Céline Condorelli

Céline Condorelli
Name	Céline Condorelli
Nationality	French-Italian
Occupation	Artist, curator, educator, writer
Known for	Architectural interventions, collaborative practice, pedagogy

Céline Condorelli is a French-Italian artist, curator, and educator whose work engages with architecture, institutions, and the politics of support through built and editorial projects. Her practice interweaves material installations, pedagogical formats, and critical writing, operating at the intersection of visual arts, architecture, and curatorial strategies. Condorelli’s work has been shown internationally across museums, biennials, and academic settings, and she is known for reframing the role of infrastructural and social supports within cultural production.

Early life and education

Condorelli studied art and architecture, undertaking formal training across European institutions that include programs affiliated with École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Architectural Association School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, Universität der Künste Berlin, Politecnico di Milano, Universidad de Barcelona, École Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her early formation was influenced by exchanges with practitioners from institutions such as Strelka Institute, Berlage Institute, Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, and Yale School of Architecture. Mentors and interlocutors from studios and schools including OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Zaha Hadid Architects, Rem Koolhaas, and Peter Eisenman informed an approach blending theory and making. Residencies and fellowships at organizations like Fondazione Prada, Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries, MoMA PS1, Centre Pompidou, and Fondation Cartier supported early projects that connected exhibition-making with architectural thought.

Artistic practice and themes

Her practice combines installation, furniture, architectural element, and collaborative programmes, aligning with discourses promoted by Nicolas Bourriaud, Hal Foster, Kara Walker, Theaster Gates, Andrea Fraser, and Jacques Derrida. Themes include the politics of support, the agency of infrastructures, and the social life of objects, explored through methods associated with relational aesthetics, institutional critique, participatory art, social practice, and expanded field. Works often reference histories of Bauhaus, Modernisme, Brutalism, Metabolism, De Stijl, and Constructivism, while engaging debates found in texts by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, and Walter Benjamin. Condorelli’s interventions consider the role of props, stages, and supports as agents that mediate encounters between audiences, institutions such as Serpentine, Tate Britain, Stedelijk Museum, and networks including European Cultural Foundation, British Council, and Mondrian Fund.

Major works and exhibitions

Her projects have been included in exhibitions and events such as the Venice Biennale, Documenta, Manifesta, Whitney Biennial, Liverpool Biennial, São Paulo Biennial, Gwangju Biennale, and presentations at institutions including Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries, Haus der Kunst, Palais de Tokyo, Fondazione Prada, MAXXI, Musée d'Orsay, Schirn Kunsthalle, CCA Wattis, Whitechapel Gallery, MoMA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Barbican, Centre Pompidou, Hayward Gallery, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Hammer Museum, Fondation Beyeler, Kunsthalle Zurich, MACBA, MASS MoCA, Fridericianum, Van Abbemuseum, Wiels, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, and Serralves Museum. Notable works and projects have interacted with commissions and collaborations involving studios and collectives such as Studio Mumbai, Forensic Architecture, Superflex, Raqs Media Collective, Archigram, Archizoom Associati, and Grupo Corpo, often accompanied by dialogues with curators including Okwui Enwezor, Beatrix Ruf, Nathalie de Vries, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Katerina Gregos.

Teaching and curatorial projects

Condorelli has held teaching posts and convened programmes at institutions including Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, Architectural Association School of Architecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, UNIT_EXTENDED, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, University of Kassel, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Zurich University of the Arts, École nationale supérieure d'art de Paris-Cergy, Royal Danish Academy, and University of the Arts London. She has curated projects and taught in collaboration with institutions such as Serpentine Galleries, Fondazione Prada, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Kunsthalle Basel, Documenta, Manifesta, British Council, European Cultural Centre, MAXXI, and Institute of Contemporary Arts. Her pedagogical strategies intersect with practices championed by educators like Paulo Freire, John Dewey, Ralph Lemon, Joseph Beuys, and Yvonne Rainer.

Publications and writings

Condorelli is author and editor of books and essays that discuss support structures, exhibition-making, and architectural agency, appearing alongside publishing houses and journals including MIT Press, Routledge, Sternberg Press, Cambridge University Press, Whitechapel Gallery Publications, Tate Publishing, October (journal), Artforum, Afterall, e-flux journal, Architectural Design, Domus, Cabinet Magazine, Journal of Architectural Education, Grey Room, Frieze, Flash Art, C Magazine, ArtReview, and Mousse Magazine. Her editorial and collaborative projects have involved contributors and interlocutors such as Eyal Weizman, Saskia Sassen, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Tim Ingold, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. Lectures and symposia presentations have taken place at venues including Princeton University, Yale University, Brown University, UCL, ETH Zurich, TU Delft, IAAC Barcelona, Copenhagen Business School, The New School, University of Toronto, and McGill University.

Awards and recognition

She has received recognition, grants, and awards from organizations and funding bodies including Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England, British Council, Leverhulme Trust, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, European Research Council, Creative Europe, Fondazione Prada Grants, Guggenheim Foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Horizon 2020, AHRC, and Art Fund. Her contributions have been acknowledged through residencies and honors at institutions such as Tate Modern, Serpentine Galleries', Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, MacDowell Colony, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Villa Medici.

Category:French artists Category:Italian artists Category:Contemporary artists