About

BIO

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

My work brings together performance, participatory practice, video and installation to investigate the relationship between art, society and human experience.

I studied Semiotics of Art with Umberto Eco and Omar Calabrese at the University of Bologna. My background in semiotics continues to shape my artistic practice. I also drew great inspiration from my uncle, Elio Pagliarani, one of Italy’s most influential contemporary poets.
His rare but invaluable advice and his performative attitude were decisive for my work.

I began working with performance art in 1992 as a way of bringing together the different artistic practices I had previously explored, including painting, poetry and fairy tales. Performance art soon became my favourite artistic language, and mixed-media performance became the core of my artistic identity.

In the early years of my career, I supported myself through performance workshops and street art theatre, performing my fairy tales for both adults and children. During those years, I developed a performative practice that enabled me to feel confident in front of any audience and in any kind of public 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 working beyond the walls of galleries and institutions. By bringing art into the realm of everyday public life, I moved my practice into the streets, where interacting with different kinds of people became an integral part of the work. It was then that I began what I call my urban interactive performances, which introduced video into my practice by bringing together live performance, public interaction and the identities of site-specific places.

For more than thirty years, I have performed in cities, villages, museums, festivals, public squares and unexpected places, exploring human contradictions, social issues, everyday life and the dynamics of the art world.

My ongoing projects explore themes that I believe are among the most pressing issues of our time, including spirituality and interfaith dialogue, silence and slowness, as well as migration and the refugee experience—subjects that I approach from both social and anthropological perspectives.

Alongside my visual and performative practice, I have been writing poetry since the age of fourteen. In the 1990s, I published three illustrated fairy tale books for children and adults. In 2025, I published E che il bruco sbuchi, a selection of poems from the collections I had written over the previous decades. I also keep a blog and created LIUBA Art Pills, two ongoing projects through which I reflect on art, my creative process and the often unseen reality of an artist’s everyday life.

I am specialised in semiotics of art, image theory and visual grammar. I also lead creative workshops focused on personal well-being through art, and I have extensive experience teaching art to students of different ages.

I am a passionate traveller and enjoy living in different parts of the world while researching and developing site-specific projects focused on the human experience. However, I always love returning to Italy, especially to my family’s native region of Romagna and to my hometown, Milan.

I became a mother later in life, and this is the greatest gift life has given me. Every day I feel grateful for this extraordinary experience, which inspired me to create This is the Best Artwork, a project consisting of a performance, a video, a sculpture and an artist’s book.

WIKIPEDIA

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIUBA

SHORT BIO

LIUBA is an Italian artist working with performance art, video art, site-specific and participatory projects, photography and installations. Everything in her work starts from the body, and grows through its encounter with others. She lives now in Milan and Rimini, her two own cities. She had been living in Bologna, New York and Berlin.

Her work is concerned with social, anthropological, geographical, and 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 photographic 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

In a cultural moment increasingly shaped by algorithmic image production and the fantasy of authorship without a body, I insist on the irreducibility of the body as a site of presence, tension, and political agency. For over thirty years—since I began performing in 1992—my work has explored social, political, and spiritual themes through irony, participation, and site-specific actions, but it begins, always, from this physical and irreplaceable ground.Each project starts with deep research and develops through performance—an open process that unfolds in real contexts and everyday life. I use my body as both medium and instrument of dialogue: exposed, vulnerable, and at the same time resistant. My performances are not staged events but living actions that take place among people, shaped by chance, context, and participation—encounters that cannot be automated, replicated, or outsourced to systems of simulation.

Video is a natural extension of this process, transforming the ephemeral nature of performance into a new visual and conceptual form. Through editing, I weave together the performance’s conceptual layers, people’s reactions, and the identity of the place, allowing each work to evolve into an autonomous artwork. Photography, sound, and mixed media often accompany this transformation.

Since around 2010, my practice has evolved increasingly toward a participatory and relational dimension. Against narratives of disappearance and delegation, I position the artist as a critical force—one who invites individuals and communities to share gestures, stories, and experiences that reveal the complexity of our shared humanity. Through this process, art becomes a collective act of awareness: a mirror that reflects society and opens spaces for dialogue and transformation.

