Seit 1985 lebt und arbeitet Paola Telesca in Berlin  -  "Galerie+Atelier Bianco A Nero"

Artistic approach
Paola Telesca lives and works in Berlin. Her work includes drawing, photography and installation. She works thematically in cycles and series and her work is conceptual.
The artist has had the opportunity to live in both West- and East-Berlin. Four intense years of life in the German Democratic Republic left many impressions and from this experience Telesca has created a series of conceptual works dealing with East and West where she approaches and analyses aspects of the economy and its associated sense of time. The artist shows, among other artworks, a photographic approach, a zooming from soldiers and past newspapers through backyards and windows into a kitchen with patterned wallpapers.

In another work headlight rings of Trabant cars become watches that describe a new concept of time and production. This series of works titled 'My GDR' is a testimony of changing time and history.
The perception of time and movement, its optical awareness and the interaction of the viewer play an important role in Telesca’s installations. In a series of works titled 'Give me a Swing' and 'Rotunde - Room laboratory' the artist examines a general sequence of movement. She works with speed, changing tempos and opposite directions; she plays with the perception of time by fixating on rest points, creating equilibria and dissolution phenomena - a game with the visual perception and viewing habits of the audience.
While „travelling through the perception of movement“ Telesca has also found an important inspiration in dance. The artist likes to work „live“ with dancers and tries to adapt her lines to the pace of their actual movement through reducing the number of strokes. Whilst drawing, Telesca concentrates on the movements of the dancer until she experiences herself the feeling of dancing. She describes it as a "stenographic recording of movement and space on the paper“. The resulting series of works bears the title: „I drew. Let her dance. Until the music picked me up“.
An additional „stenography of the line“ is created in the series „Blind Drawing“. The Italian artist creates a whole work of art with just a few lines and dashes. The line is clear, decisive, spontaneous and self-confident. The definition of the stroke in its minimalistic form creates a narrative structure.
In the series „Piercing the Mask“ Paola Telesca continues to explore body movements and focuses on the expressive language of the Japanese dance, Butoh - the dance of the soul. She explores the variety of „images“ displayed in this particular dance. The emotions, vibrations and tensions in the surrender to the dance offer the artist the possibility to catch, penetrate and interpret human fears; the darker and the „grey“, naked side to each human being. These expressions are partially serious, fearful, „grey“ and insecure, and yet they represent beauty to her. „They are a state that constantly changes, a flow in which nothing is constant, where two polarities seek a balance, a harmony. An internal struggle, a duality; the polarization of black and white, of emotions and feelings that search for a balance which comes and goes ... and yet it is never permanently there“. Contrasts here are strong, defined, hard. The surfaces dissolve themselves in fine lines and directions. They represent for the artist the memory; the traces of an ever-changing condition. This series is produced in collaboration with the Butoh dancer Makiko Tominaga and the saxophonist Marcel Schmid. She finds here an artistic universe that she explores with joy. These works invite to meditation and questioning.
Telesca's photographs show a gradation scale ranging from black through all greyscale to white. Here again two polarities play a role: the yin and yang; the positive and the negative; in a game of mirroring and reversing. The interpolated figures affirm one another in expressing the polarity of things, the two sides of the coin creating new images and associations.
Since 2017 Paola Telesca has been working on the expression and gestures of hands. Hands have no face and their language is universal. In their gestures she finds emotions like pain, need and greed. These observations led to the series "Need&Greed" - two series of photos and one film. Water and shadows are important elements in these very last works: water as an unexplored element of nature, in constant motion, and shadows of hands moved by the currents of water, swaying and rocking like seaweed. These souls have no graves. They rise like
whispering voices from the depths of the sea aiming to create moments of reflection. They do not want to be forgotten.

This year 2019 the artist is working on a new series of artworks also dealing with the „Refugees“ thematic. This series is titled: quoting Hannah Arendt - "And nobody knows who I am! - The lost dignity".  The starting point is Arendt's essay "We Refugees" (1943) and a reflection on the „newcomers",  „immigrants“ so as Arendt prefers to call refugees.
Telesca shows touching works of art that interlace music, dance, movement and perception searching for a universe of poetry and a new magic.

