Ava Binta Giallo
german-guinean interdisciplinary artist
lives/works in Vienna/Austria and Mindelo/Cabo Verde
part of the collective fuvu fürunsvonuns
Ava Binta Giallo (b. 1995) is a german-guinean interdisciplinary artist, mainly working in the firel of abstract painting and installation. While living and working between Vienna, Austria and Mindelo, Cabo Verde.
She studied TransArts BA and MA (University of applied Arts in Vienna, AT), Painting (Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, IT), Abstract Painting and Critical Studies (Academy of fine Arts in Vienna, AT).
Giallo has exhibited her work across Europe and Africa. Her exhibitions include the CNAD (Mindelo, CV), Forum Frohner (Krems, AT), Kunstverein Langenhagen (Langenhagen, DE), Investec Cape Town (SA), Niso Gallery (Lodnon, UK), Hope93 Gallery (Lodnon, UK), The Bridge Gallery (Paris, FR), Basis Frankfurt (Frankfurt, DE), PACT Zollverein (Essen, DE), Exhibit Gallery (Vienna, AT), Heiligenkreuzerhof University Gallery (Vienna, AT), the Gabès Ethnographic Museum (Gabès, TN), Centro Cultural do Mindelo (Mindelo, CV) and Baltasar Lopes Foundation (Mindelo, CV) amongst others.
She has been selected for artist residencies at the Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana (Accra, GHN), La Boîte Tunis (Gabès, TN) and Atelier Mar (Mindelo, CV).
2025 | Foundation for Contemporary Art – Ghana and bmkös Austria, Accra, GHA
2025 | La Boîte_un lieu d’art contemporain, Gabès, TN
2024 | Opera Village Africa, BF and Bad Ischl Salzkammergut, AT
2023 | Atelier Mar, Sao Vincent, CV
2021 | DE LICEIRAS 18, Porto, PT
2019 | Atelier Mar, Sao Vincent, CV
2026 | Untitled / School, Vienna, AT
2026 | (Pictorial) Recipes / Hope 93 Gallery, Lodnon, UK
2026 | When stones become seeds and forms prosper / CNAD Mindelo, CV
2026 | What the Hands Know / The Bridge Gallery, Paris, FR
2025 | Sense of touch – gestures on archeologies of place / Gabès Cinéma Fen, TN
2025 | on space and creation / Alternativa Galeria, CV
2025 | Ein Ort mit vielen Orten / Kunstverein Langenhagen, DE
2024 | Rest in Soil, in Water, in Waithood / Basis Frankfurt, DE
2024 | Double edge / Artist Statement / Parallel Vienna, AT
2024 | nota de movimente e espase / Centro Culturale do Mindelo, CV
2024 | Deconfining / Opera Village Africa, BF and Kulturhauptstadt Europas Bad Ischl Salzkammergut, AT
2023 | water's skin / Angewandte Festival / Vordere Zollamstraße 7, Vienna, AT
2023 | figuring / linger / with Luzie Kork / llllll, Vienna, AT
2022 | braided dawn / Kerßenbrockstr. 2 Münster, DE
2021 | KW20: Grafik trifft abstrakte Malerei / Container Schillerplatz 1, Vienna, AT
2020 | the orange tape / Bestand / Vienna, AT
2019 | left the window open / OK Transit / Vienna, AT
2019 | sand on the floor / a.topos Venice, IT
2026 | If the World Were Your Oyster / Symposium Lindabruun / Lindabruun, AT
2026 | Investec Cape Town / The Bridge Gallery / Cape Town, SA
2025 | Open Studio / Foundation for Contemporary Art – Ghana / Accra, GHN
2025 | serial recall / Niso Gallery / London, UK
2025 | ad interim / Hope 93 Gallery / London, UK
2025 | fragility of being / DAS WEISSE HAUS / Vienna, AT
2024 | Reinterpreting Body Pressure / nectar projects / Vienna, AT
2024 | Sense of touch / Philomena+ and Parallel Vienna / Vienna, AT
2024 | People stroke the curve of the earth here / fuvu_fürunsvonuns / VBKÖ / Vienna, AT
2024 | die geschichte macht die augen zu, aber kann nicht schlafen / RAIN / sehsaal / Vienna, AT
2024 | ein Kleiner Brauner please / by Brishty Alam Take over / Ve.Sch Kunstverein / Vienna, AT
2023 | Bordering Plants / Exhibit Galerie / Vienna, AT
2023 | Undulating Currents / Heilegenkreuzhof University Gallery / Vienna, AT
2023 | where we can offer / Paulusplatz 5 / Vienna, AT
2023 | Rundgang / Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / Vienna, AT
2022 | that it gives us back the deep sea / with Tabea Briggs / Archives in Our Homes/ PACT Zollverein / Essen, DE
2022 | APPROXIMATING / QUESTION ME & ANSWER / AG18 / Vienna, AT
2022 | liminal space _bar 1 / schottenfeldgasse 82 / Vienna, AT
2022 | What is Left to Steal / Donaufestival Krems / Forum Frohner / Krems, AT
2022 | Stressless space / Exhibit Studio / Schillerplatz 3 / Vienna, AT
2022 | Rundgang / Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / Vienna, AT
2021 | “Let me be earthbound; star fixed” / WIEN WOCHEN 2021/ Vienna, AT
2021 | Angewandte Festival 2021 / TransArts / Vorderezollamtstraße 7/ Vienna, AT
2021 | Rundgang 2021 / Abstrakte Malerei / Engarhtstraße 119 / Vienna, AT
2021 | Propeller II / Fotogalerie Wien / Vienna, AT
2021 | Überleben / Schlosspark Eckartsau / Eckartsau, AT
2020 | Asterisk Night Skies / Parallel Vienna / Vienna, AT
2020 | Sonic Territories / jot12 / Vienna, AT
2020 | Transarts BA-Abschlüsse 2020 / Angewandte Festival / Vienna, AT
2020 | Zine Matters / Quatroprint / Vienna, AT
2020 | Noise and Silence / Villa Shapira / Vienna, AT
2019 | Buldonhe / Baltasar Lopes Stiftung / Mindelo, CV
2019 | naja / wellwellwell / Vienna, AT
2019 | Analog Layers / FOTO WIEN / Vienna, AT
2018 | Rand / Atelier Nita Tandon / Vienna, AT
2023 | Water’s Skin: self published note book by Ava Binta Giallo
Reading session of Water‘s Skin: Prosopopoeia (2025, Vienna, AT), Habibi Kiosk Munich Kammerspiele (2025, Munich, DE), Alternativa Galeria (2025, Minde lo, CV), sedimente (2024, Vienna, AT), fuvu fürunsvonuns (2023, Vienna, AT)
2026 | africanscolumn.com: The Bridge Gallery presents 'What the Hands Know'
2025 | SENS: Ava Binta Giallo x Verena Schneider «SENSE OF TOUCH»
2024 | artviewer.org: Ava Binta Giallo and Markus Zimmermann at basis
2024 | contemporaryand.com: Rest in Soil, in Water, in Waithood – Group Show
2024 | rtc.cv: Ava Binta Giallo, „nota de movimente e espase” no CCM
2023 | on-curating.org: Undulating Currents: A Group Show
2019 | artslife.com: Siamo sabbia sul pavimento. Tutto si mescola, tutto si dissolve