Paola Pivi
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Paola Pivi is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) is an Italian multimedia artist who lives and works in Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...
. In her work, she uses a wide range of art techniques, such as photography, sculpture and performance. Some of her works contain performance elements, at times involving live animals and people. In 1999, she received Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
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Solo exhibitions
2008- "It's a cocktail party", Portikus, FrankfurtFrankfurtFrankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
, Germany - "It's a cocktail party", Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy
- Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami
2007
- "You gotta be kidding me", La Criée Centre d'art Contemporain, Rennes, FR
- "It just keeps getting better", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
2006
- "My religion is kindness. Thank you, see you in the future." (curator: Massimiliano Gioni) Nicola Trussardi FoundationNicola Trussardi FoundationThe Nicola Trussardi Foundation is a non-profit institution for the promotion of contemporary art and culture. Created in 1996, the Nicola Trussardi Foundation is neither a museum nor a collection...
, Milan - "Fffffffffffffffffff", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, USA
- "No problem, have a nice day", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
2005
- "Fant Ass Tic", Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
- "100 Chinois"; Wrong Gallery, Frieze Art FairFrieze Art FairFrieze Art Fair is an international contemporary art fair that takes place every October in London's Regent's Park. The fair is staged by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the publishers of frieze magazine...
, London, England
2004
- "To Me", (curator: T. Dillon), Platformart, Gloucester RoadGloucester RoadRoad:* Gloucester Road, London* Gloucester Road tube station* Gloucester Road, Hong Kong* Gloucester Road, Bristol A38 through Horfield, Bristol...
Underground StationMetro stationA metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....
, London, GB - Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, FranceParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
2003
- Wrong Gallery, New York, USA
- MACRO, (curator: Laura Cherubini), Rome, Italy
2002
- "Alicudi Project", (curator: Xavier Franceschi), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bretigny- sur-Orge, France
- Edizioni di Gioielli Elena Levi, (curator: Laura Cherubini), Galeria Roma Roma
Roma, Rome, Italy
2001
- Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
- Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
- "Alicudi Project", Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfort, Germany
2000
- "Paola Pivi", (curator: Marcella Beccaria), Castello di Rivoli, Musée d'art contemporain, Turin, Italy
1999
- Galleria S.A.L.E.S., (with Simone Berti - curator: Laura Cherubini), Roma, Italy
1998
- "100 cinesi", Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy
Group exhibitions
2009- Deitch Project, New York
2008
- "The store", (curated by A. Carr), Tulips & Roses, Vilnius
- "Una stanza tutta per sé", (curated by M. Beccaria), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (upcoming)
- "15th Rome Quadriennale15th Rome QuadriennaleThe 15th Rome Quadriennale or XV Rome Quadriennale is an Italian art exhibition held between 19 June and 14 September 2008 at its historical site, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni of Rome, Italy.The exhibition has no thematic restrictions and originates with the aim of...
", Palazzo delle EsposizioniPalazzo delle EsposizioniThe Palazzo delle Esposizioni is a neoclassical exhibition hall, cultural center and museum on Via Nazionale in Rome.Designed by Pio Piacentini, it opened in 1883. It has housed several exhibitions The Palazzo delle Esposizioni is a neoclassical exhibition hall, cultural center and museum on Via...
, Rome, Italy - "The Hamsterwheel", Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (upcoming, 16 Mai 2008)
- “Gli Artisti della Collezione ACACIA”, (curated by A. Daneri et G. Testa), Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino di Strada Nuova, Genoa (upcoming)
- "When things cast no shadow", 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary ArtContemporary artContemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
(curated by A. Szymczyk and E. Filipovic), Berlin - "ITALIA ITALIE ITALIEN ITALY WLOCHY. “Ritti su la cima del mondo, noi scagliamo, una volta ancora, la nostra sfida alle stelle!...” (curated by G. Del Vecchio, A. Rabottini, E.L. Scipioni, A. Viliani), ARCOS Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento.
2007
- "Ou? Scènes du Sud: Spain, Italy, Portugal", Carré d'Art de Nîmes, FR
- "The Hamsterwheel", Tesa della Nuovissima, Arsenale di Venezia - Festival Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
- "Senso Unico", PS1 MOMA, curated by A. Heiss New York, USA
- Group Show, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami
2006
- "Art'Fab: L'Art, La Femme, L'Europe" , (curator: Susanne van Hagen and Danielle Gaudry Cazeau), Saint Tropez. Catalogue.
