THE ARTISTS
LORENA BUCUR
Kristina Ti
Lorena Bucur (1996, lives and works in Bologna) studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. In her research the themes of greatest interest are political and social in character. The elements and techniques underpinning her artistic vision are the medium of photography and images in motion, conveyed in the form of multimedia installations. Her research stems from and takes form in suburban zones, then reconnecting to urban space through the use of industrial materials.
CHRISTIAN OFFMAN
Guido Gobino Cioccolato
Christian Offman (1993, Rwanda) lives and works in Munich and Bologna. He moved to Italy in 1999. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, in the sculpture program, taking a degree in 2020. In 2018-2019, as an international student he attended the Kunstakademie of Münster. He took part in 2021 in the YGBI Research Residency organized by Black History Month Florence and in the Live Works Summit at Centrale Fies. In 2021-2023 he attended the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, in the course conducted by Gregor Hildebrandt. His works often take the form of sculptures and installations, with a central focus on racial and social issues and private memory, filtered through his personal vision.
JACOPO NACCARATO
Dott.Gallina
Jacopo Naccarato (1995, Arezzo) graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, department of painting, in 2021, in the course chaired by Prof. Caccioni, and in 2017 in the course conducted by Prof. Bertolo. Before completing the three-year program in 2017, he spent a period of time in Bucharest where he came into contact with Eastern European contemporary art, which became a factor in his research. After taking his Master’s he became an assistant to the Tuscany-based artist Giulia Cenci, at the time of her participation in the Biennale di Venezia. In that same period, after returning to Arezzo he opened an independent space: “Sottofondo studio”.
GIULIA POPPI
Pininfarina Architecture
Giulia Poppi lives and works in Frankfurt and Bologna, with a focus on sculpture. For her, onomatopoeia, vintage erotic magazines, sea animals, paradises and canned goods, coloured lights, fakery, deceptions, anatomical archetypes, construction materials, membranes, shells, wine cellar knick-knacks and Longobard metopes are elements of a grammar in ongoing pursuit of a crisis of rationality and control as guiding forces of human behaviour. Her sculptural processes, which hybridize elements and intentions from other media and at times borrow tools from industrial worlds, set out to induce the viewer to perceive reality as a magical and idealized territory.
