Bianca Bondi

Bianca Bondi was born in 1986 in Johannesburg, South Africa, currently living and working in Paris, France. Bianca Bondi graduated from l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy in 2012. Having previously studied at WITS School of the Arts de Johannesburg.

Multidisciplinary, her practice involves the activation or elevation of mundane objects through the use of chemical reactions, most often by salt water. The materials she works with are chosen for their potential for mutation or their intrinsic and symbolic properties. Her aim being 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, Bianca Bondi 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.

In 2024/2025 Bianca was a fellow at Villa Medici, Rome. In 2025, she was a finalist of the Prix Marcel Duchamp (FR).

Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Les Tanneries, Amilly (FR, 2026); Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU, 2026); GAMeC, Bergamo (IT, 2025); Fondazione Palazzo Chigi Zondadari, Siena (IT, 2025); Frieder Burda Museum, Baden-Baden (DE, 2024); Dallas Contemporary, Texas (US, 2023); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ES, 2023); La Cité des Arts, Saint-Denis, La Réunion (FR, 2023); Crac Occitanie, Sète (FR, 2022); CAP Saint-Fons, Lyon (FR, 2022); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (FR, 2021); Le Voyage à Nantes (FR, 2021); Le Parvis, Tarbes (FR, 2020); Les Limbes, Saint-Étienne (FR, 2018); Hazard, Johannesburg (ZA, 2018); La Cité des Sciences, Paris (FR, 2017) and Villa Belleville, Paris (FR, 2017).

She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in international institutions such as Musée national de la Marine, Paris (FR, 2026); Lago Algo, Mexico City (MX, 2026); Abby Kortrijk, Kortrijk (BE, 2026); Baltic, Gateshead (UK, 2025); Museo Sant’Orsola, Firenze (IT, 2025); Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (FR, 2025); MACRO, Rome (IT, 2025); Villa Medici, Rome (IT, 2025); Fondazione Memmo, Rome (IT, 2024); Noor Festival, Riyadh (SA, 2023); Reihers Art Initiatives, Paris (FR, 2023); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (FR, 2023); Kasmin Gallery, New York (US, 2023); Rudolfinum, Prague (CZ, 2022); Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon (FR, 2022); Radius Center for Art & Ecology, Delft (NL, 2022); MAMAC, Nice (FR, 2022); Radicants, Venice (IT, 2022); Villa Olmo, Como (IT, 2022); the 6th edition of Lille 3000 (FR, 2022); Fondation Carmignac, Hyères (FR, 2021); Pera Museum, Istanbul (TR, 2020); Casino Luxembourg (LU, 2020); BOZAR, Brussels (BE, 2019) and Sfer Ik, Tulum (MX, 2019), among others, as well as in the context of the Lyon Biennale (FR, 2019), Busan Biennale (KR, 2020), Thailand Biennale (TH, 2021), and Gwangju Biennale (KR, 2024).

She is represented by mor charpentier (Paris/Bogota).