Laura Fiorio is a freelance photographer based in Berlin and Verona. In her artistic practice she deals with urban spaces and the political tension between private and public. Her projects, developed through choral narratives, interact with exhisting archives and materials, questioning the power dynamics embedded in the editing process of images as memories, their instutionalized use and hence their critical and subversive potential.
Education
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2021
Post-Master Decolonizing Architecture, Royal Academy of Arts (Stockholm, SE)
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2019
School for Carpenters and Wood design, Commerce Chamber (Berlin, DE)
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2016
MA, Art as Social Work, Alice Salomon Hochschule / WeTeK (Berlin, DE)
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2011
MA, New media and technology arts, Academy of Fine Arts (Venice, IT)
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2009
MA, Film and Interactive Media, Middlesex University (London, UK)
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2007
BA, Visual and Performing arts, IUAV (Venice, IT)
Grants, Awards, Residencies
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2022
Travel Grant, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe (Berlin, DE)
NEUSTARTplus Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds (Bonn, DE) -
2021
Resonancias, Residency, Goethe Institute Chile / Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Valparaíso (Valparaíso, CL)
Rucka Artist Residency (Cesis, LV)
European Architectural Photography Prize Architekturbild, Honourable Mention (Frankfurt/Main, DE) -
2020
Fotolabor Ulan Bator, Residency, Goethe Institut / Mongolian University of Arts and Culture (Ulan Bator, MN)
Contemporary Landscapes, Residency, MUFOCO - Museum of Contemporary Photography (Milan, IT) -
2018
BangaloREsidency, Residency, Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan / MOD Institute (Bangalore, IN)
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2017
About Borders, Residency, Goethe Institut Mexico / RI Space (Tijuana, MX)
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2015
MIP Scholarship for creative mobility, Lombardia Region (Berlin, DE)
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2014
Confotografia, Residency (L’Aquila, IT)
Berlin Month of Photography, Portfolio honourable mention (Berlin, DE)
Sí Fest, Spazio Labó Portfolio Prize (Savignano, IT) -
2013
La Piave/220 km, Residency on the path of the river Piave (Various location, IT)
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2012
The Liquid Continent, Residency at the Academy of fine Arts (Alexandria, ET)
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2011
MigrAction, Residency, Guri-Cuc Center (Peja, KS)
Selected exhibitions (°: solo)
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2023
My Fascist Grandpa, curated by Ginevra Ludovici and Giulia Menegale, Remont Gallery (Belgrade, RS)°
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2022
Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Valparaíso, Parque Cultural ex Carcel (Valparaíso, CL)
My Fascist Grandpa, Entity of Decolonization (Siracusa, IT)
(Under)Commoning, The New Alphabet, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, DE)
My Fascist Grandpa, Royal Academy of Arts (Stockholm, SE)° -
2021
Panorami Contemporanei e Luoghi in Trasformazione, MUFOCO - Museum of Contemporary Photography (Milan, IT)The Urban in the Periphery, DAM - Deutsches Architekturmuseum (Frankfurt/Main, DE)
Hidden Treasures, Open Air Exhibition, Cukis Rucka Park (Cesis, LV) -
2020
Promemoria, Archivissima (Torino, IT)
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2019
La Border Curios, ECCHR – European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (Berlin, DE)°
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2018
Vanished Lakes, 1Shanti Road (Bangalore, IN)
Ricostruzioni, Triennale (Milan, IT)
La Border Curios, Goethe Institut (Mexico City, MX)°
La Border Curio, Casa Europa Mexico (San Miguel de Allende, MEX)° -
2017
Ein Tag in Berlin, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain (Berlin, DE)
La Border Curios, Plaza Viva Tijuana (Tijuana, MEX)
Contemporary Art Prize, Selected Works, Fabbri Foundation (Treviso, IT)
The Measure of all Things (with Daniele Sambo), Fotofestival (Landskrona, SE) -
2016
100. Collective Young Artist Show, Bevilacqua la Masa (Venice, IT)
Atmosphere, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain (Berlin, DE)
UP! Marghera on Stage, 15. Architecture Biennial (Venice, IT) -
2015
Adhocracy, Onassis Cultural Center (Athens, GR)
Think globally, act locally, Studio Bild (Torino, IT)°
Slideluck, Spazio Labo (Bologna, IT) -
2014
Confotografia, Sí Fest (Savignano, IT)
La città Fluida, Palazzo Frisacco (Tolmezzo, IT)°
La Piave/220km, Bothanical Garden, 14. Architecture Biennale (Venice, IT)
Frames, Streetlevel Gallery (Glasgow, GB)
Liquid Cities, Untertitel (Berlin, DE)° -
2013
Berlin Fotografen, Exp12 (Berlin, DE)
In the Jungle of cities (with Francesca Cirilli), Kamnik Galerije (Kamnik, SLO)°
Lions on Water, Belmacz Gallery (London, UK)
La Piave/220km, Benetton Foundation (Treviso, IT)
Muestra internacional dia de la fotografia pinhole, Espacio Comun, (Monterrey, MX)
SisMyCity, TUM Architecture University (Munich, DE) -
2012
Italian Pinhole Archive, MUSNIF, Senigallia (Ancona, IT)
Desertmed, NGBK (Berlin, DE) -
2011
The Liquid Continent, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria, ET)
SisMyCity, Palazzo Ducale, 12. Architecture Biennale (Venice, IT), Triennale Design (Milan, IT), FESTARCH – Festival for Architecture (Perugia, IT)
Emersioni (some) new photography in Venice, Casa dei Tre Oci (Venice, IT)
El Cabanyal, Voies Off Festival (Arles, FR)°
A Box of Dreams, Buziol Foundation (Venice, IT) -
2010
Lost in Production Days, S.aL.E. Docks – Punta della Dogana (Venice, IT)
Wh-le, Middlesex University Final Projects, The Rag Factory (London, GB)
Teaching
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2022
Decolonizing Architecture Summer School, Borgo Rizza (Catania, IT)
Brigaditas, Kids workshop, International Photography Festival (Valparaíso, CL) -
2021
Manuals for Dreaming and Inhabiting Ourselves, Workshop, New Alphabet School, House of the Cultures of the World - HKW (Berlin, DE) and Goethe Institut (Mexico City, MX)
What you see is not what I see. Everyday Life and Exoticism, Semester Photography Project Tutoring, Bachelor of Arts in Photography, Mongolian University of Arts and Culture (Ulan Bator, MN) -
2020
Visual Language and Image Analysis, Workshops in Secondary Schools, GfHF (Berlin, DE)
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2019
Experimental Photography, Quarterly photography workshops for people with disabilities - Aktion Mensch eV (Berlin, DE)
Self Portrait, Weekly workshops for inmates, Psychiatric Detention Centre Santa Marta (Mexico City, DE) -
2018
Self Portrait and Cookbook, Yearly workshops for inmates, Juvenile Detention Centre for Women JVA Lichtenberg, Pankow and Reinickendorf (Berlin, DE)
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2017
Beyond borders, Monthly workshop, RiSpace / Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (Tijuana, MX)