Biography
Claudia Passeri creates site-specific interventions and contextual pieces that explore human perception in relation to place. Depending on the site and the context, the work takes on social, political, and environmental aspects. Her research has a neo-romantic aspect that seeks, frequently via the use of irony, to reveal the mechanisms that activate the human creative processes, which transform how we view the world.
Claudia Passeri lives and works between Luxembourg (L) and Perugia (I). From 1998 to 2004 she studied set design at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Bologna (I), photography at the ESI ‘Le 75’ in Brussels (B) and finally at the IED in Rome (I). Since 2002, Claudia Passeri’s work has been shown regularly in Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, etc.. In 2006, she is co-founder with Michèle Walerich of the public art project Agence Borderline. In 2011 she received the Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg Resident in NYC, this prize offers a four-month residency at ISCP in New York City (USA). A selection of her recent pieces has been shown in 2014 at the Mudam Luxembourg and BOZAR in Brussels (B). In 2015 she had a soloshow Mangia Mina at the Centre D'Art Nei Liicht in Dudelange, that has been shown in 2017 at the SRISA Gallery of Florence (I). Since 2016 her piece Zeitgeist - Karl Cobain is presented at Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art contemporain (L). In 2016 she obtained a residency at the Darling Foundry in Montréal (CA) fom the Fonds culturel national (FOCUNA).
Exhibitions, interventions
2020 Peccato, Art au Centre, commissaire Saryna Nyssen, Liège, Belgique
2020 Prima figlia femmina, Nosbaum Reding Projects, Luxembourg Ville, Luxembourg
2019 Prix d'Art Robert Schuman, commissaire Stilbe Schroeder, Villa Vauban, Luxembourg Ville, Luxembourg
2019 Luxembourg-Arles-Luxembourg, Cercle Cité, Luxembourg Ville, Luxembourg
2019 Aedicula, commissaire Danielle Igniti, Lët'z Arles, Chapelle de la Charité,
Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
2018 F(l)ight Sketches for Bert Theis, commissaires Angelo Castucci et Enrico Lunghi, Cercle Cité, Luxembourg
2018 Black Box(es), expositions collective, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg Ville, Luxembourg
2018 Transitus immobilis, with Catherine Lorent and Serge Ecker, Art Week 2018, Luxembourg
2018 Black Box(es), group exhibition, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Sarrebrücken, Germany
2017 Black Box(es), group exhibition, Centre d'Art Faux Mouvement, Metz, France
2017 Papillons de résistance, Circolo Eugenio Curiel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2017 Mangia Mina, solo exhibition, with the collaboration of Pietro Gaglianò, SRISA Gallery, Florence, Italy
2016 Zeitgeist - Karl Cobain, permanent piece, Cafésino, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2016 Jeff Desom, Claudia Passeri and Su-Mei Tse, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
2015 Mangia Mina, Claudia Passeri with Pietro Gaglianò, CAC Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg
Curator Danielle Igniti,
2015 Steichen! Making meaning of a legacy, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Tous les chemins mènent à Schengen, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
2015 Souvenirs from Europe, Ghost Editions, Lisbonne, Portugal
2015 En attendant le retour des dinosaures, with Jean Marc Aviance, Window Box, Oslo, Norway
2014 That troublesome knot, public sculpture, Bâtiment Publics, Lycée du Nord, Wiltz, Luxembourg
2014 NY-LUX, Edward Steichen Award 2004-2014, curator Enrico Lunghi, Mudam, Luxembourg
2013 Keep your Feelings in Memory, curated by Agence BorderlineNational Resistance Museum, Luxembourg
2012 Open Studio Days, ISCP, New York, USA
2012 Red sunset, emerald flash, HVCCA, Peekskill, New-York, USA
2011 Un ciclone tropicale nell’emisfero boreale, Centre d’Art Dominique Lang, Dudelange, Luxembourg
Curated by Danielle Igniti, texts by Pietro Gaglianò
2011 Labskaus, Künstlerhaus Speckstrasse, curated by Marc Soisson, Hamburg, Germany
2011 Sleep Disorders, Centre d‘Art Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg
2011 J’aime la différence, Casa das Artes, Tavira, Portugal
2011 Viaschengen.org, in collaboration with D’Letzebuerger Land, Luxembourg
2011 Premiata Officina Trevana 2011, curated by Maurizio CocciaPalazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi, Italy
2011 Campione, CAPe, Ettelbrück, Luxembourg
