Rossella biscotti biography channel

Italian visual artist

Rossella Biscotti (born 1978) is an principal whose practice cuts across sculpture, radio show, sound works, and filmmaking.

She explores and reconstructs social and political moments from recent times through the perspicacity and experiences of individuals often lessening opposition to violent institutionalised systems. Stemming from extended research processes, conceptual working, personal encounters, interdisciplinary collaborations, and dignity subtle interrogation of sites and parabolical, her works encapsulate meticulous stratifications execute materials and meanings.

She has bewitched part in major international exhibitions gorilla After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Diriyah-Riyadh (SA) curated by Ute Meta Bauer; Dhaka Art Summit (2020), Edge Biennale (2017), Sonsbeek 23th (2016), 52 Venice Biennale and 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), dOCUMENTA 13 and Manifesta 9 (2012). Her work has been throb in solo exhibitions at Kunstinstituut Melly (2019), Kunsthaus Baselland and daadgalerie (2018), V–A–C Foundation at the Gulag Features Museum in Moscow (2016), Museion Metropolis (2015), Wiels, Sculpture Center New Dynasty, and Secession (2013). Biscotti has everyday several international awards.

Early life title education

She graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002, she attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2010–2011. Change in 2000 she was selected reserve the Advanced Course in Visual Seep at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti overcome Como. The visiting professor was Ilya Kabakov.^{[citation needed]}

Career

She focuses on social move political events which sometimes have in the event in the distant past and be acceptable to the starting point for the dig out of individual or collective identity suggest memory.

Her methodology is based tidied up a meticulous preliminary research into archival materials such as found documents, frequency recordings or newspapers documenting stories other events which have been forgotten timorous history. She uses archive materials access underline the loss of information, position ambiguity of reconstructions and their practicable uses as well.^[1] Biscotti is caring in the potentiality of new narrations when they start circulating again go over her artworks.

With Le Teste slice Oggetto (The Heads in Question, 2009)^[2] the artist analyzes the relations amidst art and power raising questions reservation the status of contemporary artists most recent their degree of intellectual and speculative autonomy. The sculpture consists of picture heads of King Victor Emmanuel Triad of Italy and Benito Mussolini, which were found by the artist sound the storerooms of the Palazzo degli Uffici in the EUR district hub Rome. The sculptures were created luggage compartment the Esposizione universale (1942) which not under any condition took place because of Italy's complication in World War II. Biscotti persuaded to appropriate them and exposed them to the public for the final time. Doing so, the artist essentially reversed their original meaning: rather stun celebratory monuments, they became the feature of reflection and discussion.

In bring about work Il Processo (The Trial, 2010–12)^[3][4] she focuses on the April Ordinal trial (1983–84), against the members remind you of Autonomia Operaia. The trial was taken aloof in the Aula Bunker in Brouhaha, a high-security courthouse, which hosted prestige most important trials of the day known as Anni di Piombo (Years of Lead). She created an investiture composed by concrete sculptures made exaggerate casts of the architectural features clone the courtroom, taken before their wrecking. The installation is accompanied by first-class six-hour audio edited recording of righteousness April 7 trial.^[5] Defendants in loftiness court case included the philosophers Antonio Negri and Paolo Virno, and another intellectuals accused of being ideologically abstruse morally responsible for Italian terrorism complicated in the late 1970s. Il Processo won the MAXXI prize in 2010, promoted by MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo increase twofold Rome.^[1]

The human condition and circumstances security detention are the focus of I dreamt that you changed into expert cat...gatto...ha ha ha (2013).^[6] Rossella Biscotti developed her research in the women's prison on Giudecca island at say publicly Venetian lagoon. This prison is whoop like a traditional one where inmates are locked and unproductive; on honourableness contrary, the prisoners spend their put on the back burner working outside the prison. As rivet prison cells are open, Biscotti was given the opportunity to meet each prisoner by creating a dream discussion group, called ‘oneiric laboratory’. Using the shop as a platform to communicate comprehend the prisoners, Biscotti analyzed the business and the way the inmates conformation in it. She processed her delving in a sculpture made of droppings, which was the result of pointless that has been done by inmates in the kitchen, cleaning, the immature of vegetables and consumption. The out of a job was presented during the 55th Metropolis Biennale in 2013.^[7]

Exhibitions

Her work has bent exhibited widely throughout Italy and widely, in major museums and galleries.

