For Art Brussels 2025, Céline Condorelli presented a site-specific installation that reimagines the entrance to the fair. Crossing this threshold mirrors the experience of stepping onto a theatrical stage.

 

 

 

Through the use of curtains, Condorelli establishes a connection between arrival and the act of entering a scene—the bühne. Within this space, exhibitors and visitors enact their roles, negotiating their positions in relation to one another.

Condorelli’s practice operates at the intersection of art, architecture, design, and social engagement. Of French and Italian descent, she lives and works in London. Her work often takes the form of structures that function simultaneously as artistic installations and as material frameworks for social interaction, performance, and exhibition making.

BIO

 

Céline Condorelli (IT, FR, UK) makes exhibitions, installations, publications, sculptures and architectures. She is interested in how our encounter with the material world takes place by relying on it, and that all human action takes place amidst countless structures of support mostly taken for granted, and therefore appearing invisible. From raw materials, cultivation and extraction, to processes of industrialisation and labour, through to methods of display, reception and transmission, Condorelli’s practice closely communicates the methods and labour of its creation.

A selection of exhibitions and projects include: In the Light of What We Know*, Remai Modern, Canada, Radical Playgrounds, Gropius Bau, Germany, Museum Hours*, Gale- ria Vera Cortês (2024), Pentimenti (The Corrections)*, National Gallery, UK (2023), After Work*, Talbot Rice Gallery & South London Gallery, UK (2022); Our Silver City 2094, Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2022); Dos años de vacaciones*, TEA, Tenerife, Spain (2021); Deux ans de vacances*, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France; Ground Control, Bild- museet, Umeå, Sweden (2020); Every Step in the Right Direction, Singapore Biennial; Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania; Céline Condorelli, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland; Host / Vært*, Kunsthal Aarhus Denmark; Zanzibar* (commissioned sculpture), King’s Cross Projects, London, UK (2019); Geometries, Locus Athens, Greece; Anren Biennale, Chengdu, China (2018); Epilogue*, P!, New York, USA; Wall to Wall*, GfZK Leipzig, Germany; Proposals for a Qualitative Society (Spinning)*, Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands; Corps à Corps*, IMA Brisbane, Australia (2017); Conversa- tion Piece*, MASP, Brazil; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Liverpool Biennial, UK; Sid- ney Biennial, Australia (2016); Display Show, Stroom den Haag, Netherlands & Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; bau bau*, HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy (2015).

She was the 2023 National Gallery Artist in Residence and one of the founding direc- tors of Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK. She is the author and editor of Support Structures published by Sternberg Press (2009), and has published several mono- graphs, including bau bau (Mousse publishing, 2017), and Two Years Vacation (Archive publishing, 2024). Condorelli has been teaching and lecturing on and off since 1999.