Biography
born in Rome, Italy
2000-2001    multimedia conception, Academy for Digital Media, Berlin
1996              Master's Degree, Universität der Künste, Berlin (UdK)
1989-1995    Universität der Künste, Berlin (UdK)
1987-1988    Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin
1980-1983    Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori, Rome (Italian, English, Spanish)

Awards and prizes - Miscellaneous

2023 -  INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FINE ARTS KRANJ_IFVA Kranj _ Recognition for High Quality Artwork_

             Katalog: https://dluk.si/2023/09/28/katalog-12-mflu-2023/#dearflip-df_638/1/ _ ISBN: 978-961-6815-26-0

          -  EMOP - European Month of Photography - Gedok Berlin

2022 -  Cover photo on the new album release "HANGING GARDENS" by YANNICK DELEZ STRING 5TET; Publisher: Claves Records (2022)

           - ArtistCloseUp - Contemporary Art Magazine #1 - https://issuu.com/artistcloseup/docs/magazinefall2022

           - cover photo - Hanging Gardens by Yannick Delez String 5tet

       - 24.-28. 08.2022 - SWISSARTEXPO 2022 - Artbox.Projects Zurich 4.0, Zurich HB, Switzerland;  ℗ ISBN: 978-3-0366-0154-0

2021 - STADTSTÜCKE - RHYTHMUS BERLIN, Schloss Schönhausen, Berlin - KuratorInnen: Marula Di Como, Paola Telesca

          - Arte Laguna - Artists in the Spotlight

2020 - EMOP - European Month of Photography - GEDOK Berlin

2019- Artist by Saatchi Art

          - IPA - International Photo Awards - honorable mention street photography

          - artwork selected for PhotoPlace Gallery’s juried exhibition, "Water 2019" (Juror: Elizabeth Avedon) ℗

          - Arte Laguna World

2018 - Best of LensCulture
2017 - ND AWARDS PHOTO CONTEST - honorable mention in fine art: conceptual category
2010 - TEMPELHOF-SCHÖNEBERGER ART PRIZE, ZEITges(ch)ehen - Town Hall Gallery, Berlin
2000 - 1st ART PRIZE - 4th JESTEBURG ART WEEK, Jesteburg, Germany ℗
          - Exhibition - INTERNATIONAL ART AWARD, Kunsthalle werkP2, Hürth/Cologne ℗
1995 - project funding, Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, Hausblick, SKULPTUREN PARK, Tacheles
1993 - Art prize - competition "Kunst im Görlitzer Park", Performance and film project, Grünflächenamt and Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin

1986-1990 - Residence in East Berlin, former German Democratic Republic

Exhibitions (selection)

2024

10.-30.04.2024 - Cipriarte Gallery, Biennale Artexpo, Venedig 2.0

01.-30.04.2024 - Casa del Arte, Costa d'en Brossa, 4B, 07001 Palma, Spain

01.-30.04.2024 - Nicoleta Gallery, Berlin

01.03.-29.03.2024 - Thomson Gallery, Zug Switzerland 

02.01.-31.01.2024 - Artbox.Projects: Andakulova Gallery, Dubai, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate

02.01.-31.01.2024 - Artbox.Projects: AndieArt, Athen, Griechenland

2023

01.12.2023-19.01.2024 - diekleinegalerie, Goblerstr. 21, Berlin

25.11.2023 - Werkschau FRAGIL - KunstEtagenPankow (KEP), Berlin

05.-10.-04-11-2023 - 12. International Festival of Fine Arts Kranj, Slovenia -Town Hall Gallery at Glavni trg 4 in Kranj
Press conference: September 27th, 2023 at 11:00 am in the Vojnomir Hall in the Gorenjski Museum, Tomsiceva Street 42

06.-10.09.2023 - SWISSARTEXPO Zürich - Artbox Zürich, Hauptbahnhof Zürich, Bahnhofplatz 1 8001 Zürich

15.-18.06.2023 - Artbox Expo Basel - Artbox.Project - Basel 2.0  - Euroairport Basel - Mulhouse, Switzerland