Each project grows slowly, nourished by research, fieldwork, and collaboration. I work with videomakers, anthropologists, curators, technicians, and writers, believing that art today is a networked practice—an open dialogue where the boundaries between artist and audience dissolve into shared, embodied experience.

Interview to LIUBA by Giuseppe Tringali from: NETWORKERS – THE PODCAST, 2026

Interview to LIUBA by Egle Prati from: http://www.talkingart.it, 2013

Interview to LIUBA by Prof. Donald Muldrow Griffith at the TV program THE COLLEGIUM – Forum & Television Program, Berlin December 15, 2013.

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

1990-1994 Painting Courses at Bologna Fine Arts Academy

1991 Master in “Animated Movies” at Bologna Civic Cineteque

1989 Master Degree in “Semiotics of Arts” (110 cum laude) at Bologna University
1989 Certificate of “Scuola Libera del Nudo” at Bologna Fine Arts Academy

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS AND PROJECTS

2026 “Movimento Aperto”, solo exhibition, Naples, Italy

2025 “[.BOX] Videoart Project Space”, solo video exhibition, Milan, Italy

2024 “The Finger and the Moon #3.1 & #3.2”, world premiere video screening and installation, Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy

2023 “Senza Permesso e per Amore”, solo exhibition, Zanzara Contemporary Art, Ferrara, Italy

2019 “You’re Welcome”, solo exhibition and participatory performances, Fondazione Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare, Italy

2018 “The Finger and the Moon”, solo exhibition and video screening, Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris, France

2018 “LIUBA Performance Objects”, solo exhibition and video screening, Chippendale Studio, Milan, Italy

2017 “Tiresia Marittima”, solo exhibition and participatory performance, Galleria Marconi, Cupra Marittima, Italy

2014 “Refugees Welcome”, participatory project, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany

2013 “4.33” Chorus Loop” Solo exhibition and participatory performance, Flash Art Event, Milan, Italy

2009 Solo exhibition, Betta Frigieri Arte Contemporanea, Modena, Italy

2006 “Chelsea Sabotage”, solo exhibition, WeissPollack Gallery, New York, USA

2003 “Il Cieco di Gerico”, Solo exhibition, Placentia Arte, Piacenza, Italy

2001 “Polypolis”, solo videoinstallation and performance, Salara Civic Exhibition Center, Bologna European Capital of Culture, Bologna, Italy

2000 “Via d’uscita” Solo exhibition, Fiorile Arte, Bologna, Italy,

2000 “Zoom”, solo exhibition, Villa Serena, Bologna, Italy

1999 Solo exhibition, Galleria Avida Dollars, Milan, Italy

1996 “Blossom”, solo exhibition and performance, Teatro Dehon, Bologna, Italy

1996 “Blossom”, solo exhibition and performance, Teatro Out Off, Milan, Italy

1993 “Viscido” public art installation, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy

SELECTED PERFORMANCES AND SITE-SPECIFIC ACTIONS

2025 “AlphaOmega”, performance, Liupirogi e Pagiopa, Rimini, Italy

2022 “Virus and Peacedots”, participatory performance, Performa24, Milan, Italy

2020 “Quarantine Trilogy”, live web performance, “Corpi sul Palco” Festival, Italy

2018 “The Finger and the Moon #6”, performance, Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, France

2016 “With No Time”, participatory performance and installation, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy

2015 “With No Time”, participatory performance, 2nd International Performance Art Festival, Monza, Italy

2015 “Questa non è una performance”, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy

2014 “YOU’RE OUT!”, participatory performance, Oranienplatz, Berlin, Germany

2013 “Refugees Welcome”, participatory performance, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany

2012 “The Finger and the Moon #3”, participatory performance, Sant’Agostino Museum, Genoa, Italy

2012 “The Food Project. Performance #1”, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2011 Skype performance, YES Foundation Stichting JA, Den Bosch, Netherlands

2011 “Senza Parole”, performance, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2011 “The Invisible Web of the Art System”, performance, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA

