Elisa Caldana
is an artist currently based in Amsterdam. She graduated from the Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the IUAV University of Venice. Her work has been shown internationally, including at MACTE Museum, Termoli (2025); West, The Hague (2024); MAXXI Museum, Rome (2023); Italian Cultural Institute, Mexico City (2022); MAMbo Museum, Bologna (2021); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2020); ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam (2020); Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo (2019); ar/ge Kunst Kunstverein, Bozen (2017); and Fondazione Sandretto, Turin (2019, 2016). Caldana is an alumna of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2020–2021) and a recipient of the Mondriaan Fund (2022–2026), the Italian Council (2023, 2019), and Hessische Kulturstiftung (2016–2017). She was an artist in residence at Vasl, Karachi (2023); ROSE Residency, Bologna (2021); and TOKAS, Tokyo (2018). Her most recent publications include The Falcon of Karachi (Mousse Publishing, 2024), Times of Crisis (MAMbo Editions, 2021) and Never Again (Mousse Publishing, 2020).