GIORGIO ANDREOTTA CALÒ

born in Venice, 1979

live and works between Amsterdam and Venice

education

2014 Italian Cultural Institue, Paris, France

2012 Villa Arson residency program, Nice, France

2009-2011 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kusten, residency program, Amsterdam, NL

2006 FAR Fondazione Antonio Ratti, XII Advanced Course in Visual Arts (visiting professor Marjetica Potrc), Como, Italy

2003-2004 Scholarship, KHB Kunsthochschule, Berlin, Germany

1999-2005 Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice, Italy

solo shows, selected interventions, performances and projects

2018
anastasis, oude kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2016

IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE, ZERO…, Milan, Italy

5122.65 Miles, Depart Foundation, Los Angeles, USA

2015

La scultura lingua morta III, Sprovieri, London, UK

Anche le sculture muoiono, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

2014

Italian Cultural Institute, Paris, France

Intervention at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Giorgio Andreotta Calò, level, (with Andra Ursata Fartchitectures), Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy

INDEPENDENT, Art Fair, New York, USA

La Scultura Lingua Morta, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL

2013

in girum imus nocte et consumimir igni, Fondazione MACC - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Calasetta, Italy

2012

08.09.2012 - 21.10.2012, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, NL

2011

Performative intervention at Teatro Margherita, 22 luglio 1911/ 22 luglio 2011, Premio Lum per l’arte contemporanea, Bari, Italy

Temporaneo 2011, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Ponte di Musica, Italy

2010

Present Future, Artissima 17, Turin, Italy (with ZERO…, Milan)

Scolpire il tempo, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL

Monumento ai caduti, part of On - Luci di pubblica, Bologna, performative intervention at the new venue of the Municipality, Italy

The bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

2009 

1979-2009, Fondazione Galleria Civica - Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità, Trento, Italy

2008

Atto Terzo, Volver, ZERO…, Milano, Italy

Beirut-Tripoli (4 days trek along the old coast railway of Lebanon)

Il Prodigioso Cristo di Limpias (75 days and 1600 km trek through France, Spain and Portugal) 

2007

SEI, Padiglione VI Donne, Premio Marco Magnani, ex psychiatric hospital Rizzeddu, Sassari, Italy

Diogene Bivacco Urbano, Turin, Italy

Osservatorio, Laguna sud di Venezia (Venice South lagoon), Italy

group shows

2017

Take me, I’m Yours, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy 

57. Biennale d’Arte di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Venice, Italy

2016

16a Quadriennale d’arte - Altri tempi, altri miti, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Wanderlust, High Line Art, New York, USA

People in a building without the building, Ex Guarmet, Milan, Italy

Par Tibi Roma Nihil, NOMAS Foundation, Rome, Italy

The Milky Way 3, Galleria Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy

2015

We’ll Meet Again, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, Greece

Over You, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Sculptures also die, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

EGE - European Glass Experience, Museo del Vetro, Murano, Italy

La Chose, humainnonhumain, Centre d’Art Contemporain La synagogue de Delme, France

Granpalazzo, Zagarolo, Italy

Colmare il bocciolo/combattere il verme/regolare il calore/eludere il vento/sfuggire all’ape, Museo Casa Ivan Bruschi, Arezzo, Italy

New York Film Festival, projection IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMURI IGNI, New York, USA

Ennesima, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy

ArtLine, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

2014

La Joie de Vivre, A travers les regards de trois collectionneurs italiens, Maison Particulière, Bruxelles, Belgium

Italy in SongEun: We Have Never Been Modern, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, South Korea

Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2014, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, NL

Portrait of the Artist as a Young (Wo)man, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN, Songeun Artspace, Seoul, South Korea

(On)zichtbare Kracht, IK-eiland, Oost-Souburg, NL

2013

new works #1, Sprovieri, London, UK

Villa Arson, Nice, France

DOCVA, Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy

Extra Large, MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy

Una certa idea di scultura, Sprovieri, London, UK

Momentum, Gemak, Den Haag, NL

One Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty, Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy

Arimortis, Museo del Novecento - Civici Musei di Milano, Milan, Italy

2012

Periplo Della Scultura Italiana Contemporanea 3, MUSMA, Museo della Scultura Contemporanea, Matera, Italy

Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2012, MAXXI, Rome, Italy

Silence where things abandon themselves, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

2011

ILLUMInations, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

You are the dream of my realization, Whitechapel Gallery, Art in the Auditorium, London, UK

Auditorium, London, UK

Talenti Emergenti 2011, CCCS - Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina - Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

3ème Festival International d’Art Contemporain d’Alger, Alger, Algeria

Temporaneo 2011, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy

2010

SI - Sindrome Italiana, la jeune création artistique italien, Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

Rijkakademie Open Studio 2010, Amsterdam, NL

Postmonument, La XIV Biennale di Carrara, Carrara, Italy

The Wight Biennal, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

The post-Cattelan generation, Centre d’art Le Magasin, Grenoble, France

OTTOCENTO Veneziano - VENEZIANO Contemporaneo, Museo Nazionale Villa Pisani, Stra, Italy

videoREPORT ITALIA 2008_09, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy

2009

Not created by a human hand, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, NL

Rijksakademie Open Studio 2009, Amsterdam, NL

Le mois italien: la différence, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France

Italian Open, Annette Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

NOCTURES, Giovani artisti italiani sulla facciata di Museion, Bolzano, Italy

Open Ateliers 2009, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL

Collezione FRAC Piemonte, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy

Premio LUM per l’arte contemporanea, Bari, Italy

2008

KABUL 3000 (love among the cabbages), ZERO…, Milan, Italy

Dai tempo al tempo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy

Rosenthal Garage, Basel, Switzerland

UOVO open office, Basel, Switzerland

2007

Spritz Time!, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy

Paesaggi metropolitani, MLAC - Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea, La Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

Transition, Cultural Center of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Open Studios, 52a Biennale di Venezia, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy

2006

Interferencia 06, Rambla del Raval / Hangar - Center for Contemporary Art Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Every revolution is a throw of dice, Loggia della Mercanzia, Genoa, Italy

Fragmented show, XII Corso Superiore di Arti Visive, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Fabbrica del Vapore, Careof, Viafarini, Milan, Italy

Senza fine, Palazzo Fogazzaro, Vicenza, Italy

New Liberalistic Pleasure, Galleria Biagiotti, Florence, Italy

Tende a infinito, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy

Bad boys / Bad girls, Galleria Ganes Pratt, Ljubljana, Slovenia

XXII International Festival Sarajevska Zima, Tower of Parliament, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2005

Doppio sogno - Collateral - 05, PAN Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples, Italy

Quotidiana 05, Museo Civico al Santo, Padua, Italy

MOMO, Galleria Galica, Milan, Italy

XII Biennal of Young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Naples, Italy

2004

Building, Galleria Il Contemporaneo, Mestre, Italy

Empowerment, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Villa Bombrini, Genoa, Italy

2003

Dafne, project Crash in progress, Spazio Thetis, Venice, Italy

Gemine Muse, project Crash in progress, Galleria Internazionale di Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro, Venice, Italy

87a collettiva, project Crash in progress, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy

Haushalten, Galerie Pankow, Berlin, Germany

fellowships

2010

Mr. and Mrs. de Bruin-Heijn, NL

Fonds BKVB

2006-2007

Atelier Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy

2006

GAI (Giovani Artisti Italiani), Turin, Italy, “Movin’ up”, supported by DARC

awards

2012

Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2012, MAXXI, Rome, Italy

2009

Premio Lum per l’arte contemporanea, Bari, Italy

2007

Premio Marco Magnani, Sassari, Italy

Selected Bibliography

Publications

2012

G. Sassone, New Italian Art, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, Castelvecchi editore, Rome, pp. 28-31

2011

L. M. Barbero, C. Bertola, A. Bruciati, G. Di Pietrantonio, F. Nori, R. Lami, Talenti Emergenti 2011, exhibition catalogue, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Firenze, Silvana Editoriale, Milan

B. Curiger, La Biennale di Venezia 54. International Art Exhibition. Illuminations, exhibition catalogue, Marsilio Editori, Venice

2010

M. Ambrožic, M. Pasi, #5 Scolpire il tempo, exhibition catalogue, Wilfried Lentz Publications, Rotterdam

A. Bruciati, D. Tomaiulo, F. Zanot, Il cielo in una stanza. Per una osservazione eccentrica del paesaggio,  exihibition catalogue, Edizioni GC.AC- Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone

F. Cavallucci, Post Monument, La XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, exhibition catalogue, Silvana Editoriale, Milan

G. Andreotta Calò,ON. Luci di Pubblica Piazza, curated by Martina Angelotti e Anna de Manincor, Bologna [artist book]

M. Paderni, La fotografia nell’arte contemporanea, Johan & Levi editore, Milan
M. Ambrozic, Volver. Riflessioni a termine di un volo, in AA.VV. “Cos'é il Contemporaneo?”, Edizioni Cleup, Padua

2008

M. Ambrozic, 30 gennaio – 7 febbraio 2008, in “Premio Marco Magnani 2007”, exihibition catalogue, Silvana Editoriale, Milan

A. Bruciati, L. Bruni, B. Casavecchia, C. Leoni, P. Nicolin, M. Tagliafierro, Soft Cell: dinamiche nello spazio in Italia, exihibition catalogue, GC.AC, Monfalcone; Damiani, Bologna

2007

M.Farronato, Spritz Time, exihibition catalogue, Galleria della Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Mousse Publishing, Milan

2005

Giorgio Andreotta Calò,IT, Biennale dei giovani artisti dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo, 12ma edizione, Napoli, Castel Sant’Elmo e DAMM [artist book]

Articles

2012

B. Casavecchia, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, in “Frieze.com”, June 26

E. Nobile Mino, Premio Italia MAXXI, in “Flash Art Italia”, April, p. 21

2011

M. Watson, Temporaneo, in “Frieze.com”, December 7

A. Rabottini,  State of a Nation. Giorgio Andreotta Calò, in “Frieze”, Issue 140 June-August, pp. 158-159

S. Spijkerman, Herinneringen aan nu, in “Kunstbeeld.nl”,issue #6 2011, pp. 30-35

A. M. Goldstein, Light Show: Searching for Substance in the Venice Biennale’s ILLUMInations Exhibition, in “ARTINFO.com”, June 17

E. Bordignon, Gli Italiani di Illuminazioni, in “Vogue.it”, June 6

M. Ambrožic, Giorgio Andreotta Calò. Scolpire il tempo, in “Flash Art Italia”, June, pp. 80-83

2010

S. De Dominicis, Sindrome Italiana? Italian Syndrome?,in “Arte e Critica”, n. 65, pp. 62-65

M. Angelotti, Scultura e monumento hanno ancora un futuro?,in “Domus”, September, pp. 92-101

M. Paderni, Vita Nova. La fotografia e la civiltà delle immagini, in “Flash Art Italia”, August-September, pp. 68-71

A. Poggianti, Dal monumento al dentifricio, in “Flash Art Italia”, August-September, p. 103

P. Sacco, La maledizione del vincitore, in “Flash Art Italia”, August-September, pp. 92-93

G. Andreotta Calò, Gordon, in “Nero Magazine”, Spring-Summer, pp. 34-37

E. Fabbris, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, in “Kaleidoscope”, April-May, pp. 92-93

2009

M. Tagliaferro, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, in “Flash Art Italia”, December-January, p. 76

E. Fabbris, Giorgio Andreotta Calò: by foot or flying boat, in “Kaleidoscope”, March-April, pp. 36-37

A. Rabottini, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, in “Frieze”, Issue 123, May

P. Noè, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, in “Artforum.com”, January 13

Interviews

2012

Giorgio Andreotta Calò, guardando dalla finestra del MAXXI, interview by M. Angelotti, in “Domus”, June 2012

Interview by E. Bordignon, in “Vogue.it”, January 25

2010

Interview by E. Magni, in “Ovo”, July, pp. 44-45

Giorgio Andreotta Calò – gerarchie orizzontali, on “Radio Papesse”, June 25-27

2009

Introducing Giorgio Andreotta Calò, interview by R. Tenconi, in “Mousse Magazine”, March-April, pp. 80-83

2008

Crash in Progress, interview by P. Uran, in  “Uovo open office - Basel”, June, pp. 99-145

Interview by S. Menegoi, in “Mousse Magazine”, November

2007

Giorgio Andreotta Calò. Monumenti per un giorno, interview by S. Coletto,  in “Work”, September-November, pp. 96-97