Curriculum - Fondazione Ettore Fico

Rossella Biscotti
(Molfetta, Italy, 1978). Lives and works in Rotterdam (NL)
[email protected]
www.rossellabiscotti.com
Solo exhibitions
2009
Le teste in oggetto (The heads in question), Nomas Foundation, Rome (IT) curated by M. Sossai
2008
The Undercover Man, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (NL)
You have to be focused, prometeogallery by Ida Pisani, former church of San Matteo, Lucca (IT) curated by L. Bruni
New Crossroads, Galleria Studio la Citta’, Verona (IT) (together with Kevin van Braak) curated by M. Sossai
Everything is somehow related with…, Piccolo Museion (Cubo Garutti), Bolzano / Bozen (IT)
2007
The sun shines in Kiev, Italian Academy at Columbia Univesity, New York, NY (USA)
Cities of Continuous lines, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam (NL) (together with Kevin van Braak)
2005
L’Italia è una repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro, Galerie Paolo Boselli, Brussels (BE)
2002
Rossella Biscotti, Galleria T293, Napoli (IT)
Group exhibitions
2009
Prix de Rome, Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)
Republic or the theatre of people, Arte compempo, Lisbon (PT)
The mountain show, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (NL)
Emerging talents Award, Center of Contemporary Art, Strozzina, Florence (IT)
2008
What is my name?, HISK, Gent (BE).
The experience of Atopia, Lokaal 01, Breda (NL).
Peripheral vision and collective body, Museion, Bolzano / Bozen (IT).
Dai tempo al tempo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (IT).
Cabinet of imagination, Netwerk, Aalst (BE) curated by L. Benedetti.
Interiors, Grusenmayer Art Gallery, Duerle (BE).
Architecture of survival, Sparwasse, Berlin (D) curated by Komplot.
2007
Looking for the Border, Fondazione Stelline, Milan (IT) curated by R. Pinto and F. di Nardo.
Looking for the Border, De Garage, Mechelen / Cultuurcentrum Strombeek (BE) curated by L. Lambrecht and K.
Leomans.
Nessuna Paura (No Fear), Center for contemporary art Luigi Pecci, Prato (IT)
The exhibition you deserve, Cultural Center, Zagreb (Croatia), curated by Komplot
L’evento immobile, Museo d’Arte Nuoro, Nuoro (IT)
Geografie, Vianuova Arte Contemporanea, Florence (IT) curated by L. Bruni
On the edge of vision, Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta / National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi / National Gallery of
Modern Art, Mumbai (India)
2006
Sense and Sensitivity, TENT Rotterdam Center for the Arts, Rotterdam (NL)
Video_Report, Galleria D’Arte Moderna, Monfalcone (IT)
Video invitational, Viafarini, Milano (IT)
Beautiful nature, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Castel San Pietro Terme (IT) curated by Synapser
Cascoland, Public art / New Crossroads, Cape Town (ZA)
I costruttori: il corpo del lavoro 1906-2006, Castel Sismondo, Rimini / Palazzo Belmonte-Riso, Palermo (IT)
2005
Il grande teatro del mediterraneo, Teatro Clitunno, Trevi (IT) curated by Trevi Flash Art Museum
Beograd nekad I sad, Prodajna Galerija, Belgrade (CS) curated by Marko Stamenkovic and Jan Van Woensel
Adam, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (NL)
Padiglione Italia-Out of Biennale, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (IT) selected by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
Honey money - Premio Masay Art Factory, Assab one, Milano (IT)
2004
Conflitto e conflitti, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (IT) curated by Synapser
Prototipi 03, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Roma (IT) curated by Stefano Chiodi and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
2003
Young Italian artists, Galerie Paolo Boselli, Brussels (BE)
Anteprima- Quadriennale, Palazzo Reale, Napoli (IT)
Collaudi, Galleria d’Arte Moderna / Villa delle Rose, Bologna (IT) curated by Marco Altavilla and Daniela Lotta
Start, Care/Of, Milano (IT)
Perspective, El Adelph, Roma (IT) curated by Paola Capata and Mari Cristina Bastante
Space is still the place, TPO, Bologna (IT) curated by Marco Altavilla and Anna De Manincor
Screenings
2008
Rotterdam International Film festival, Rotterdam (NL)
Rencontres Internationales, Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
Rencontres Internationales, Museo National Reina Sofia, Madrid (ES)
Gstaad Film Festival, Gstaad (Switzerland)
2007
Rencontres Internationales, Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l’image contemporain, Geneva (Switzerland)
Fair Play 2007, Play gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin (D)
Video.it, Accademia Albertina, Torino (IT) curated by F. Bernardelli
2006
Fair Play 2006, Play gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin (D)
Site-specific projects
2008
Piccolo Museion, Museion, Bolzano/Bozen (IT) with the performance Everything is somehow related…
Pietro Pensa’s archive, Esino Lario (IT) with the video Dai tempo al tempo
2006
Museum de Paviljoens, Almere (NL) with the project Mental Archive
New Crossroads, Cascoland / Public Eye, Cape town (South Africa) with the project New Crossroads
Awards
2009
Short-list Prix de Rome (NL)
Emerging talents Award, Fondazione Strozzina, Firenze (NL)
2008
Nominated for Mies van der Rohe Award, Krefeld (DE)
Golden Cow (1st Prize), Gstaadfilm, Gstaad (Switzerland) for the movie The sun shines in Kiev
2007
The City of Geneva Grand Prize (1st Prize) at the 12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l’image
contemporain, Geneva (Switzerland) for the movie The sun shines in Kiev
2006
Premio NY, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Italian Academy and the
Columbia University in New York, NY (USA).
