Giacomo Infantino's practice starts from a deep connection with the territory in which he lives that will induce him to focus his attention on different border and peripheral places in Northern Italy and central Europe. Through photography and video he carries out operations on the landscape intent on creating new forms of inner and personal readings on the perception of the landscape with the aim of transforming them into a participatory narrative able to externalize some aspects of the contemporaneity linked to the sense of living. Using multiple languages, such as the site-specific installation on the territory, often consisting of light sources, screens, ephemeral materials, but also video and cinema, it aims to raise awareness of education about the preservation and research of a landscape that we are timely losing.
Born in Varese in 1993, he graduated in New Technology of Art - Art and Media - at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, with a thesis on public commissions in Italy. Subsequently he continues, in the same institution, the Master in Photography and Visual Arts that will lead him to move abroad to complete his studies at the Hochschule Für Grafik Und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany. Since 2020 he is a contributor for ZONE Magazine and currently work for Phroom Magazine.
EDUCATION
Hochschule Für Grafik Und Buchkunst - Leipzig, DE
MA in Photography - Brera Academy - Milan, IT
BA in Art and Media - Brera Academy - Milan, IT
AWARDS
2020 Air Land 3.0 / Inside Land Finalist
2020 Premio Nocivelli - photography section - Finalist
2020 100 Greatest Emerging Photography Talent in Europe by FRESH EYES, on printed book - Powered by GUP Magazine
2020 Wellcome Photography Prize, category "Hidden Worlds" - Finalist
2020 Panorami Contemporanei e luoghi in trasformazione - Artist Residency / MUFOCO, MiBACT, SIAE, GAI
2019 - Premio Stelle d'Europa / AICCRE Lombardia - European Parliament. First prize in Digital Art
2019 - Premio Marco Pesaresi, SiFest - Finalist
2019 - Camera Work - Slow Photo, Palazzo Rasponi - Winner
2019 - Premio Acqua dell'Elba - Special Mention
2019 - PRS Talent Prize Paratissima Torino Winner
2019 - Premio Equita per Brera, Sala Napoleonica Winner
2019 - Photo Prize Paratissima Milano, BASE Milano Winner
2019 - Premio XXV ORA! Contro il femminicidio, Luna Rosa Association Winner
2018 - BìFoto Prize, International festival of photography in Sardinia - Winner
2017 - Premio Marco Pesaresi, SiFest - Finalist
RESIDENCES
2021 Selected for Garbatella Images curated by Francesco Zizola, Roma, IT
2020 A Week From Monday, Ideated by Viaindustriae in collaboration with Holydays Festival, Scopoli - Foligno, IT
2020 Panorami Contemporanei e luoghi in trasformazione / MUFOCO, MiBACT, SIAE, GAI - curated by Matteo Balduzzi, Padova, IT
2020 Selected for the Scuola Nomade di Belle Arti / Sergio Breviario, Ermanno Cristini, David De Carolis, Giancarlo Norese.
2019 BoCs Art residence - curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio Cosenza, IT
MASTRERCLASS
2021 - Selected for the Workshop with Raimond Wouda:Dis-connessi - Adolescenti e tecnologie, Istituto Marangoni, Milano - IT
2020 Euristica del corpo / Andrea Contin - Teatro Linguaggicreativi, Milano - IT
2020 Esposizione preliminare delle proposizioni fondamentali di una dottrina / Milovan Farronato - Casa degli artisti, Milano - IT
2020 Futuribile / Renata Boero - Casa degli Artisti, Milano - IT
2017 Selected for the Canon Student Residency Masterclass with Magnum at Visa Pour l'Image Festival, Perpignan - FR
SOLO EXHIBITION
2019 Nuovo paesaggio italiano - Still Gallery - curated by Alessandro Curti and Giada Storelli - Milan, IT
2019 Camera Work Palazzo Rasponi - Ravenna, IT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020/21 - "New talent" - Curated by PEP / Photographic Exploration project. Collective exhibitions at B-Part Gallery, Berlin - DE
2020 Official Selection of ICA Film Festival, Pune - IND
2020 BRAERAKLASSE#5 - IPER ESTERNO INTERNO, CAREOF PROJECT / Walk In Studio, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano - IT
2020 Land 3.0 Inside Land Museum of Contemporary Arts / Ex officina ferroviaria, Barge - IT
2020 Nello spazio fa freddo - Collective exhibitions at Chippendale Studio during the Archivi Aperti and Walk-in Studio, Milano - IT
2020 Premio Nocivelli - Group Exhibition at Chiesa della Disciplina, Verolanuova, BrescIa - IT
2020 Official Selection at 60 Second Intl. Film Festival 2020 - Islamabad, PK
2020 Screening on VisualcontainertTV - International Videoart Channel curated by Kerry Baldry - London, UK
2020 FRESH EYES PHOTO FAIR / Zuiveringshal, Westergas - Amsterdam, NL
2020 FRESH EYES 2020 - GUP Magazine, book launching at Belfast Photo Festival - UK, Fotografia Europea IT - Les Boutographies FR.
