Giuseppe Gonella (Motta di Livenza, 1984) is an Italy-born contemporary visual artist based in Berlin. He began his artistic career in his father’s workshop, a painter and glass and mosaic artist. Gonella studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, where he graduated in 2008. In 2006, he received a scholarship from the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, which enabled him to set up his first studio.
After his time in Venice, Gonella lived and worked in various cities such as New York, Leipzig, Berlin, and Lisbon. In the latter, he established two studios and alternated periods of work between Portugal and Germany, consolidating an artistic journey enriched by contact with different cultural contexts. In 2020, she returned permanently to Berlin, where she currently lives and works.
Her constantly evolving painting draws on these experiences and explores themes such as rituals, dreams, and fears, guiding the viewer through dystopias and enigmatic landscapes with uncertain horizons. Through a symbolic and evocative language, she transforms personal and collective memories into contemporary allegories. For Gonella, painting is an open space where past and future intertwine, and each work becomes an invitation to reflect on the constant transformation of existence and the complexity of the human condition, in a balance between introspection and the desire for freedom.
Throughout his career, he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. Among his most notable solo exhibitions are Dittico (MAC Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone), Persiguiendo luces (Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan), Walking Home (Magic Beans Gallery, Berlin), Mente Locale (L’Atlante/Der Blitz, MAG Galleria Civica G. Segantini, Arco), Involucrados (Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan), and Oscilación suspendida (Senart 284, New York).
Among the most significant group exhibitions of his career are his participation in the 54th Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Turin); Imago mundi / Mapa de Arte Nuevo, within the Luciano Benetton Collection at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice; and Danae Revisited, organised by the Fondazione Francesco Fabbri.