Recidencies
2008
CAC Vilnius (LT)
2006/7
Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York City, NY (USA)
2005
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (NL)
2003
Prototipi 03, Fondazione A. Olivetti, Roma (IT) curated by S. Chiodi and B. Pietromarchi
2000
Advance Course in Visual Art, visiting professor Ilya Kabakov, Fondazione A. Ratti, Como (IT) curated
by G. Di Pietrantonio and A. Vettese
Grants
2007
Film Fonds, Amsterdam (NL) for the development of the film The Undercover Man
2006
Dienst Kunst en Cultuur, Rotterdam (NL) for the production of the film The sun shines in Kiev
Selected press reviews/ catalogues
R. Biscotti, Everything is somehow related…, Zona #02, supplement to Abitare #484, July 2008. (with cover)
R. Saviano, Mafia & Politica, L’Espresso, February 2008 (with cover)
F. Boenzi, stories of ordinary amnesia: Rossella Biscotti, Work / Galleria Civica di Trento, November 2007
N. Hartjes, Rossella Biscotti, Tubelight, November 2007
L. Bruni, Rossella Biscotti, Flash Art, October-November 2007, p.128
M. Mels and R.Biscotti, Looking for the Boder, catalogue, De Garage, Mechelen / Cultuurcentrum Strombeek (BE), 2007
R. Biscotti, Nessuna paura, catalogue, Center for contemporary art Luigi Pecci, Prato 2007
P. Nicolini, La nuova arte italiana? E’ a NY, GQ, April 2007, p. 256-257
K. van Braak, Cities of continuous lines, BK informatie, March 2007, p. 16 17
E. Gandolfi, S. Pilat, Cities of Continuous lines, catalogue, Netherlands Foundation for Art, Architecture and
Design, Amsterdam 2007
L. Canova, M. C. Bastante, catalogue, On the edge on the vision, Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta / National
Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi / National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (INDIA) 2007
R. Fiorito, Amsterdam Archivio mentale, Pool Magazine, February 2007, p. 15-16
A. Bruciati, A. Crippa, Video_report, catalogue, GAM, Monfalcone 2006.
M. Margozzi, L. Martini, A.Negri, I costruttori, catalogue, Ed. SKIRA, Milano (IT) 2006
M. Moccia, Il grande teatro del mediterraneo, catalogue, Trevi Flash art Museum, Trevi 2005
M. Stamenkovic, Beograd nekad I sad, catalogue, Prodajna Galerija, Belgrade (CS) 2005
B. Pietromarchi, Italiaci vizi e virtù, Flash Art 253, August/September 2005, Milano pp. 72
C. Marfella, Dal fronte giovani, Flash Art 247, August/September 2004, Milano pp. 80
S. Chiodi and B. Pietromarchi, Prototipi 03, catalogue, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Roma 2004
R. Biscotti, Speciale Napoli, Flash Art 247, August/September 2004, Milano pp.71
M. Altavilla, Rossella Biscotti, Around Photography 00, February/March 2004 Bologna pp. 26-28
M. Altavilla and D. Lotta, Collaudi, catalogue, Galleria d’Arte Moderna/Villa delle Rose, Bologna 2003
R. Biscotti, self portrait, Tema celeste 99, September 2003, pp. 78-79
G. Pietrantonio, A. Vettese , I. Kabakov, Quaderni del Corso Superiore di Arti Visive., catalogue CSAV Fondazione
Antonio Ratti, Como, Edizioni Charta, Milano 2000