Roberta Gigante

Roberta Gigante was invited by OHNO COOPERATION (Jan Lauwers & Maarten Seghers) in AIR Antwerpen for the OPEN AIR # 5 festival.

Roberta Gigante’s field of interest is the art of the audiovisual, sound and plastic art. In her artistic quest she explores the relationship between public space, image and sound. She is fascinated by in-between spaces in the urban fabric, places of ambiguous social nature and valuable locations for the preservation of diversity; places for which new meanings can continuously be defined, where the work of art sticks around, enabling it to lead a life through the individual or collective imagination.

Roberta Gigante (IT, 1986) obtained her Bachelor’s degree in visual and performing arts at the IUAV university in Venice and is currently in the second year of her Master’s course in the urban space studio at La Cambre, Ecole nationale supérieur des arts visuels in Brussels. Roberta won the prize for the 2010 Master Test organised by Peter Swinnen, the Flemish Community’s Official Architect. She has exhibited at the Strombeek Cultural Centre (Brussels), took part with the OrganOOn Performance in the Electrified Festival organised in Vooruit and S.M.A.K. in cooperation with Strombeek-Bever cultural centre, City Sonic, Maison des folies (Mons), Nuit Blanche (Brussels), Boom Scalamata Gallery, Postera Forte Marghera, Mestre and Cristallino Video festival Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (the last three all in Venice).