03-04.06.2023 - KunstEtagen Pankow (KEP), Artspring Berlin

01.-31.05.2023 - Finity Gallery, Kantstrasse 17, 10623 Berlin

27.04.-01.05.2023 - Kunst braucht Raum - eine Aktion der KunstEtagen Pankow (KEP) - Artspring 2023, Schönhauser Allee Arcaden, Berlin

17.-26.04.2023 - Artbox.Project - New York 2.0, 345 Broome St, NYC 10013

01.03.-31.03.2023 - Artboxy - Casa del Arte, Costa d'en Brossa, 4B, 07001 Palma, Spain

01.03.-31.03.2023 - Artboxy - Thomson Gallery, Schmidgasse 4, 6300 Zug, Switzerland

01.03.-31.03.2023 - Artboxy - Johnathan Schultz Gallery, 4141 NE 2nd Ave Suite 105 D/F, Miami, FL 33137, USA

24.02.-02.04.2023 - Berührung 0.2.3. - 10. EMOP (European Month of Photography) 2023, Gedok Berlin

from January 2023 - Musée Légitime (Museum in the hat) by Martín La Roche, Amsterdam

2022

28.11.-10.12.2022 - Artbox.Project Miami 3.0 during Art Basel Week, 219 NW 23rd St, Miami, FL 33127

24.10.-05.11.2022 - Artbox.Project Palma 1.0, Casa del Arte, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

19.11.2022 - "más allá", Open studios, Kunst Etagen Pankow (KEP), Berlin

21.10.-13.11.2022 - Mensch sein, nicht -Natur auf Abwegen, Gedok Berlin

10.-11.09.2022 - Kunst "tag und nacht" in den Gerichtshöfen, Berlin-Wedding - Gäste Etage - Führungen: Dr. Karin Rase (CundKGalerie), Dr. Sabine Ziegenrücker (Kunsthistorikerin)

04.9.-04.10.2022_ "Was uns bewegt ...", 9. Station, Ausstellung im Kunstforum KUBIZ, Kultur-und Bildungzentrum Unterhaching

24.-28. 08.2022 - SWISSARTEXPO 2022 - Artbox.Projects Zurich 4.0, Zurich HB, Switzerland;  ℗ ISBN: 978-3-0366-0154-0

11.+12.06.2022_ Artspring 2022, Der Mythos ist hin, KunstEtagenPankow (KEP), Berlin

2021

- 22.10.2021 - GEDOK Berlin, "Echtzeit"

- 04.09.2021 - Midissage: Stadstücke - Rhythmus Berlin - Schloss Schönhausen, Tschaikowskistr. 1, 13156 Berlin  ℗

- 19.06.2021 - 31.01.22 - "Stadtstücke - Rhythmus Berlin" - Schloss Schönhausen, Tschaikowskistr. 1, 13156 Berlin

- Offene Ateliers, KunstEtagenPankow e.V., Berlin

- Galerie Parterre, Berlin 

- 05.-06. - Artspring, Berlin

- 19.06-31.10. - Schloss Schönhausen, Berlin 

- KulturKapellen, Berlin 

- 23.04.-16.05. - Galerrie GEDOK Berlin, Großformatige Papierarbeiten

- ARTBOX.PROJECT Barcelona 1.0, Valid World Hall gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2020

- "Vielfalt", Galerie GEDOK Berlin, Berlin

- Werkschau Kunst Etagen Pankow (KEP), Berlin

- GEDOK Berlin -  „NICHT INS NAMENLOSE VERSINKEN" (Ida Dehmel) - im Rahmen des EUROPÄISCHEN MONATS DER FOTOGRAFIE (EMOP)

- Nacht & Tag 2020  in den Gerichtshöfe - GästeEtage, Berlin

- KÖRPER Bauplan FRAU - GEDOK Berlin, Berlin

- LOOVAS Projects - München

- May/June:   Artspring 2020 - Bibliothek Janusz Korczak, Berlin

- ARTBOX.SCREEN in the ARTBOX.GALLERY Zurich

2019

- Rathaus Pankow, Berlin

- juried Exhibition - NACHT und TAG 2019', Gerichtshöfe, Berlin

   Guided tours: MAXI BROECKING: (journalist, curator Zellermayer Gallery, Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Scope Basel, Art Cologne, Art Karlsruhe,

