Mario Rizzi
Phone Germany +49 172
8814001 Phone Italy +39
327 9484830
Email mariorizzi@gmail.com
Selected Awards:
2018 Italian Council Award. Italian Ministry of Culture
& Pecci
Contemporary Art Center, Italy
2012 Production Program Award. Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2005 Best Artist Prize. 7th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah,
United Arab Emirates
2004 The Mulliqi
Best Artist Prize. Kosova Art Gallery, Pristina,
Kosovo/UNMIK
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2021 BAYT. Helsinki
Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2019 بيت Bayt. Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea
Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2017 Bare Lives. Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
2015 L'Attesa. Galleria Studio
Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
2013 Karagöz. Galleria Gagliardi,
Turin, Italy
The Waiting. Villa
Romana, Florence, Italy
2011 Partial Truths. Podbielski
Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2010 La vie est à nous. Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2008 Murat ve Ismail. Kerava Art Museum, Kerava,
Finland
2004 The Sofa of Jung. MART Museo Arte
Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto,
Rovereto, Italy
2002 Drafting Moods. Diana Stigter
Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Seven Finnish Identities. Helsinki Art Museum,
Helsinki, Finland
Selected Group Exhibitions and Main Film Festivals:
2021 1st
Helsinki Biennial. Vallisaari Island, Helsinki, Finland
39th EVA
International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, Limerick, Ireland
2020 Art is always public. Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
Visions du Réel
International Film Festival. Nyon,
Switzerland
2019 Territorium: Tijuana.
Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura,
Tijuana, Mexico
Moving
Women. Magda Danysz Galerie, Paris, France
2018 VAM Festival 2018. BABYLON Film Theatre, Berlin,
Germany
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Residents 2017-2018. Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo,
Japan
2017 Beautiful Distress. Nieuw
Dakota, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
#resist.
Goethe Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Images du
monde laborieux. HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas, France
The Absence of
Paths. Tunisian Pavilion at the
57th Venice Biennale, Italy
Artapes #1. Walking Around the Clock. MAXXI
Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
IN SITU.
Palazzina Reale, Florence,
Italy
Deconstructing
Borders. Tonala, Tijuana, Mexico
2016 Zehn Positionen aus der Türkei. Pasinger Fabrik, Munich,
Germany
When
Home Won't Let You Stay. Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Univ. Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
27th Ankara International Film Festival. Ankara, Turkey
We Refugees – Of the Right to Have Rights.
Badischer Kunstverein,
Karlsruhe, Germany
2015 Istanbul. Passion, Joy, Fury. MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI
Secolo,
Rome, Italy
Where are
the Arabs? Al Riwaq Art Space, Manama, Bahrain
The World
of Shadow Theatre. Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Sublime de
Voyage: Biennale Art Nomad. Arnac-la-Poste,
France + Hauterives, France + Marseille, France +
Venice, Italy
26th Ankara International Film Festival. Ankara,
Turkey
Layalina Festival. Spoutnik,
Geneva, Switzerland
Too Early
Too Late. Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, Italy
2014 17th Randevu Istanbul.
French Cultural Institute, Istanbul, Turkey
Open Museum
Open City. MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo,
Rome, Italy
Open
Memory: Echoing Borders. Amman Lab, Amman, Jordan
Refugees
and Borders Film Series. Studio-X, Istanbul, Turkey + GSAPP Graduate School
of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, New York,
USA
Water is on
the house. Polistar, Istanbul, Turkey
Video
Forever. Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
24th
Festival del Cinema Africano, d'Asia
e America Latina. Milan, Italy
Open
Systems. GPL Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Where are
the Arabs? VW Dome, Museum of Modern Art PS1, New York, USA
2013 Giornata
del Cortometraggio. Museo del Cinema, Cinema
Massimo, Turin, Italy
Arabian
Nights _ 10th Dubai International Film Festival. Dubai, United Arab
Emirates
Villa
Romana 1905 – 2013. Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn,
Germany
Iskele 2. TANAS, Berlin, Germany + Neuer
Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Süden. DB KunstHalle,
Berlin, Germany
Summer
Shorts. Strelka Institute, Moscow, Russia
Off Side.
La Rada Space for Contemporary Art, Locarno, Switzerland
15th
Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
10th El Espejo
Film Festival. Bogotá, Colombia
5th Cinéma Arabe. Rialto,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4th Middle
East Now Film Festival. Cinema Odeon, Florence, Italy
63rd
Berlinale Shorts Official Competition. Berlin, Germany
Signs Taken
in Wonder. MAK Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria + Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2012 In Spite of it All. Collections Building, Sharjah,
United Arab Emirates
Parco Nomade. Padiglione Italia,
13th Int. Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
The Road
not Taken. Chung Hwa Centenary Arts Festival, Muar, Malaysia
State of
Transit. Open Space, Vienna, Austria
2011 Videoforma. National Center
for Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia
(Dis)assembled. Röda Sten, Göteborg,
Sweden
2010 29th International Istanbul Film Festival. Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Rotte Metropolitane.
Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2008 6th Doclisboa. Culturgest, Lisboa, Portugal
6th Taipei
Biennial. Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
13th
International Carrara Biennial. Centro Internazionale
Arti Plastiche, Carrara, Italy
Be(com)ing Dutch. Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Working Men.
Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
58th
Berlinale Shorts Official Competition. Berlin, Germany
Something
from Nothing. Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA
2007 Résidents. Espace Electra, Paris, France
4th Göteborg International Biennial. Röda
Sten, Göteborg, Sweden
This Day.
Tate Modern, London, UK
World
Factory. Walter & McBean Galleries, SFAI Art
Institute, San Francisco, USA
2006 We are what we are. Rotor, Graz, Austria + 2B Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
Art, Life
& Confusion. 47th Oct Salon, Museum Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia
5 Tage bis zum
Ende der Kunst. Kunsthalle Fridericianum,
Kassel, Germany
6th EVA International –
Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art. City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2005 3rd Bienalja e Tiranës. Kompleksi
Goldi, Tirana, Albania
9th
Istanbul Biennial. Antrepo Warehouse no. 5,
Istanbul, Turkey
Identità & Nomadismo.
Palazzo delle Papesse,
Siena, Italy
7th Sharjah
Biennial. Expo Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2004 14th Sydney Biennale. Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney, Australia
2003 Anomalie _ Fuori Uso. Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy
2nd Bienalja e Tiranës. National Gallery of Arts,
Tirana, Albania
1st Prague
Biennial. National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2002 Exit. Fondazione Sandretto
Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2001 The Gift. Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
Selected Screenings:
2019 My Dear Lamis. Dar El-Nimer
for Arts and Culture, Beirut, Lebanon
2017 Videoart at Midnight. BABYLON Film Theatre, Berlin, Germany
Limina Tunnel below / Skyjacking above. NGBK,
Berlin, Germany
2014 Al Intithar. SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
Al riparo
dalla tempesta. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy
2013 L'attente. Palais des Arts, Marseille, France
Murat ve Ismail. SALT Ulus, Ankara, Turkey
2011 Kazın Ayağı
Öyle Değil. SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Modern Mondays: Mario Rizzi. Museum of Modern Art, New York,
USA
Selected Institutional Art
Collections:
·
The Fund for the 21st Century _ Permanent Collection. MoMA, New York, USA
·
MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo,
Rome, Italy
·
Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato, Italy
·
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
·
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands
·
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
·
Musée Réattu, Arles, France
·
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Selected Residencies and Honors:
2019 Structures of
Displacement _ Symposium and Film Screenings. University of Applied Arts, Vienna,
Austria (18-19 October 2019)
2017 Tokyo Arts and Space Residency Program. Tokyo, Japan
BARE LIVES
_ Talk and Film Screenings. Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy
(7 March 2017)
2016 Jury Member of the Kurdish Cinema Competition at 4th Duhok
International Film Festival. Duhok City, Iraqi Kurdistan
Keynote lecture “BAYT”. Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy (19 May
2016)
Jury Member of the National Short Films
Competition at 27th Ankara International Film Festival. Ankara, Turkey
2015 Artist Residency.
Fondazione Jorio Vivarelli,
Pistoia, Italy
2011 National Center for
Contemporary Arts _ Studio Program. Saint Petersburg, Russia
2010 The Fund for
the 21st Century _ Permanent Collection. MoMA, New York, USA
2006 Al Ma'mal Foundation _ Studio
Program. Jerusalem, Palestine
2005 Cité Internationale
des Arts _ Studio Program. Paris, France
2002 Amsterdams Fonds voor
de Kunst. Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
2001 Internationales Atelierprogramm Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin, Germany
Selected Bibliography:
l Sabrina Vedovotto, Racconti da lontano, in Telescope _ Quidmagazine, 15.03.2020
l Manuela De Leonardis, Fiabe a Burj el Barajneh. Alias _ Il
Manifesto, 13 April 2019
l Jonas Tinius, The privilege of life itself: sovereignty, power, and
the figure of the refugee. In: “Bare Lives”, 2017, Archive Books, Germany, pp
68-75
l Charlotte Bank, Wandering Witness. In: “Bare Lives”, 2017, Archive Books, Germany, pp
56-59
l Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Giving shape to Life, Society and Oneself. In: “Bare Lives”, 2017, Archive Books, Germany, pp
24-31
l Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, On Scars and Scarifications. In: “Bare Lives”, 2017, Archive Books, Germany,
pp 20-23
l Hamid Dabashi, Sacred
Souls, Bare Lives. In:
“Bare Lives”, 2017, Archive Books, Germany, pp 5-11
l Cristiana Perrella, Altre voci, nuovi miti.
