public art
4 November 2023: The Body of/at Work at Crespi d’Adda (UNESCO), participatory intervention followed by a conversation by Elena Cologni with curator Gabi Scardi.
12 October 2023: Opening and conference of The places of Memory project at the Universita’ di Pisa, which was installed in July 2023. If in Pisa one can be find it here https://goo.gl/maps/vU57FfUBfnU6Upiy9
grants
Getty Research Institute Grant (Los Angeles, 2023)
exhibitions
Here. Between not-yet and no-more. 09 May-30 June 2022, Galleria Milano, Via Manin 13, Via Turati 14, Milano, Italy (artists: Alterazioni Video, Riccardo Arena, Marina Ballo Charmet, Gianfranco Baruchello, Alexander Brodsky, Silvia Cini, Elena Cologni, Daniela Comani, Manuela Cirino, Pierluigi Fresia, Gianni Gangai, Eugenio Giliberti, Alice Guareschi, Marianne Heier, Silvia Hell, Paolo Inverni, Salvatore Licitra, Elio Marchesini, Roberto Marossi, Amedeo Martegani, Ferdinando Mazzitelli, Ottonella Mocellin, Margherita Morgantin, Giancarlo Norese, Giovanni Oberti, Antonella Ortelli, Francesco Pedrini, Diego Randazzo, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Marco Vaglieri, Grazia Varisco, Serena Vestrucci, Cesare Viel, Luca Vitone, Francesco Voltolina, Warburghiana (Aurelio Andrighetto, Gianluca Codeghini, Dario Bellini, Elio Grazioli)
Elena Cologni. Pratiche di cura, o del cur(v)are, curator Gabi Scardi, solo show, at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy, 17 May-4 July 2021, including the series of ‘experiential exercises’ The Body of/at Work premiered at the Italian Pavilion, Architecture Biennale, Venice Biennale.
Project statements section show in PARALLEL VIENNA Sept. 24th–29th 2019, curated by Gulsen Bal and Walter Seidl Open Space, Vienna
ROYAL SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH: Elena Cologni winner of the fist prize ‘The Shape of the Public’s Health’ for the sculpture untitled (prop) in Seeds of Attachment !!! Awarding ceremony on 14th September 2019, with the other shortlisted artists including Steve Hines and Lucy Glenndining, details in the link
PARALLEL LINES: Drawing and Sculpture, group show curators Jo Baring and Caroline Worthington (The Ingram Collection + Royal Society of Sculptors), 22 June – 25 August 2019, The Lightbox, Woking.
conferences/presentations/
Cologni, E, (2023) ‘Il ruolo della cura sulla soglia tra pubblico e privato’ in Convegno organised by Mondo Doula on 21 October Lievito Madre: Di chi è la maternità? Linguaggi, pratiche sociali e territori della cura
The Culture Capital Exchange Arts and Health Forum: Arts, Place and Well-being. A TCCE Arts and Health Forum event co-devised and co-hosted with Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Tue, 21 February 2023, 14:00 – 15:30 GMT , with Dr Elena Cologni, Anglia Ruskin University, Dr Cara Courage, Consultant, Change Agent and Academic, Emily Godden, Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Artist, Creative Technologist, Educator and founder of social enterprise Virtually There Studio, Frances Alderton, Cultural Services and Events Manager at Cambridge City Council. Chair: Evelyn Wilson, Director TCCE and Co-Director NCACE
Maternity and Care | a Medical and Health Humanities colloquium Friday, January 27 @ 2:30-4:30 PM (EAST) Drew University campus (NY), Ehinger Center, room 145 or virtually via Zoom Featuring Professor Inge van Nistelrooij and with contributions by Melanie Miller, MA IBCLC, lactation educator, Elena Cologni, PhD, MRSS, AMRSPH, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Cologni, E., (2022) ‘(Un)Monuments of the Everyday. Marking the Journey from Home to Work through the Experience of Venetian Weaving Factory’s Workers’ in ‘Lived Space, Past and Present’ (art and design) strand of REPRESENTING PASTS – VISIONING FUTURES Conference 01-03 December 2022 AMPS, Queen’s University Belfast, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, National University of Singapore
Cologni, E., (2021) ‘The journey from home to work through the experience of the Venice Weaving Factory’s workers’. 14/15 December, City, Public Space & Body conference, Goldsmiths, University of London
Italian Pavilion, Biennale of Architecture, La Biennale di Venezia, (9th November 2021), panel ‘Elena Cologni. The Body of/at Work’, with contributions by: Valeria Facchin, Gabi Scardi, Elke Krasny, Margherita Vanore, Helena Reckitt, Merel Visse, and the curator of the Pavilion Alessandro Melis
IKT- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CURATORS OF CONTEMPORARY ART Congress 2021 on 16th of October. Wonderful having had my work, an iteration of The Body of/at Work, featured in, and winning an Harald Szeeman prize. This took place in Milan and was curated by Gabi Scardi. This included my site participatory performance, and contributions also by Elke Kransi, and Francesca Picchi, here is the video
Affordances of Spaces, curated by Eveline Wandl-Vogt (Director of the Ars Electronica Research Institute Knowledge for Humanity) in the program titled the ‘Garden of… Knowledge for humanity’ at Ars Electronica (AT)https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/affordances-of-spaces/
On Care, And Finding The Cur(V)E. A Geography of Difference Through Caring, performance,in Ecologies of Care: Feminist Activism pane curator Basia Sliwinskal, 108TH CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Chicago, February 12–15, 2020
GROPIUS’ OFF-CUTS in THINKING THROUGH… DESIGN: BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL roundtable on Saturday 14 September 11am at the De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill On Sea, convened by UCL Urban Laboratory, discussing the architectural design aesthetics of the Bauhaus across the urban/rural divide
On Care, and Finding the Cur(v)e. A Geometry of Difference Through Caring, two-part workshop in the ART FUTURE / FUTURE SIGNS: The future of contemporary fine art research and education, The Paradox European Fine Art biennial forum Art Future / Future Signs 2019 in Riga, Latvia, program
interviews
Elena Cologni. Pratiche di cura, o del cur(v)are, Cologni interviewed by Sara Benaglia, on ATPDiary, 13-06-2021
CARE: from periphery to centre (250 Homerton College, Cambridge) is discussed in this interview with Ayla Van Der Boor on https://care-ethics.org/