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.

Elle a participé à de grandes expositions internationales, notamment la 55e Biennale de Venise (2013), la 13e Biennale d’Istanbul (2013), la dOCUMENTA 13 (2012) et Manifesta 9 (2012). Son travail a fait l’objet d’expositions personnelles au Castello di Rivoli (2024) ; à Fabra i Coats, à Barcelone (2023) ; à la Stadt Galerie, à Salzbourg (2021) ; au Witte de With, à Rotterdam (2019) ; à la Fondazione Ratti, à Côme (2019) ; à la daadgalerie, à Berlin (2019) ; au Kunsthaus Baselland, à Muttenz (2018) ; au Protocinema d’Istanbul (2018) ; au Musée d’État de l’histoire du goulag, à Moscou (2016) ; au Museion de Bolzano (2015) ; à la Haus Lange Haus Esters, à Krefeld (2014) ; au Wiels, à Bruxelles (2014) ; Sculpture Center, New York (2014) ; Secession, Vienne (2013) ; e-flux, New York (2013) ; et CAC Vilnius (2012).