Gianmaria Gava is an Italian photographer and artist based in Vienna.

Clients & Publications

American Photo, Art, Berndorf AG, Brandstätter Verlag, Corriere della Sera, Datum, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Eikon, Felzl Bäckerei, Forbes, Interxion, ITS Trieste, Ketchum Publico, L’Express, Le Monde, Lens Culture, Mensalia, Newsweek, Österreichischer Austauschdienst (OeAD), Photonews, Profil, La Repubblica, Parnass, Rotes Kreuz, Siemens, Silberpfeil Architekten, Süddeutsche Zeitung, SZ Magazin, The Times, Trend, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Wiener Stadtwerke

Awards

Marianne Brandt Award, finalist, 2019
Aesthetica Art Prize, longlist, 2019
Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards, finalist, 2019
Sony World Photography Awards, Professional Category Architecture, winner, 2018
International Photography Grant, nominee, 2018
Prix Pictet, shortlist, 2015

Selected Exhibitions

Japan Unlimited, frei_raum Q21 / MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria, 2019
I am all of Glass, Marianne Brandt Award, Chemnitz Museum of Industry, Germany, 2019
Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2019
Buildings, Raumstation Wien, Foto Wien, European Month of Photography, 2019
Manipulations, Warsaw Photo Days, Warsaw, Poland, 2018
Parallel Vienna, Austria, 2018
SWPA, Villa Reale di Monza, Monza, Italy, 2018
SWPA, Willy Brandt House, Berlin, Germany, 2018
Color Cue, Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2018
SWPA, Gad Collection, Paris, France, 2018
SWPA, Somerset House, London, England, 2018
Perpetuum Mobile, Kunst Haus Wien - Museum Hundertwasser / Marcello Farabegoli Projects, Vienna, Austria, 2015
Archetypes, solo, Bildraum 07, Vienna, Austria, 2015
Emersioni - New Photography in Venice, La Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy, 2012
Declining Democracy, CCC Strozzina, Firenze, Italy, 2011
Identity III. Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2010
Kleinbürger. New Photography and Video from Austria, Exchange Gallery, Ireland Photofestival, Dublin, Ireland, 2010
Kleinbürger. New Photography and Video from Austria, Pingyao Photofestival, Pingyao, China, 2010
West, Gallery WestLicht, Vienna, Austria, 2009
Photoespana 2009 Descubrimientos, Madrid, Spain, 2009

Catalogues and Books

Future Now, 100 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Prize, 2019
Sony World Photography Awards, 2018
Disorder, Prix Pictet, teNeues, Kempen, Germany, 2015
Art and Politics Now, Thames & Hudson, London, UK, 2014
Declining Democracy, Strozzina Centro di Cultura Contemporanea, Silvana Editoriale, Milano, Italy, 2011
West Book, Regina Maria Anzenberger, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2009
Exploration F, Focus on Austrian Research, Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Austria, 2006