školská 28

Christian Costa was born in Warsaw and now lives in Naples, Italy and Warsaw. He explored the world of art while living in many different European cities such as Wien, Milan, Rome, London. Christian’s artistic practice is focused on identities connected to places and perception of the genius loci. In 2002 along side L.Dalisi, M.Galateo, P.Mezzacapo he founded the container collective, an artistic group and a visual design studio. From 2002 to 2006 he has had twenty exhibitions under the name container. During 2009 he conceived and created, along with the artist Fabrizio Ajello, the public art project Spazi Docili [Docile Spaces] www.spazidocili.org focused on the city of Florence. Other works of his in the field of public art were produced as part of Progetto Isole and N.EST projects. His preferred techniques are installation, video and performance, often focused on sound (sound art, sound installations). He uses digital and analog (Hasselblad) photography to explore the ‘desert of the real’ and to produce raw materials to edit in his videos or to assemble in collages, drawings or installations. The idea of ‘place’ is his medium. He is interested in identities connected to places, in the way they are perceived by the people living there and by the people coming from the outside, in the mutual relationship between identity/memory and physical space, as well as in the consequences that socio-economic processes have on cultural perception of space.