2011 Performance, Hunger International Performance Festival, BLO Atelier, Berlin, Germany

2011 “Jericho in Bremen”, performance, Bremer Kunstfrühling Performance Festival, Bremen, Germany

2011 “The Invisible Web of the Italian Art System”, performance, NABA for MIArt, Milan, Italy

2011 “Unreal Exit”, Site Fest ’11, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2011 “The Slowly Project: Take Your Time”, 5th Global Day of Slow Living, New York, USA

2010 “Artist for Sale”, performance, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy

2010 “Untitled 2010”, performance, Artissima, Turin, Italy

2009 “The Finger and the Moon #2”, performance and live streaming, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City

2007 “Intersecazioni”, performance, PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2007 “The Finger and the Moon #1”, performance, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2007 “The Slowly Project: Take Your Time”, performance, Modena, Italy

2006 “I Love to See the Armory”, performance, The Armory Show, New York, USA

2005 “The Slowly Project: Take Your Time”, performance, New York City, USA

2005 “Les Amantes”, performance, Galerie Parisud, Paris, France

2005 “Side by Side”, performance, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2004 “Art is Long, Time is Short”, performance, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2004 “Every-Body”, performance, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy

2004 Video installation and performance, Flash Art Fair, Hotel UNA Tocq, Milan, Italy

2004 “Virus”, performance, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy

2003 “Il Cieco di Gerico”, performance, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2002 Performance and video installation, Villa Serena, Bologna, Italy

2000 “Polypolis”, performances in Brussels, Avignon, Prague and Bologna, European Capitals of Culture 2000

2000 “S-Catenarsi”, performance, Artissima, Turin, Italy

1999 “Una Mummia per la Città”, performance, CRT PoetAzione, Milan, Italy

1998 Performance, First International Performance Festival, Viadana, Italy

1995 Performance, Perfomedia, Ponte Nossa, Italy

1994 Performance, Portico di San Luca, Bologna, Italy

1993 “La Margherita dai Petali Colorati”, performance, Centro d’Arte Masaorita, Bologna, Italy

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka (MMSU), Rijeka, Croatia

2018 “Zoo 21 – 23 anni dopo”, Millennium Gallery, Bologna, Italy

2017 “Italia Moderna Reload 017”, Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, UK

2016 “Keep the Process Warm”, curated by Marc Giloux, Montauban, France

2016 “Il tutto è più della somma delle sue parti”, curated by Galleria Marconi and Maria Letizia Paiato, Pala Riviera, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy

2016 “Io vedo, io guardo”, curated by Annalisa Cattani, Careof, Milan, Italy

2015 “In Italia”, curated by Luca Panaro, Centrale Fotografia, Fano, Italy

2013 “Double Room”, Trieste, Italy

2012 “Dalla parte delle donne”, Galleria Parmeggiani, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2012 Italian Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Sala Nervi, Turin, Italy

2011 “The Mystical Self”, curated by Cecilia Freschini, Art Verona and Civic Public Library, Verona, Italy

2011 “WonderArt”, MLAC – Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

2011 “The Slowly Project” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

2011 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2011 King’s County, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2010 Sant’Agostino Museum, Genoa, Italy

2010 Ex Aurum, Pescara, Italy

2009 Straff Hotel, Fuorisalone and Enjoy MIArt, Milan, Italy

2008 Placentia Arte Gallery, Piacenza, Italy

2007 BAC’07, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain

2007 Concepto Varteum, Puebla, Mexico

2007 Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA

2006 Video Island, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy

2005 “Arte per Tutti”, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

2004 “Troubled Times”, Civic War Museum, Trieste, Italy

2003 “Controlled Revolution”, Ex Ospedale Soave, Codogno, Italy

2002 IX Contemporary Art Biennial, Andora, Italy

2001 “Arte Giovane Europea”, Castello Visconteo, Pavia, Italy

1996 Castello Pasquini, Castiglioncello, Italy

1996 Art Tunnel, Porlezza, Italy

1996 Percorsi ’96, Sant’Anna Arresi, Italy

1995 Galleria Avida Dollars, Milan, Italy

1994 Galleria Avida Dollars, Milan, Italy

1993 Spazio Arti Visive Fratelli Rosselli, Bologna, Italy

ARTIST BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

2025 “E che il bruco sbuchi. Poems 1979–2023”, poetry collection, Campanotto Editore

