BIOGRAPHY
Maria Assunta Karini starts as a sculptor. After graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the Sculpture section; she studies marble sculpture technologies at the School of Marble in Carrara and attends courses concerning sculptural technologies on granite in Montreal, Canada.
Karini participates in numerous monumental sculpture exhibitions and competitions (Israel, Brazil, Mexico, France, Czech Republic, Korea). Some of her most prominent works can be found in several international public and private collections.
Subsequently, she starts realizing photography and video installation projects, thanks also to an individual scientific research, and to international collaborations with multidisciplinary artistic groups (Centro Provincial de Artes Plastica y Diseño, Cuba; MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo etc). Karini attends specialized courses at Aiace (Turin) on experimental cinema and courses at the Civic film school Milano Foundation.
At the same time Karini participates, as film director and screenwriter, in national and international festivals (Cannes, Seattle, Seoul, Tehran, Clermont Ferrand, Barcelona, Athens, Warsaw, Amsterdam etc.). Several of her short and medium length films won prizes and awards.
Karini took part in many expositions in museums, foundations and galleries, among others at Contemporary Art Museum BAC in Barcelona (Spain) and MART Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto (Italy), MADC San José (Costa Rica), etc.
SELECTED PARTICIPATIONS
Tehran International Short Film Festival, Tehran, Iran /Photo-Project ”A Little Light”, Arborea, Portland U.S.A/ Racconti d’Arte The Ten Best Photographers, edited by Claudio Abate, Mart Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto/ Short Film Corner , Festival de Cannes / Video-Project “Crystals of Ghosts” Macba Contemporary Art Museum Barcelona, Spain / Seoul International Film Festival Seoul, Korea / Seattle International Film Festival, Future Wave Shorts, Seattle U.S.A /The Desert Generation , Jerusalem Artist’s House, Jerusalem, 8th CYFF International Film Festival , Unesco Amphitheater, Cyprus/3 International Music Film Festival, hosted by MMN Music Museum of Khatmandu, Nepal/
SOME WORKS IN PUBLIC PLACES AND MUSEUMS
AUSTRIA
Österreichisches Filmmuseum Vienna
CZECH REPUBLIC
Masaryk University, Faculty of Sciences , Brno
Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
GRAND –DUCHE’ DE LUXEMBOURG
Beaufort-Grondhaff Road
Cité du Luxembourg, Tetra, Kayser Paul et Associés Sàrl, Bertrange - Architects
ISRAEL
Ashdod 50 Year Foundation of the State of Israel, work in public place
Ashdod, Park of Municipality
Ma'alot-Tarshiha City
ITALY
Cineteca di Bologna
IBC Istituto Beni Artistici Culturali e Naturali dell’Emilia Romagna, Bologna
MIM Museum In Motion San Pietro in Cerro, Piacenza
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Crocetta del Montello , Treviso
Museo Civico Ernesto e Teresa della Torre, Treviglio, Bergamo
SPAIN
Vigo,Valladares , Monte Alba
Pontevedra, O’Grove Jardín del Ayuntamiento
FRANCE
Toulon,Gare de Toulon
Normandie, Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt
U.S.A
The Juilliard School New York
CANADA
Quebec Gramby, Estriade
COSTA RICA
San José City, Parque de la Sabana
MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, Centro Nacional de la Cultura –CENAC, San Josè
SOUTH COREA
Yeongwol, Sculpture Park
MEXICO
Ciudad de México , Ecatepec de Morelos
NEPAL
MMN Music Museum of Kathmandu
LATEST WORKS AND EXHIBITIONS
2016
“Dreamsmellers”, DVD box set, Private Vision, Silentes Editions, Treviso, Italy
Bologna in lettere, Stratificazioni (arte-fatti contemporanei), short films,” Hopeless K”,” Crystals of Ghosts”,”Trigeminal,” curator Enzo Campi Cassero Lgbt Center, Bologna, Italy
Alter/Native exhibition, video installation, curated by Chiara Cardini, Villa Trecchi Maleo, Lodi, Italy
15 th Reggio Film Festival in program short films “Crystals of Ghosts”, “Don Chisciotte FKDK1.0”, “Abraham’s Greenhouse”, curator Enzo Campi, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2015
“Ghosts of Industrial Sunday”, Short Film and CDs, music composed by Simon Fisher Turner, Private Vision, Silentes Editions
“Mummyraffe”, Video performance, music by Aaron Moore, Private Vision , Silentes Editions
Biennial of Art and Literature , Cagliari, Italy
2014
8 CYFF International Film Festival , Unesco Amphitheater, Cyprus
26 Der Neue Heimatfilm , Freistadt, Austria
3 International Music Film Festival , hosted by MMN Music Museum of Khatmandu, Nepal
“Dreamsmellers” Art Movie Project Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh India, music by Martyn Bates, Two Stars Symphony
2013
”Moth Masque” Video-Installation, music by Timothy Renner, production Dark Holler Records , Pennsylvania, U.S.A , reviewed by Julian Cope
“Timelake” Documentary about Gregg Lake, produced by Manticore Records , London, England
“Unsung”, Video-Installation , music by Martyn Bates, produced by Gaved s.r.l, Italy
2012
Photography Open Salon, “An Eye for an Ear”, curated by Vanja Karas, Arles, France
25 Der Neue Heimatfilm , Freistadt, Austria
“Break Blues” Doku-Film about American Blues, with Frank Lisciandro, Joe R. Lansdale, Sonny Landreth, Anthony Neil Smith, Tim Willocks, Lance Ledbetter
2011
House of Sticks /In the Tall Grass Arborea ,a visual project by Karini and Paladino, Deep Rool Production, Italy
“Into The Dark,Orfane nella Foresta”, curated by Elisa Bozzi ,Roberto Dassoni, Galleria Biffi, Piacenza, Italy
M.U.S.A Video Project ”The Rabbit Hole” edited by Luka Moncaleano and Karini Maria Assunta, Piacenza,Italy
“Eaux d'Artifice”solo exhibition Video-installation, Reggio Film Festival, curator Enzo Campi, Reggio Emilia, Italy