GIULIA ZABARELLA

 

Born in Padua (IT) in 1993,
based in Munich (DE).

EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS

2026Wiz-Art Spectrum: Unfocus, Screening with Sol Archer, Lviv Art Center (UA)

Fiasco 2026: Archives in Motion, Screening with Sol Archer, National Literature Museum, Bucharest (RO)

Tacker, group show, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich

Tawny Pipit: Archive of Disappearance, duo show with Sol Archer, Under The Spell, London (UK)

Langues empruntées, group show, Centre International d’Art et du Paysage (CIAP), Île de Vassivière (FR)

Und die Blumen riechen trotzdem: Renate Gier-Francke und Giulia Zabarella, duo show, Museum Fürstenfeldbruck, Fürstenfeldbruck (DE)

3500 cm2, exhibition format in Italian mental health centers, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti (IT)


2025Medusa's Ashes, solo show, MaximiliansForum Munich (DE)

WORDS TO GIFT, poetry reading & fundraiser at Casino, Berlin (DE)

SCANDAL, poetry reading at Au Jus, Brussels (BE)

Tawny Pipit: Archive of Disappearance, Screening with Sol Archer, Vou Gallery Space, Kyoto (JP)

In the State of current affairs, open studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)

Tawny Pipit: Archive of Disappearance, Screening with Sol Archer, Matatabi Moving Image, Tokyo (JP)


2024Tawny Pipit: Archive of Disappearance, Screening with Sol Archer, Performing Arts Forum (FR)


2023A MOVING IMAGE. Folk Tales & Urban Legends, film workshop and exhibition, Ismaning (DE)

CORNUCOPIA. Apricot Girls & Mouthp* Harpies, solo show, Kunstpavillon im Alten Botanischen Garten, Munich

Beyond the Spectacle, group show, PLATFORM, Munich

Verge!, magazine launch and public reading performance, Goethe Institut, Lisbon (PT)

Lecture-Performance at Kleine Sprachen, Maximiliansforum, Munich


2022Lecture-performance at Longega Project, Longega (IT)

migma Performance Festival, with Marlon Fleischer, Kunstpavillon Lucerne (CH)

Performer in Joan Jonas’ Mirror Piece I & II (1969-2018),Haus der Kunst, Munich

venus breeze,with Rebecca Ruchti, broadcast on Radio furchtbar, Vienna (AT)

Nach Leere Die Trommeln, public reading and book launch, Munich

Pilates Duo oder Einzel, with Rebecca Ruchti, Trottoir, Munich

Cornucopia, graduation solo show at Gartenhaus, AdBK Munich


2021Nach Leere die Trommeln, group show in public laundromats, Munich

And a door for tiny cakes, open studios with Mathilde Bjerre and fellow artists, The Bunker, Lisbon (PT)

PARA - Sound Festival and Radio Take Over, broadcast on Radio 80000, Munich

Blind-Touching Elephants, solo show, AkademieGalerie, Munich


2020La fange du macadam, group show in public space, Josephspitalstraße 12, Munich

shrubalthea.ltd, group show, Klasse Nicolai, Munich


2019Feminist poetry through the ages, reading at The Munich Readery, curated by the Munich Feminist Project, Munich

Jahresausstellung 2019 Klasse Olaf Nicolai, yearly group exhibition, AdBK, Munich

Die Kreuzung als Glücksfall, group show with collective Tatzelgroup, Hochbrücke Freimann, Munich


2018Jahresausstellung 2018 Klasse Olaf Nicolai, yearly group exhibition, AdBK, Munich

Ein Nachspiel/ An Epilogue, Public Art Munich 2018, curated by Joana Warsza, filmscreening and interventions in public space, Munich

If your phone doesn’t ring, it’s me, Metropol Kunstraum, Munich


2017Chunk3, curated by Team Caef, Church Santi Filippo e Giacomo, Brescia (Italy)

