(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 like an archaeologist digging the soil or a journalist interviewing passersby. 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.

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.

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


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(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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Drawing for the body of the tram Citadis 302

Festival Echappées d’art
2024 Angers, France
Les villes invisibles (the invisible cities)

A drawing that moves around the city. The one you wait for, run after, sit into. Which opens and closes. That accelerates, slows down, makes a stop, takes you out, brings you home.

Manifesto curated this year edition of the Echappées d'art festival in Angers and reached out to imagine the decoration of the tram Citadis 302.

Inspired by the observations recorded during my stay in the city, the history hidden in its streets and museum collections, the exchanges with the inhabitants and a phone call with a tram driver, several portraits of the city emerged.

I started drawing having in mind a short, textless comic, with no beginning nor end, with eventually some moving parts (in correspondance of the opening and closing of the tram doors). It told the story of a landscape, imaginary or not, as the one the tram crosses many times during the day, from one end of the city to the other, with no possible deviation, as in a loop.

In the middle of the vehicle, a moon faced caracther holds a sun mask.
Day and night go by as on a merry go round, a child is born, another gets lost.


The central caracther has a moon face holding a sun mask, symbolizing the passage of time over the landscape.
Rinding a horse on a side and a swan on the other, as on a merry-go-round, empazising the loop which the tram covers over and over.


From sketch to final drawing


The landscape wraps the vehicule, portraying the city of Angers from the suburbs to the city center.
It animates with the opening and closing of the doors which - at every stop - adds a dynamism to every scene.


© 2026 Giada Ganassin