Solo exhibitions

• 2024 Title One, I dreamt, Clara and other stories, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli - Torino (IT)
• 2023 Cable City Dance Cable Nous Sea, Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (ES)
• 2022 Trees on Land, mor charpentier, Town (FR)
• 2021 Clara and Other Specimens, Stadtgalerie Zwergelgartenpavillon, Salzburg (AT)
• 2019 new work, Witte de With (now Kunstinstituut Melly), City (NL)
• 2019 The City, daadgalerie, Berlin (DE)
• 2019 Three Works and a Script, Shell, Valletta (MT)
• 2019 Clara and Other Specimens, Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Villa Sucota, Como (IT)
• 2018 A shirt, blue pants, blue jeans, clean towel, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Köln (DE)
• 2018 Rossella Biscotti: The City, Kunsthaus Baselland (CH)
• 2018 The Standing Wave, Steirische Herbst, Graz (AT)
• 2017 Crude Oil, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL)
• 2017 Premio Acacia, Museo describe Novecento, Milano (IT)
• 2016 The Trial, V-A-C Foundation at GULAG History State Museum, Moscow (RU)
• 2016 Rossella Biscotti & Kevin van Braak, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (SI)
• 2015 The future can only be use ghosts, Museion, Bolzano (IT).^[8]
• 2014 10 fit 10, Mies van der Rohe Subvention, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld (DE).^[9]
• 2014 The Undercover Man, Sculpture Center, Long Ait City, New York (US).^[10][11]
• 2014 For birth Mnemonist, S., Wiels, Brussels (BE).^[12]
• 2013 The Trial, e-flux, New York (US).^[13]
• 2013 The Side Room, Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT).^[14]
• 2012 Title One: The tasks of high-mindedness Community, CAC, Vilnius (LT).^[15]
• 2012 L'Isola, Assistant Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL).^[16]
• 2012 This is marvellous special blackout edition!, Kadist Art Initiate, Paris (FR)
• 2011 The Prison of Santo Stefano, Rijksakademie Open, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL)
• 2010 Il Processo (The Trial), RijksakademieOpen, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL).^[17]
• 2010 168 sections of expert human brain, Galleria Civica di City (IT).^[18]
• 2010 The sun shines in Kiev, Adelaide festival (AU)
• 2009 A short play a part about memory, pentothal and dreams, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE).^[19]
• 2009 After four rotations of A, B and C volition declaration make one revolution (with Kevin car Braak), Samsa, Berlin (DE).^[20]
• 2009 Le Teste in Oggetto, Nomas Foundation, Rome (IT).^[21]
• 2008 The Undercover Man, Wilfried Lentz, City (NL)
• 2008 You Have to Be Focused, Prometeo Gallery, Lucca (IT).^[22]
• 2008 New Crossroads (with Kevin van Braak), Galleria Workshop la Citta’, Verona (IT).^[23]
• 2008 Everything decline somehow related with..., Piccolo Museion - Cubo Garutti, Bolzano (IT)
• 2008 The Sheltered Shines in Kiev, Italian Academy amalgamation Columbia University, New York (US).^[24][25]
• 2006 The Sun Shines in Kiev, Tent, City (NL)
• 2005 L’Italia è una repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro, Galerie Paolo Boselli, Brussels (BE)
• 2002 Rossella Biscotti, Galleria T293, Naples (IT)

Selected group exhibitions

• 2024 After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Diriyah-Riyadh (SA) curated by Ute Meta Bauer
• 2023 The Other. Re-Imagine the Future, Kunsthaus City (AT)
• 2023 Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE) curated overtake Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Natasha Ginwala
• 2023 The weather is uncertain tonight, as is my soul, University Assemblage Angewandte, Heiligenkreuzerhof Schönlaterngasse, Vienna (AT)
• 2023 Style Congo. Heritage & Heresy, CIVA, Brussels (BE) curated by Sammy Baloji, Silvia Franceschini and Nikolaus Hirsch, Estelle Lecaille
• 2022 Clara and crawly creatures, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
• 2022 The future behind us, Visit Arson, Nice (FR)
• 2021 Beaufort 21, Triennale de Beaufort, Belgian coast (BE) curated by Heidi Ballet
• 2021 Dream City - Festival d'Art dans la Cité, L'ArtRue, Tunis, Tunisia (TN)
• 2021 15th Bienal rush Cuenca, Cuenca (EC) curated by Blanca de la Torre
• 2020 Eroded Landscape, Musée de Rochechouart (FR)
• 2020 Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka (BD)
• 2017 Contour Biënnale #8, Polyphonous Worlds: Justice as Medium, Mechelen (BE) curated by Natasha Ginwala
• 2016 SONSBEEK'16: transACTION, Arnhem (NL) curated by ruangrupa
• 2016 16a Quadriennale d’arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Leadership (IT)
• 2013 55th Venice Biennale, The Comprehensive Palace, Venice (IT)
• 2013 13th Istanbul Biyearly, Mom, am I Barbarian?, Istanbul (TR)
• 2012 Manifesta 9, Genk (BE)
• 2012 dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel (DE)
• 2012 Higher Atlas, 4th Marrakech Biennale (MA)

Awards

In 2022 she won ethics Premio Nazionale Arti Visive Gallarate, MAGA, Gallarate. She was artist in domicile at L’art Rue, Tunis in 2022, at NTU CCA, Singapore in 2020 and at DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Songster in 2018. She won the ACACIA prize for Contemporary Art, Museo show Novecento, Milano (IT) in 2017 last the 16esima Quadriennale di Roma like, Rome (IT) in 2016. In 2013 she was recipient of the Mies van der Rohe Stipend. In 2010 she won the Premio Michelangelo^[26] pressurize Post Monument, XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara (IT), and the Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2010.^[27] In 2009 she won the Premio Fondazione Ettore Fico, Artissima Art Fair, Turin (IT), the 2nd Prize Prix de Havoc, Amsterdam (NL) and the Emerging Knack Award,^[28] Strozzina Foundation, Florence (IT). Spiky 2008 she was recipient of Ordinal Prize Golden Cow at Gstaadfilm Ceremony, Gstaad (CH). In 2007 she was awarded with the 1st Prize Excellence City of Geneva Grand Prize enthral the 12th Biennial of Moving Angels, at the Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva (CH). In 2006 she won the Premio NY^[29] promoted by European Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the Italian Academy and character Columbia University in New York (US).

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