2023 “This is the Best Artwork”, artist’s book, Campanotto Editore

2017 “LIUBA Performance Objects”, artist’s book, Quinlan Editions

2016 “Refugees Videos”, artist publication with poster and USB drive, Image Movement, Berlin

2005 “LIUBA REDUX”, DVD publication featuring four video works, Placentia Arte Production

2000 “LIUBA”, exhibition catalogue, Bologna European Capital of Culture

1996–1997 Articles on art for teenagers, “Tuttinsieme”, ELI Editions

1994–1990 Art criticism and essays for the cultural magazine “Harta”

1994 “La Margherita dai Petali Colorati”, texts and illustrations by LIUBA

1993 “Le Avventure di Zucchero”, texts and illustrations by LIUBA

1992 “Zucchero e le Fragole”, texts and illustrations by LIUBA

1991 “Analisi della fiaba”, Semio-News

1990 “Il percorso della narrazione”, Linea Grafica

SELECTED VIDEO SCREENINGS, MULTIMEDIA EVENTS AND ART FAIRS

2026 Presentation of “E che il bruco sbuchi. Poems 1979–2023” with video screening, Spazio Alda Merini, Milan, Italy

2024 “LIUBA. La vita prima dell’Arte”, book presentation and video screening, Casa dei Diritti del Comune di Milano, Milan, Italy

2024 Presentations of “This is the Best Artwork” with video screenings, including events at Libreria Antigone (Rome), Villa Cernigliaro (Biella), Civica Biblioteca Joppi (Udine), Spazio Alda Merini (Milan), and Galleria Comunale Gambalunga, Rimini, Italy

2023 Presentations of “This is the Best Artwork” with video screenings, Chippendale Studio and Libreria Popolare, Milan, Italy

2021–2022 Berlin Black International Cinema Festival, Berlin, Germany

2019 Artist talk and video screening, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy

2019 Videoart Yearbook, curated by Renato Barilli, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2019 Berlin Black International Cinema Festival, Berlin, Germany

2018 Art Paris, presented by Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris, France

2018 FRUIT Exhibition – Art Books Fair, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy

2018 Presentations of “LIUBA Performance Objects” with video screenings, University of Bologna and Civic Museum of Rimini, Italy

2017 MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2017 Image Movement, Berlin, Germany

2016 European Short Film Festival, Babylon Kino, Berlin, Germany

2016 ARFF Globe Award, screenings in Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Paris

2016 Equality Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine

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

2016 Canadian Diversity Film Festival (Best Experimental Film), Toronto, Canada

2016 International Independent Film Festival (Golden Prize, Concept Category), California, USA

2016 Image Movement, solo video screening, Berlin, Germany

2016 Arte Fiera, presented by MLB Home Gallery, Bologna, Italy

2014 Fünf Seen Film Festival, Munich, Germany

2013 Museum of Ethnography, Belgrade, Serbia

2012 Fotofever, Brussels, Belgium

2010 Art Paris & Guests, Grand Palais, Paris, France

2009 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2009 Artissima, premiere screening of “The Finger and the Moon #2”, Turin, Italy

2007 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2007 Art Brussels, Belgium

2007 SCOPE New York, presented by Perpetual Art Machine, New York, USA

2006 SCOPE New York and SCOPE Hamptons, presented by Perpetual Art Machine, USA

2005 SCOPE London, SCOPE Miami, SCOPE Hamptons and Sofa Fair, presented by WeissPollack Gallery, USA and UK

2005 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2005 Flash Art Fair, Milan and Bologna, Italy

2004 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France

SELECTED TALKS, LECTURES, INTERVIEWS AND MEDIA COVERAGE

2025 “LIUBA – Video Tribute by the Collegium TV Berlin”, The Collegium TV, Berlin