- "Italy made in art: now", (curated by Achille Bonito OlivaAchille Bonito OlivaAchille Bonito Oliva, is a recognized and respected Italian contemporary art critic, author of many essays on mannerism, and a professor of History of Contemporary Art at La Sapienza University in Rome...
), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai. - "Young italian artists at the turn of the millennium", Galleria Continua, Beijing.
- "Vis à vis"-Collezioni si incontrano, (curated by Walter Guadagnini, Ludovico Pratesi), Centro Arti Visive – Pescheria, Pesaro.
- "Crafty", (curated by Lisa Tung), Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, MassArtMassachusetts College of ArtMassachusetts College of Art and Design is a publicly-funded college of visual and applied art, founded in 1873. It is one of the oldest art schools, the only publicly-funded free-standing art school in the United States, and was the first art college in the United States to grant an artistic degree...
, Massachusetts College of ArtArt schoolArt school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or...
, Boston. - "Il buco", (curated by Achille Bonito Oliva), Galleria Pio Monti, Roma. Catalogue.
- "Kontracom06 "Contemporary.Festival. Salzburg, (curator: Max Hollein), Salzburg. Catalogue
- "Il diavolo del focolare", (curator: Claudia Gian Ferrari), La Triennale di Milano, Milan.Catalogue
- "The Garden Party", Deitch ProjectsDeitch ProjectsDeitch Projects was a contemporary art gallery in New York City founded by Jeffrey Deitch.-History:Since opening with a performance by Vanessa Beecroft in February 1996, the gallery has presented nearly one hundred and eighteen solo exhibitions and projects, ten thematic exhibitions, and a few...
, New York - "The snow show", (curator: Lance Fung), Sestriere, Italy
- "Fuori pista", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Capanna Mollino, Sauze d'Oulx, Italy
- "Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye" (curators: F. Bonami, J. Rodrigues Widholm, T. Van Eck), MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. Catalogue
2005
- "Water, air, earth, fire. At the origins of life between Art and Science" (curators: Sandra Solimano, Mario Perosino, Silvana Sermisoni), Palazzo della Borsa, Gênes, Italy
- "Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye", (curator: Francesco Bonami, Julie Rodrigues Widholm et Tricia Van Eck), MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoMuseum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoThe Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary art venues...
, USA - "Das verlorene Paradies: Die Landschaft in der zeitgenössischen Photographie", (curator: Beate Kemfert) Opelvillen - Zentrum für Kunst in Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim, Germany
- "Fuori tema/Italian Feeling", XIV Quadriennale di Roma, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
- "Monuments for the USA", (Curateur: R. Rugoff), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
- "Bidibidobidiboo", (Curated by F. Bonami), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
- "Luna Park". Arte Fantastica, (Curateur: F. Bonami, S. Cosulich Canarutto), Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, Italy
- "Generations of art", 10 anni alla FAR", (curated by G. Verzotti), Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
- "En route: via another route", Trans-Siberian train. departing from Moscow and terminating in Beijing, (curator: Adam Carr)
- "Not a drop but the fall"(curator: Elmgreen & Dragset and Susanne Pfeffer), Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany
- "Universal Experience, Art Life and the Tourist's eye", (curator: F. Bonami, J. Rodrigus Whidholm, T. Van Eck) Hayward GalleryHayward GalleryThe Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre, part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings and also the Royal National Theatre and British Film Institute...
, London, England - "Fuori Tema", XIV Quadriennale di Roma, galeria Nazionale d'arte Moderna, Italy*
2004
- "I nuovi mostri" Fondazione Nicola TrussardiNicola TrussardiNicola Trussardi was an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur.-Career:Trussardi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy....
, Venice, Italy - "Manifesta 5", Biennale Européenne d'art contemporain, (curator: Massimiliano Gioni, Marta Kuzma), San Sebastiàn, Spain
- Ettore Spalletti, Paola Pivi, Giorgio Colombo, Vistamare, Pescara, Italy
- Biennale de Pontevedra, (Curators: D.G. Torres, M. von Hafez Perez), Pontevedra, Spain
- "Art on Campus", (Curator: Jo-Ann Conklin), Brown UniversityBrown UniversityBrown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, Providence, USA - "Ori d’artista, Il gioiello nell’arte italiana 1900-2004", (Curateur: F. Morelli), Museo del Corso, Rome, Italy
2003
- "Women in Italian Collections", (Curator: F. Bonami), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
- "Artists’ Projects", (Curator: P. Staple), Frieze Art Fair, London, Great Britain
- "Sogni e conflitti - La dittatura dello spettore", 50ème Biennale de Venice, (curator: Francesco Bonami), Venice, Italy
- "Signatures of The Invisible", (curator: The London InstituteUniversity of the Arts LondonThe University of the Arts London, formerly known as the London Institute, is a collegiate university comprising six internationally recognised art, design, fashion and media colleges in London, England...
