Biography
Art exhibitions
Gianluca Monnier is a director and visual artist (together with Andrée Julikà Tavares, with the artistic duo parapluie). After studying modern literature at the State University of Milan, he worked in electronic media, mainly for RSI (1998-2012) while exhibiting in public galleries and museums.
Andrée Julikà Tavares attended the Schauspielakademie in Zurich and graduated from the Head of Geneva (film section), where she also obtained a master's degree in art and media.
In 2006-7, both were artists-in-residence at the Swiss Institute in Rome.
In 2012, Monnier founded the production company parapluie pictures, based in Minusio. In the same year he won, together with Andrée Julikà Tavares, the writing grant organised by RSI and the Dipartimento dell'educazione e dello sport della Repubblica e Cantone Ticino (DECS) for the film Greetings from nowhere (with original texts by the anthropologist Marc Augé, theorist of non-places), a film selected in 2020 by the Cineteca di Milano. Their latest feature film, Holy Highway, supported by FondoFilmPlus, the Canton of Ticino and the Federal Office of Culture, had its world premiere at the 56th Swiss Film Days in Solothurn and was selected by the Human Rights Film Festival in Lugano and the Naples Film Festival.
2024
> LE MAMELON ENCHANTÉ / 26.1 - 21.4.2024 / group exhibitions with Donato Amstutz / Jérémie Blanes / Giuseppe Chiari / Carmelo Cutuli / Alex Hanimann / Hans Hartung / Sebastiano Impellizzeri / Sam Kautsch / Ingeborg Lüscher / Eugen Adolf Maurer / Gianluca Monnier / Sonja Maria Schobinger / Andro Wekua / Albert Edgar Yersin,
Mact/Cact, Bellinzona (CH), curated by Mario Casanova
> J'ADORE LES FEMMES / 10.5 - 11.8.2024 / group exhibitions with Katia Bassanini / Franz von Bayros / Giona Bernardi / Jérémie Blanes / Serge Brignoni / Martin Disler / Alex Hanimann / Paul Herrmann / Andrée Julikà Tavares / Patricia Jacomella Bonola / Paul Kleinschmidt / Yona Lotan / Meret Oppenheim / Maren Ruben / Nina Staehli
> THE VANISHING / 19.5 - 16.6.2024 / solo exhibition / parapluie (andrée julikà tavares and gianluca monnier)
Galerie im Stammelbach-Speicher, Hildesheim (D)
2023
> EXI[S]T. SUBLIMAZIONE DELLA FUNZIONALITÀ, Mact/Cact, Bellinzona (CH),
curated by Mario Casanova
> Bissone Arte 2022 (CH)
2022
> "Himmel + Hölle", Mact/Cact, Bellinzona (CH), curated by Mario Casanova
> "Tra luogo e corpi", Redaktion, Luzern (CH), curated by Stephan Wittmer
2020
> "100_TOWN-HO Wal respektive Kunst in Sicht!", B74 Raum für
Kunst, Luzern & La Rada Locarno & many other art spaces (CH), curated by Stephan Wittmer
> Des Nebels", Mact/Cact, Bellinzona (CH), curated by Mario Casanova
2019
> "Crash/Fragments", Spazio 1b, Lugano, in collaborazione con Biennale Immagine Chiasso
> "Femme with gun", video projections, La Rada, Locarno (CH), curated by Riccardo Lisi
> "Rivapiana. The Motel (1972-2018). Eine Hommage.", Rathaus für Kultur, Lichtensteig (CH)
2018
> "In the public eye", Lugano (CH), MASI, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana
> "The fabric between us", OnArte, Minusio (CH), curated by Kathrin Wolkowicz
2017
> "Si vis pacem, para bellum", ex macello, Lugano (CH), curated by Riccardo Lisi
> "Lungs of sugar", spazio OnArte, Minusio (CH), curated by Kathrin Wolkowicz
2016
> "C'était le 3 mars 1965", OnArte, Minusio (CH)
2012
> Brut: Beyound the outline, Mact/Cact, Bellinzona (CH), curated by Mario Casanova
2011
> Fanzines! festival de l'autoédition graphique, Paris (F)
> Ars Polis, Lugano (CH)
> The endless end, Kunsthalle, Lugano (CH)
2010
> Ars Polis, sotterranei studio K10, Lugano (CH)
> Festarte, Macro Testaccio, Roma (I)
> Che c’è di nuovo?, Museo Cantonale, Lugano (CH), curated by Elio Schenini
2009
> 100’000, I sotterranei dell’arte, Monte Carasso (CH), curated by Boris Magrini
> “Realunreal”, Cons Arc, Chiasso (CH)
> "Artisti della galleria", galleria Balmelli, Lugano (CH)
> "Lo stato delle cose", galleria Balmelli, Bellinzona (CH)
2008
> “Peste”, Bluvanoni, Chiesa di San Rocco, Losone (CH)
> “2video”, www.undo.net, internet
> “La fille avec la valise rouge”, Today Art Museum of Bejing, Bejing (CHINA)
> “Frontières”, Musée d’art et histoire, Neuchâtel (CH)
> “After the beep”, Galerie Dock 18, Zürich (CH)
> Spazio Officina, Visarte, Chiasso (CH)
2007
> “Le stagioni dell’uomo”, Auditorium Parco della musica, Roma (I)
> “Spazi aperti 5”, Accademia di Romania, Roma (I)
> video Screening, MACRO, Roma, curated by Shara Wassermann
> FotoGrafia, Festival Internazionale di Roma, Temple Gallery of Art, Roma (I),
curated by Shara Wassermann
> “Turtlesalon “ New York, Dusseldorf, London
> “Coltivazioni #1 + #2”, Laboratorio Kunsthalle, Lugano (CH)
> “Initial” Stadthausgalerie Munster (D)
2006
> “Laboratorio d’idee” Istituto Svizzero, Roma
> 10. vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis, Zurich, Lucerne, Bâle, Vevey (CH)
> Galerie Heroik Korp, Lyon (F)
> “Realtà parallele nell'arte contemporanea”, Mact/Cact, Bellinzona (CH), curated by Mario Casanova
> “Kunsthalle?”, Interazioni '06, Locarno (CH), curated by Mario Casanova
2005
> “Rencontre de la photographie” Arles
> Premio città di Lissone, Museo d’arte contemporanea, Lissone (I)
> “Le definizioni dell’invisibile”, Mact/Cact, Bellinzona (CH), curated by Mario Casanova
2004
> "La sintonizzazione del vuoto”, Officina Arte, Magliaso (CH)
2003
> “Che c’è di nuovo?”, Museo cantonale, Lugano (CH), curated by Elio Schenini
> "Y'a pas photos", Dot Galerie, Genêve (CH)
> Liste '03, Basel (CH), curated by Mario Casanova
2002
> Mact/Cact, Bellinzona (CH), curated by Mario Casanova
2000
> "La nave dei folli", La Rada, Locarno (CH)
> Galleria Spsas, Locarno (CH)
1999
> "Fotogrammi", Mact/Cact, Bellinzona (CH), curated by Mario Casanova
1998
> "Who shot Miles Davis", Cinema Teatro, Chiasso (CH)
> "Pixel", installazione su spazi pubblicitari, urban space installation, Chiasso