2020 Gian Paolo Barbieri Foundation - Onnik.it presents the new Natural Line by Hahnemuhle - Milan, IT
2020 Tra naufragi e voli - OfficinARS Fotografia, Fotografia Europea Circuito OFF, Villa Sistemi Reggiana - Reggio Emilia, IT
2020 Let's call it a day - Handstand & Moral gallery Leipzig, DE
2020 Isolation, Living Oneself - LoosenArt Gallery, Millepiani Gallery Roma, IT
2020 PTE - PromotionTrade Exhibition, Fiera Milano Milano, IT
2019 Tra cielo e terra Project ideated by Claudio Boerchia with the collaboration of MUFOCO and Matteo Balduzzi. Villa Ghirlanda - Milan, IT
2019 Che riguarda la fotografia - Centrale Festival & Osservatorio di Fotografia - Palazzo D'Auria Lucera, IT
2019 Premio Arte Acqua dell'Elba - Centro per le arti figurative Telemaco Signorini - Porto Ferrario, IT
2019 Centrale Fotografia, curated by Luca Panaro, Rocca Malatestiana Fano, IT
2019 Still Gallery at MIA Photo Fair, curated by Alessandro Curti Milano, IT
2019 Lievi e precisi come determinati voli - Sguardi altri sulla cura e la ricerca dei tumori - Grattacielo Pirelli Milano, IT
2019 Altre forme di identità culturali e pubbliche - Other Identity - Palazzo Ducale Genova, IT
2018 NoPhoto - Paratissima Art Fair, curated by Laura Tota Torino, IT
2018 ContemporaneaMENTI, L'Arsenale foundation Iseo, IT
2018 Un racconto fotografico - Premio Riccardo Prina - Ghiggini Gallery Varese, IT
2018 Un racconto fotografico - Premio Riccardo Prina - La Triennale di Milano Milano, IT
2018 Cinematic Vision - ImageNations Gallery - ICI Venice, Magazzini del Caffè / Martin Vegas - Venice Film Festival Days Venezia, IT
2018 Voies Off Festival, ImageNation Gallery, curated by Martin Vegas Arles, FR.
2018 Ultra // Cronache Inaudite - SEDICI Association- Prato, IT
2018 Winners of the Premio Luna Rosa - Palazzo Poli Roma, IT
2018 Winners of the Luna Rosa Prize - Museum/Archaeological park of Capo Colonna Crotone, IT
2018 MIA Photo Fair, Represented by Caielli Fine Art Milano, IT
2018 ABITARE - 999 Una collezione di domande sull'abitare contemporaneo / MUFOCO - MiBACT curated by Stefano Mirti, La Triennale di Milano Milano, IT
2018 Dei Nuovi Confini Della Fotografia - Fabbrica Del Vapore - Milano Photo Week Milano, IT.
2018 Paratissima Milano - BASE Milano - Milano Photo Week Milano, IT
2018 La fotografia d'autore incontra l'architettura - Studi Aperti, Brusa Pasquè Studio, with Luca Andreoni & Roberto Caielli Varese, IT
2018 Novegro Photo Day - curated by Roberto Caielli Novegro, IT
2017 Ex Studio Piero Manzoni curated by Stefano Pizzi Milano, IT
TALKS & INTERVIEWS
2020 Rolling Stone Italia - Black Camera by Alessandro Curti
2020 New Old Camera Milano and Canon Europe presents: "Student development programme 2020". With Giulietta Palumbo, content editor Magnum and Maysa Moroni, editor Internazionale. (Online meeting)
2019 Il paesaggio come ricerca Interview for Discordi fotografici magazine Web
2019 We Land Photo Fest - Talk with Cosmo Laera - Palazzo Risolo Specchia, IT
2019 Nuovo paesaggio italiano - curated by Alessandro Curti, Still Young Gallery Milano, IT
2018 Paratissima Milano - BASE Milano - Milan Photo Week, with Roberto Caielli Milano, IT
2018 La fotografia d'autore incontra l'architettura - Studio Brusa Pasquè Varese, IT
2018 PHROOM, Dialogue - Roberto Caielli & Giacomo Infantino Web
2018 Interview for Darlin Magazine Web
2017 Speaker for company training for Canon Imaging Partner Event during the Cortona on the move Cortona, IT
SELECTED WEB PUBLICATIONS
2020 CNN STYLE, UK
2020 PERIMETRO, IT
2020 Rolling Stone Italia Black Camera, IT
2020 Nello Spazio fa Freddo - Chippendale Studio / 23.500 TIMES, IT
2019 Interview for Discorsi Fotografici, IT
2019 Yogurt Magazine, IT
2019 PHROOM Stole the night, IT
2019 BestSelected Project, IT
2019 Artribune Nuovo paesaggio italiano, IT
2018 EXIBART, IT
2018 Rivista Segno, IT
2018 Darlin Magazine, Interview, IT
2018 FP Mag, IT
2018 IGNANT, DE
2018 Aesthetica Magazine, UK
2018 C41 Magazine, IT
2017 Landscape Stories, IT
2017 Artpil, FR
CATALOGS / PAPER
2020 - Yogurt Magazine - BAD TASTE flavour. Issue published by Yogurt Editions.
2020 - Il Fotografo N.326 - Editorial by Matteo Balduzzi
2020 Catalog of Premio Nocivelli 2020, IT
2020 Selected by the jury and included in the official catalog of the Combat 2020 Prize with the Unreal series.
2020 Lampoon Magazine - Issue N.21
2020 Buone notizie - Il Corriere della Sera
2020 Crisis - International students publication Vienna
2019 Territori di frontiera Un progetto A Regola dArte Book created by Riccardo Scarparo and Giacomo Infantino /Mediafriends Onlus & Brera Academy
2019 Feeling Italian - Book Ideated By SIETAR Italia
2019 Tra cielo e terra - Ideated by Claudio Boerchia with the collaboration of MUFOCO and Matteo Balduzzi. Villa Ghirlanda, MUFOCO Cinisello Balsamo, IT
2019 Bottega della fotografia - La Repubblica.
2019 XXV ORA! Contro il femminicidio, Luna Rosa Association - Catalog
2019 Lievi e precisi come determinati voli - Sguardi altri sulla cura e la ricerca dei tumori Catalog.
2017 Vittore Frattini, Nulla Dies Sine Lineas - NOMOS EDIZIONI - preface by Philippe Daverio
2017 STOP MAGAZINE / Issue Two
WORKS AND WORKSHOP
2018 Workshop | Ecosistema Olona: Territorial reading, Soundscape, Photography / Polytechnic of Milan Induno Olona, IT
2018 IRCCS foundation - National Cancer Institute Milano, IT
2017 A Regola d'Arte, Mediafriends Onlus Milano, IT
COLLECTIONS
2020 Permanent Collection at Museum of Contemporary Arts / Ex officina ferroviaria, Barge - IT
2018 Luna Rosa Association Crotone, IT
Private collections in Italy
info.giacomoinfantinoph@gmail.comprivacy
Giacomo Infantino
21026 - Varese (VA)
+39 347 484 7525