2021 “Focus on Performance: LIUBA”, Visualcontainer online TV

2020 “My Name is Francesca Meets LIUBA”, Social TV on social media

2020 Dialogue with Maurizio Marco Tozzi, Instagram Live

2019 “LIUBA: Slowness and the Chronotopes of Performance”, lecture by Mark Bartlett, MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA

2018 Interview by Ambra Giombini, Art Juice

2016 RAI2 and RAI3 National Television, Italy

2015 Interview by Luca Panaro, Centrale Fotografia, Fano, Italy

2013 THE COLLEGIUM Forum & Television Program, Berlin, Germany

2011 IkonoTV

2006 Arte TV

2005 RAI3, “Passepartout”

2004 RAI2 News

2001 ART TV, MatchMusic Satellite TV

2000 TeleNovara

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023 Marcello Tosi, “Arte e vita intrecciate a doppio filo nell’universo performativo di LIUBA”, Corriere Romagna, December 24, 2023

2023 Luca Panaro, “L’arte di sorprendere”, critical essay in This is the Best Artwork, Campanotto Editore, 2023

2023 Cristina Principale, “This is The Best Artwork, l’opera d’arte migliore di LIUBA è diventata un libro”, Exibart, October 28, 2023

2023 Luca Panaro, “LIUBA: The Finger and the Moon Project; Performance Objects; This is The Best Artwork”, in L’immagine militante, Seipersei Editore, 2023

2019 Luca Panaro, “I pois di LIUBA”, in Sotto lo sguardo austero dei giganti, Fanzine, 2019

2018 Ambra Giombini, “Une nonne dans l’Art Contemporain”, Artjuice.net, 2018

2017 Dario Ciferri, “LIUBA, Guardando Oltre”, Segno, no. 263, June–July 2017

2017 Cristina Principale, “LIUBA, Guardando Oltre”, Exibart, May 2017

2017 Luca Panaro, LIUBA Performance Objects, critical essay in the artist’s book, Quinlan Editions, 2017

2015 Ama Lorenz, “Refugees Welcome”, Fair Planet, September 2015

2015 Luca Panaro, “Guardare la luna e non il dito”, in Visite Brevi, Quinlan Editions, pp. 98–100

2015 Italian Performance Art, edited by Giovanni Fontana, Nicola Frangione and Roberto Rossini, Sagep Editore, pp. 298–299

2015 Davide Brullo, “LIUBA tra i Malatesta. Ma a Fano”, La Voce di Romagna, June 2015

2015 Davide Brullo, “LIUBA, performer che gira il globo, apre la casa di famiglia a Viserba”, La Voce di Romagna, August 8, 2015

2014 Ama Lorenz, “Refugees Welcome – YOU’RE OUT!”, Fair Planet, December 2014

2014 Davide Brullo, “Shock Art”, La Voce di Romagna, October 2, 2014

2013 Mark Bartlett, “Liuba 4’33” Chorus Loop”, Flash Art Event, exhibition leaflet, 2013

2012 Giorgio Bonomi, Il corpo solitario, Rubbettino Editore, 2012

2012 Tracy Lisk and Anabelle Rodriguez, Inside the Moment, exhibition catalogue, 2012

2012 “The Food Project: Performance #1”, Grace Exhibition Space, exhibition catalogue, 2012

2012 Alessandra Gagliano Candela, “Liuba (net)”, Undo.net, May 2012

2012 “Dalla parte delle donne”, Artribune, April 2012

2011 Chiara Canali, “LIUBA celebra la V Giornata Mondiale della Lentezza a New York”, ArtCo, February 2011

2011 “The Slowly Project”, Slowness in the Arts

2011 “The Slowly Project”, TheDetroiter.com

2011 “Prego, è la guida del Padiglione Italia. Ma poi l’artista LIUBA ti consegna un foglio bianco”, Artribune, June 2011

2011 Stefano Taccone, “LIUBA – La performance come apertura alla trascendibilità dell’ordinario”, Comincia Adesso Blog, October 2011