   Art Consultant; ANDREAS HERRMANN: mianki.Gallery (Berlin); TOBIAS WACHTER: Gallery Irrgang, Berlin, gallery

- PhotoPlace Gallery - Exhibition: July 18 - August 10, 2019 - (Juror: Elizabeth Avedon), Middlebury, Vermont Gallery ℗

- ArtSpring 2019 - KunstEtagen Pankow - Galerie+Atelier Bianco A Nero - Janusz-Korczak-Bibliothek, Berlin

- Mitglied bei der Gedok Berlin

2018

- MUSEUM PANKOW, Berlin

- ARTspring 2018, Berlin

2017-2018

- Assistant at Galerie Joachim Pohl, Berlin
2017
- ND AWARDS PHOTO CONTEST - honorable mention in fine art: conceptual category

- ARTspring 2017, Berlin ℗
- Member of the „Salon der Zeichner*innen“, Berlin

- "Postinternet.art"  - The Wrong Biennial
- Artist by ARTQUISITE, Munich
- Tischlein deck dich, GALERIE ARTIST-HOMES, Berlin

2016
- IMPROabend - Butoh Dance, Saxophone, Projections - Tominaga/Schmid/Mehnert/Telesca

- conception of the exhibition at Mail Art Archiv Hellmundt

2015

Foundation of the Galerie Bianco A Nero, Berlin-Pankow

since 2012

member of the artist association Kunst Etagen Pankow e.V. (KEP), Berlin
2010
- TEMPELHOF-SCHÖNEBERGER ART PRIZE, ZEITges(ch)ehen - Town Hall Gallery, Berlin
2008-2016
„Anonyme Zeichner“ No. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

2004

- Galerie 14, Berlin
2003
KLINIKUM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Berlin ℗
2002
- Jury member, „JESTEBURGER KUNSTWOCHE“, Jesteburg, Germany
- MUSEUM HEIMAT, Jesteburg, Germany ℗

2001

- Zeit-Los, Kirche Jakobshagen, Jakobshagen

2000
- 1st ART PRIZE - 4th JESTEBURG ART WEEK, Jesteburg, Germany ℗
- INTERNATIONAL ART AWARD, Kunsthalle werkP2, Hürth/Cologne ℗
1999
- „… UND AB DIE POST“, 3rd FESTIVAL OF YOUNG EXPERIMENTAL ART, Postfuhramt, Berlin
- Galerie Nagornaya, Moskau - Галерея Нагорная, Москва

1998
- „… UND AB DIE POST“, 2rd FESTIVAL OF YOUNG EXPERIMENTAL ART, Postfuhramt, Berlin
- Galerie KunstRaum, Berlin

- Kunsta(u)ktion 3, Hackesche Höfe / Kleiner Festsaal, Berlin
1997
- „… UND AB DIE POST“, 1rd FESTIVAL OF YOUNG EXPERIMENTAL ART, Postfuhramt, Berlin
- „Schwindel“, GALERIE WEIßER ELEPHANT, Berlin
1995-1996
- art action and exhibition „Kunst aus dem Waggon - Kunst Stationen“, BAHNHOF WESTEND, Berlin
1995
- „El caimán“, GALERIE AM PRATER, Berlin
- project funding, Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin,
- Hausblick, SKULPTUREN PARK, Tacheles

- Aktionsgalerie, Weltall Erde Mensch, Berlin
- Ein Spiel ist ein Spiel ist ein Spiel (16mm film, 7 min.) Premiere, BETHANIEN HAUS, Berlin
- Buch und Kunst, VILLA OPPENHEIM, Berlin
1994-1996
- Tutor, Women's Media Pool and Media Workshop, Universität der Künste, Berlin (UdK)
1994
- S-Bahn Project Südring - Kunst aus dem Waggon - Art Action of the UdK in cooperation with the Karl Hofer
Gesellschaft and the Reichsbahn (P)
- Kunst-Stationen, BAHNHOF WESTEND, Berlin