, Great Britain), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA - "World speak less dumb", Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
- "Contemporary Start", in collaboration with Renault, (curator: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio), Rome, Italy
- "La Riproduzione", Vetrine alla Calcografia Archivio di Stato, (curator: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio), Turin, Italy
- "Alta Moda Roma, Animal Skin", with Maurizio Pecoraro, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
- "Interludes", Biennale de Venice, (Curateur: F. Bonami), Venice, Italy
2002
- "La RiproRiduzione", (curator: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio), Calcografia Nazionale, Rome, Italy
- "Nuovo Spazio Italiano", (curators: Fabio Cavallucci, Giovanna Nicoletti et Giorgio Verzotti), Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Italy
- "ExIT", (curator: Francesco Bonami*), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
- "Verso il futuro. Identita nell'arte italiana 1990-2002", (curators: Ludovico Pratesi et Costantino D'Orazio), Museo del Corso, Rome, Italy
- "Tutto Normale", Académie françaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
de Rome, Villa Medicis, Rome, Italy - "Ouverture. Arte dell'Italia", (curator: Andrea Bruciati), Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Gorizia, Italy
- "Magical Machines", (curator: Rosanne Altstaat), Edith Russ-Haus fur Medienkust, Oldenburg, Germany
- "De Gustibus", (curators: Sergio Risaliti and Achille Bonito Oliva), Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienne, Italy
- "Signatures of The Invisible", (organisation: The London Institute, Great Britain), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, in collaboration with Centre Européen pour la Recherche NucléaireCERNThe European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
, Geneva, Switzerland - "No Return", (curator: Axel Haubrok), Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
- "Ouverture", (curators: Jérôme Sans and Nicolas BourriaudNicolas BourriaudNicolas Bourriaud is a French curator and art critic. He co-founded, and from 1999 to 2006 was co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris together with Jerôme Sans. He was also founder and director of the contemporary art magazine Documents sur l'art , and correspondent in Paris for Flash Art from...
), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2001
- "Marking the Territory", (curator: Marina Abramovich), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- "Signatures of The Invisible", (organisation: The London Institute, Great Britain), Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy, en collaboration with Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Geneva, Switzerland)
- "Chain of Vision: Family, Politics and Religion in the Last Generation of Italian
Contemporary Art", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The is a contemporary art museum in Tokyo, Japan. The museum is located in Kiba Park. It was opened in 1995.- Prominent exhibits :*Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol *Girl with Hair Ribbon by Roy Lichtenstein -External links:* website...
, Japan
- "Chairs in contemporary art", (curator: Agnes Kohlmeyer), Castello di Udine, Civici Musei, Udine, Italy
- "520 Premio Michetti", (curator: Angela Vettese), Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla, Italy
- "520 PSonsbeek 9: Locus Focus", (curator: Jan HoetJan HoetJan, Knight Hoet is the founder of SMAK in Ghent, Belgium.-Biography:Jan curated Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992...
), Arnhem, Pays-Bas - "Uniform, Order and Disorder", P.S.1 Contemporary Art CenterP.S. 1 Contemporary Art CenterMoMA PS1 is one of the largest and oldest institutions in the United States dedicated solely to contemporary art. It is located in the Long Island City neighborhood of New York City...
