ELISA CALDANA: BIOGRAPHY

Elisa Caldana (b. 1986) is an Italian artist working primarily with sculpture, performance, film, and writing. Architecture, public spaces, monuments, and collective identity are recurrent themes within her work.

She graduated from the Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the IUAV University of Venice. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the MAXXI Museum, Rome, 2023; Italian Cultural Institute, Mexico City, 2022; MAMbo Museum, Bologna, 2021; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2020; ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam, 2020; Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, 2019; ar/ge Kunst, Bozen, 2017; Sandretto Foundation, Turin, 2016/2019; Museum for Moderne Kunst MMK, Frankfurt am Main, 2013.

Elisa Caldana is an alumna of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2020-2021), recipient of the Mondriaan Fonds (2022-2026), the Italian Council (12th edition, 2023; 7th edition, 2019), nctm e l’arte (2018), Hessische Kulturstiftung (2016-2017), Portikus e.V. (2013), and Moving Up (2013). She was an artist in residence at ROSE Residency, Bologna (2021) and Tokyo Arts and Space – TOKAS, Tokyo (2018). Her most recent publications include The Falcon of Karachi, Mousse Publishing (upcoming), Times of Crisis, MAMbo Editions, 2021, and Never Again, Mousse Publishing, 2020.

Her work joined the permanent collections of the MACTE Museum of Contemporary Art, Termoli; MAMbo Museum of Modern Art, Bologna; the MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome; and Städelschule Portikus e.V, Frankfurt.