photo Valentino Bianchi
Giada Ganassin is an Italian artist based in France.
She has been developing a drawing practice on different medias, from paper to ceramics, including tapestries, tram and cities walls.
She is interested in what is hidden beneath the surface, which she interrogates as an archeologist digging the soil or a journalist questioning the passers-by.
This desire to confront the essence of things has also shaped her graphic practice. Her refined and schematic lines define compositions where forms find themselves stripped of any attribut other than their contours.
Giada’s work has been presented in personal and group exhibitions in Europe (France, Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom), it covers the tram running through the city of Angers in France and it permanently adorns the walls of the Centro Empresario 3as in Maia, Porto, where Giada created an azulejos fresco inspired by the factory workers who were on site.
Since 2020, Giada collaborates with object designer François Bonnot as Bureau Idéal, bringing illustrated stories on objects, spaces and interiors.
✍︎ EDUCATION
Master Information Design - Design Academy Eindhoven, 2015
Bachelor Graphic and Virtual Design - Politecnico di Torino, 2013
FH Duesseldorf - 2011/2012
☼ EXHIBITIONS and RESIDENCIES
2024 ...Stools for thought exhibition - Bureau Idéal @ Poush - Aubervilliers, France
tram covering for the Echappées d’art festival - Angers, France
2023 ...Poush Paris Design Week exhibition - Bureau Idéal @ Poush - Aubervilliers, France
2022 ...Girotondo - Bureau Idéal @ Nous Paris - Paris, France
Fresco, la nuova illustrazion eitaliana @ Libreria Marini - Roma, Italy
2019 ... De toutes façons Design graphique et textile @ Le Signe, Chaumont, France
2018 ... Bienal Emergences @ Centre National de la Dance - Pantin, France
La Grande Invasione - Ivrea, Italy
Motifs all over @ Le French Design by Via - Paris, France
2017 ... Afterwork Play @ Bienal da Maia - Maia, Porto
2015 ... Graduation Show @ Design Academy Eindhoven, Pays-Bas
2014 ... Designing Scarcity @ Het Niewe Instituut - Rotterdam, Pays-Bas
2013 ... Transatlantic, Texas @ Big Medium Gallery - Austin, Texas
✑ PUBLICATIONS
2023 ... Disegni - DITO Publishings
2019 ... Drawing contribution to Crude Intentions published by Anthology Edition
2016 ... Comic contribution to Seven Stories published by O Panda Gordo
2014 ... Drawings along Amy Key’s poems in Riposte Magazine issue 1
2013 ... You are cute flipbook published by Napa Books
☻ SELECTED CLIENTS
Riposte Magazine, Studio Ongarato, ps.2 arquitetura + design, Anthology Editions, Scribit, Mum’s, Sorbonne University, Anfibio