, New York, USA - "Boom, Manifattura Tabacchi-Manifattura d’Arte", (curator: Sergio Risaliti), Florence, Italy
- "Play", (curator: Gigiotto Del Vecchio), Openspace, Milan, Italy
- "Signatures of The Invisible", Atlantis Gallery, London, Great Britain (organisation: The London Institute, Great Britain), en collaboration with the Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Geneva, Switzerland)
- "Dinamiche della vita dell’arte", (curator: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio), Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
- The Atlantis Gallery, Londres, Great Britain / Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy
2000
- "Uniform, Order and Disorder", (curators: Franceso Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa, Stefano Tonchi), Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
- "Migrazioni e multiculturalità", (curators: Paolo Colombo, Anna Mattirolo, Laura Cherubini), Centro per gli Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy
- "Window onto Venus", (curator: Zerynthia), Biennale de Cuba, Cuba
- "talentum, tolerare", (curator: Chiara Bertola), Prix Querini-Furla for art, Fondazione Querini StampaliaFondazione Querini StampaliaThe Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a cultural structure in Venice, Italy, founded in 1869 at the behest of Conte Giovanni , the last descendant of the Venetian Querini Stampalia family.-Location:The site of the Foundation, located between St...
, Venice, Italy - "A casa di...", (curator: G. Di Pietrantonio), Citta dell'arte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
- "Libres ébats", (curator: Samon Takahashi), Parc de la Domaine-Lacroix, Lyon, FranceLyonLyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
- "Clockwork 2000", (curator: R. Marcoci), P.S.1 National and International Studio Program 1999-2000, Clocktower, New York, USA
- "Identitades futuras, Reflejos de una coleccion", (curator: Franceso Bonami), Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel IICanal de Isabel IICanal de Isabel II is the public company that manages the water supplies for Madrid, Spain. It is owned by the Autonomous Community of Madrid.The Y in the abbreviation is from the old spelling Ysabel.- External links :*...
, Madrid, Spain
1999
- "Au-Delà", (curator: Jens HoffmannJens HoffmannJens Hoffmann Mesèn is a writer and exhibition organizer. He has organzied exhibitions since 1997 and is currently the Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco where he also directs the Capp Street Project artist-in-residence...
), Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin, Germany - "Soggettività e narrazione, cinema e cinema d’artista", (curateur: Franceso Bonami),
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italie
- "YOUNG@ALL.AGES", Deweer Art GalleryArt galleryAn art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
, Otegem, Belgique - "L'Autre Sommeil", (curator: Angeline Scherf), ARC, Paris, France
- "Globale Positionen", (curator: Jens Hoffmann), museum in progressMuseum in progressmuseum in progress is a private art association based in Vienna. The association was created in 1990 by Kathrin Messner and Josef Ortner with the aim to develop new presentation forms for contemporary art...
, Der StandardDer StandardDer Standard is an Austrian national daily newspaper which is published in Vienna . It was founded by Oscar Bronner as a financial newspaper and the first edition was published on 1988-10-19...
Vienna, Austria
- "P.S.1 Italian Bureau Selection 1998-2000", Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
- "Serendipiteit", (curators: Gwy Mandelinck, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Jan Hoet),
Watou, Belgique
- "dAPERTutto", (curator: Harald Szeeman), 48ème Biennale de Venise, Venice, Italy
- Gallery Shanghart, Shanghai, Chine
- "Zone - Especès d'Espaces", (curator: Francesco Bonami), Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba, Cuneo, Italy
- "Destination is wherever it arrives", (curator: Jens Hoffmann), Salon3, London, Great Britain
- "Simone Berti - Paola Pivi", Gallery S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
1998
- Guarene Arte 98, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba,
Cuneo, Italy
- "Un’altra sceneggiatura", (curator: Massimo De Carlo), Triennale, Milan, Italy
- "Opera Nuova", (curateur: Laura Cherubini), Fuori Uso 98, Mercato Ortofrutticolo
Pescare, Italy
- "Imitating Christmas", (curateur: Jens Hoffmann), Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin
Germany
- "Light Slow", Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
1997
- "Opera Prima", Galleria Cesare Manzo, Pescare, Italy
- "Jingle Bells 806", (curator: Uwe Schwarzer), Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
- "Mercato Globale-Fuori Uso in Provincia", (curateur: Laura Cherubini), Ex Colonia Stella
Maris, Montesilvano, Italy
- "Amplikon", (curator: Alessandra Galletta), Via Farini, Milan, Italy
- "Invitation to a pointless investigation", (curator: Carolyn Christov-Bakargie),
workshop avec Jimmie Durham, Via Farini, Milan, Italy
1996
- "A Month on the Lake", (curators: Angela Vettese et Giacinto Di Pietrantonio),
Advanced Course in Visual Arts with John Armleder, Fondazione Ratti, Côme, Italie
1995
- "Transatlantic", (curators: Alberto Garutti et Giacinto Di Pietrantonio), Via Farini,
Milan, Italie