BIO
Giulio Squillacciotti, born Rome (I) 1982.
giuliosq AT gmail.com
Artist and film-maker, lives and works between the Netherlands and Milan.
His work is mainly oriented on the mutation and invention of traditions by merging together fiction and historical facts. Using film, documentary, writing and scenography, Squillacciotti produces research-based investigations that revisits history, crafting new stories from subjective perspectives, speculative storytelling, religion and popular culture.
After an education in Humanities and Art History in Rome and Barcelona, he studied Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Architecture in Venice. He was a fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and one of the artists of the Dutch pavilion at the 2018 Architecture Biennale. He has made, among the others, documentaries on the Roman punk scene of the 1990s (RMHC, Italy 2012), on exorcism rituals in the Persian Gulf (Archipelago, Iran 2017), on cargo ships (They Thought They Saw a Ghost, Netherlands 2020), in Iraqi Kurdistan (The Face That I Loved Let Me Down, Iraq 2022) and fictional works written and shot in Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, Turkey and other countries. He has edited collections of essays, fiction and poetry by foreign writers for the dutch label Onomatopee and Arbor Editions. His writings and projects have been features in Visual Ethnography Journal, Domus, Les œuvres de la voix, Bruno Editions/Motto Berlin, Humboldt Books, Alla Carta, and other publishing labels. His latest project "What Has Left Since We Left" won the Italian Council Grant, Limburg Film Fonds, Sky Art/Arte Visione award and represented Italy at the Artist's Film International 2021 from the Whitechapel Gallery in London. 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 at PAC, Triennale Museum and ViaFarini in Milan, MACRO, MAXXI, and 16th Quadriennale in Rome, MAMbo and Cineteca in Bologna, the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, GAMeC in Bergamo and at the Official Competition of the 33rd, 35th and 36th Torino Film Festival.
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
SOLO SHOWS
2021
Not Quite Nearly Fine. Fondazione Baruchello. Rome, Italy
What Has Left Since We Left. Careof. Milan, Italy
Artists’ Film International. Gamec. Bergamo, Italy
2020
EURAMIS. Spazio Cordis. Verona, Italy
2019
Vrijdag Antwerpen. Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van den Broeck. Milan, Italy / Antwerp, Belgium
The Pit Call. Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2017
Visto due volte. Barriera. Turin, Italy
2013
Academy Awards. Viafarini DOCVA. Milan, Italy
2011
Dialogo. With Antoni Muntadas - Royal Spanish Academy at Rome. Italy
2010
Inside Stands to Outside as One to Infinite - Galleria Artericambi. Verona, Italy
Ottozoo Project Room - Ottozoo Gallery. Text by Camilla Pignatti Morano. Milan, Italy
2006
New, Last Year's Eve - Le Vetrine. L. Quaroni University of Architecture. Rome, Italy
2003
Who is who? - Cento Facce - Galleria Stella. Rome, Italy
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS | SCREENINGS
2023
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (D)
Dance Me To The End Of Love. PAC. Milan (I)
XXL Drams. Laak. The Hague (NL)
Transitions Festival. Cinema Lumiere. Maastricht (NL)
2022
Meditations on Europe. Garage. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Altri quadri. Artisti e immagini in movimento. Mart Museum. Rovereto, Italy
What you see is what you get. Filmhuis. The Hague, The Netherlands
Europe doesn’t fall from the sky. Fondazione Imago Mundi. Treviso, Italy
2021
Artists’ Film International. Whitechapel Gallery. London, UK
Rencontres Internationales. Hans der Kulturen der Welt. Berling, Germany
London Fashion Film Festival. London, United Kingdom
Artist’s Film International. Crawford Art Gallery. Cork, Ireland
A Season in Slemani. Fondazione Baruchello. Rome, Italy
39th Bergamo Film Meeting. Bergamo, Italy
Artist’s Film International. Istanbul Modern. Istanbul, Turkey
Out of the Box. Klub Solitaer, Chemnitz, Germany
UN-sdg Action Campaign. Köln, Germany
Les Rencontres Internationales. Musée du Louvre Auditorium. Paris, France
2019
Once Upon a Town - Story telling Festival in Maastricht. The Netherlands
To be Played. Giardino Giusti, Verona Italy
Ce Sony Les Îles Qui Se Déplacent. Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brest. France
Asolo Art Film Festival. Sala della Ragione. Asolo, Italy
Now Instant Image Hall. Los Angeles, USA
Cinema Akil. Dubai, UAE
Open Studios 2019 - Van Eyck Academie. Maastricht, The Netherlands
Sjón International Anthropological Film Festival. Copenhagen, Denmark
Antropofest. Prague, Czech Republic
Work Body Leisure - Het Nieuwe Instituut. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018
36th Torino Film Festival - Official Competition. Turin, Italy
Dutch Representation at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. Venice Biennale, Italy
XXVII International Festival of Ethnological Film (Winner of Best Cinematography). Belgrade, Serbia
XIII Festival de Películas Natias. Arica, Chile
Etnovideografica 2018. Zamora, Spain
WOMEX 2018. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
Itinerant Movies #4. Rotterdam, the Netherlands
That’s it - MAMbo. Bolonia, Italy
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
Avanca Film Festival - Cine Club de Avanca. Portugal
The 338 Hour Cineclub. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Turin. Italy
Video Dumbo. Eyebeam Art + Technology Center. New York, USA
Helicotrema. Festival dell’Audio Registrato. Auditorium Parco della Musica. Rome, Italy
Berlin Punk Film Festival. Kino Moviemento. Berlin, Germany
2012
Re-generation. MACRO Museum. Rome, Italy
Cinéma Expérimental Italien. École Européenne Supérieure de l’Image. La Fémis. Paris, France
Les Rencontres Internationales. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin, Germany.
New York Photo Festival 2012. Powerhouse Arena. Brooklyn, New York City, NY. U.S.A.
Les Rencontres Internationales. Beirut Art Center. Beirut, Lebanon.
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
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
AWARDS | GRANTS
2023
MEDIA Creative Europe - Feature Film Co-Production Grant (IE, I, PL)
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