Virginia Francia (Milan, Italy 1990)


Education

2013 BA (Hons) Design for Interactive and Moving Image, London College of Communication (UAL), London, United Kingdom


Art Residencies 

current: SPREAD project, Bogota, Colombia

2017 DIY break your reality, Southbank Centre, London, United Kingdom

2017 Begehungen, Chemnitz, Germany

2017 Internacional residency exchange PAR/VA, FIDCU, Montevideo, Uruguay

2017 Ecosistema Tropical, Trans Acciones Utopicas, Cazon, Argentina

2017 IR | Investigaciones en residencia, Centro Cultural de la Cooperación Floreal Gorini, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2016 Trans Acciones Utopica, Centro Rural de Arte, Cazon, Argentina

2016 L.P.E.P. La Paternal Espacio Proyecto, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2015 Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte, curatorial ws with Stefano Arienti, Poirino (TO), Italy

2015 Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte, ws with Jason Dodge and Raimundas Malasauskas, Poirino (TO), Italy

2013 PA-F Performing Arts Forum, St. Erme Outre et Remecourt, France


Exhibitions

Upcoming: UNGRASPABLE, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombia.

2019 We Buy Gold, Good to know & MALL, Art Basel circuit, Miami, FL (2019)

2019 Arte Multi-Media, MALL, Espacio KB, Bogota, Colombia

2019 Casantillon, Casabanchel, Madrid, Spain

2019 Picnic Pavilion, Venice, Italy

2019 Muchas cosas muy importantes, Moneo Brock, Madrid, Spain

2018 Sisas, mi veci, Gabinete, FLORA ars+natura, Bogotà, Colombia 

2018 OLC, Borso del Grappa, Italy

2017 Institut Potemkin, Kulturpalast Rabenstein, Chemnitz, Germany

2017 Experiencia Sonora, PANAL, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2017 Fuego, Inedito Pendrive, Centro cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2016 Move, Baby Move!, Total festival, Wuppertal, Germany

2016 Latent Surfaces, Foothold, Polignano a Mare, Italy

2015 Ammaraggio, Jump into the Unknown finissage, 56th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

2015 Se Alquila, Guayaquil, Ecuador

2015 Bizarre Sound Creatures, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2015 Makeshift Cinema Festival, London, United Kingdom 

2015 Adventure Time is Over, Almanac Inn, Turin, Italy

2015 Yawn, PQ Prague Quadriennal of Performance Design and Space, Prague, Czech Republic

2015 Adventure Time is Over, Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte, Poirino (TO), Italy

2015 Infinite Algorithms, Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Melbourne, Australia

2014 Worlds Apart, 5 Years Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2014 Love/City Festival, Melbourne, Australia

2013 IMIMI, London College of Communication, London, United Kingdom

2013 That’s How we reuse by Chantal Chya, Santa Laundrette, London, United Kingdom

2013 InterIMI, London College of Communication, London, United Kingdom

2012 Lunga Festival, Seydisfjourdur, Iceland

2012 Part 1/2, Bussey Building, London, United Kingdom

2012 We Convert our Mind into Creativity, Trier, Germany

2012 Artefacts & Effects exhibition, commissioned by the Cuming Museum, London, United Kingdom


Teaching / social practice

current: working with communication empowerment with the indigenus comminity A'i (Cofán), native to Sucumbíos Province, Ecuador - such as web development workshops.

2019 “Made in Marte” with Nora Renaud, costumes creation with tilandsia plant, ¿Qué hacer en Marte?”, Que no cunda el pánico (¿hay otras maneras?), Espacio Odeón, Bogota, Colombia.

2017 Video dance workshop Lab_90SCV with colectivo micro, Trayectoria, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

2017 Lecture on  personal neuroscience, DIY break your reality, Southbank Centre, London, United Kingdom

2017 Co - art direction at FACE dance formation school, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2017 Movement classes with colectivo micro at “Bachillerato Popular Trans Mocha Celis” a transgender high school  based in Buenos Aires, Argentina

2016 Experimental - punk Interactive music workshop with elderly people at Centro de Jubilados y Pensionados La Paternal, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2013 / 2014 Assistant at Royal Opera House ballet classes for visually impaired people, London, United Kingdom

2013 / 2014 teaching painting classes at Flying Angel Art Club for artists with mental diversities, London, United Kingdom