione ICA. Milan (I)
Rencontres Internationales. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin (D)
Pensare Come una Montagna. GAMEC. Bergamo (I)
2024
Rencontres Internationales. Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles. Paris (F)
MADE Festival. Bergamo (I)
A War Play. Pinacoteca Levis. Chiomonte (I)
2023
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (D)
CAREOF Screening Program. Fondazione Prada. Milan (I)
Dance Me To The End Of Love. PAC. Milan (I)
XXL Dreams. Laak. The Hague (NL)
Transitions Festival. Cinema Lumiere. Maastricht (NL)
2022
Altri quadri. Artisti e immagini in movimento. Mart Museum. Rovereto, Italy
Meditations on Europe. Garage. Rotterdam (NL)
Europe doesn’t fall from the sky. Fondazione Imago Mundi. Treviso (I)
What you see is what you get. Filmhuis. The Hague (NL)
2021
London Fashion Film Festival. London (UK)
A Season in Slemani. Fondazione Baruchello. Rome (I)
Les Rencontres Internationales. Musée du Louvre Auditorium. Paris, France
Rencontres Internationales. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin (D)
What Has Left Since We Left. Careof. Milan (I)
RIPB. Musée du Louvre Auditorium. Paris (FR)
Not Quite Nearly Fine. Fondazione Baruchello. Rome (I)
Out of the Box. Klub Solitaer, Chemnitz (D)
Artists’ Film International. Whitechapel Gallery. London (UK)
Artists’ Film International. Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (IRL)
Artists’ Film International. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (USA)
Artists’ Film International. Ballroom Marfa, Texas (USA)
Artists’ Film International. Bonniers Konsthal, Stockolm (SWE)
Artists’ Film International. Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires (AR)
Artists’ Film International. NBK, Berlin (D)
Artists’ Film International. CAC, Vilnius (LT)
Artists’ Film International. Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (TR)
UN-sdg Action Campaign. Köln (D)
39th Bergamo Film Meeting. Bergamo (I)
2019
Once Upon a Town - Story telling Festival in Maastricht (NL)
Ce Sony Les Îles Se Déplacent. Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brest (FR)
The Pit Call. Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)
Asolo Art Film Festival. Asolo (I)
Now Instant Image Hall. Los Angeles (USA)
Cinema Akil. Dubai (UAE)
Open Studios 2019 - Van Eyck Academie. Maastricht (NL)
Sjón International Anthropological Film Festival. Copenhagen (DK)
Antropofest. Prague (CZ)
Work Body Leisure - Het Nieuwe Instituut. Rotterdam (NL)
2018
36th Torino Film Festival - Official Competition. Turin (I)
Dutch Representation at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (I)
XXVII International Festival of Ethnological Film. Belgrade (SRB)
XIII Festival de Películas Natias. Arica (CL)
Etnovideografica 2018. Zamora (E)
WOMEX 2018. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (E)
Itinerant Movies #4. Rotterdam (NL)
That’s it - MAMbo. Bologna (I)
2017
35th Torino Film Festival - Official Competition. Turin, Italy
In Another World with which our own has made a Chance Encounter. Department of Chemistry. Turin, Italy
Direct Action. The Cinefamily. Los Angeles, USA
TODAYS Festival. Il Piccolo Cinema. Turin, Italy
2016
16ma Quadriennale d’Arte. Palazzo delle Esposizioni. Rome, Italy
Senza titolo (la pittura come modello). Casa Masaccio. San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2015
33rd Torino Film Festival - Official Competition. Turin, Italy
ROMABERLIN Reverse Inequality. Galerie Patrick Ebensperger. Berlin. Germany
Glitch - OCAT Shanghai. China.
2014
Glitch. PAC Padiglione d‘Arte Contemporanea. Milan, Italy
2013
Helicotrema. Festival dell’Audio Registrato. Auditorium Parco della Musica. Rome (I)
Avanca Film Festival - Cine Club de Avanca (PT)
The 338 Hour Cineclub. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Turin (I)
Video Dumbo. Eyebeam Art + Technology Center. New York (USA)
Berlin Punk Film Festival. Kino Moviemento. Berlin (D)
2012
Re-generation. MACRO Museum. Rome (I)
Cinéma Expérimental Italien. ÉESI La Fémis. Paris (FR)
RIPB. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin (D)
New York Photo Festival 2012. New York City (USA)
Les Rencontres Internationales. Beirut Art Center. Beirut (LB)
RIPBM Gaîté Lyrique | Centra Pompidou. Paris (FR)
Double Identity. Macy Gallery. Columbia University. New York City (USA)
The Gentlemen of Verona - Palazzo Forti. Verona (I)
Prague Biennale. Prague (CZ)
2011
Les Rencontres Internationales. Gaîté Lyrique | Centra Pompidou. Paris, France
Double Identity. People, Stories Places. Macy Gallery at Columbia University. New York City, NY. U.S.A.