2010 Pentagonade, Galerie im Regierungsviertel / Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany
Curated by Catherine Lorent
2010 Preambles and Perambulations, Charles Dickens Museum, London, United Kingdom
Curated by Marco Cali, Pippa Koszerek, Mary Yacoob
2010 (Out Of) Control, BIP 2010, MAMAC, Liège, Belgium
2009 Une Nuit/Eine Nacht, CAC Castel Coucou, Forbach, France
2009 Quitte-moi si tu peux, Ambassade Kilo, Péniche Demoiselle, Paris, France
2009 Kilo, within the framework of Constellation, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
2009 Ouvertures d’ateliers de Nancy, invited by JC Massinon, Nancy, France
2009 Mimosa, posters, March 2009, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
2008 ADOR, project Münzstrasse 10, Berlin, Germany
2008 Fontana Candida, with Michèle Walerich, Centre d‘Art Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg
2007 Multiplex en Résidence, LX5 homebase, Luxembourg
2007 Roundabout, curated by Christian Mosar, Rotonde 2, Luxembourg
2006 Be my lucky number, Agence Borderline Gallery, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
2006 Issues, Centre d‘Art Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg
2005 Surveiller et punir, La Médiatine, Brussels, Belgium
2005 Kësst-Iech, public elevator Grund Plateau St. Esprit, Luxembourg City Luxembourg
2003 Art Brussels 2003, Galerie Dexia, Brussels, Belgium​
2003 Otium, site specific intervention, Piazza Madonna de’Monti, Notte Bianca, Rome, Italy​
2003 Aperitivo pre-sciopero, happening, Bar Garibaldi, Gubbio, Italy
2002 4ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2002 L’Idiot du Village, Théâtre de “l’L”, Brussels, Belgium
2002 Axion Art 2002, Galerie Dexia, Brussels, Belgium
2002 IDEAL, Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium
2002 Prix Médiatine 2002, jury President : Thierry De Duve, Brussels, Belgium
Lectures, presentations
2018
Nuit des idées L’imagination au pouvoir ?, table ronde, Mudam, Luxembourg
2017
Présentation aux étudiants de la Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italie
2016
Conférence, présentation de fin de résidence, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, Canada
2013
Art Freak, studio visit, Mudam, Luxembourg
2012
Salon, ISCP, New-York, USA
Rencontres avec les artistes du Casino, Casino, Luxembourg
2006
Wazzup?, European Month of Photography, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria
Projects, awards, residencies
2019
Nominée par Stilbe Schroeder pour le Prix d'Art Robert Schuman, Luxembourg
Nominée par Pietro Gaglianò pour le Premio Modigliani, mention spéciale, Livorno, Italie
2018
Bourse Bert-Theis, Fonds Culturel National du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2014
Soirée de Résistance, Agence Borderline, Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2013
Keep Your Feelings in Memory, Agence Borderline, National Resistance Museum, Luxembourg
2011
Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg, Luxembourg resident in NYC at ISCP, Luxembourg-USA
Bourse d’aide à la création, Ministère de la Culture, Luxembourg
FOCUNA, Fonds Culturel National, Luxembourg
2009
Be my Guest, Agence Borderline, Exit 07, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg
2008
ADOR, residency Münzstrasse 10, Berlin, Germany
2007
Agence Borderline, public art project, Luxembourg and Greater Region
European Capital of Culture 2007, Luxembourg
2005
Waiting, Art Workshop, Casino, Luxembourg
Pasolini Amore e Rabbia, exhibition and workshop, Galerie QG SalzInsel, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
2002
Une aiguille dans une meule de foin, screening night, Brussels, Belgium
Publications, editions
Keep your Feelings in Memory, exhibition catalogue, ed. Agence Borderline
Texts by Pietro Gaglianò & Gian Maria Tore, designed by Saskia Gevaert, Luxembourg, 2014
MUDAMI Card, Mudam, Luxembourg, 2013
Un ciclone tropicale nell’emisfero boreale, exhibition catalogue, ed. Centre d’Art Nei Liicht
Text by Pietro Gaglianò, designed by Bunker Palace, Luxembourg, 2011
Borderline, catalogue, ed. Agence Borderline, designed by Monsieur et Madame,
nominated for the Prix Fernand Baudin 2009, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium-Luxembourg, 2009
Roundabout, exhibition catalogue, Luxembourg, 2007
Mutations 1, European Month of Photography, ed. Contrasto, Rome, Italy, 2006
Etudes
2002-2004 Istituto Europeo di Design, Rome, Italy
1999-2002 Ecole Supérieure de l’Image”le 75, Bruxelles, Belgium
1998-1999 Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy