Giulia Andreani

Giulia Andreani (b. 1985, Venice) is an Italian painter who lives and works in Paris. She studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice (2008) and contemporary art history at Paris IV-Sorbonne (2010). She was a fellow at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2017–18.

Andreani's practice uses archival photographs — drawn from personal archives, institutional collections, and press imagery — as source material for paintings executed primarily in Payne's grey, a blue-grey that she employs as a consistent chromatic signature. Working in watercolor and acrylic, she reproduces, alters, and combines photographic motifs to construct images that expose suppressed or overlooked histories, with a sustained focus on women's roles in political and artistic life, on the iconography of power, and on collective forgetting.

She was shortlisted for the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2022. Her work was included in the 60th Venice Biennale (2024, Stranieri Ovunque), the Lyon Biennale (2022), and at Palazzo Grassi / Pinault Collection (2023). A major solo exhibition, Sabotage, opened at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin in February 2026, on the occasion of the museum's 30th anniversary, presenting her work alongside pieces from the Antikensammlung and the Kupferstichkabinett.