Benedetta Panisson (1980, Venice) is a visual artist working with film photography, video installation, drawings, and live performance, interweaving art practice with academic research, trying to “undiscipline” both of them. Her research focuses on extended relations among sea and insular territories, bodies, imaginaries, communities, and their margins, often in relation with sexual aesthetics; it is rooted also in her PhD research at Durham University (UK) (2020-ongoing), after a BA in History of Arts at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, and a MA in Performing and Interactive Arts at Brera Academy, Milan.

Among her participations and academic collaborations: Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Royal College of Art (London), TEA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain), Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation (Venice), International Prize for Performance (Marina Abramovic/Centrale di Fies), Der Greif, Frieze Art/Paul Smith (London), Galleria Riccardo Crespi (Milan), UNESCO/COAL Prix (Paris), Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Centre International des Récollets, Furla Art Award, Project Space Berlin, Contingent Movements Archive, Milano-Bicocca University, Centro Pecci, International Sarajevo Winter Festival, Istituto Veneto di Lettere, Scienze ed Arti (Venice), Ca’ Foscari University/European Centre for Living Technology, La Guarimba Film Festival (Italy), Fotofilmic (Canada), Care of (Milano), Phroom.