About

BIO

I am an Italian multi-disciplinary performance artist who began painting, writing and dancing as a little girl, full of curiosity and creativity.

Later on I studied Semiotics of Art with Umberto Eco and Omar Calabrese at Bologna University. My background in semiotics is very important for my practice. I also drew much inspiration from my uncle Elio Pagliarani, a famous Italian poet. His rare but crucial suggestions and his performing attitude were decisive for my art.

I began working with performance art in 1992, as a way of combining different mediums of my creativity, such as painting, poetry and fairy tales which I was practicing before.

Performance art became my best loved way to express my concepts, and mixed media performances my identity.

During my early artistic career I made my living via performance workshops and street art theater, performing my fairy tales written for adults and kids. During those years, I developed a performative practice which enabled me to be more confident in front of any kind of public and in any kind of street and space. I became comfortable addressing the viewer using the public space as my platform.

In 1999, my artistic research took a definitive turn: I decided that I was most interested in performing outside of the walls of art galleries and institutions. Bringing art into the realm of public life, I moved my practice to the streets where the opportunity of interacting with various types people became a part of the work. Consequently, I began my so called urban interactive performances which introduced video as an artwork, collecting together live performance, interactions with people as well as capturing the identities of the site-specific places.

In my thirty years of artistic practice I have performed everywhere, trying to investigate human contradictions, social problems, everyday life situations, and art world mechanisms.

In the last years I am very concentrated on participatory, collective, site-specific projects, with the involvement of the public. I devoted most of my time investigating issues that are crucial for our society, as in my ongoing projects, which have explored spirituality and religions, silence and slowness, and the issues about refugees as my favourites themes, which are explored with a social and anthropological approach.

I enjoy writing and I have published in the 90′ three fairy tale books for adults and children using my own illustrations. I continue on occasion to write for various publications about Art and I run two blogs; the one as an artist diary in this website, and the other as a specific project’s blog: (www.thefingerandthemoon.net)

I am specialized in semiotics of art, image theory and visual grammar. I run creative workshops focused on personal well-being through art and had extensive experience giving courses, workshops and teaching art to students of different ages.

I am a great traveler and appreciates living in different parts of the world researching and developing site specific projects with a focus on the human experience. However, I love going back to Italy, especially to my beloved family native land, Romagna, and my city, Milan.

I became a mum late in life, and this is the most beautiful gift that life has given to me and for which I am grateful every day.

SHORT BIO

LIUBA is an italian artist working with performance art, videoart, site-specific and participative projects, photography and installations. She lives now in Milan and Rimini, her two own cities. She had been living in Bologna, New York and Berlin.

Her art work is concerned with social, anthropological, geographical, philosophical issues, human behavior, interactivity and chance. Her practice consists of site specific actions that burst provocatively into daily life, of videoworks that assemble the performance, the reactions of people and the identities of the involved places, and of photographies compositions, objects and installations derived from the performances. Her research is based on the analysis of contemporary society, investigating contradictions and problems of the social system and of the art system.

Her work has been presented in museums, festivals and galleries nationally and internationally, including Artissima Art Fair (Torino); PAC Pavilion (Milan), WeissPollack Galleries (NewYork), Galerie Parisud (Paris) Arte Fiera (Bologna), Scope (New York), Scope (London), Kreuzberg Pavillon (Berlin), Séquence (Quebec, Canada); Grace Exhibition Space (Brooklyn, New York); Image Movement (Berlin).

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a performance artist and video artist and I use different media in my work. My practice deals with sociology, anthropology, geography, philosophy, spiritual issues and human behaviour, interactivity and chance. My research is based on the analysis of the contemporary society I live in and of the art world I participate in. I explore the contradictions and social problems of daily life, while always trying to maintain a sincere and ironic approach.

In my practice, I am interested in open-structure performances brought into the everyday public life and in the interaction with people, space, time and the opportunity of chance and spontaneity. In the last years my attention is always more focused on participatory projects and I am often working on group performances, inviting people to participate actively in the work.

My work is composed of projects that involve several processes and in which are implemented diverse skills and media; 1) Concept, 2) Research, 3) Preparation of the performance (outfit and object research, urban research and location choice, selection of technical staff, psycho-physical training, 4) the performance itself, 5) editing and direction of the video, 6) selection and exhibition of photos, videostills, video and videoinstallation..

I love the connection between the live performance experience and the video post-production. They are the ‘two sides of the coin in my work. In my performances I don’t use prearranged sets nor actors. I prepare the project and myself in every detail, but when I launch into everyday life to perform it then it causes reactions and interactions that I don’t control and that become part of the work too. What you see in my videos truly happened. I am interested in art going into life. My main interest is life.

Interview to LIUBA by Egle Prati from: http://www.talkingart.it

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

1989 MFA Semiotics of Art (cum laude), Bologna University (I)

1984-89 BA Fine Arts Academy, Bologna

1990 Teacher Certification in Art History

1991 Master in Animation and Film, Bologna Cineteque (I)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (selection)

2022 Performa24: Virus and Peacedots, participative performance, Milan (I)

2022 Rimini City Center, Rimini Abbraccia, participative performance, Rimini (I)

2020 Corpi sul Palco, Quarantine Trilogy, performance live on web (I)

2019 Fondazione Pascali, solo show and participative performances, Polignano a Mare, BA, (I)

2018 Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, solo show and video screening, Paris (F)

2018 Art Paris, The Finger and the Moon #6, performance, Grand Palais, Paris (F)

2018 Chippendale Studio, solo show and videoscreening, Milan (I)

2017 Galleria Marconi, Guardando oltre, solo show and participative performance, Cupra Marittima (I)

2016 Arte Fiera, With No Time, participative performance, Bologna (I)

2015 12th International Performance Art Festival, With No Time, participative performance, Monza (I)

2015 Centrale Fotografia, In Italia, The Slowly Project, curated by Luca Panaro, Fano (I)
2015 Arte Fiera Bologna, Questa non è una performance, Bologna (I)
2014 Oranienplatz, YOU’RE OUT, collective performance, Berlin (D)
2014 Kreuzberg Pavillion, Refugees Welcome, site-specific and collective performance, Berlin (D)
2013 Kreuzberg Pavillon, Refugees Welcome, site-specific and collective performance, Berlin (D)
2013 Flash Art Event, solo show and collective performance, Milan (I)
2012 S. Agostino Museum, The Finger and the Moon #3 collective performance, Genoa (I)
2012 Grace Exhibition Space, The Food Project. Performance 1, Brooklyn (US)
2012 Corpi Scomodi, The Slowly Project. Group Performance #1, group performance +workshop, Cantu (CO)
2011 YES FOUNDATION STICHTING JA, Skype performance live c/o, Den Bosch, (NL)
2011 54 Venice Biennial, Senza parole, performance, Venice (I)
2011 Art Basel Miami Beach, The invisible web of the art system, Miami (US)
2011 BLO Atelier, Hunger International Performance Festival, Berlin (D)
2011 Bremer Kunstfrühling, Jericho in Bremen, at Performance Festival, Bremen (D)
2011 NABA for MIArt, The invisible web of Italian art system, Milan (I)
2011 Grace Exhibition Space, Site Fest ‘11, Unreal Exit, performance, Brooklyn, NY (US)
2011 5th Global Day of Slow Living, The Slowly Project. Take your Time, performance, NY (US)
2010 Artefiera, Artist for sale, performance, Bologna (I)
2010 Artissima, Untitled2010, performance,Turin (I)
2010 Spazio Thetis, performance, Venezia (I)
2009 Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City, The Finger and the Moon #2, performance and live streaming
2009 Betta Frigieri Arte Contemporanea, solo show, Modena (I)
2009 Séquence, video show, Chicoutimi, Québec (CA)
2009 Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, video show, Paris (F)
2007 PAC Padiglione d’arte contemporanea, performance, Milan (I)
2007 52 Venice Biennal, The Finger and the Moon #1, performance, Venice (I)
2007 City center The Slowly Project – Take your time, performance, Modena (I)
2006 WeissPollack Galleries, solo show, New York (US)
2006 The Armory Show, I love to see the Armory, performance, New York (US)
2005 Spazio Ilop, solo show, Milan (I)

