SAIC J-term students with Prof Marco Giamello
Gabriel Feld, resident artist
Spring 2024 show
A glimpse into our Spring 2024 show!
Our Spring 2024 semester at the Siena Art Institute and Siena School for Liberal Arts included students fromAmherst College, Oberlin College, College of the Holy Cross, Williams College, University of Thessaly, and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari.
Looking forward to June 2024 residents
On June 3 will arrive our next incoming residents to the Siena Art Institute:
- Borinquen Gallo, visual artist, Italy-Puerto Rico-NYC
- John Monti, visual artist, USA
- Gene Lakin, costume designer, USA
- Ellena Savage, writer, Australia-Greece
These guests will be seeking inspiration and time for reflection in Siena as they pursue their diverse creative practices. We are also looking forward to sharing with them the energy of our local community and the colorful Sienese culture as the city prepares for the historic Palio race on July 2. June will be a very busy and exciting month!
The Pratt Institute has generously offered support of the residencies of artists Borinquen Gallo, John Monti, Gene Lakin, and we are grateful for this ongoing institutional partnership.
Alex Bodea, May 2024 resident artist
Alex Bodea (b. 1981 in Cluj, Romania, currently based in Berlin, constantly travelling through Europe) merges visual art and storytelling.
Driven by the desire to be an observer of the human experience, she documents and interprets various multicultural landscapes encountered along her journey as a nomad-artist.
Her mediums are drawing, installation, painting, and writing filtered through a particular approach she has been developing since 20212, called fact finding. This approach implies that she builds her work upon field research, direct experiences and direct encounter with the subject matter (research expeditions inside places and communities.) From these direct research encounters, she drives serial or stand-alone works containing multiple scenes that summarize her findings, building complex narratives.
Recurrent themes in her work are the exile experience, multicultural identities, language, personal and collective history and the queer culture. This richness of themes is being reflected b y having several different aesthetical approaches over the years, from a cerebral minimalism to more sensitive figuration (the style serves the story). Most of her works are executed on paper and other paper-based surfaces as she tries to push the boundaries of what can be accomplished on such support. She also manufactures most of her paints, from well-researched, high-quality pigments, something that has become a ritual and part of the artistic process.
In her fact finding expeditions, she has worked with and created visual studies on institutions such Fundacion de Serralves (Porto), the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin), Matin-Gropius-Bau, HAU, Berliner Festspiele, Deutsche Oper, Deutsches Theatre, the International Literature Festival (Berlin), Art Encounters Foundation (Timisoara), Asociata Reciproca (Cluj), Ecole Nationale Superieure d’arte de Bourges, and several institutions in the Lens-Lievin area (France).
She has published her graphic stories, extracts, and inserts in various publications, such as The Guardian, Arta, IDEA arts+society, Cutra, Modernism, CORNER footbal+society, Megazin (International Centre of Graphic Arts Ljubljana) Stripburger, Tagesspiegel, ExBerliner.
She is the author of the graphic novel Six Breakfast, One Lunch (artist book, 2016), the visual notes album The Man with a hole in his tie (published with the support of ENSA-Galerie La Box, 2020), and the graphic novel The Fact Finder (BeccoGiallo Edizioni, 2020).
She is co-founder of The Fact Finder (2017-2019) project space based in Berlin, currently an online platform) dedicated to the artists who build their work upon field research, archiving, investigation and storytelling.
In 2021 she has been awarded the Research Stipend in the Field of Literature / Graphic Arts by the Berlin Senate for Culture.
In 2022, a selection of seven Visual notes have been entered in the Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art’s graphic art collection.
Relevant Links:
April 20 Spring 2024 Show, April 19-21 Lucca Art Fair
Upcoming Events:
Friday 19th April
LUCCA- 15:00-20:00 [Real Collegio, Primo Piano, Booth F1] The Siena Art Institute will present itself through an artistic performance at the Lucca Art Fair
SIENA- 11:00-17:30 [Sala Consiliare, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza Unisi] Photographic Exhibition curated by Irene Lupi
LUCCA- 10:00-20:00 [Real Collegio, Primo Piano, Booth F1] Lucca Art Fair 2nd day
SIENA- 16:00-18:00 [Il Punto] End of semester exhibition featuring our students’s works
Sunday 21st April
LUCCA- 10:00-20:00 [Real Collegio, Primo Piano, Booth F1] Lucca Art Fair Last day
Come join us!
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Spring semester in full gear
Our spring semester is in full gear with students from Greece, Italy, and several US institutions including Amherst College, Oberlin College, Williams College, and the College of the Holy Cross! We are really looking forward to the spring ahead, exploring together Siena and our surrounding Tuscan territory, seeking artistic inspirations and cultural insights!
Upcoming Spring 2024 semester
We are really looking forward to the start of our Spring 2024 semester. Each semester group is different, and this time we will have students from Greece, Italy, and several US institutions including Amherst College, Oberlin College, Williams College, and the College of the Holy Cross! We are really looking forward to the spring ahead, exploring together Siena and our surrounding Tuscan territory, seeking artistic inspirations and cultural insights! More calendar info on our website
Follow this link for our detailed weekly calendar: Siena Art Institute Semester Program.
- Jan 22-26: Pre-departure online orientation meetings and Italian language intro.
- Jan 29: American students arrive
- Jan 30: EU students arrive
- Jan 30-Feb 2: Orientation & Intensive Italian intro
- February 3: Intensive Italian quiz
- February 5: Elective Courses begin
- March 13-14: Midterm exams and critiques
- March 29-April 1: Long weekend break (Easter Sunday March 31)
- April 20: End-of-Semester Exhibition Inauguration 4-6pm
- April 22-24: Final Exams and Critiques
- April 24: Final Luncheon
- April 25-26: Departure
Winter session 2024 with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
We have been enjoying a busy January with our students from School of the Art Institute of Chicago , exploring many of the resources of Siena and our surrounding territories. Here is a selection of images from our visits to view contemporary art on view at Collezione Gori – Fattoria di Celle in Pistoia and Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, and enjoying Siena’s Biblioteca Briganti and the Fisiocritici Natural History Museum!
Una conversazione sul restauro 16 gennaio
Una conversazione sul restauro:
Giuseppe Partini, il restauro ottocentesco e l’invenzione
di piazza Salimbeni a Siena
16 gennaio 2024, ore 15,00
Siena, Università di Siena, complesso del Laterino, Aula Magna Storica
Prof Fabio Gabbrielli (Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e Dei Beni Culturali)
con il Prof. Marco Giamello (Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche della Terra e dell’Ambiente)
Organizzato con gli studenti e professori della School of the Art Institute of Chicago dal Siena Art Institute