Bianca Bondi
Bianca Bondi was born in 1986 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
She lives and works in Paris
Bianca Bondi was born in 1986 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She lives and works in Paris.
Multidisciplinary, Bondi’s practice involves the activation or elevation of mundane objects through the use of chemical reactions, most often by salt water. The materials the artist works with are chosen for their potential for mutation or their intrinsic and symbolic properties. Her aim is to promote experiences beyond the visual and advocate the life of matter with an emphasis on interconnectivity, transience, and the cycles of life and death. Passionate about ecology and the occult sciences, she combines the two resulting in pluridisciplinary works of a transformative nature through which the aura of objects is key. Often site specific, the poetic results are very much connected to the places in which they are to exist.
Bianca Bondi graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts of Paris-Cergy in 2012 and from WITS University in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2006.
Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Palazzo Chigio Zondadari, Sienna (2025); Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2024); Le Portique, Le Havre (2024); Dallas Contemporary (2023); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2023); Crac Occitanie, Sète (2022); CAP Saint-Fons (2022); Fondation Louis Vuitton – Open Space, Paris (2021); Le Voyage à Nantes, Nantes (2021); Le Parvis, Tarbes (2020); Les Limbes, Saint-Etienne (2018); Hazard, Johannesburg (2018; La Cité des Sciences, Paris (2017); and at La Villa Belleville, Paris (2017).
She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in international institutions and manifestations such as the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2025); the Orobie Biennial, Italy (2025); MACRO, Rome (2025); the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024); Fondazione MEMMO, Milan (2024); Forest Festival of the Arts, Okayama (2024); Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo (2024); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2024); Villa Medici, Rome (2024); MO.CO, Montpellier (2024); Noor Riyadh (2023); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2023); MAMAC, Nice (2022); Frac Franche-Comté (2022); Radius Center for Art & Ecology, Delft (2022); Rudolfinum, Praha (2022); Villa Olmo, Como (2022); the 6th edition of Lille 3000 (2022); the 2nd Thailand Biennale, Korat (2021); Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles (2021); Casino Luxembourg (2020); Pera Museum, Istanbul (2020); the Busan Biennale (2020); the 15th Lyon Biennial (2019); BOZAR, Brussels (2019); Sfer IK, Tulum (2019); La Panacée, Montpellier (2018); New Jörg, Vienna (2016); Cité des Arts, Paris (2016); Villa Emerige, Paris (2015); Centre for Contemporary Art Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw (2014), among others.
In 2021, Bianca Bondi received the Talents Contemporains Award, from the Fondation François Schneider. She was a resident at the Villa Medici, Rome (2024-2025), and has been nominated for the 2025 Marcel Duchamp Prize.
