Giulietta Coates
Born in England, UK
Lives and works in France
About
Giulietta Coates’ depicts the unsettling nature of loss and beauty, dread and longing in her landscape photographs. Perceptive to the non-apparent, being and non-being, she speaks of this longing as feeling like nostalgia, but not for something once had and has since been lost, but more a nostalgia for what never was. For Giulietta, this void sets up a kind of death space, where connection and intimacy are longed for but remain forever elusive. Her method then, is to have ‘conversations’ with individual motifs – a rock, a pool of water, a wooden stump – allegories for wider narratives that speak of our mysterious relationship to the ‘otherness’ of beauty, and of the natural world in the face of our own mortality. Seeing her language as essentially aligned with Romanticism, Giulietta now feels that photography is the medium of death and longing. Giulietta lives and works in South of France and has a Master degree in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art, London.
Education
1984-1987
BA (Hons) Printmaking Fine Art, Central St. Martins, London
2003-2006
MA Printmaking Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London
2011-2017
Reoccurring Artist Stays in South of France
Exhibitions and Curation
2025
Art Karlsruhe, Art Fair, BBA Gallery, Messe Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Papier Engagé. La Zone Poetique, Group show, Barjols, France
Falling Faintly, Group Show, Hackney, London, UK
2024
Portes Ouvertes, Barjols, France
Photo Workshop and Exhibition, Arles, France
2023
Beyond Solitude, Solo Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
ARTMUC Kunstmesse, Art Fair, BBA Gallery, Munich, Germany
Portes Ouvertes, Barjols, France
2022
BBA Editions, Group Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021
Quest to Bloom, Curator, Renata Kudlacek Solo Exhibition, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020
BBA 2020, Group Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019
Poetics of Change, Group Show, Fann-A-Porter Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Poetics of Change, Group Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018
Group Show, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Antumbra, Joint show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
BBA 17, Group Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.), Essen, Germany
Silver, Joint Curator, Stine Ljungdahl, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2016
XXS Size Summer Edition, Group Show, Berlin Blue Art, Berlin, Germany
Born in England, UK
Lives and works in France
