ABOUT
Elena Berriolo is a New York-based artist who has created many sculptures and installations. Since 2011 she made a commitment of working exclusively in the book format and performing while producing books.
PERFORMANCES:
March 6th 2022 to present – WE CAN MEND FOR PEACE, a weekly performance presented in front of Russian, Ukrainian, Israeli, American Consulates, The White House, Jewish Museum in New York City, The Ukrainian Institute of America in NewYork and other relevant locations.
April 23rd 2023 – An Accordion Book for our Waterfront – BWAC, Brooklyn, NY Curated by Maddy Rosenberg.
March 6th 2022 – A Book as a Bridge from Ukraine to Russia – on the MTA 6 train while traveling from 51st St. (Ukraine’s consulate stop) to 86th St. (Russian Consulate’s stop).
March 14th 2022 – An Accordion Book for the Environment – Oculus, NYC Culture Club gallery, Curated by Chris Costan and Laziza Rakhimova
February 19th 2022- Sewing Machine and Voice- Oculus, NYC Culture Club gallery, Curated by Chris Costan and Laziza Rakhimova
October 25th 2021 – A Book as a Seam For the Ocean – Huntington Beach (CA)
October 21st 2021 – A Book as a seam for Cleaner Water – Huntington Beach (CA).
October 2nd 2021 – A Book as a Seam for Our Reproductive Rights. Washington Square Park, New York City for the Reproductive Rights March.
December 12th 2020 – A Book as a Seam to Heal as All – Construction in Process Zoom Reunion.
September 20 2019 – A Book as a Seam for The Global Strike – Foley Square for the Global climate Strike.
August 27th 2019 – A Book as a Seam on the Mediterranean Shore – On the beach in Spotorno, (SV) Italy.
April 28th 2019 – I Would Like to Be a Shark -In collaboration with Peter Krashes Theodore:Art gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
May 5th 2017 Sewing Machine and Piano Jazz – in collaboration with Art Hirahara at Culture Club 68 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY.
February 5th 2017 – A Book as a Bridge Among Diversity – The HighLine New York City
January 20th 2017 – A Book as a Pink Line On Amtrak train while traveling from New York City to Washington DC for the Women March.
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:
2024 October 28th capnapoliest Gallery Napoli, Italy
2024 October 26th Crumb Gallery, Firenze, Italy
2015 The Center For Book Arts New York City
2014 – Fascination – Art Projects international, New York,
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:
May 26th 2023 On the Waterfront: A View from the Coast, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY Curated by Maddy Rosenberg.
January 27th 2022 – In Nature Nothing Exists Alone – Oculus, NYC Culture Club gallery, Curated by Chris Costan and Laziza Rakhimova
April 28th 2019 – I Would Like to be a Shark -Theodore: Art gallery, Brooklyn, NY
April 29th 2017 – 172 New Book Objects- Angewandte Kunst Museum , Frankfurt , Germany.
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.