Teresa Giannico

Graduated in Figurative Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari, she specialised in Drawing and Painting while developing a strong interest in set design and theatre and gradually approaching photography. In 2012, she moved to Milan and attended the Master in Photography and Visual Design at NABA (Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti) and worked as an assistant to photographers Paolo Ventura and Toni Thorimbert. After her participation in Plat(t)form 2015 at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur (Switzerland) she was invited to exhibit her work at FotoFotopub Festival in Novo Mesto (Slovenia) and Circulation(s) (Paris, 2016). In 2015 she was a finalist in the Premio Francesco Fabbri with the series of works entitled Lay Out and in 2016 she exhibited the latter in the group exhibition Sulla Nuova Fotografia Italiana (Viasaterna, Milan). In 2018 she was selected among the photographers of Futures, a platform for photography curated by Camera, and exhibited at Unseen (Amsterdam) and Camera (Turin). She was artist-in-residence for the Casino Palermo project (Viasaterna, Palermo, June-July 2018) and subsequently participated in the group exhibition of the same name in the gallery's Milanese spaces (October-December 2018) followed by the first solo exhibition Kaleidos at Viasaterna (January 2019) and the group exhibitions Erosioni at Fundaciò Enric Miralles (Barcelona, 2019), Sguardo Lucido at Fotohof (Salzburg, 2019), Photo Israel (Tel Aviv, 2019) and for the Cairo Prize (Milan, 2019). In 2022 she won the VANNI #artistroom award at Artissima, for which she designed a limited-edition pair of glasses. In 2023, she presented her solo exhibition Archives of Empathy at Viasaterna. She was selected for the Vaf-Stiftung 2024 Prize - aimed at supporting contemporary Italian art in Germany - thanks to which she will be part of a group exhibition at the Stadtgalerie in Kiel (June - September 2024).