(Ivrea, Italy 1988) is an Italian artist based in Paris, France.
Over the past ten years, she has been developing a drawing and painting practice on different media, from paper to ceramics, including tapestries, a tramway, cities walls and architectures.

She is interested in what is hidden beneath the surface, which she questions as an archeologist digging the soil or a journalist questioning the passers-by. 
This curiosity and search for the essence and intimate nature of her surroundings has also shaped her graphic practice. In her drawings, her refined lines define compositions where forms are stripped of all attributes other than their outlines. In her paintings, the outlines blur and the subjects remain suspended between dream and reality.

Since 2020 Giada also collaborates with the object designer François Bonnot as Bureau Idéal, imagining objects, spaces and interiors which animate through drawing.


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Le reve d’Ulysse / Il sogno d’Ulisse, 2026
35 x 27 cm
oil and acrylic on canvas
 



GIADA GANASSIN

Born in Ivrea (Italy) in 1988 and based in Paris for the past ten years, Giada Ganassin is a contemporary artist whose work is sensitive and multifaceted. After one academic year studying comparative literature, she turned to graphic design and the applied arts, training in Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands.

She is one half of Bureau idéal, a duo formed with François Bonnot that creates objects straddling the line between art and design.

For the past three years, Ganassin has focused on painting: a practice that is both a new beginning and the natural culmination of her work, in which drawing and the line serve as the central matrix. In Ganassin’s work, words are transformed into figures and motifs that compose a language of universal intimacy. Added to this are the memory of an enduring family history of displacement and the poetic need for a space of reverie and imagination in which to inhabit the world. Ganassin’s paintings are thus fragments of this private space, fragments that reflect and evoke, that make us pause and bring us fully into the present.


Giada’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Europe (France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom), it covered the tramway that runs through the city of Angers in France in the summer of 2024 as part of the Échappées d’art festival; since the 2025 edition of Un été au Havre, it adorns the surface of the concrete wind shelter built on the seaside following the city’s reconstruction, as well as the walls of the Centro Empresario 3as in Maia, Porto, where Giada created for the 2017 Bienal da Maia a azulejos mural inspired by the female workers of the factory that was once on the site.


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