
"It is not the institutions that dictate the way we deal with history, rather it is about the will of the people to build up institutions."
1. BIOGRAPHY
Rossella Biscotti uses montage as a gesture to reveal individual narratives and their relation to society while simultaneously revealing the supports that create these narratives. In her cross-media practice, cutting across filmmaking, performance and sculpture, she explores and reconstructs social and political moments from recent times through the subjective experiences of individuals often posed against the backdrop of violent institutionalized systems. By integrating her personal experience and oral narratives into the recounting of new stories, she undertakes the construction of an unofficial account of history that lives on the margins of official discourse. Often using a site of investigation as a starting point, differing and even contradictory accounts are sensibly weaved together into novel visual narratives. By examining the relevance of the recovered material from a contemporary perspective, Biscotti creates links and networks to the present, empowering the spectators’ imagination, culture and experience. Biscotti graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002 and later attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2010-2011. She took part at major international exhibitions, including the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), the 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), dOCUMENTA 13 (2012), and Manifesta 9 (2012). Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Castello di Rivoli (2024); Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (2023); Stadt Galerie, Salzburg (2021); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2019); Fondazione Ratti, Como (2019); daadgalerie, Berlin (2019); Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz (2018); Protocinema Istanbul (2018); Gulag History State Museum, Moscow (2016); Museion Bolzano (2015); Haus Lange Haus Esters, Krefeld (2014); Wiels, Brussels (2014); Sculpture Center, New York (2014); Secession, Vienna (2013); e-flux, New York (2013); and CAC Vilnius (2012).
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She has also exhibited in a number of group exhibitions including at the 2nd Diriyah Biennial (2024); Kunsthaus Graz (2023); Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); Rijskmuseum, Amsterdam (2022); the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Bozar, Brussels (2022); the 2nd Autostrada Biennale, Prishtina (2021); the 21st Beaufort Triennale (2021); MAXXI, Rome (2010, 2017 & 2021); the 15th Bienal de Cuenca (2021); Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka (2020); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018, 2019); IVAM, Valencia (2018); Kunstmuseum St Gallen (2018); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2018); Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2018); the 8th Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2016); Swiss Institute, New York (2016); Sonsbeek, Arnhem (2016); IMMA, Dublin (2015); ICA London (2014); Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (2014); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2012; 2023); Museu Serralves, Porto (2010); among others. Biscotti received several art awards including the ACACIA Prize for Contemporary Art (2017); the Premio della 16e Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma (2016); the Mies van der Rohe Stipendium (2013); The Premio Michelangelo, XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrare (2010); the 2nd Prix de Rome in the Netherlands (2009); the City of Geneva Grand Prize at the 12th Biennial of Moving Images (2007); and the Premio NY, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the italian Academy and the Columbia University, New York (2006).
2. WORK SELECTION
3. PROGRAM AT THE GALLERY
4. INSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS
Sharjah Biennial, 2025
Fondazione Merz, 2025
Castello di Rivoli, 2024
Diriyah Biennial, 2024
Fabra i Coats, 2023
Gropius Bau, 2023
Bienal de Cuenca, 2021
Beaufort Triennale, 2021
Witte de With, 2019
Fondazione Ratti, 2019
Kunsthaus Baselland, 2018
Kunststation Cologne, 2018
Contour Biennale, 2017
Van Abbemuseum, 2016
Museion Bolzano, 2015
WIELS Brussells, 2014
Venice Biennial, 2013
Manifesta 9, 2012
Documenta 13, 2012
"In my work I often look at social histories and traumatic events, how they can be traced in the present consciously or un-consciously, and the processes that follow, mainly within groups or communities."
"I am looking for a possibility to talk about history in an informative and personal manner, yet with a certain abstraction."
5. VIDEOS
2025
Rossella Biscotti | Saturated Salty Mud Stories
Le Grand Tour
2022
The Journey, Rossella Biscotti
L’Art Rue – الشارع فن
2018
Rossella Biscotti – Positions #3
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