Kein Preis Nichts, yearly group exhibiton, AdBK, Munich

Quality Time, curated by Matthew Post and Chris Fitzpatrick, Kunstverein, Munich

All in One - a projected-only loop group show, Spazio Collettore, Chiari (IT)


2016Accademia Aperta II, yearly group exhibition, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan (IT)

Presa in carico , Studio Pervinca, Studi Festival Milan (IT)

Algorithm of my life, curated by Melanie Gilligan, AkademieGalerie, Munich


2015Salon 2015, group show, Bicocca University, Milan (IT)

Accademia Aperta I, yearly group exhibition, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan (IT)

FUNDING & AWARDS

2026Salta Art Foundation scholarship, Munich (DE)


2025Premio Theodora Van Mierlo Benedetti, international Award for emerging artists, Rome (IT)

Stiftung Kunstfonds Stipendium, 6-month working grant by the German State

Stiftung Stark für Gegenwartskunst, project grant (DE)

CBK Rotterdam, Art Office development grant with Sol Archer (NL)


2024Shortlisted for Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium (DE)

Amarte Fonds, project grant with Sol Archer (NL)

Erwin und Gisela von Steiner-Stiftung, project grant (DE)

Culture Moves Europe, European project grant for AqTushetii Art Residency, Omalo (Georgia)

Shortlisted for Förderpreis der Kunststiftung Rainer Wild 2024


20236-months studio grant at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art

4-months studio grant, Kallmann Museum Ismaning (DE)

Verbindungslinien (BBK Bayern), project grant for A MOVING IMAGE 1


2022Stipendium für Bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt München (Grant for Fine Artists of the City of Munich)

Junge Kunst und Neue Wege, project grant by the State of Upper Bavaria

Marianne Ingenwerth-Stiftung, project grant

Stipendium des Vereins der Freunde der Internationale Sommerakademie Salzburg (AT)


2021Akademieverein Munich, project grant for Nach Leere die Trommeln

LfA Förderbank Bayern, catalogue funding for Nach Leere die Trommeln

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, research grant for Maumaus ISP, Lisbon (PT)


2019 - 2022Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German State Scholarship)


2019Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, research grant for residency in Tbilisi (Georgia)

LfA Förderbank Bayern, catalogue funding for Turny - Die Kreuzung als Glücksfall


2018Akademieverein Munich, project grant for Die Kreuzung als Glücksfall

RESIDENCIES

2027Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)


2026WORM, Rotterdam (NL)

Pivô, Salvador de Bahia (BR)

Centre International d’Art et du Paysage (CIAP), Île de Vassivière (FR)

Echoing More-Than-Human Voices, Deep Ecology and Rights of Nature Campus, Venice Lido (IT)


2024 - 2025Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris


2024Polyphonic Singing Workshop, AqTushetii Art Residency, Omalo (Georgia)

It is pathetic...I love it, Poetry and performance workshop, Performing Arts Forum (FR)


2023Wasserschlösschen, Kallmann Museum, Ismaning (DE)


2022Longega Project, International Artist House, Longega (IT)


2019Residency at CCA Tbilisi and David Kakabadze Foundation, Tbilisi (Georgia)


2018Summer School, Pasolini Research Centre, Casarsa della Delizia (IT)

TEACHING, TALKS, MODERATION

2025Tawny Pipit: Archive of Disappearance, Presentation with Sol Archer, C3-Studios, Rotterdam (NL)


2023Of scaffoldings, Fiber Optic and Co-Working Spaces: Who Runs The City?, teaching assignment (summer semester), Chair of Philosphy and Aesthetics, AdBK Munich

Capitalist burden on ephemeral art, Panel with Damian Lentini, Simon Pfeffel, Agustina Strüngmann, PLATFORM Munich


2022Studio visit and mentoring for students of LUCA School of Arts, Ghent (BE)


20211980: Das Oktoberfestattentat und der Anschlag von Bologna. Praktiken im Umgang mit archivarischem Ton-material, sound workshop together with Jakob Braito, Munich Kammerspiele


