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Louise Giovanelli
Still Moving, GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US), May 9 - June 21, 2025

Louise Giovanelli: Still Moving

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Works
  • Louise Giovanelli Mea Domina, 2025 Oil on linen 250 x 200 cm | 98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Mea Domina, 2025
    Oil on linen
    250 x 200 cm | 98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in
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  • Louise Giovanelli Decades, 2025 Oil on linen, diptych 250 x 360 cm | 98 3/8 x 141 3/4 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Decades, 2025
    Oil on linen, diptych
    250 x 360 cm | 98 3/8 x 141 3/4 in
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  • Louise Giovanelli Cinéaste, 2025 Oil on linen 250 x 200 cm | 98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Cinéaste, 2025
    Oil on linen
    250 x 200 cm | 98 3/8 x 78 3/4 in
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  • Louise Giovanelli Kohl, 2025 Oil on linen 50 x 40 cm | 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Kohl, 2025
    Oil on linen
    50 x 40 cm | 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
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  • Louise Giovanelli Trinkerin, 2025 Oil on linen, diptych 240 x 390 cm | 94 1/2 x 153 1/2 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Trinkerin, 2025
    Oil on linen, diptych
    240 x 390 cm | 94 1/2 x 153 1/2 in
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  • Louise Giovanelli Kohl, 2025 Oil on linen 50 x 40 cm | 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Kohl, 2025
    Oil on linen
    50 x 40 cm | 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
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  • Louise Giovanelli Le Temps Perdu, 2025 Oil on linen, diptych 178 x 182 cm | 70 1/8 x 71 5/8 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Le Temps Perdu, 2025
    Oil on linen, diptych
    178 x 182 cm | 70 1/8 x 71 5/8 in
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  • Louise Giovanelli Anima, 2025 Oil on linen, diptych 200 x 320 cm | 78 3/4 x 126 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Anima, 2025
    Oil on linen, diptych
    200 x 320 cm | 78 3/4 x 126 in
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  • Louise Giovanelli Eleusis, 2025 Oil on linen 100 x 120 cm | 39 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Eleusis, 2025
    Oil on linen
    100 x 120 cm | 39 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
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  • Louise Giovanelli Prope, 2025 Oil on linen 30.5 x 51 cm | 12 x 20 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Prope, 2025
    Oil on linen
    30.5 x 51 cm | 12 x 20 in
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  • Louise Giovanelli Harmony, 2024 Oil on linen 200 x 150 cm | 78 3/4 x 59 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Harmony, 2024
    Oil on linen
    200 x 150 cm | 78 3/4 x 59 in
  • Louise Giovanelli Prope, 2025 Oil on linen 42 x 51 cm | 16 1/2 x 20 1/8 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Prope, 2025
    Oil on linen
    42 x 51 cm | 16 1/2 x 20 1/8 in
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  • Louise Giovanelli Manifold, 2025 Oil on linen 80 x 120 cm | 31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in
    Louise Giovanelli
    Manifold, 2025
    Oil on linen
    80 x 120 cm | 31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in
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Press release
Louise Giovanelli in her studio, Manchester (UK), 2023 | Photo: Michael Pollard
Louise Giovanelli in her studio, Manchester (UK), 2023 | Photo: Michael Pollard
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GRIMM is pleased to present Still Moving, a solo exhibition by British artist Louise Giovanelli, opening at our New York location on May 9, 2025.  This will be the Manchester-based artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.

Still Moving is a collaboration with the renowned movie theatre Metrograph in New York. The artist will showcase new paintings created in relation to four selected films concurrently screened to accompany the gallery exhibition.

Through interconnected series, Louise Giovanelli weaves together subtle visual clues which surround a specific moment or event. Her subject matter is deeply considered and only selected when a tension between organizational innovation, alongside painterly potency can be realized. The conceptual potential of these paintings is often extracted from sources such as staged photographs, film stills, classical sculptures, and architectural details. Working in groups of works she considers ensembles or a chorus, visual narratives collectively orbit a particular moment, mood, or event. These almost identical motifs offer subtly differentiated shifts in application, composition or color scheme. For this new body of work, Giovanelli draws inspiration from key cinematic moments found in films which include: The Brown Bunny (2003), Kids (1995), and Ticket of No Return (1979).