2005 City center The Slowly Project– Take your time, performance, NYC (US)
2005 Galerie Parisud, Les Amantes, performance, Paris (F)
2005 51 Venice Biennal, Side by side, performance, Venice (I)
2004 Art Basel, Art is long, Time is short, performance, Basel (CH)
2004 Villa Manin, Every-Body, performance, Codroipo (I),
2004 Milan Flash Art Fair, videoinstallation and performance, Hotel Una Tocq, Milan (I)
2004 Artefiera, Virus, performance, Bologna (I)
2003 Placentia Arte, solo show, Piacenza (I)
2003 Galleria Alidoro, solo show, Pesaro (I)
2003 50 Venice Biennial, Il cieco di Gerico, performance,Venice (I)
2002 Fine Arts Academy, AlphaOmega, performance, Bologna (I)
2002 Expo c/o Villa Serena,performance and video, Bologna (I)
2001 Salara, Polypolis, solo show videoinstallation, Bologna (I)
2001 Palazzo Marini, solo show, Rosignano Marittimo (I)
2000 City center of Brussels (B), Avignon (F), Prague (CK), Bologna (I),

2000 Polypolis, performances in the European Cultural Capitals 2000 and streaming internet
2000 Artissima Art Fair, S-catenarsi, performance, Torino (I)
2000 Fiorile Arte, solo show, Bologna (I)
2000 Zoom c/o Villa Serena, solo show, Bologna (I)
1999 Galleria Avida Dollars, solo show, Milan (I)
1999 C.R.T. PoetAzione, Una mummia per la città, performance, Milano
1998 First Performance International Festival, performance, Viadana (I)
1997 Il campo delle fragole, Bologna (I)
1996 Teatro Dehon, Blossom, solo show and performance, Bologna (I)
1996 Teatro Out/Off, Blossom, solo show and performance, Milan (I)
1995 Centro città, Installazione pubblica, Asti (I)
1995 Perfomedia, Ponte Nossa (BG) (I)
1994 Portico di S.Luca, performance, Bologna
1993 Centro d’Arte Masaorita, La Margherita dai petali colorati, performance, Bologna
1993 Villa delle Rose, Installazione nel Parco Pubblico, Bologna (I)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Rijeka (Croazia)

2018 Millenium Gallery, Zoo 21- 23 anni dopo, Bologna. Testi in Catalogo di Fabiola Naldi e V. Dehò

2017 Italian Cultural Institute, Italia Moderna Reload 017, Edimburgh (UK)

2016 Keep the process warm, curated by Marc Giloux, Montauban (F)

2016 Pala Riviera, Il tutto è più della somma delle sue parti, curated by Galleria Marconi and Maria Letizia Paiato, San Benedetto del Tronto, AP (I)

2016 Careof, Io vedo, io guardo, curated by Annalisa Cattani, Milan (I)

2015 Rocca Malatestiana, Centrale Fotografia, In Italia, curated by Luca Panaro, Fano (I)

2013 Double Room, Trieste (I)
2012 Crane Art Center, International Short Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA (US)
2012 Galleria Parmeggiani Dalla parte delle Donne, Reggio Emilia (I)
2012 Italian Pavillion, Venice Biennial, Sala Nervi, Turin (I)
2011 Art Verona and Civic Public Library, The Mystical self, curated by Cecilia Freschini, Verona (I);
2011 (.Box) Videart Project Space, Milan (I)
2011 (.Box) Videart Project Space, Flashforward 3 Milan (I)

2011 WonderArt, MLAC, Rome (I)
2011 Bremer Kunstfrühling, Video lounge, curated by Kunstlerinnenverband, Bremen (D)
2011 Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI (US)
2011 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY (US)
2011 King’s County, Brooklyn (US)
2010 S. Agostino Museum, Genova (I)
2010 I-Suite Hotel, live video presentation, Rimini (I)
2010 Fine Arts Academy, workshop and live video presentation, L’Aquila (I)
2010 Ex Aurum, Pescara (I)
2009 Straff Hotel, event for Enjoy Miart and Fuori Salone del Mobile, Milan (I)
2008 Placentia Arte, Piacenza (I)
2007 BAC ’07, CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contempooranea, Barcelona (E)
2007 Primo Piano LivinGallery “Story Tellers” II International Videoart Show, Lecce (I)
2007 Concepto Varteum, Puebla, Mexico
2007 Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Parigi (F)
2007 Chelsea Art Museum, [PAM] Installation, New York (US)
2006 Isola Tiberina, Video Island, Rome (I)
2006 Fitzcarraldo, I video Virus di Liuba, Milan (I)
2006 Primo Piano LivinGallery,Fiori di Loto, Vizi e Virtù, Lecce (I)
2005 La Sapienza University, Arte per tutti, Roma, (I)
2005 Villa Serena, Synapser#4, Conflitto e conflitti a Villa (poco) Serena, Bologna (I)
2004 Civic War Museum, Troubled Times, exhibition and performance, Trieste (I)
2003 Ex Ospedale Soave, Controlled revolution, Codogno (I)
2002 ArtandGallery, Milan (I)
2002 Chiesa e Castello di Andora, “IX Contemporary Art Biennial”, Savona (I)
2002 Sala Benjamin, Exit 6, Bologna (I)
2001 Castello Visconteo, Arte giovane europea, Pavia (I)
2000 Villa Serena, Arte Video Tv2000, Bologna (I)
1996 Castello Pasquini, Castiglioncello (LI) (I)
1996 Art Tunnel, Porlezza (CO) (I),
1996 Percorsi ’96, Sant’Anna Arresi (CA) (I)
1995 Galleria Avida Dollars, Milan (I)
1994 Galleria Avida Dollars, Milan (I)
1993 Spazio arti visive F.lli Rosselli, Bologna (I)