The Gentlemen of Verona - Palazzo Forti. Verona, Italy
Italia in Video. Ceglie Messapica, Italy
If you want this story to continue... Prague Biennale. Prague, Czech Republic
Festarte. Videoart Festival. Triennale di Milano. Milan, Italy
Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto. White.Fish.Tank. Ancona, Italy
2010
As the Academy Turns. Talk Manifesta 8 Collateral Event. Murcia, Spain
La Juste Distance. Espace Cinko. Paris, France
Opera 2010. Fondazione Spinola Banna. Turin, Italy
Se vuoi che questa storia continui... Galleria Neon-Campobase. Bologna, Italy
VideoReport Italia 2008-2009. GC. AC - Galleria Comunale di Monfalcone. Monfalcone, Italy
Sindrome Italiana. Magasin CNAC. Grenoble, France
Non totalmente immemori ne completamente nudi - GC. AC - Galleria Comunale di Monfalcone.Italy
Festarte. Videoart Festival. MACRO Testaccio. Rome, Italy
BYTS, the Bosch Young Talent Show. AKV | St. Joost. Den Bosch, The Netherlands
21x21 - 21 Artisti per il XXI Secolo. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Turin, Italy
Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture - Tophane-i Amire. Istanbul, Turkey
2009
Vom Labor zum Projekt. Neues Museum. Weimar, Germany
Far, from where we came. Aaran Gallery. Teheran, Iran
A camel is a Horse Designed by a Committee. Fondazione Claudio Buziol. Venice, Italy
Spazio Chiuso. Galleria SpazioA. Pistoia, Italy
54° Premio Termoli "Interplay". Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea. Termoli, Italy
Playlist. Galleria Neon-Campobase. Bolonia, Italy
An-exhibition. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Venice, Italy
Studio Visit - GC. AC. - Galleria Comunale di Monfalcone. Monfalcone, Italy
2008
92ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Venice, Italy
TRA-BETWEEN Venezia e Istanbul - Jarach Gallery. Venezia, Italy
Hell on Earth: Varieties of Dystopia - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Venice, Italy
IUAV at MAXXI, Visual Arts Students from Venice to Rome * - MAXXI. Rome, Italy
2007
91ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Venice, Italy
D d'ang, Il Territorio - Archivio storico di Bracciano. Bracciano, Italy
2006
Festival Enzimi - Another Thing, arte contemporanea underground - Galleria Bocca di Dama. Rome, Italy
2005
Dormire nel mirino - Studio 84 Arti Visive. Spoleto, Italy
Notte Bianca - Touch me please! - Galleria Stella. Rome, Italy
2004
Freakquency, tendenze dell' arte contemporanea - Galleria Studio 14. Rome, Italy
Notte Bianca - 360° contemporary art - Galleria Studio 14. Rome, Italy
LECTURES | TEACHING | TEXTS
2020-present
Teaching “Video Installation” at 3rd Year BA in English. NABA . Milan, Italy
2025
Book Editor/Author ‘A War Play’ Humboldt Books (I)
2023
Lecture ‘What do we talk about’ European Parliament. Rome (I), Strasbourg (F)
2021
Contributor to A Season in Slemani. Humboldt Books
Editor ‘Not Quite Nearly Fine’ Arbor Editions (I), Motto Berlin (D)
Workshop Teaching. MA in Visual Arts. IUAV - University of Architecture. Venice, Italy
2020
Teacher “Video Installation Class” at 3rd Year BA in English. NABA . Milan, Italy
Organizer / Speaker at “What has left since we left - Book Launch”. Jan Van Eyck Academie. Maastricht (NL)
Editor for “What has left since we left - Six takes on Europe”. Published by Onomatopee. Eindhoven (NL)
Contributor on “New Fiction”. Edited by Stefano Mudu. Published by Bruno. Venice, Italy
Contributor on “Les œuvres de la voix”. Published by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Paris, France
Lecture at “Something or Other”. Design School at LCC. London, England
2019
Workshop Teaching. Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona. Verona, Italy
Workshop Teaching - Art and Science. MA in Visual Arts. IUAV - University of Architecture. Venice, Italy
Artist Talk at Situated Practices. Onomatopee. Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2018
Artist Talk. Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Organizer / Speaker at “Shore Leaves Symposium”. Zeemanskerk in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2017
Lecture at Cecilia Pennacini Visual Anthropology Class. University of Turin, Italy
Contributor on Visual Ethnography Journal. Italy
2013
Lecture at Avanca Cinema Film Festival - Cine Club de Avanca. Portugal
Lecture at The Counter Order of Things - EARN Network. IUAV University, Venice. Italy
2012
Contributor on Shopping Hour Magazine. England
Lecture at Cinéma Expérimental Italien - École Européenne Supérieure de l’Image. La Fémis. Paris, France
Article on Antoni Muntadas. Domus. Italy
2011
Teaching Assistant to Marta Kuzma Visual Arts Theory - MA in Visual Arts. IUAV - University of Architecture. Venice, Italy
Lecture at Antoni Muntadas class in Public Art - M.I.T. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. U.S.A.
Lecture at Irina Rozovsky Photography Class - Art Institute of Boston. Boston, MA. U.S.A.
2010
Talk at As the Academy Turns / EARN Network - Manifesta 8 - Curated by Henk Slager - Murcia, Spain.
Contributor on “Videoinsight” Book Edited by Rebecca Russo - Silvana Editoriale.
Contributor on “Paesaggio - Artists writings on Landscape”. Edited by Blauer Hase
Teaching Assistant to Antoni Muntadas Visual Arts Class - MA in Visual Arts. Faculty of Design and Arts. IUAV - University of Architecture. Venice, Italy