GIAMPIERO ASSUMMA

Giampiero Assumma, Naples born, is an Italian photographer and video maker, currently Moscow based.

His photographic vision might be defined as “all-encompassing”: he explores and experiments, with existentialist character, different themes and genres, from reportage to portraiture, from street photography to cinema, from landscape to experimental fine art. 

“Genres in photography are just a frame. What indeed fascinates me the most, is to experience the meaning of life through my images. Photography seen as medium to transcend the sensitive world we inhabit, and build your own visual language and dialogue with light and reality”.

 Working alternatively in color and in black&white, he has brought together a series of selected projects that offer a constructive interpretation of human condition.

Projects

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 Mauer Park series, Berlin

Formerly defined as ‘poor but sexy’, Berlin has become one of world’s most loved capitals with its subculture and its eccentric, creative, and talented outsiders. Mauerpark is one if not “the” Berlin’s most-visited Sunday hang-out.  It is the perfect place to observe the hedonistic side and the persistent anarchist character of the city. The alternative scene that until a few years ago used to live and prosper in Prenzlauer Berg has been driven out by gentrification and the rising costs of living, and the park is its last remaining stronghold.

On Sundays from spring until autumn the park is packed with a crowd of curious people searching for any kind of amusements. The popularity ofthe Mauerpark also results from the karaoke sessions that take place at the amphitheater. Mauerpark translates as “wall park” in English. The reason for the name is a stretch of the original Berlin Wall which now serves as a constantly evolving canvas for spraycan artists and a colourful backdrop for the hive of activity that takes place here each weekend. It’s ironic that in the old divided city this space used to be part of the “death strip”, a no-man’s land between the east and west that was dotted with guard towers, lit up with bright lights and patrolled by armed soldiers with dogs.
Today Mauerpark is a park without walls or boundaries which overcomes social barriers and unites people from different backgrounds and origins.

The Lower World

“The Lower World “ is the title of a long term (2001-2014) photographic project into the dimension of mental illness and within the context of the last fully functioning six criminal lunatic asylums in Italy. Those facilities were eventually shut down in 2015. The work represents an insight into the inmates’ lives and the reality of those asylums . The photos display a certain narrative style, aiming to make mental issues a visually accessible condition as well as offering a constructive contribution to the debate on psychiatric institutions and social exclusion.”

available work below

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EXHIBITIONS

 Solo Exhibitions
 
2019 Die Maßnahme in Moscow, Brecht Haus, Berlin.
2018 In Your Hands, Gallery Kromia, Naples.

2017 The Lower World, Gallery Ping Pong, Malmö.
2016 Die Maßnahme in Berlin, Grüner Salon, Berlin.
2013 Transformation, Imago Fotokunst, Berlin.
2006 Il Regista Di Matrimoni- Portraits of a lmset-Gallery of Colonne, Parme, Italy.
2002 Time, Place, Metal, Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy.

Group Exhibitions

2018, Preparing For Darkness, Kühlhaus, Berlin.
2017 One day in Berlin - 50 years later, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin.
2017 On Landscape, Galerie Artdocks, Bremen.
2017 Sommerblüten, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin.
2017 This is the sea, Fanø Kunstmuseum, Denmark.
2016 Kunst zu Gast, Atlantic Hotel, Bremen.
2015 Day Dream Nation, Galerie Artdocks, Bremen.
2015 Delphi, Friedrichshain Gallery, Berlin.
2014 The Magnificent Seven, Haderslev Kunstforeningen, Denmark.
2012 Open 2012, Magazzini dell’Arte Contemporanea,Trapani, Italy.
2009 Dogma, HDLU Museum, Zagreb, Croatia.
2009 Across The Cross, S. Alberto Church, Trapani, Italy.
2009 Crime and Punishment, The Sequel, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia.
2009 24 Photography, Greenwich Park, London.
2008 Crime and Punishment, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Gallery, London.
2007 The Invisible Line, Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo, Pescara, Italy.
2004 Di.Art, Gallery of Art, Trapani, Italy.
2003 Holyact, S. Savero Church, Naples, Italy.