FILM FESTIVALS/ ARTFAIRS/ VIDEOSCREENINGS

2021 Berlin Black International Cinema festival, Alex TV, Berlin (D)

2019 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts, LIUBA: Lentezza and the Chronotopes of Performance, lecture by Mark Bartlett, North Adams, USA

2019 University of Bologna, Videoart year Book 2019,curated by Renato Barilli, Bologna(I)

2019 Macro, videoscreening and artista talk, Rome (I)

2019 Berlin Black International Cinema festival, Shonebreg Rathaus, Berlin (D)

2018 ArtParis, presented by Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris (F)

2018 Galleria Marconi, Tiresia Marittima, videoscreening and talk, Cupra marittima (AP)

2018 Università di Bologna, corso di Psicologia dell’Arte, videoscreening and talk, Bologna (I)

2018 Museo della Città, LIUBA performance objects, videoscreenings and talk, Rimini (I)

2018 Fruitexhibition, Art Books Fair, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna (I)

2017 Image Movement, Berlin (D)

2017 Liupirogi E Pagiopa, Rimini (I)

2017 Villa Cernigliaro, Cordevolo, Biella (I)

2016 European Short Film Festival, Babylon Kino, Berlin (D)

2016 Around Film International Festival (ARFF Globe Award Winner), Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Paris

2016 Equality Festival, Kiev, Ukraine

2016 Great Lakes International Shorts Festival, (Best experimental Film),USA

2016 European Short Film Festival, Babylon Kino, Berlin (D)

2016 CANADIAN DIVERSITY FILM FESTIVAL (Best Experimental Film),Toronto (CA)

2016 International Indipendent Film Festival (Golden Prize category Concept ), California (USA)

2016 Performing Art 3Days, curated by Giacomo Verde, Fornace Pascucci, Capraia Fiorentina (FI)

2016 Berlin Black International Cinema festival, Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Berlin (D)

2016 Arte Fiera, presented by MLB Home Gallery, Bologna (I)

2016 ImageMovement, videoscreening, Berlin (D)

2015 Centrale Fotografia, In Italia, curated by Luca Panaro, Fano (I)
2014 Funf Seen Film Festival, Seefeld, Starnberg, Herrsching (Munich)
2013 The Museum of Ethnography of Serbia, Belgrad,
2013 Flash Art Event, presented by Visualcontainer, Milan (I)
2012 Fotofever,Brussels, presented by Visualcontainer, Brussels (B)
2011 Art Verona, curated by Cecilia Freschini, Verona (I)
2011 3rd Ward, live video presentation, Brooklyn, NY (US)
2011 Ex Convento dei Minimi, curated by Stefano Taccone, Roccella Jonica, RC (I)
2011 Circolo Arci Bellezza, curated by Stefano Taccone, Milan (I)
2010 Art Paris & Guests, Grand Palais, Paris (F)
2010 I-Suite Hotel, live video presentation, Rimini (I)
2010 Fine Arts Academy, workshop and live video presentation, L’Aquila (I)
2009 Artissima, video premiere of ‘The Finger and the Moon #2’, Torino (I)
2009 Videoformes, video festival, Clermond Ferrand (F)
2007 Artefiera, Galleria Sei, Bologna (I)
2007 Videoformes, video festival, Clermond Ferrand (F)
2007 Art Brussel, Galleria Prometeo, Brussel (B)
2007 Festival di CuprArte Cupramontana, (I)
2007 Cinema – Scope New York, PAM Perpetual Art Machine, New York (US)
2006 Scope New York, PAM Perpetual Art Machine, New York (US)
2006 Scope Hamptons, Cinema Scope Perpetual Machine, Hamptons, (NY)
2005 Scope Miami, WeissPollack Galleries and Galerie Parisud, Miami (US)
2005 Scope Hamptons, WeissPollack Gallery, South Hampton, (US)
2005 Sofa Fair, WeissPollack Gallery, New York (US)
2005 Scope London, featured artist for WeissPollack Galleries, London (UK)
2005 Videoformes, videoart festival, Clermont Ferrand, (F)
2005 Flash Art Fair, Milan (I)
2005 Flash Art Show, Bologna (I)
2004 Videoformes, videoart festival, Clermond Ferrand (F)

