Claudio Zulian
Italy, 1960.
Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
Artist, film director, musician and writer. He was born in Italy (Campo San Martino, Padua) and lives in Barcelona. He studied composition and electronic music with the experimental composer Gabriel Brncic, as well as with the Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Bourges (France). He holds a PhD in Aesthetics, Science and Technology of the Arts from the University of Paris-Saint Denis (France). He has taught at several Spanish universities (University of Barcelona, Pompeu i Fabra University) and abroad (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich).
He has had solo exhibitions in centres and museums such as Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Caixafòrum Barcelona, Jeu de Paume (Paris), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Festival Loop, Maison de Culture de Grenoble, HUB- Museu del Disseny de Barcelona and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, as well as in collective exhibitions at the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Espai d'Art Actual de Castellò, Festival Loop, Arte Santader, Estampa Madrid, Bienal de Arte de Guatemala, and has shown his film work at international festivals in cities such as: New York, Chicago, Taiwan, Sichuan, Doha, Sydney, Jakarta, London, Leipzig, Sarajevo, Milan and Bologna, being awarded in several of them. He has received the Premio Ciudad de Barcelona and Premi Nacional de Catalunya for his video installation, film and book A través del Carmel. He regularly publishes articles in newspapers and magazines. He has published the poetry book A través del Carmel, Palma de Mallorca: Calima Ediciones, 2010, and the short stories Horas de la ciudad. Palma de Mallorca. Spain: Calima Territorios, 2002. He has carried out an intense work as a composer and performer of contemporary music, publishing several albums with his compositions and performances.