2011 “Virus” and “The Slowly Project”, IkonoTV

2011 Performance Festival des Künstlerinnenverband Bremen, exhibition catalogue

2010 Mark Bartlett, “Saint Liuba Appears in the Piazza San Pietro”, 2010

2010 “Artist for Sale: LIUBA at Arte Fiera”, Flash Art Online

2010 ParisArt, “Les Amantes”, in Sex et Convenance II

2009 Luca Panaro, “The Finger and the Moon di LIUBA”, ArsKey, no. 12, November–December 2009

2009 “The Finger and the Moon Project”, Flash Art Online

2009 “The Finger and the Moon Project”, Exibart

2009 “Elogio alla lentezza”, La Repubblica – Tutto Milano

2009 “Wunderkammern Studio e LIUBA”, Corriere della Sera

2008 Marco Minoletti, “LIUBA si pronuncia… a passo lento”, Il Giornale.ch

2007 BAC Babylon – International Festival of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Barcelona

2007 Concepto Varteum, exhibition catalogue, Puebla, Mexico

2006 “The Performance Artist LIUBA is Photographed in Daniel Buren’s Travail in Situ”, Artnet

2005 “LIUBA Redux”, Corriere della Sera – ViviMilano

2005 Flash Art International, June–September 2005

2005 “Un urlo e tante risate vi seppelliranno”, Panorama, no. 25

2004 “Milano Flash Art Fair: Rooms with a View”, Flash Art International, no. 236

2004 Flash Art, Speciale Emilia-Romagna, no. 244

2004 Sabrina Zannier (ed.), Every-Body, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea

2004 Maria Campitelli, Troubled Times, supplement to Juliet, no. 119

2002 Fabiola Naldi, “LIUBA”, Juliet, no. 105

2001 Giorgio Bonomi, “Il corpo messo a nudo, anche”, Titolo, no. 36

2001 Bruno Sullo, LIUBA. Sense and Sensibility, catalogue for Polypolis

2000 Pierluigi Cappucci, “Polypolis”, Cafe9.net

2000 Fabiola Naldi, “Mummie vincenti di una nuova Metropolys”, ART TV

1999 Roberto Vitali, “Le mummie vincenti”, Zero in Condotta

1998 “S-Catenarsi Arte e Performance”, Corriere della Sera

1998 “Azione-performance”, La Repubblica

1996 Bruno Sullo, exhibition catalogue, Castello Pasquini, Castiglioncello

1996 Paolo Badini, “Blossom”, exhibition texts

1996 Attilio Fortini, “Le parole – le immagini – il sentimento”, exhibition texts

1993 “Harta”, Spazio Arti Visive Fratelli Rosselli, Bologna

VIDEOGRAPHY

The Finger and the Moon #3.1. Pre Performance, 2012-2024, Italy, colors, 16’33”, ed.48+2ap

The Finger and the Moon #3.2. Performance, 2012-2024, Italy, colors, 13’31”, ed. 48+2ap

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

Bibliografia

2023 Luca Panaro, L’arte di sorprendere (testo critico in This is the Best Artwork, LIUBA, Campanotto editore)
2023 Cristina Principale, This is The Best Artwork, l’opera d’arte migliore di LIUBA è diventata un libro, in “exibart”

2023 Luca Panaro, Liuba: The Finger and the Moon Project; Performance Objects; This is The Best Artwork, (in L’immagine militante, 2023 Seipersei editore)

2018 Ambra Giombini, Une “nonne” dans l’Art Contemporain, in “Artjuice.net”

2018 Marcello Tosi, Liuba: recitare è fare teatro, essere invece è performare, in “Corriere Romagna”

2017 Dario Ciferri, LIUBA, Guardando Oltre, in “Segno” n 263

2017 Cristina Principale, LIUBA, Guardando Oltre, in “Exibart”

2017 Luca Panaro, Performance Objects (testo critico in LIUBA PERFORMANCE OBJECTS, Editrice Quinlan)

2015 Fair Planet editorial team, Escape from Conflicts and Oppression, in Read Debate Engage, dossier Escape, “Fair Planet”

