Céline Condorelli (born 1976) lives and works in London. Her work addresses the boundaries between public and private, art and function, work and leisure, in order to reimagine what culture and society can be, and the role of artists within them. Often using forms of architecture, design, or sculptural objects, Condorelli’s installations make interventions to the way that people navigate or use a space, whether that is in the context of a museum or gallery, or a children’s playground, a public garden or an artist’s studio. Condorelli is interested in how materials translate from their raw states, to be cultivated and extracted through labour and industry to be received and used by society.
Condorelli began her residency in September 2022 where she worked in the National Gallery’s on-site Artist’s Studio to develop her work and research into the operations of the museum and its history. The residency culminated in a publication and installation of her work in Room 31, in which she invited visitors to become aware of our own way of seeing, to pay attention to the space and materials of the National Gallery, how we behave in it, and how it is connected to the world outside.
Condorelli was appointed Artist in Residence after being selected by a jury consisting of: Caroline Douglas, Director, Contemporary Art Society, Lara Goodband, Contemporary Art Curator & Programmer, Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, Hugh Mulholland, Senior Curator, The MAC, Belfast, Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, previously CEO, Cove Park, Peaton Hill, Argyll and& Bute, Sunil Gupta, Artist, and Daniel F. Herrmann, Curator Modern and Contemporary Projects, the National Gallery, London.
As well as her work as an artist Condorelli is one of the founding directors of Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK and regularly teaches. She is the author and editor of 'Support Structures' published by Sternberg Press (2009) and she was shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2017. Recent presentations also include 'After Work' at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh and South London Gallery (2022), 'Revision Part II' at Heidelberger Kunstverein (2023), and 'Our Silver City', 2094 at Nottingham Contemporary (2021). celinecondorelli.eu