2016Speaker at XXIV IAEA Conference (International Association of Empirical Aesthetics), University of Vienna (AT)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2023 - 2024Organiser of film workshop and exhibition A MOVING IMAGE. Folk Tales & Urban Legends, together with Laura Leppert, Ismaning (DE)


2022Moderation of screening program In Matter with Laura Leppert, MaximiliansForum, Munich


2021Conception and moderation of Talk #4: Fabrics and Patterns,PARA Sound Festival and Radio Take Over, Radio 80000, Munich


2019 - 2021Co-running the student organised lecture and workshop series Jour Fixe, AdBK Munich


2019Co-founder of collective Tatzelgroup with Laura Leppert, Raphael Krome, Sarah Doerfel, Adrian Sölch, Annabell Lachner

PRINTED MATTER, WRITING

2026Hörschwellen, graphic design for musicians Jakob Jentgens' and Francesco Marzano's performance series in public space, Wuppertal (DE)

Trapped In Between / Pris Au Piège, artist publication with Sol Archer, text by Riccardo Ton (riso print, edition 150, bilingual French / English, self-published and self-designed, printed by Herr & Frau Rio Munich), CIAP Vassivière (FR)


2023Cornucopia - Apricot Girls & Mouthp* Harpies, performance script & artist publication, Munich (A0 hand-folded posters, offset print, edition 100. Self-published and self-designed)

BITTER DRAMA, zine produced for A MOVING IMAGE. Folk Tales & Urban Legends (laser print, edition 30). Self-published and self-designed, Ismaning (DE)


2022Curation and editing of Jonah Gebka's artist book Browser, Galerie Boutwell Schabrowsky, Munich (Riso-print. Self-published, designed by Manuel Lorenz)

Nach Leere die Trommeln, artist publication, Munich (Riso-print. Self-published, designed by John Haag and Carina Güttler)


2021Editor in collective writing project Alle Calende Greche (during Kammercampus 1, Münchner Kammerspiele)


2018 - 2021Editor and proofreader at L‘art écrit (digital art magazine, Italy)


2019Turny – die Kreuzung als Glücksfall, catalogue by the collective Tatzelgroup, Munich (Laser-print, edition 500. Self-published and self-designed)


2018PAM 2018, A City Curating Reader, catalogue curated by Joana Warsza and Patricia Reed, designed by Till Gathmann

How Do We Make a We, artist book after the residency “Language and Sound as Sculpture”, designed by Claudia De La Torre, published by Fondazione Antonio Ratti

If your phone doesn’t ring, it’s me, exhibition catalogue by Klasse Olaf Nicolai, Metropol Kunstraum, Munich


2017 - 2019Akademietexte (Issues 1-4), student publication series at AdBK Munich

Editor and proofreader at Lo Sbuffo (digital magazine, Italy)


2017Quality Time, exhibition catalogue, curated by Olaf Nicolai, Chris Fitzpatrick, Post Brothers, Kunstverein Munich

PRESS REVIEWS

2025Premio Calapai-Benedetti, quando l’arte contemporanea incontra la salute mentale, TG La7


2023Künstlerschlösschen in den Isarauen: Adresse für kreative Menschen, Münchner Merkur

Inspirierendes Idyll, Süddeutsche Zeitung


2022Mirror Piece I & II (1969/2018), der Freitag


2021Jenseits von Zeit und Raum, Süddeutsche Zeitung

COLLECTED WORKS

2025Lithography Archive (Steindruck Werkstatt im Münchner Künstlerhaus), Munich (DE)

EDUCATION

2022Salzburg Summer Academy (AT): Masterclass with Anna Daučíková

2016 - 2022Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich (DE): MFA in Sculpture, class of Olaf Nicolai (Meisterschülerin). Project classes with Cooking Sections & Melanie Gilligan

2021Maumaus Independent Study Program, Lisbon

2017XIII CSAV - Artists’ Research Laboratory “Language and Sound as Sculpture” with Hannah Black, Michael Dean, Russell Haswell, Karl Holmqvist at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (IT)

2013 - 2016Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan: BFA in Painting and Visual Arts

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