Bio+CV
Giovanni Melillo Kostner
Photographer
contact
address: Mozartallee 20, 39042 – I-Brixen
phone: +39 339 534 85 78
email: mail[at]giovannimelillo.de
agency
Photo und Presse Agentur FOCUS GMBH
Margot Klingsporn
Rathausstr. 13
D- 20095 Hamburg
T +49-40-4502230
F +49-40-45022350
He graduated in the year 2007 the career of Photography and Film Design, at the Faculty of Design, University of Applied Sciences of Bielefeld, Germany. In that period, he did one-year-long academic exchange at the UDLA Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico studyng Anthropology and History. He has been partial docent, substitute or special guest professor, in the areas of visual communication, photography and visual arts, for universities in Mexico, Italy and Slovenia: UPAEP Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, and CENART Centro Nacional de Artes, National School of Painting, Sculpture and Graving “La Esmeralda”, in Mexico, the Free University of Bozen, Faculty of Design and Art, Bozen, in Italy and the Univesity of Nova Gorica, in Slovenia. His lectures have been about: “Photography in explorative research of social phenomena: theory and reality”, “Projection and production methods in visual researching” and “Introduction to photography”. Since 2004, he collaborates with “FotografiSenzaFrontiere” non-profit org, based in Milan, Italy. Since 2008 – ongoing Member of the long-term seminary “Reflexions Masterclass” under the artistic direction of Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret.
membership
since 2010 “Reflexions Masterclass” under the artistic direction of Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret.
since 2004 “Fotografi Senza Frontiere – Onlus” (Fotografen ohne Grenzen).
education
2001 – 2007 Bachelor degree on Photography and Media, University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany.
2000 – 2001 Certificate, European Academy of Arts, Perugia, Italy.
selected solo exhibitions
2007 “福 – Fortune, come to me!”, 3rd Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Guangdong, China.
2007 “福 – Fortuna, vieni da me!”, Verso Nuove Culture – “Cina, West of California?”, in collaboration with the Italian Culture Office of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen, Cultural Center Claudio Trevi, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy.
2005 “American dream”, Cultural Center of Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico.
2004 “Ex Saetta – Refuge Center in Bozen, Italy”, in collaboration with the photography association “Tina Modotti”, Muflone Rosa, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy.
selected collective exhibitions
2010 “Facce da straniero – 30 anni di fotografia e giornalismo sull’immigrazione in Italia“, under the Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, Turin, Italy.
2008 “Ritratti di Culture Migranti, 福 – Fortuna, vieni da me!”, during the EYID – European Year of the Intercultural Dialogue, University “L’Orientale”, Naples, Italy.
2008 “Cina, qui e lì”, collective exhibition with the Chinese photographer Zeng Yi, photographic Club “SYN Don Bosco”, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy.
2005 “Imágenes de Japón en México”, Galeria Motolinia 33, Downtown, México D.F., Mexico.
2005 5th Arts Biennial Puebla de Los Angeles, “Migration: transnational reconfiguration and population flows”, Ibero-American University of Puebla in collaboration with UDLA – University of the Americas, the Cultural Office of the city of Puebla, the Press Agency “Síntesis” and Volkswagen Mexico, Puebla, Mexico.
awards
2007 1st prize ex-equo, International Photography Festival of Naples, Parisio Photographic Archive, Naples, Italy.
2005 1st prize, “Imágenes de Japón en México”, Japanese Embassy in Mexico, UAM – Autonomous Metropolitan University – Itztapalapa, in collaboration with Canon Inc., Cultural Foundation Tayo and the Photography Institute of Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico.