Elisa Giuliano ~ Keywords: comic, demonic, grotesque, religious, satirical, abundant, obscure, carnivalesque, profane, symbolic, vulgar, phantasmagorical, mocking, rural, superstitious, transformed, underground, maniac, ritual, magical, monstrous, feminine, poisonous, punk
Elisa Giuliano is a curator, architect, and theatre maker based between Italy and Berlin. Her curatorial and theatrical work explores the demythologization of modernity and capitalism, with a particular focus on sexuality and gender roles in religious histories, folklore, and myth-making—especially within the context of modern Italy.
She is currently a lecturer in the MA program in Cultural Critique / Curatorial Studies at ZHdK in Zurich. Recently, she was a curatorial fellow at HBK Braunschweig, where she curated the exhibition Crossing Tales and the screening program Thinking Through Evidence. In 2022, she co-curated the exhibition Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). She was also a fellow at Ocean Space – TBA21–Academy in Venice in 2020, and at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam in 2018.
In 2019, Giuliano was part of the artistic team for the exhibition projects I-DEA and Blind Sensorium in Matera, European Capital of Culture 2019. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Dirty Furniture, MUdec United, NERO, and Arts of the Working Class.
Learn more about Elisa Giuliano's 20 minute performance Bella come te, in carne ed ossa come me (beautiful like you, in flesh and bones like me) for 'tuttə (le) rottə - all (the) ways: unfixed' ~ DAI's Aeroponic Acts 2022 at Centrale Fies in Italy.
Learn more about Elisa Giuliano's written MA thesis (DAI, 2022): Black Madonnas: Race and Religion in Modern Southern Italy
Elisa Giuliano returned to DAI as curator and anchor of the AEROPONIC ACTS 2023: WHERE THE MOON IS UP, co-curator of the AEROPONIC ACTS 2024: Chameleon Orbit (with Giulia Crispiani) and curator of the AEROPONIC ACTS 2025: CHOREIA
For the academic year 2025-2026 Elisa acts as our Archipelago Weaver