2015 Luca Panaro, Guardare la luna e non il dito (in Visite Brevi, Ed. Quinlan, (pp. 98-100)

2015 Liuba tra i Malatesta. Ma a Fano, “La voce di Romagna”

2015 Giovanni Fontana, Nicola Frangione, Roberto Rossini, Italian performance art, Sagep editore, (pp 298-299)

2015 Liuba, performer che gira il globo, apre la casa di famiglia a Viserba, “La Voce di Romagna”
2014 La Voce di Romagna, “Shock Art”

2014 Fair Planet, “Refugees Welcome – You are out!”

2013 Mark Bertlett, Liuba 4’33” Chorus Loop, in “Flash Art Event”
2012 Dalla parte delle donne, in “Artribune”

2012 Alessandra Gagliana Candela, Liuba (net), in “Undo.net”

2012 Irene Sevasta, Corpi scomodi a Cantù: l’arte invade la città, in “QuiComo”
2012 Liuba Slowly Project, in “ Il bimestrale dell’inutile”

2012 Live performance di Liuba – The Food Project: performance#1, in Grace Exhibition Space

2012 Tracy Lisk e Anabelle Rodriguez, Inside the moment
2012 Giorgio Bonomi, Il corpo solitario, Rubbettino editore

2011 Chiara Canali, Liuba celebra la V Giornata Mondiale della lentezza a New York, in “Artco”
2011 Katarina Hybenova, Site Fest ‘ 11 Photo-Impressions, in “Bushwick Daily”

2011 The Slowly Project, in “Thedetroiter.com”

2011 Redazione, Prego, è la guida del Padiglione Italia. Ma poi l’artista Liuba ti consegna un bel foglio bianco… in “Artribune”

2011 Un viaggio nell’arte con le scarpe sbagliate, in “Cultura e Società”

2011 Alda Vanzan, Fogli bianchi e conigli in Chiesa alla scoperta dell’arte incompresa, in “ilGazzettino”
2011 Chiara Canali, Un laboratorio dedicato alla performance con Liuba sull’Appennino Emiliano, in “ArtCo”
2011 Virus” e “The slowly Project” di Liuba, in “Ikono TV”

2011 The Mystical Self – International Group Exhibition in Verona, in “EastHong.com”

2011 Leo Tolstoy, About the Mystical Self – International Group Exhibition: maybe Art is no longer a question of ‘meaning’ but of ‘being’, in “ArtLinkArt”

2011 Performance – Festival des Kunstlerinnenverband Bremen, in “Kunstfruhling”

2011 Stefano Taccone, LIUBA- La performance come apertura alla trascendibilità dell’ordinario, in “Comincia Adesso Blog”
2010 Les Amantes, in “Sex et convenence II” “ParisArt”

2010 Liuba-The blind of Jericho, in “Awesome Abstract Art”

2010 Artist For Sale: Liuba ad Arte Fiera, in “Flash Art Online”

2010 Olivia Spatola,“Untitled” Artissima Art Fair-Torino, in “Arte Globale”

2010 Olivia Spatola, Liuba@Artissima – Live performance Untitled, in “E-Zine”

2010 Liuba Untitled 2010 (What is missing in the world) a Artissima 17-Torino, in “Comunicati”

2010 Mark Barlkett, Saint Liuba appears in the Piazza S.Pietro

2009 Luca Panaro,“The finger and the moon” di Liuba, in “ArsKey”, n.° 12

2009 Liuba – The Finger and the Moon Project, in “Art-Radar”, “exibart”

2009 Liuba – The Finger and the Moon Project, in “Eramoderna.it”

2009 Liuba, The Finger and the Moon, in “Exhibartmobile.it”

2009 Liuba, The Finger and the Moon, in “Flashartonline.it”

2009 Liuba – The Finger and the Moon Project, in “Il Domani”

2009 Liuba – The Finger and the Moon Project, in “Il Giornale.ch”

2009 Le Bulletin Régional Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in “En directe de Rome”

2009 Liuba, The Finger and the Moon, in”Lobodilattice”

2009 Elogio alla lentezza, in “Tuttomilano”, “La Repubblica”

2009 Wunderkammern studio e Liuba, in “Abitare Pocket Milano”
2009 Wunderkammern studio e Liuba, in “Corriere della sera”

