Laura F. Gibellini

Laura F. Gibellini’s artistic practice is process-based and diagrammatic, and it materializes primarily through drawing, site-specific installations, video, object-making, and writing. At the core of her work lies an expanded understanding of drawing — moving away from the traditional notion of frontally framed, two-dimensional representation in favor of immersive, “environmental” projects.

Her practice begins by considering the notion of place and questioning how we relate to the world, eventually moving toward an investigation of the conventions we use to represent it and to what end — a path that takes her from the intimacy of the domestic sphere to the landscape and the environment.

Her most recent work focuses on elements that lie at the edge of visibility, at the limits of what can be represented, and thus at the limits of what can be thought. Specifically, she is interested in phenomena that lack a stable form, yet are essential to life — such as air, water, light, atmospheric or meteorological conditions in specific places, or the vital energy of a child’s gesture. She explores how the challenges of representation affect our understanding of the world: what cannot be represented cannot be recognized — and therefore cannot be fully thought. Gibellini’s work explores the gaps in representation and the possibilities of imagining the unthinkable.

She has been an artist-in-residence at institutions such as the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity (Alberta, Canada), the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, and Künstlerhaus Glogauer in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, Cerezales del Condado; Fundación Enaire, Santander; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid; The Bronx Art Space, NYC; Collar Works, NYC; Fundación María José Jové, A Coruña; HilbertRaum (Berlin); Matadero, Madrid; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB); Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon; La Capella de Sant Roc, Tarragona; Museo de Los Sures, New York; Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome; AC Institute, New York; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston; The Gabarron Foundation, New York; C Mass MoCA, North Adams; Santa Mònica Art Center, Barcelona; UCCA, Beijing; Artist Space, New York; Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe; Centro de Arte Joven, Madrid; and La Casa Encendida, Madrid, among others.

Her work is part of both private and public collections, including DKV, Fundación Gregorio Prieto, and the AECID Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among others. In 2013, she completed her first permanent public art project for three New York City subway stations, commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit & Urban Design. In 2022, she carried out the fifth edition of the project Derivada, commissioned by Fundación Banco Santander. Her project Drawing Mountains received a production grant from the Community of Madrid in 2020, as did her most recent visual research, Mayaútica, in 2024.

Laura F. Gibellini – Portfolio 2025