Giovanelli assembles each canvas by utilizing complex textures and sophisticated chromatic variations, applying under-painted color, often with a uniform electrifying vibrancy as the foundation for each work. As seen in Prope (2025), the painting is firmly situated in the present through the application of an apparently mechanical labour-intensive initial surface, which is then provided with a counter point through the introduction of applied delicate layers, which evoke both softness and control. Deftly manipulating light and form, her multivalent imagery reminds us that the classical foundations of painting remain sources of delight and innovation. Keenly attuned to the historical significance of painting as a medium and system of representation, her work challenges the eye through the re-presentation of carefully crafted textures and patterns. For Giovanelli, painting allows for a visual slowing down, and beholding her works becomes a meditative process, which holds the potential, as film does, for psychological transformation.

Giovanelli's delicate, luminous works inject vitality into historical subjects from the canon of Western art. Curtains are a recurring motif in her practice. Their appeal lies not only in their visual seduction but also in their refusal: they become barriers, cool and impassable. Curtains are reimagined here as symbols of ambiguity, hovering between cinematic or theatrical unveiling and impenetrable closure. Her hyperreal depictions of drapery, as seen in Decades (2025), reference a long lineage of illusionistic painting. Despite their rich folds and surfaces, they remain closed, creating distance. Her work also stems from a fascination with transforming seemingly intangible textures and surfaces into painted form, a kind of alchemy that speaks to painting’s historical ability to render the impossible.

Giovanelli has selected four films to be showcased at Metrograph throughout the duration of the exhibition, including: Gummo (1997) by Harmony Korine, Grey Gardens (1975) by Albert and David Maysles, Ticket of No Return (1979) by Ulrike Ottinger, and Buffalo ‘66 (1998) by Vincent Gallo. Metrograph is a specially curated independent movie theatre inspired by the great New York movie theatres and Commissaries of 1920s Hollywood Studio backlots. It is located at 7 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NY (US). 

About the artist
Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993, London, UK) lives and works in Manchester (UK). She completed her postgraduate studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main (DE) with professor Amy Sillman in 2020, after having earned a Bachelor’s Degree (B.A. Hons, Fine Art) at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester (UK) in 2015. Her forthcoming exhibition A Song of Ascents will be on view at the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (AT) from June 28 to August 31, 2025 and will travel to Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (DE) from October 17, 2025 to March 15, 2026. She will also have a solo exhibition at TANK, Shanghai (CN) opening in November 2025.

Solo exhibitions include Louise Giovanelli: A Song of Ascents, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield (UK); Here on Earth, White Cube Hong Kong (HK); Louise Giovanelli - Paintings 2019 - 2024, He Art Museum (HEM), Foshan (CN); Soothsay, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); Always Different, Always the Same, Moon Grove, Manchester (UK); Collection Spotlight: Louise Giovanelli, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (UK); and Auto-da-fé, GRIMM, New York, NY (US). Recent group exhibitions include A Room Hung With Thoughts: British Painting Now, curated by Tom Morton, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (US); Ensemble, The Perimiter, London (UK); Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings (UK); True Colors, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Good Morning, Midnight, The Courtauld Gallery, London (UK); and In Focus, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL).

Giovanelli’s work can be found in the collections of the AkzoNobel Art Foundation (NL); Asymmetry Art Foundation (UK); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL); The Contemporary Art Foundation (JP); Fundación Medianoche0 (ES); The Grundy Gallery Collection (UK); Hall Art Foundation (DE, US); Hill Art Foundation (US); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (US); Longlati Foundation (CN); Manchester Art Gallery Collection (UK); MOCA, Los Angeles (US); The National Museum (NO); Sarow Gallery Collection (DE); The UK Government Art Collection (UK); The University of Salford Collection (UK); Warrington Museum and Art Gallery (UK); Whitworth Art Gallery (UK); and Yuz Museum Shanghai (CN), among others.

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News
  • Louise Giovanelli launches poster edition with Metrograph in New York, NY (NL)

    Louise Giovanelli launches poster edition with Metrograph in New York, NY (NL)

    May 9, 2025
    In collaboration with renowned movie theatre Metrograph in New York, Louise Giovanelli is releasing three posters featuring works from her exhibition 'Still Moving’ at the...
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  • Louise Giovanelli launches poster edition with Metrograph in New York, NY (NL) News

    Louise Giovanelli launches poster edition with Metrograph in New York, NY (NL)

    May 9, 2025
    In collaboration with renowned movie theatre Metrograph in New York, Louise Giovanelli is releasing three posters featuring works from her exhibition 'Still Moving’ at the...
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