Education
Comani received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy (1988) and a Master of Fine Arts from the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany (1993).
Comani received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy (1988) and a Master of Fine Arts from the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany (1993).
Since 1989, she has lived in Berlin, Germany. The multimedia work of Comani touches on subjects like history, language, gender and identity. She often works with photos and texts from newspapers, television and books that allegedly appear familiar to us.
Foreignness and intimacy, history and interpretation, and the mechanisms of comprehension are her concerns.
Comani"s artistic practice includes photography, texts, drawings, video and installation. 1992 – 37 Räume, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (KW), Berlin 1993 – More than zero, Magasin, Centre National d" Art Contemporain, Grenoble 1996 – Lesen, Kunsthalle Street.Gallen, Companies of Honour 2006 – Das Achte Feld – Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Köln 2007 – History will repeat itself, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (KW), Berlin 2007 – Ich war"s, In 32 Tagen um den Alexanderplatz, NGBK / U2 Alexanderplatz, Berlin (East) 2008 – Transmediale 08 – conspire!, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2008 – Bildpolitiken, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg 2008 – HeartQuake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem 2008 – Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, MAMbo – Museo d"Arte Moderna, Bologna 2010 – Courier, University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York 2010 – C"était moi.
Journal 1900–1999, Centre d"Art Passerelle, Brest (East) 2011 – 54. Biennale di Venezia / Repubblica di San Marino Pavilion, Venedig 2011 – Doublespeak, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah 2012 – Le Printemps de Septembre: History is Mine! Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse 2013 – Authoritratti.
Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea, MAMbo – Museo d"Arte Moderna, Bologna.