Zero.eu, 18 October 2016
l Isabel Mehl, Landkarten von
Flucht und Ankommen. Artline.org, 24 May 2016
l Sabine Weier, Migrant
Identities After the Global Crisis. Camera Austria, #134/2016, pp 84-85
l Cristiana Perrella, The Outsider. Ibraaz.org, 30 June 2016
l Pia Lauro, Io e il Medio Oriente. Exibart.com,
25 February 2016
l Manuela De Leonardis, L'arte sbocciata
tra i rifugiati. Il
Manifesto, 29 January 2016
l Valentina Bruschi, Una mostra per scoprire Istanbul.
Il Messaggero, 22 January 2016
l Cristiana Perrella, La Primavera
araba in un film. Artribune.com, 9 December 2015
l Ida Panicelli, Mario Rizzi at Studio
Stefania Miscetti. Critics' Picks, Artforum.com, December 2015 –
January 2016
l Ludovico Pratesi, La crisi siriana vista con gli occhi dell'arte. Pause d'Attenzione, Exibart.com, 14 December 2015
l Tilman Spreckelsen, Der
dunkle Lord ist so flach wie nie. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 November
2015
l Rüdiger Otto von Brocken, Warten als
Weg, um zu überleben. Husumer Nachrichten,
29 September 2015
l Barbara Polla, L'humanisme
envers et contre tout. L'Extension Suisse Magazine, Printemps
2015, p 60
l Dorothea Schoene, À la recherche d'une redéfinition de la
condition humaine. In:
“Penser la Méditerranée au
XXI siècle”, 2014, Éditions Parenthèses, France, pp
205-215
l Stefania Crobe, L'attesa
del ritorno. Il Giornale
dell'Arte, 18 June 2013
l Hamid Dabashi, Syrians, Camps and a
New Cosmopolis. In: “The Waiting”, 2013, argobooks,
Germany, pp 5-15
l Angelika Stepken, Al Intithar. In: “The Waiting”, 2013, argobooks, Germany, pp 3-4
l Dorothea Schoene, A State of Exception. Ibraaz.org, 8 May 2013
l Dorothea Schoene, An
Unconventional Angle. Ibraaz.org, 22 April 2013
l Igal Avidan, Das lange Warten
auf den Frieden. Zeit.de, 11 February 2013
l Simon Rees, Murat ve
Ismail, In: "Signs Taken in Wonder", 2013, Hatje
Cantz, Germany, p 154
l Dmitry Golynko, The Ethics of
Human Biographies. Arterritory.com, January 2012
l November Paynter, Taipei Biennial. Bidoun, #16, pp 161-162
l Özge Ersoy, Hybrid Models in Art
Infrastructure. RES, #4, pp 146-153
l Simon Rees, 6th Taipei Biennial.
Frieze, #120, pp 147-148
l Vasif Kortun,
The Chicken Soup. In: "TB 08",
2008, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, pp 68-69
l Domeniek Ruyters, Harteloos
Nederland. De Volkskrant, 29 May 2008, pp 14-15
l Bruno Latour, Résidents.
2007, Editions du Panama, France, pp 192-195
l Katerina Gregos, Mario Rizzi. Contemporary, #86, pp
54-55
l Grant Watson, EV+A. Flash Art
Italy, Vol. XXXIX, #248, p 1
l Michele Robecchi, Mario Rizzi. Flash Art Italy, Vol. XXXIX, #255, pp 68-71
l Sabine Vogel, International Istanbul Biennial. Critics’
Picks, Artforum.com, Oct 2005
l Charles Esche,
Murat ve
Ismail. In: "9th
International Istanbul Biennial", 2005, Istanbul Foundation for Culture
and Arts, Turkey, pp 141-144
l Jamie Robinson, Sharjah International
Biennial 7. Contemporary, #76, pp 56-57
l Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Sharjah Biennial.
Flash Art Italy, Vol. XXXVIII, #242, pp 71&90
l Isabel Carlos, Beyond Self-Expression.
In: “Mario Rizzi 96_04”, 2004, Skira, Italy, pp 25-32
l Lilly Wei, South by Southeast.
Art in America, #11, pp 58-65
l Christian Rattemeyer, Biennale of Sydney. Artforum, Vol.
43, #3, pp 238-239