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CHIARA DAZI
Chiara Dazi was born in the Italian Po valley. She studied foreign languages and received a degree in
communication sciences at the Università di Bologna with a thesis on the German Ostalgie, or nostalgia for
the former GDR. After working for three years at the archive of the agency VU’ in Paris, she moved to Berlin
and then attended the Ostkreuzschule fur Fotografie.
She is interested in European issues, how we deal with borders, collective memories, and the influence
those have on identities; mainly approacheing her subjects with empathy and a regard for intimacy.
After an essay in Moldova (EUrope: paysage de frontière) when this became the limit of EU, a road trip along
the former internal border in the new German Eastern regions (Wolkenstores), she worked on Into the Blue,
about the German soccer team 1. FC Magdeburg, his fans and the leftovers of the history turning outs in the
newly-formed German states. With I love you 4 she enters the daily life of a family in Anfield, the area which
was the heart of the legendary FC Liverpool stadium and the dock workers of Liverpool. This started an
ongling series on working class families she meets on the way through her European travels and whose
stories she is collecting over the years.
She graduated with her project Wandertage about the German tradition of the traveling craftsmen and
women, and is currently researching on different forms of collective living in Germany and border-crossing
sports communities in the Republic of Moldova.
Since 2013 member of the ParisBerlin >Fotogroup
www.fotoparisberlin.com
Distributed by Anzenberger Agency
Education (Photography/Art related)
2014
Goldrausch Kunstlerinnen Projekt, female artists postgraudate program
2009 - 2011
Ostkreuzschule fur Fotografie und Gestaltung, Berlin.
2010
International Summer School of Photography (ISSP), Riga, Latvia
Awards, Fellowships, Residencies
2016
Travel Grant cultural exchanges, Berlin Senate Chancellery, Germany
2015
SCAM, Brouillon d'un rêve Grant, France
Artist in Residence, KIOSK, Oberliht Young Aritst Association, Chisinau, Moldova
Step Beyond - ECF Travel Grant
2014
Goldrausch Kunstlerinnenprojekt Art IT, Berlin
2013
Abisag-Tullmann-Preis, Frankfurt (Main) -Special mentionHIL – Preis, Deidesheim, Germany -1. PrizeArtist in residence, 33 Officina Creativa, Toffia, Italy
2012
Lucie Foundation Emerging Scholarship, Los Angeles -FinalistWinephoto International Photo Contest, Mogliano Veneto, Italy -Finalist-
2011
Festival Circulation(s), SFR Jeunes Talents, Paris
2010
Bourse du Talent Reportage, Paris -FinalistDokfunf. Schlagwort Fußball: Fokus auf den Hintergrund, Hamburg -1. Prize-
Solo Exhibitions
2014
HIL-Preis, Alte Synagoge, Deidesheim, Germany
2010
Wolkenstores: Im Schatten der DDR, Maison Heinrich-Heine, Paris
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2016
Lebensraum, Tête, Berlin, Germany
Place(s) like home, Szuterén, Budapest, Hungary
2015
Place(s) like home, Zpace, Museum Zemstvei, Chisinau, Moldova
Garten, ParisBerlin Fotogroup, Goethe Institut Paris, France
Garten, Fotohaus ParisBerlin, Voies Off des Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
2014
Übergang, ParisBerlin >Fotogroup, Mois de la Photo OFF - Espace des Arts sans frontières, Paris
Photobookshow, Brighton Photo Biennale, Jubilee Library, Brighton, UK
Slideluck, Spazio Labò, Bologna, Italy
HELIUM – Goldrausch 2014, Projektraum Flutgraben e. V., Berlin
Übergang, ParisBerlin Fotogroup, Galerie 22, Rencontres d'Arles, France
Abisag Tullmann Preis 2013, Heussenstamm Galerie, Frankfurt am Main
Famille/Familie, ParisBerlin Fotogroup, Festival Transphotographiques, Lille, France
Photobookshow, Galerie Vasli Souza, Malmö, Sweden
2013
Stories, Memories, and Histories, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA
Blue Monday, Kleister, Hotel Bogota, Berlin
ort/zeit/los, Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord, Berlin
2012
Photo d'Hôtel Photo d'Auteur, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Sports Factory, Lille3000 Festival, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille
2011
Familienbande, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin
SFR Jeunes Talents, Le Bal, Paris
Circulation(s), Festival de la jeune photographie européenne, Galerie Coté Seine et Trianon, Parc de
Bagatelle, Paris
Images Singulières Festival, Diashow, Sète, F
2010
Reference Point, ISSP 2010, Goethe-Institut, Riga
2008
Présences, Atelier Gustave, Le Mois de la Photo-OFF, Paris
Bibliography
2014
Mondi piccoli, edition of 350, Ed. Goldrausch Kunstlerinnen Art IT, Berlin
2014
365, edition of 100, Ed. Ruth Ratter, Deidesheim, Germany
2011
Wandertage, edition of 150 + 10 handmade special edition, self-published, Berlin
Languages
Italian mother tongue, Chiara fluently speaks French and German, as well as English and Spanish. Slowly,
but passionately, learning Russian and Romanian.