Giuliana Pugliese was born in 1980 in Basilicata, a small region in southern Italy. From 1994 to 1999, she studied art at the Liceo Artistico Statale in Matera (Italy). In 2000, Giuliana moved to Turin and graduated in painting at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. During her academic period, she devoted herself to the study of Surrealism and Psychoanalysis, creating paintings and travel journals based on dreams and experimenting with Automatic Drawing and Writing. Giuliana Pugliese returned to her hometown in 2006, devoting herself to the research and study of the post-unification Brigandage of Southern Italy, focussing on the role of women in brigandage. In the spirit of these studies, she created many public Murales, one of which was awarded at an art competition in San Giorgio Lucano (Basilicata, Italy). After moving to Padua in 2007, Giuliana began collaborating with a group of artists by the name of Independent Artists, with whom she took part in several exhibitions supported by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Municipality of Padua and the Foundation Paolo Capovilla. During her time in Padua, Giuliana also became interested in abstraction and a different use of colors after seeing the works of Emilio Vedova and started working with several abstract artists. While still doing portraits, she was already developing a different technique using colour as a material. In 2010, Giuliana moved to Berlin, where she currently lives and works. The Berlin experience is decisive for her work, as she started experimenting with colours, breaking away from the figurative and moving on to the abstract using the spatula technique. An important factor for the change in Giuliana's style was getting to know the writings on the fourth dimension and the works of Gerhard Richter. Parallel to abstract painting, Giuliana also began to work with collages and videos on the subject of migration and immigrants. [close]