PUBLICATIONS:

2023: THIS IS THE BEST ARTWORK, Campanotto editore, 2023. BUY

2017: LIUBA PERFORMANCE OBJECTS, artist book, 200 copies edition, casa editrice Quinlan. BUY

2016: REFUGEES VIDEOS: edition of 1 poster and USB Key with 2 LIUBA’s videoartworks, edition Image Movement (Berlin)

2000, LIUBA, Art Catalogue

1996-1997: Articles of approach to art for teenagers for the publishing house “Eli”, magazine Tuttinsieme

1994: La margherita dai petali colorati, texts and illustrations by LIUBA, Greco & Greco editore, (Milan)

1994-1990: Articles on art for the cultural magazine “Harta” (Milan)

1993: Le avventure di Zucchero, texts and illustrations by LIUBA, Greco & Greco editore (Milan)

1992: Zucchero e le fragole, texts and illustrations by LIUBA, Greco & Greco editore (Milan)

1991: Analisi della fiaba, in “Semio-News”, semiotic research information magazine, June/July 1991

1990: Il percorso della narrazione,in “Linea Grafica” Sept. 1990.

INTERVIEWS/TV

2021 VisualcontainerTV, Focus on Performance: LIUBA. LINK

2020 My name is Francesca meets LIUBA, Social TV VIDEO

2020 LIUBA in dialogo con Maurizio Marco Tozzi, Instagram Live VIDEO

2018 Art Juice, interview by Ambra Giombini TEXT

2016 RAI TV, videointerview at national TV RAI3 news and RAI2 VIDEO

2015 Videointerview to LIUBA by Luca Panaro, Centrale Fotografia VIDEO

2013 THE COLLEGIUM Forum & Television Program (Berlin), TV interview and videoscreening VIDEO

2013 video interview by Egle Prati VIDEO

2011 IkonoTV (Berlin) TEXT

2010 Liuba, interview by L. Barillaro for seroxcult.com

2008 ilgiornale.ch, interview with the artist Liuba
2006 Artè TV, performance at Galerie Parisud, Paris
2005 RAI3, Passepartout
2004 RAI2, TV News
2001 ART TV, Matchmusic Satellite TV
2000 TeleNovara, Talk Show

VIDEOGRAPHY

THIS IS THE BEST ARTWORK, 2019-2022, Italy, colors, 3’45” ed. 3+2ap

Quarantine Trilogy, 2020, Italy, colours, 13’40” ed. 3 + 2ap

Untitled, 2010-2020, Italy, colours, 7’30” ed. 3+2 ap, Video HD, PAL

The Finger and the Moon #6, 2018, Italy-France, colours 14’52” ed 3+ 2ap, Video HD, PAL

Tiresia Marittima 2018, Italy, colours, 10’10” edition 7+2ap, Video HD, PAL

YOU’RE OUT 2014—2016, Germany, colours, 12’54” unlimited editon/collectors special edition 3+2ap, Video HD, PAL

Refugees welcome 2013—2016, Germany, colours, 17’05” unlimited editon/collectors special edition 3+2ap, Video HD, PAL

Senza Parole (With No Words), 2011, Italy, colours, 7’30” ed 3+ 2ap Master: minidv, PAL

The Slowly Project: Take your time – New York, 2005 – 2011, Usa, colours, 19’36” ed 5 + 2ap

Side by Side, part one, 2005 – 10, Italy,colours 7’18” three channel videoinstallation ed 3+ 2ap

The Finger and the Moon #2, 2009-10, Italy,colours 12’38” two channel video ed 3+ 2ap, HD, PAL

The Slowly Project: Art is long, Time is short, 2004-2009, Switzerland-Italy, colours, 14’45”

The Slowly Project: Take your time – Modena, 2007 – 2008, Italy, colours, 11’01” ed 5 + 2ap,

The Finger and the Moon #1, 2007-2008, Italy, colours 11’43” two channel video, ed3+ 2ap, HD, PAL

Les Amantes, 2006, Italy-France, colours, 6’33” ed 7 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Paris backstage, 2006, Italy-France, colours, 37’50”) videoinstallation with Les Amantes

I love to see the Armory, 2006, Usa, colours, 12’21” ed 3 + 2ap, Master: minidv, NTSC

Virus New York, 2005, Italy-Usa, colours, 14’50” ed 3 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Sold Out, 2005, Italy, colours, 6’48” ed 100 + 1ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Liuba Redux, 2005, Italy, colours, 35’25”, ed.1000

Passaggio, 2001-2005, Italy, colours, 5’23” video-performance, Master: minidv, PAL

Virus, 2004, Italy, colours, 11’54” ed 3 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Virus-tableaux vivant, 2004, Italy, colours, 3’33” ed 7 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

AlphaOmega 2004, colours, 9’18 video from the performance, ed 7 + 2ap, Master: minidv

AlphaOmega – Guard, 2002-2004, colours, 3’13” loop, video for the videoinstallation and performance,

Ragna telone, Italy, 2004, colours, 14’05” ed 7 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Il cieco di Gerico (The Blind Man of Jericho), Italy, 2003, colours, 11’42” ed 3 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Rimini Rimini, 2003, Italy, colours, 3’56” ed 3 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Polypolis Frankfurt, 2002, Italy, colours, 7’50” ed 3 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Polypolis Brussels, 2000, Italy, colours, 5’33” ed 3 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Polypolis Bologna, 2000, Italy, colours, 13’10” ed 3 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Polypolis Avignon, 2000, Italy, colours, 9’30” ed 3 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Polypolis Prague, 2000, Italy, colours, 13’00” ed 3 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Via d’uscita (Way Out), 2000, Italy, colours, 13’00” ed. 3 + 2ap, Master: minidv, PAL

Performances, 1994 – 2000, Italy, 2000, colours, 18’15” (video-catalogue); Master: S-VHS

Le mummie vincenti (The winning Mummies), 1999, Italy, colours, 8’55” ed. 1+ 1ap, Master:S-VHS

LIUBA’S FULL ARCHIVE VIDEOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2017 Dario Ciferri, “Liuba, Guardando Oltre”, in Segno 263 June/July 2017

2017 Cristina Principale, “Liuba, Guardando Oltre”, in Exibart, 2 may 2017

2017 LIUBA PERFORMANCE OBJECTS, Ed. Quinlan; with a text by Luca Panaro

2015 “Guardare la luna e non il dito”, in Luca Panaro, Visite Brevi, Ed. Quinlan, april 2015 (pp. 98-100)
2015 La Voce di Romagna, “Liuba tra i Malatesta. Ma a Fano”, June 2015
2015 “Italian performance Art”, curated by Giovanni Fontana, Nicola Frangione, Roberto Rossini, Ed Sagep, march 2015 (pp298-299)
2015 La Voce di Romagna, “Liuba, performer che gira il globo, apre la casa di famiglia a Viserba”, Aug 8, 2015

2014 La Voce di Romagna, “Shock Art”, october 2, 2014
2014 Fair Planet, “Refugees Welcome – You are out!”, december 2014

2013 Flash Art Event, !Liuba 4’33” Chorus Loop”, by Mark Bartlett, february 2013

2012 Artribune, “Dalla parte delle donne”, april 2012
2012 Undo.net, Liuba (net), By Alessandra Gagliana Candela, may 2012
2012 QuiComo, “Corpi scomodi a Cantù: l’arte invade la città”, by Irene Sevasta, june 2012
2012 Il bimestrale dell’inutile, Liuba Slowly Project, 2013
2012 Grace Exhibition Space, Live performance by Liuba The Food Project: performance#1, april 2012

