Elena
Giovannetti

Elena Giovannetti, in friendship Cocco, was born in Milan in 1994.  She graduated in Classical Studies at Tito Livio high school in 2013, the year after she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, in Milan, painting address.  In the same year she took part to a project organized by Brera Academy in collaboration with the Bollate detention centre, where she has been working with detainees in painting prison’s walls. She joined this initiative again in 2017, teaching detainees how to take photos and to learn the engraving technique.In 2015, she took part to a workshop organized by MostraMiArt association with Professor Renato Galbusera, and again with Professor Galbusera she exposed some of her paintings at the Folli50 space.From the 21st to the 26th of February of the same year she exhibited, as one of the components of the collective "Sottobosco di Brera", at Macao open space in Milan. The collaboration with the collective Il Sottobosco continues still nowadays, performing exhibitions at the occupied space Lume.In 2016, she took part to the “Menotrenta 2016 Edition” and thanks to this opportunity, she exhibited her works at the Castello Visconteo in Abbiategrasso, Italy.In May 2016, she exposed her works at the Mudima Foundation, Italy, along with Professor Andrea Del Guercio.She graduated in November 2017 in Painting (110/110 cum laude) and after that, she started her master degree in the two-year course programme of Painting in Brera, Milan.In March 2017, along with six other artists, she took part to the Studi Festival #3 initiative where she exhibited her works at the home-studio of Gianca Lopez, Italy.In October 2017, along with two other artists, she has been involved in a school wall-painting initiative in Milan, at the Trotter Primary School.In July 2018 she went to London after winning an art residency in Colart studios in Evesham Street, thanks to Colart and Griffin Gallery, with a final open studio there.Also in July, she took part in an exhibition at Dazi of Porta Genova in Milan, part of the project “Brera Aperta” of Academy of Fine Arts of Brera.