ABOUT
Elena Berriolo is a New York-based artist who has created many sculptures and installations. Since 2009 she made a commitment of working exclusively in the book format and performing while producing books.
PERFORMANCES:
February 5th 2017 – A Book as a Bridge Among Diversity
January 20th 2017 – A Book as a Pink Line
January 20th 2017 – A Book as a Pink Line, traveling from New York, Penn station to Washington DC on an Amtrak train
December 18th 2016 – A Book as a Bridge across the Mexican Border, Traveling on a Tourismo Express bus from San Diego to Tijuana, Mexico
June 22nd 2016 – the New York Transit Museum, Platforms The Making of a Book with Sewing Machine in the New York City Subway
June 6th 2016 – A Book as a Bridge, a performance with sewing machine on the Staten Island Ferry from Battery Park to Staten Island
November 11th and 23rd 2015 – A Book as a Bridge, a performance with sewing machine on the 2 subway train going from Wall St. to the Bronx and back
January 2015 – Fiternan Center, BMCC, New York: Sewing Music Into Visual Art, The Sound of Silence
January 2014 – Kunsthalle Galapagos, TRD Brooklyn, NY Perforation of the Fibonacci Sequence in a Book
July 11th 2013 – Reh Kunst, TRD, Berlin, Germany Transcription of Piero Manzoni’s Infinite Line with Sewing Machine
May 30th 2013 – Susan Eley Fine Art, Feed Me The Line a performance with sewing machine and poetry, in collaboration with Monica De La Torre
January 26th 2013 – Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY for “This Red Door”: Transcription of Piero Manzoni’s Infinite Line with Sewing Machine
2012 – Bravin Lee Programs, NY: In a Book, a Page is One Side of a Two Sided Sheet of Paper
May 5th 2012 – Bravin Lee Programs: Two Sided Concerto”, a performance with sewing machine and piano
1999 – Venice Biennale, Soup Kitchen for Oreste at the Italian Pavilion
1996 – Threadwaxing Space, New York, Empty Body
1998 – Gallery Mary Barone, New York: Empty Body With Blue Fold
ONE PERSON SHOWS:
2015 Featured Artist, The center For Book Arts (October 22nd – December 12th)
2014 – Art Projects international, New York, Fascination a collaboration with Ko Un.
2012 – Bravin Lee programs, New York
2001 – Lo Spazio, New York
1998 – Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York
1998 – Gallery Revolution, Ferndale (MI)
1998 – Gallery Mary Barone, New York
1998 – Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
1993 – Care/of, Milano, Italy
1991 – Matteo Remolino, Torino, Italy
1990 – Studio Marconi, Milano, Italy
1989 – Galleria Pinta, Genova, Italy.
HER BOOKS HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THE FOLLOWING EXHIBITIONS:
April 29th 2017 – La Notte featured in the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt show 172 New Book Objects
February 14th 2017 – Illegal Fashion Show, White Box Gallery Paper Reveries Shirley Fiterman Art Center NY – PIEROGI XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition
September 2014 – The Last Brucennial NY
March 2014 – Paper Goods, curated by Kara Rooney, Susan Eley Fine Arts
2013 – Off Broadway
February 1st to May 26th 2013 – Herzoh August Bibliotheck, Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
2012 – Au Plaisir Du Livre, Librairie Auguste Blizot, Paris
2011 – One of a Kind Books, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2009 – Global Books, Cité du Livre, Aix En Provence, France
2003 – Wandering Library Markers IV in Venice
1997 – La Tentation du Livre, Espace Culturel de Tinnqueux, France
1994 – Di Carta ed Altro, Museo Pecci Prato, Italy
1988 – Libri d’Artista, Galleria Cavellini, Brescia, Italy
HER NON-BOOK WORK HAS BEEN SHOWN IN NUMEROUS MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES INCLUDING:
The Pecci Museum in Milan in the show Turbolenze March 9th April 14th 2012
Centro Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in the shows: In Forma (1994) and Futurama (2000)
48th Venice Biennale, Oreste alla Biennale, 1999 – Construction in Process, Bydgodsh, Poland (2000)
49th Venice Biennale (2001)
The Ludwig-Forum, Aachen; Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
The Stadtische Ausstellungshalle, Münster
Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea, Bologna for the show Transfer (1996)
The Centre Cultural La Beneficiencia Valencia, Spain for the show Sul nostro tempo (1996)
Artist Space, New York, Selection From The Artists File (1994)
Threadwaxing Space, New York, The Offering (1994)
Construction in Process, Mitzpeh Ramon, Israel (1995)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library La Jolla, CA
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE,
Rare Book Collection William Allan Neilson Library Smith College Northampton, MA.
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Rare Book Collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France,
Rare Books Collection of the Bibliothèque La Méjanes in Aix en Provence, France,
Médiathèque La Durance, Cavaillon, France,
Centro Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy.