Greta Desirèe Facchinato (IT/LU) is a research-based multidisciplinary artist and designer. Through the crossflow of different mediums and the investigation of daily life encounters, gestures, and materials her practice invites us to experience matter from an embodied awareness.

In 2018 she graduated with a master's degree in artistic research from KABK Den Haag receiving the Master Artistic Research Award 2018. Since then she runs her studio in Den Haag and works on creative projects in the field of design for analog and digital media.

She is currently researching how we can re-learn our knowledge of color through interconnectedness with our environment and the practice of sustainable ink-making, with a focus on printing techniques.

In recent years she has been interested in a shift towards a more holistic and sustainable practice, paying attention to the choice of materials/production methods and considering inanimate substances - such as ink - as living matter.

Her approach applies the same care for details and thoughtful research whether designing for a client or developing self-initiated projects. In the latter, her general purpose is an invitation into a condition of self-reflection in which our body constitutes the perceived object. Her entry point is our constant relationship between interiority and exteriority through sensorial experience.

Feel free to reach out & work together:

Studio visits by appointment only.

Services

  • Designing digital and printed assets, with attention to sustainable materials, editorial content & an eye for detail

  • Artistic research, co-creation & curatorial practice for projects and exhibitions

  • Curating workshops on the theme of reciprocity and interconnection through the practice of bio-based ink-making with plants

  • Offering consultation on the theme of sustainable ink for printed assets with a holistic approach

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Exhibitions & Projects (selection)


2023 | The Ink Project: Between Craft & Technology | BlueCity Lab Rotterdam, NL

2023 | The Garden of Colors | Pluk Den Haag, NL

2021 | Color is Alive | Grafische Werkplaats Den Haag, NL

2021 | Fleshquake |Transcending curated by KONTRA | Worm Rotterdam, NL

2020 | Fleshquake |The New Intimacy | Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL

2020 | Fleshquake | De Tour | De School , Amsterdam, NL

2019 | Soft Shucks | What’s a Body if Not a Shell | The Grey Space in The Middle, The Hague, NL

2019 | Divergent Convergence #1 | The Grey Space in The Middle, The Hague, NL

2018 | Foam: The Listening Body | Here We Live and Now | Korzo Theater, The Hague, NL

2018 | Foam: The Listening Body | An Imperfection Often Concealed that..., | KABK, The Hague, NL

2018 | The Reverse Ob-Servant | Hospitalfield | Arbroath, SCT, UK

2018 | Rise | Quartair | The Hague, NL

2016 | Sbodio 32 The Raw Edition | Milan Design Week | Milan, IT

2015 | VITRARIA Glass + A Museum | Palazzo Nani Mocenigo | Venice, IT

2014 | Totem | Biennale Scultura 2014 | Piazzola sul Brenta, Padova, IT

2014 | Totem | Museo Villa Breda | Ponte di Brenta, Padova, IT

2014 | Art Night Venezia, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venezia, IT



Honors & Awards


2023 | Experiment Grant Scheme, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie | The Ink Project: Between Craft & Technology | Collaboration with BlueCity Lab Rotterdam

2021 | Subsidie makersregeling, Gemeente Den Haag, NL | Color is Alive | Collaboration with Grafische Werkplaats Den Haag

2020 | Projectsubsidies, AFK Amsterdam. NL | Fleshquake | Collaboration with Raquel Sánchez Gálvez

2019 | SPOT subsidie, Stroom Den Haag, NL | What’s a Body if Not a Shell | Collaboration with Raquel Sánchez Gálvez, Cristiana Vignatelli Bruni and Paulien Bekker

2018 | Master Artistic Research Award, KABK Den Haag, NL | FOAM: The Listening Body

2014 | Premio Nazionale di Land Art - II edizione, Museo Villa Breda, Padova, IT | Albering | Collaboration with Claudia Zanaga and Silvia Lanfrit


Curatorial practice


2022 | Crosstown Video Throwback | Crosstown Festival | Korzo, The Hague, NL

2020 | Here We Live and Now, exhibition | Korzo, The Hague, NL

2019 | What’s a Body if Not a Shell, exhibition co-curated with Cristiana Vignatelli Bruni, Paulien Bekker, and Raquel Sánchez Gálvez | The Grey Space in The Middle | The Hague, NL

2019 | Cadance Festival, exhibition | Theater aan het Spui and Korzo, The Hague, NL

2018 | Here We Live and Now, exhibition | Korzo, The Hague, NL


Press


Lectures & Workshops


2023 | Bee Pollen Ink, collaboration with Alessandra Scalora | Studio Greta Facchinato, Den Haag, NL

2023 | Meteorite dyes, collaboration with MaritMarit Mihklepp | Studio Greta Facchinato, Den Haag, NL

2023 | Plant is a Poem, collaboration with Nina Djekić | Studio Greta Facchinato, Den Haag, NL

2023 | Making Ink with Plants, series of Summer workshops | Pluk Den Haag, Den Haag, NL

2023 | Lecture: The ancient craft of ink-making with organic materials | Hortus Leiden, NL

2023 | Lecture and workshop: Natural ink-making for screenprinting | ERG - école de recherche graphique and Institut Saint-Luc, Bruxelles, BE

2022 | Lecture Color is Alive and workshop Foraging Color, Wildgroei Delft, NL

2022 | Workshop: Inkt maken van bloemen | Glitter Gladiool, Utrecht, NL

2022| Wild Picking and Natural Ink-making, series of Summer workshops | Pluk Den Haag, Den Haag, NL

2022 | Color is Alive: Natural Ink-making workshop during Six Blue Things, Marianna Maruyama's solo exhibition | Page Not Found, The Hague, NL

2022 | Wetenschapsdag van de Aarde | Hortus Botanicus Leiden, Leiden, NL

2022 | Stone Network Residency guest by Anna Bierler and Marit Mihklepp | CloudDans Lab, The Hague, NL

2021 | Color is Alive | Online talk with botanist Gerda van Uffelen, NL


International Exchanges / Art Residencies


2021 | Grafische Werkplaats Den Haag (NL)

2020 | De School, Amsterdam (NL)

2017 | Hospitalfield, Arbroath (SCT, UK)

2016 | School of Gesture, Documenta 14 , Athens (GD)

2015 | Montraker - International Summer School of Sculpture, Montraker (HR)

2015 | Scultura in Legno Ortisei, Val Gardena (IT)

2014 | Premio Nazionale di Land Art - II edizione, Museo Villa Breda, Padova, IT