- 24. Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung (FBK), ICC Messegelände, Berlin ℗
1993
- ART PRIZE „KUNST IM GÖRLITZER PARK“, Berlin
- Hand Luggage, BARLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, London ℗

- 23. Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung (FBK), ICC Messegelände, Berlin ℗

- Galerie im Pferdestall, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin - "Bin kein Tourist, ich wohne hier"

1992

- 22. Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung (FBK), ICC Messegelände, Berlin ℗
1991
- BERLINER SPARKKASSE, Berlin ℗

Publikationen

 https://dluk.si/2023/09/28/katalog-12-mflu-2023/#dearflip-df_638/1/

SWISSARTEXPO 2022 - Artbox.Projects Zurich 4.0, Zurich HB, Switzerland;  ℗ ISBN: 978-3-0366-0154-0

 https://youtu.be/a9W7AZewKWQ

https://indd.adobe.com/view/ac51716e-d918-4506-a0ef-fe26850b50b6?fbclid=IwAR1vBRjkfcg-LYYOj_Jk93O0jT4SZRiwhx8800VIxaHXmuCNfxAQINo0g4w

- https://www.blurb.com/b/9558523-water-2019-hardcover-imagewrap

- https://www.anonyme-zeichner.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/Anonyme_Katalog.pdf

- "... mir ist so Dada im Kopf" - MusenTritt - 2016

- "Internationaler Kunstpreis 2000" - Ausstellungskatalog  

   Kunstvereinhürth e.V. im WerkP2, Kalscheurener Str. 19, 50354 Hürth (Seite 50-51)

 - "Kunstwoche Jesteburg 2000", Ausstellungskatalog Kunstwoche Jesteburg e.V.

 - "Kunstwoche Jesteburg 2002", Ausstellungskatalog Kunstwoche Jesteburg e.V.

- "Grosse Steglitzer Kunstausstellung 2002", Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin

  herausgegeben vom Bezirksamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin

- "... und ab die Post 1999", aktions galerie, Ausstellung im Postfuhramt, Berlin

- "ZEIT-LOS", 2001, Ausstellungskatalog, Dorfkirche Jakobshagen

- "Görlitzer Bahnhof - Görlitzer Park" Berlin-Kreuzberg

    SupportEdition ISBN3-927869-09-0 (Seite 124 – Projekt "Ein Spiel ist ein Spiel ist ein Spiel")

- "Kunst aus dem Waggon - Kunststationen"

   Die S-Bahnprojekte der Werkstatt SPIEL + BÜHNE, Fachbereich 6 der UdK Berlin   

   (Hochschule der Künste Berlin/S-Bahn Berlin GmbH/Karl-Hofer-

   Gesellschaft/Deutsche Bahn AG)

- "Klasse Möbus", Ausstellungskatalog November 1993, UdK Berlin

- "Plastiken - Zeichnungen" (1991), Berliner Sparkasse, Berlin

Videographie

1. Tunesien - Reiseskizzen, 1993 (Super-8, s/w, 10 Min.)   *

2. Ein Spiel ist ein Spiel ist ein Spiel, 1993 (16mm, Farbe, 7 Min.)

3. Hacia, 1994 (Dokumentation auf S-VHS, Farbe, 11 Min.)**

4. Hausblick, 1995 (Dokumentation auf S-VHS, Farbe, 6 Min.)***

5. Kunst-Stationen, 1996 (Dokumentation auf S-VHS, Farbe) *

6. Gib mir Schwung - Ruth und David, 1996 (Dokumentation auf S-VHS, Farbe, 5 Min.)****

7. Akatombo (Butoh-Tanz von Makiko Tominaga), 1997 (Dokumentation auf S-VHS, Farbe, 1 St.)*

8. Gib mir Schwung - Schwindel, 1997-1998 (Dokumentation auf Betacam, Farbe, 5 Min.)***

*       Kamera: Paola Telesca

**     Kamera: Nicolás Hammerschlag

***   Kamera: Francisco Domínguez

**** Kamera: Juliette Cazanave, Ciro Morello

Stand: January 2020

Urheberrechten: paola telesca