2012 Inside the moment, by Tracy Lisk and Anabelle Rodriguez, Catalogue of exhibition, 2012
2012 Giorgio Bonomi, “Il corpo solitario”, Ed. Rubbettino, 2012
2011 Artco, “Liuba celebra la V Giornata Mondiale della lentezza a New York, by Chiara Canali”, february 2011
2011 Bushwick Daily, Site Fest ‘ 11 Photo-Impressions, march 2011
2011 Slowness in the Arts, The Slowly Project, May 2011
2011 Thedetroiter.com, The Slowly Project, May 2011
2011 Artribune, “Prego, è la guida del Padiglione Italia”. Ma poi l’artista Liuba ti consegna un bel foglio bianco…, june 2011
2011 Cultura e Società, “Un viaggio nell’arte con le scarpe sbagliate”, June 2011
2011 Kunstlerinnenverband, Liuba, june 2011
2011 Il Gazzettino, “Fogli bianchi e conigli in Chiesa alla scoperta dell’arte incompresa”, by Alda Vanzan, June 2011
2011 ArtCo, “Un laboratorio dedicato alla performance con Liuba sull’Appennino Emiliano”, by Chiara Canali, july 2011
2011 Ikono TV, “Virus” and “The slowly Project” by Liuba, september 2011
2011 EastHong.com, “The Mystical Self – International Group Exhibition in Verona”, october 2011

2011 ArtLinkArt, “About the Mystical Self – International Group Exhibition: maybe Art is no longer a question of ‘meaning’ but of ‘being’”, by Leo Tolstoy, october 2011
2011 Kunstfruhling, Performance – Festival des Kunstlerinnenverband Bremen, catalogue, 2011
2011 “Comincia Adesso Blog, LIUBA- La performance come apertura alla trascendibilità dell’ordinario”, by Stefano Taccone, october 2011

2010 ParisArt, Les Amantes in “Sex et convenence II”, april 2010
2010 Awesome Abstract Art, “Liuba-The blind of Jericho”, may 2010
2010 Flash Art Online; “Artist For Sale”: Liuba ad Arte Fiera 2010
2010 Arte Globale, “Untitled” Artissima Art Fair-Torino, by Olivia Spatola, november 2010
2010 E-Zine, Liuba@Artissima – Live performance Untitled, by Olivia Spatola, november 2010
2010 Comunicati, Liuba Untitled 201 (What is missing in the world) at Artissima 17-Torino, november 2010

2010 Saint Liuba appears in the Piazza S.Pietro, by Mark Bartlett, in thefingerandthemoon.net

2009 ArsKey, “The finger and the moon” di Liuba, by Luca Panaro, n.° 12 november/december 2009

2009 Art-Radar by Exhibart, Liuba – The Finger and the Moon Project, May 2009
2009 Eramoderna.it, Liuba – The Finger and the Moon Project, May 2009
2009 Exhibartmobile.it Liuba, The Finger and the Moon, May 2009
2009 Flashartonline.it Liuba, The Finger and the Moon, May 2009
2009 Il Domani, Liuba – The Finger and the Moon Project, May 10, 2009
2009 Il Giornale.ch Liuba – The Finger and the Moon Project, May 6, 2009
2009 Le Bulletin Régional Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean En directe de Rome, May 7, 2009
2009 Lobodilattice, Liuba, The Finger and the Moon, May 2009
2009 La Repubblica. Tutto Milano Elogio alla lentezza, April 23-29, 2009
2009 Abitare Pocket Milano Wunderkammern studio e Liuba, April 2009
2009 Corriere della sera Wunderkammern studio e Liuba, April 22, 2009
2009 Mymi Design Issue Wunderkammern studio e Liuba, April, 2009
2009 Vanity Fair Wunderkammern studio e Liuba, April 22, 2009
2009 Modem Design Wunderkammern studio e Liuba, April, 2009

2008 Marco Minoletti, Liuba si pronuncia…a passo lento, in Il Giornale.ch, June 10, 2008

2007 “Bac Babylon” International Festival Of Contemporary Art In Barcelona, cat. (Barcelona, Spain)
2007 “Zero3 +3”, catalogue, September (Livorno, Italy)
2007 “Concepto Varteum, Muestra Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo”, catalogue, (Puebla, Mexico)

