Daniela Comani (Bologna, 1965)

graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and in 1993 she received the MFA at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. The multimedia work of Daniela Comani touches subjects like history, language and identity. She often works with photos and texts from newspapers, television and books that allegedly appear familiar to us. Foreignness and intimacy, history and interpretation, and the mechanisms of comprehension are her themes.

Among her projects we can mention It Was Me. Diary 1900-1999, where Comani tells in first person historical, political and cultural events happened during the XX century using the form of a private diary; in the photo series A Happy Marriage, ongoing since 2003, she plays with gender stereotypes and the daily life of a couple. In the series New Editions by Daniela Comani, the artist reinterprets landmarks in the history of literature through a gender inversion of the protagonists creating a new way to read the most important novels of Western literature.

Winner of several awards and scholarships, the artist participates in many group and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In 2011 she participates in Venice Biennale in San Marino Pavillon. In 2022 she presents her solo show You Are Mine at Galleria Nazionale, Rome; in 2023 she presents Planet Earth: 21st Century at Museum Folkwang, Essen. Her works feature also in the permanent collections as MAMbo, Bologna; Kupferstichkabinett Musei Statali, Berlin; Museum on the Seam, Gerusalem; Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the MET, New York. Since 1989, she lives and works in Berlin.

Studio G7 dedicated to the artist the solo shows Double Drawings, 1996; Souvenirs 1999, 1999; Novità editoriali a cura di Daniela Comani, 2009; My Film History - Daniela Comani’s Top 100 Films, 2014; THE BEGINNING THE END / L'INIZIO LA FINE.