b. 1977, Rome (Italy) | Lives and works in London (UK)
Biography
London-based artist Ludovica Gioscia's process-led practice reads like a diary of layered experiences and relations, using the studio as a catalyst for non-linear ecological experiments. Alongside ceramics, fabric, papier-mâché, paper, watercolor and wallpaper, she often employs unusual materials, such as cat hair, distilled water from flowers, emotions and energy. Born and raised in Rome in the nineteen-eighties, the layering of many architectural styles has become a definite influence in the artist's work, as did the design style of the Memphis Group. At that, Gioscia’s practice exists somewhere at the crossroads between the Electronic Baroque, Memphis and Arte Povera.
Selected Artworks
Exhibitions
Practicalities (La vita materiale)
Curated by Marina Dacci5 Nov 2022 - 14 Jan 2023Baert Gallery is pleased to present Practicalities, a group exhibition curated by Marina Dacci. The show takes its title from the journal of Marguerite Duras, originally titled La Vie Matérielle and translated into English as Practicalities, which wasfirst published in 1987. The exhibition is the result of a lengthy process of sharing and exchange of ideas by a grouping of women artists. The Los Angeles version will be the third iteration of the exhibition whose prior versions took place at the CENTRALE Center for Contemporary Art in Brussels Belgium (as La Vie Matérielle), and the Palazzo Magnani in Italy (as La vita Materiale). Works and venues have changed, but the spirit animating the project has remained the same. Practicalities is an invitation to look at everyday life through different eyeglasses, accepting its complexity and mystery, using the imagination and the ability to transform matter, to open the body and the mind, to know how to share.Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Arturo and the Vertical Sea5 Jan - 20 Feb 2021Baert Gallery is pleased to announce Ludovica Gioscia's second solo show, Arturo And The Vertical Sea . Three large-scale wooden structures act as looms that weave together different textures, colour...Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Infinite Present5 Aug - 16 Sep 2017Baert gallery is delighted to present the first Los Angeles solo show by London based artist Ludovica Gioscia, Infinite Present . The title refers to the non-linear and atemporal modus...Read more
News
Ludovica Gioscia
Ludovica Gioscia is part of 'Material Girls and their Muses' at Vitrine in London March 28, 2024'Material Girls and their Muses' is a group exhibition featuring the work of five female-identifying sculptors with material-led practices alongside their chosen muses. This exhibition,...Read moreLUDOVICA GIOSCIA
Ludovica Gioscia's solo show 'Follicle Symphony' at Vitrine Gallery January 16, 2023January 20 - April 8, 2023 'Follicle Symphony' is Ludovica Gioscia's third solo show with the gallery exploring the experience of IVF and pregnancy in...Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Ludovica Gioscia is presenting a new site responsive installation 'Ramadura Marina' (2022) in dialogue with the archive of the late artist Lalla Lussu at Fondazione MACC, Calasetta, IT. May 3, 2022Ludovica Gioscia is presenting a new site responsive installation 'Ramadura Marina' (2022) in dialogue with the archive of the late artist Lalla Lussu at Fondazione MACC, Calasetta, IT.Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Included in an exhibition of posters by 22 international artists in the vitrines of cinemas in Berlin-Mitte April 26, 2021An exhibition in the showcases of the cinemas Babylon, Kino Central, Kino International and Hackesche Höfe Kino in Berlin-Mitte featuring: Caroline Achaintre, Xavier Antin, Pierre-Olivier...Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Group exhibition "Women to Watch UK: Paper Work", Sotheby's, London, UK September 13, 2019September 13 – 17, 2019 Ludovica Gioscia Gioscia began using paper as a layered and sculptural medium in 2003, entranced by its alchemical qualities and...Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Solo exhibition “The Tenderness of Insects“, VITRINE, Basel, Switzerland September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 – January 12, 2020 'The Tenderness of Insects' is Ludovica Gioscia’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland. Exploring a new dimension of Gioscia’s...Read moreLudovica Gioscia, Jebila Okongwu, Harrison Pearce, Benjamin Renoux
Featured in “100 Sculptors of Tomorrow“ by Thames & Hudson September 1, 2019Published in September 2019 100 SCULPTORS OF TOMORROW is an insightful, diverse, and inspiring survey of emerging and unknown talent working in the field of...Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Group exhibition “Eco Shifters“, Fondazione La Fabbrica Del Cioccolato, Torre, Switzerland March 23, 2019March 23 - May 26, 2019 Curated by Debora Hirsch More informationRead moreLudovica Gioscia
Group exhibition “Pop Therapy. Lo spirito rivoluzionario delle figurine Fiorucci“, Museo della Figurina, Modena, Italy March 9, 2019Curated by Diana Baldon March 9 – August 25, 2019 The exhibition pays homage to Elio Fiorucci's eclectic genius and displays Fiorucci Stickers, the iconic...Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Group exhibition "ONLY CONNECT OSAKA", Creative Centre, Osaka, Japan February 23, 2019Presented and directed by ONLY CONNECT + Hitoko Urago / Soshi Matsunobe February 23 - March 17, 2019 The polyphony created by differing artistic voices...Read moreEVENT
Ludovica Gioscia at "The Material Life", Palazzo da Mosto, Reggio Emilia, Italy, Friday February 22, 2019 at 6 pm February 22, 2019 Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Group exhibition “The Material Life. Eight Rooms, Eight Stories“, Palazzo da Mosto, Reggio Emilia, Italy November 17, 2018Curated by Marina Dacci November 17, 2018 – March 3, 2019 This exhibition inaugurates a new season of contemporary art at the Palazzo Magnani Foundation,...Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Solo exhibition “Nuclear Reaction Cosmic Interaction“, Ex Elettrofonica, Rome, Italy September 28, 2018September 28 – November 21, 2018 The show reads as an encyclopedia, or rather a cosmogony, of the artist’s practice. The gallery acquires a new...Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Included in a project of Vogue Italia n.846 curated by Valentina Ciarallo April 28, 2021Project published in Vogue Italia n. 846 curated by Valentina Ciarallo. The curator asked 49 Italian artists to re-interpret the iconic white cover of the...Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Group Exhibition "La Vie matérielle", a collaboration between Palazzo Magnani Foundation (Reggio Emilia) and CENTRALE for contemporary art (Brussels), curated by Marina Dacci and Carine Fol November 24, 2021CENTRALE presents the exhibition La Vie matérielle (09.12.2021 > 13.03.2022), a dialogue between 12 Italian and Belgian artists on the link between art and life....Read moreLudovica Gioscia
Charlotte and Alan Artus donate two screenprints to the Davidson College in North Carolina December 10, 2021Van Every | Smith Galleries at Davidson College True Blue Four color screenprint on acid free watercolor 300 gsm paper 20 x 16 in 50.8...Read more
Press
"La vie matérielle": à Bruxelles, douze femmes explorent la poétique du quotidien (French)
Guy Duplat, La Libre Belgique, December 8, 2021LUDOVICA GIOSCIA: LO STUPORE NELLE PAGINE DI UN LIBRO D’ARTISTA (ITALIAN)
LORENZO MADARO, Espoarte , March 15, 2021Ludovica Gioscia
Jody Zellen, Artillery Magazine, March 9, 2021Pick of the Week: Ludovica Gioscia
Cole Sweetwood, Artillery Magazine, February 17, 2021Arturo and the Vertical Sea (Italian)
Review by Angelica Gatto, ATP DIARY, February 5, 2021EXCLUSIVE ARTIST INTERVIEW: ARTURO THE CAT
by Paul Carey-Kent, FAD Magazine, February 3, 2021Ludovica Gioscia, Arturo and the vertical sea – Baert Gallery (Italian)
Review by Camilla Boemio, exibart, January 24, 2021Artists and ceramics. Interview with Ludovica Gioscia (Italian)
Interview by Irene Biolchini, Artribune, January 22, 2021Ludovica Gioscia "Arturo and the Vertical Sea"
Interview by Andrea Lerda, Platform Green, January 13, 2021INTERVIEW with Ludovica Gioscia on The Tenderness of Insects at VITRINE, Basel
WhiteHot Magazine, November 1, 2019Artist to Watch
Christine Takengny, Contemporary Art Society, October 25, 2018Ludovica Gioscia at Baert Gallery: A collision of past, present and future
Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, September 2, 2017What to See in Los Angeles Art Galleries This Week
Will Heinrich, New York Times, September 1, 2017Artist Ludovica Gioscia On Our Shapeshifting Femininity, Collaborating With MaxMara, and Making “Cosmetics From Another
Aindrea Emelife, Phoenix Magazine, July 1, 2017
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