2006 ArtNet, The performance artist Liuba is photographed in Daniel Buren’s Travail in situ, March 2006 (New York, NY)

2005 “Corriere della sera, Vivimilano” “Liuba Redux” 14th December, (Milan, Italy)
2005 “Shift”, Direct borderground source from London, by Sayaka Hirakawa, October (Japan-England)
2005 “Pensiero Londinese”, text by Romina Provenzi, Issue 3 (London, England)
2005 Panorama, Un urlo e tante risate vi seppelliranno, n. 25, June 23, 2005 (Italy)
2005 Flash Art International, July-September 2005

2004 Flash Art, “Milano Flash Art Fair: camere con vista”, n° 246, June-July 2004
2004 Flash Art international, “Milano Flash Art Fair: Rooms with a View”, n°236, May-June 2004

2004 Flash Art, “Speciale Emilia Romagna”, n° 244, Feb.-March 2004
2004 La Repubblica, Arte Fiera, 23 Jan. 2004
2004 Undo.net, Exhibart, Teknemedia, Liuba’s solo show at Placentia Arte 2004

2004 Maria Campitelli, “Troubled Times”, supplement to Juliet n. 119, Graphart Trieste, 2004
2004 Sabrina Zannier (curated by), Every-body, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, 2004

2003 La Libertà, “Placentia Arte: video di Liuba”, 6 dic. 2003
2003 Stefano Verri, catalogue of the exhibition Slow food fast mood, March 2003

2002 Valerio Dehò, catalogue of the exhibition “Lavori domestici”, Varese, Dec.2002
2002 Manuela Gandini, “Luoghi di concentramento”, catalogue of the exhibition, April 2002
2002 Giorgio Bonomi, “Paraxo 2002”, catalogue of the exhibition, June 2002
2002 Juliet, “Liuba” by Fabiola Naldi, n° 105, dec. 2001 – Jan. 2002
2002 Tracce, “Liuba” year 5 n° 10 – 2002

2001 Titolo, “Il corpo messo a nudo, anche”, by Giorgio Bonomi, n°36 – year XII – Autumn 2001
2001 Il tirreno, “Le mummie vincenti di Liuba”, September 27, 2001
2001 “Le mummie vincenti” text by Bruno Sullo for the exhibition in Palazzo Marini, September – October 2001
2001 “Liuba, sense and sensibility” by Bruno Sullo, catalogue for the exhibition Polypolis, March
2001 Il Domani, “Vite inscatolate in un inutile valzer”, Cultura e Spettacoli, March 15, 2001
2001 Il Resto del Carlino, “Salara a tutta performance” March 15, 2001
2001 La Repubblica, “Polypolis, i video di Liuba”, March 15th 2001
2001 ART TV, Match music satellite “Mummie vincenti di una nuova metropolys” by Fabiola Naldi, February 23rd 2001

2000 Cafe9.net “Polypolis”, by Pierluigi Cappucci, September 2000
2000 “Oscillazioni”, catalogue of Festival della performance, Firenze, July 2000
2000 “Via d’uscita” by Patti Campani text for the exhibition, , Fiorile Arte, Bologna, May 2000

1999 Zero in condotta, “Le mummie vincenti”, by Roberto Vitali, December 1999

1998 Il Corriere della Sera, “S-CATENARSI Arte e performance”, December 23rd 1998
1998 La Repubblica, “Azione- performance”, December 23rd 1998

1996 La Repubblica, “Liuba Picini, teatro Out Off”, February 20th 1996
1996 Il corriere della sera, “Teatro Out Off – Liuba Picini”, February 20th 1996
1996 “Natura, gioco, sensualità, forme primitive” by Michela Mantovani, catalogue of the exhibition Tunnel d’Arte, Porlezza (Como) June-July 1996
1996 “Liuba Picini. Le parole – le immagini- il sentimento” by Attilio Fortini, text for the exhibition, July 1996
1996 Bruno Sullo, catalogue of the exhibition, Castello Pasquini, Castiglioncello, (LI), Jan.-Feb. 1996

1996 “Blossom” by Paolo Badini, text for the exhibition, Teatro Dehon, Bologna, Jan.-Feb. 1996
1996 La Repubblica, “Esposizione di Liuba Picini”, January 9th 1996

1994 Il Resto del Carlino, “Pellegrinaggio poetico”, September 8th 1994

1993 Il Cittadino, “L’arte? Un aspetto di questo mondo”, December 4th 1993
1993 Il Corriere della Sera, “Lissone – Harta”, December 17th 1993
1993 Harta, “Spazio Arti visive Fratelli Rosselli”, n° 22, December 1993

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