Luana Wojaczek Perilli (b.1981, Roma) graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in 2010, where she currently lives and works in Rome. She was awarded with several residency grants: Pan Studios Program, Pan Museum, Napoli (supervised by Daniel Buren) in 2010; Art Omi, New York, grant by Dena Foundation in 2008 and Cité Internationale des Arts, grant by Incontri Internazionali D’Arte, Paris, in 2008 and 2004. Recent shows include: ‘Q.I vedo’, Napoli (), ‘Solitary shelters’ at The Gallery Apart, Roma, IT; ‘All for one’ at Medium Galerie, Bratislava, SK; ‘Roommates-Coinquilini Luana Perilli /Carola Bonfili’, MACRO, Roma, IT. Perilli has contributed to numerous group shows, including the 2014-15 Kochi Muziris Biennale in MOG Goa Museum, India; Internaturalità in PAV, Torino; Patria Interiore-interior homeland Golden thread Gallery, Project Space, Belfast; ITALIENISCHE KUNST HEUTE, Stadtgalerie, Kiel; Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen; RE-generation, MACRO, Roma; Omaggio a Graziella Lonardi Buontempo , PAN, Napoli; An intimate story – Cotroneo Collection, MAMM Multimedia Art Museumof Moscow, Moscow.Perilli is currently professor of Multimedia Installation at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and professor of Art Sudio and Drawing at Cornell University in Rome.

During her Residency in Berlin, Luana Wojaczek Perilli will further deepen her investigation into post-critical collective awareness and the perception of nature.

The history of the city itself provides a great range of provoking issues and locations that recently changed paths of use and meaning, as they became taken over by necessity, as well as by a will to activate a new awareness in the interpretation of spaces.

These locations are a large field for Perilli’s artistic investigation, alongside her interest in the idea of shelters, leftovers and post-failure perception of the environment.

During her first part of the residency in spring last year, Perilli encountered one of the lost places in Berlin, a former bunker, a former place for protection and safety, now a playground, a climbing park, a place where people endanger themselves was created on top of it. This juxtaposition in post-war monuments, their randomly chosen new usage was part of Perilli’s investigation in Berlin. In a Kunst Salon her new ideas and research so far was presented.

The critical shift and the ecological issues related to urban beekeeping and urban crops will inspire a new corpus of works made of videos, drawings and sculptural installations. She will continue her research into this, in the second part of her Residency with MOMENTUM. Perilli will dedicate special attention to issues around collective intelligence.

Song of Olimpia is a performative open ended introduction to Luana Wojaczek Perilli’s project LEOPOLD-O, with sound design by Alberto Picciau.  LEOPOLD-O is a project that deals with community identities while undergoing crisis – starting from communal life of eusocial insects to difficult heritage appropriation.  The full project will be informed by video, performances and a refugees puppet theatre. This is a work in progress undertaken for the MOMENTUM Artist Residency.