Daniela Comani

Comani worked across photographer. This article rests on 2 published texts and 5 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Comani received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy (1988) and a Master of Fine Arts from the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany (1993). The multimedia work of Comani touches on subjects like history, language, gender 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 concerns. Comani's artistic practice includes photography, texts, drawings, video and installation.

• 1992 – 37 Räume, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (KW), Berlin • 1993 – More than zero, Magasin, Centre National d' Art Contemporain, Grenoble • 1996 – Lesen, Kunsthalle St.Gallen, Switzerland • 2006 – Das Achte Feld – Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne • 2007 – History will repeat itself, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (KW), Berlin • 2007 – Ich war's, In 32 Tagen um den Alexanderplatz, NGBK / U2 Alexanderplatz, Berlin • 2008 – Transmediale 08 – conspire!, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin • 2008 – Bildpolitiken, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg • 2008 – HeartQuake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem • 2008 – Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bologna • 2010 – Courier, University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York • 2010 – C'était moi. Journal 1900–1999, Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest • 2011 – 54. Biennale di Venezia / Repubblica di San Marino Pavilion, Venice • 2011 – Doublespeak, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah • 2012 – Le Printemps de Septembre: History is Mine! Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse • 2013 – Authoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea, MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bologna • 2014 - Ich war's. Tagebuch 1900-1999, dkw. Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus • 2015 - Unprotected Zone, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem • 2016 - Dall'oggi al domani, 24 ore nell'arte contemporanea, MACRO - Museo d'Arte Moderna, Rome • 2017 - Faktor X - Das Chromosom in der Kunst, Haus der Kunst, Munich • 2019 - Forgetting - Why We Don't Remember Everything, Historical Museum, Frankfurt, Frankfurt • 2019 - Biography: A Model Kit / The Human Condition, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow • 2020 - Metropolis, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem • 2022 - YOU ARE MINE, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (solo) • 2023 - Planet Earth: 21st Century, Museum Folkwang, Essen (solo) • 2024 - Überall und nirgendwo, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg • 2024 - Orlando's Library, site-specific installation, Doge's Palace Genoa, (solo) • 2024 - Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok • 2025 - History Lessons, University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York • 2026 - Tragicomica - Perspectives on Italian art from the mid-20th century to today, MAXXI Museum, Rome