2009 Wunderkammern studio e Liuba, in “Mymi Design Issue”

2009 Wunderkammern studio e Liuba, in “Vanity Fair”

2009 Wunderkammern studio e Liuba, in “Modem Design”

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

2007 Bac Babylon, in “International Festival Of Contemporary Art In Barcelona”, cat.

2007 Zero3 +3, catalogo, settembre

2007 Concepto Varteum, Muestra Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, catalogo
2006 The performance artist Liuba is photographed in Daniel Buren’s Travail in situ, in “ArtNet”

2005 Liuba Redux, in “Corriere della sera, Vivimilano”

2005 Sayaka Hirakawa, Direct borderground source from London, in “Shift”
2005 Romina Provenzi, Pensiero Londinese, Issue 3

2005 Un urlo e tante risate vi seppelliranno, in “Panorama, n. 25”

2005 Flash Art International

2004 Milano Flash Art Fair: camere con vista, in “FlashArt n° 246”

2004 Milano Flash Art Fair: Rooms with a View, in “Flash Art international n°236”
2004 Speciale Emilia Romagna, in “FlashArt n° 244”

2004 La Repubblica, Arte Fiera

2004 Liuba’s solo show a Placentia Arte, in “Undo.net, Exhibart, Teknemedia”

2004 Maria Campitelli, Troubled Times, supplement to Juliet n. 119, in “Graphart Trieste”

2004 Sabrina Zannier (a cura di), Every-body, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea

2003 Placentia Arte: video di Liuba, in “La Libertà”

2002 Stefano Verri, Slow food fast mood, cataogo dell’esposizione

2002 Valerio Dehò, Lavori domestici, catalogo dell’esposizione

2002 Manuela Gandini, Luoghi di concentramento, catalogo dell’esposizione

2002 Giorgio Bonomi, “Paraxo 2002”, catalogo dell’esposizione

2002 Fabiola Naldi Liuba, in “Juliet n° 105”

2002 Liuba, in “Tracce, year 5 n° 10”

2001 Giorgio Bonomi, Il corpo messo a nudo, anche, in “Titolo °36 – year XII”
2001 Le mummie vincenti di Liuba, in “Il tirreno”
2001 Bruno Sullo, Le mummie vincenti, esibizione Palazzo Marini
2001 Bruno Sullo, Liuba, sense and sensibility, catalogo per l’esposizione Polypolis
2001 Vite inscatolate in un inutile valzer, in “Il Domani, Cultura e Spettacoli”

2001 Salara a tutta performance, in “Il Resto del Carlino”

2000 Polypolis, i video di Liuba, in “La Repubblica”

2000 Fabiola Naldi, Mummie vincenti di una nuova metropolys, in “ART TV, Match music satellite”
2000 Cafe9.net “Polypolis”, by Pierluigi Cappucci

2000 Oscillazioni, catalogo di Festival della performance, Firenze

2000 Patti Campani, Via d’uscita, testi dell’esposizione in “Fiorile Arte”, Bologna

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

1998 S-CATENARSI Arte e performance, in “Il Corriere della Sera”

1998 Azione- performance, in “La Repubblica”

1996 Liuba Picini, teatro Out Off, in “La Repubblica”

1996 Teatro Out Off – Liuba Picini, in “Il Corriere della Cera”

1996 Michela Mantovani, Natura, gioco, sensualità, forme primitive, catalogo dell’esposizione 1996 Tunnel d’Arte, Porlezza (Como)
1996 Attilio Fortini, Liuba Picini. Le parole – le immagini- il sentimento, testi per l’esposizione

1996 Bruno Sullo, catalogo dell’esposizione, Castello Pasquini, Castiglioncello, (LI)

1996 Paolo Badini, Blossom, testi per l’esposizione, Teatro Dehon, Bologna
1996 Esposizione di Liuba Picini, in “La Repubblica”

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