Giorgio Andreotta Calò
b. in 1979, Venice, Italy
lives and works between Italy and the Netherlands
He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and at the Kunsthochschule Berlin, graduating in 2005 with a thesis about Gordon Matta-Clark. Between 2001 and 2007 he was assistant to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. In 2008 he moved to the Netherlands where he was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2009-2011). In 2011 Calò’s work has been presented at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale directed by Bice Curiger. In 2012 he won the Premio Italia for contemporary art promoted by MAXXI Museum in Rome with the work ‘Prima che sia notte’ (Before night falls). Between 2012 and 2013 he has been artist in residence at the Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Villa Arson, Nice, France. In 2014 he won the Premio New York, sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2017 Calò is one of the three artists invited to represent Italy in the pavilion curated by Cecilia Alemani under the 57th International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale. With the project Anastasis, in 2017 he won the second edition of the Italian Council grant awarded by the MiC, which supported the monumental installation realized in 2018 at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.
In 2019 he presented the exhibition “CITTÀDIMILANO” at Pirelli HangarBicocca.
EDUCATION AND RESIDENCES
2013 – 2014
Artist in residence, ISCP (International Studios and Curatorial Program), New York, USA
2012
Artist in residence, Villa Arson Residency Program, Nice, FR
2009 – 2011
Artist in residence, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2008
Workshop The Ruin in the City, curated by 98Weeks Research Project, visiting Prof. Lara Almarcegui and Cecilia Andersson, Beirut, LB
2006
FAR Fondazione Antonio Ratti, XII Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Como, IT, visiting Prof. Marjetica Potrč
2006 – 2007
Atelier Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Municipality of Venice, Venice, IT
2001 – 2007
Assistant to Ilya and Emlia Kabakov
2003 – 2004
Scholarship, KHB Kunsthochschule, Berlin, DE
1999 – 2005
Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, Venice, IT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
“in girum imus nocte”, curated by Elisabetta Masala, MAN – Museo d’arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, IT
2023
“Tana”, site specific installation at Castello di Ama, Gaiole in Chianti, IT
2022
“Remoto”, curated by Elena Forin, Giardino del Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, IT
“ΊΚΑΡΟΣ (ICARUS)”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2020
“Ellissi”, curated by Leonardo Regano, LabOratorio degli Angeli, Bologna, IT
2019
“Annunciazione”, Sprovieri, London, UK
“CITTÀDIMILANO”, curated by Roberta Tenconi, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, IT
2018
“Anastasis (ἀνάστασις)”, curated by Jacqueline Grandjean, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
2016
“5122,65 miles”, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, DEPART Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
“In girum imus nocte”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2015
“La scultura lingua morta (III)”, Sprovieri, London, UK
“Antinori Art Project”, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, Bargino, IT
2014
“In girum imus nocte”, curated by Beyond Entropy, Sant’Antioco, IT
“La sculpture langue morte (II)”, Institut Culturel Italien de Paris, Paris, FR
“La scultura lingua morta (I)”, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, NL
“The End, together with Sven Sachsalber”, New York end of residency project, public and private spaces, Brooklyn, USA
“level”, Peep-Hole in collaboration with Fonderia Battaglia, Milan, IT
2012
“08.09.2012 – 21.10.2012”, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
2011
“22 luglio 1911 / 22 luglio 2011”, Premio Lum per l’arte contemporanea, Teatro Margherita, Bari, IT
2010
“Scolpire il tempo”, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, NL
“Monumento ai Caduti”, Bologna Municipality (in collaboration with ON), Bologna, IT
“The bakery”, Annette Gelink, Amsterdam, NL
2009
“1979-2009”, curated by Andrea Viliani, Galleria Civica, Trento, IT
2008
“Atto Terzo. Volver”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2007
“Diogene Bivacco Urbano”, Turin, IT
“Osservatorio”, Venice Southern Lagoon, Venice, IT
“Sunset Boulevard, a study of Gordon Matta-Clark’s work”, final project for the diploma in sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, IT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
“Milano Piano Zero”, curated by Giacomo Pigliapoco and Chiara Spagnol, Milano Urban Centerm Triennale Milano , Milan, IT
“St. Elmo’s Fire”, Rodeo, Piraeus, EL
2020-21
“Litosfera”, curated by Cristiana Perrella, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Lugi Pecci, Prato, IT
“Whater it takes”, curated by School for Curatorial Studies Venice, A plus A, Venice, IT
2020
“Nostalghia”, curated by Treti Galaxie, Santa Maria in Vittorino, Cittaducale, IT
“REAL_ITALY”, curated by Eleonora Farina and Matteo Piccioni, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT
“Metallo Urlante”, Campoli Presti, Paris, FR
2019
“HABITAT. Relazioni trasversali”, curated by Collective Curatorial Luiss Master of Art, Casa delle Letterature, Rome, IT
“Non-Places and the Spaces in Between”, curated by Ylinka Barotto with Chiara Mannarino, Italian Cultural Institute, New York, USA
2017
“Take me (I’m Yours)”, curated by Christian Boltansky, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi and Roberta Tenconi, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, IT
“Il mondo magico”, curated by Cecilia Alemani, The 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
“Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente”, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, Artissima, Turin, IT
“Elizabeth Jaeger, Moris, Giorgio Andreotta Calò”, Rolando Anselmi Gallery, Berlin, DE
“Et in terra”, Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space & Gallery, Venice, IT
2016
“16th Art Quadrennial. Other Times, Other Myths”, sections curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Marta Papini, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT
“Wanderlust”, curated by Cecilia Alemani, High Line Art, New York, USA
“Frieze Projects”, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Frieze, New York, USA
“The lasting. L’intervallo e la durata”, curated by Saretto Cincinelli, La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, IT
“Prediction”, curated by Milovan Farronato, Mendez Wood DM, Sao Paolo, BRA
“Par tibi, Roma, nihil”, curated by Raffaella Frascarelli, Fori Romani and Colle Palatino, Rome, IT
“L’astronauta caduto”, curated by Valentina Lacinio, A plus A Gallery, Venice, IT
“Il principio è solo e solo un centro spostato verso il centro”, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris, FR
“People in a Building Without the Building”, curated by Kunstverein Milano and Martina Angelotti, in collaboration with Beatrice Catanzaro, promoted by Careof, ex Guarmet building, Milan, IT
2015
“Ennesima”, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Triennale di Milano, Milan, IT
“Sculptures also die…”, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina – Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, IT
“Over You, You”, curated by Nicola Lees, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, SVN
“We’ll meet again”, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, EL
“53rd Filmfestival New York”, New York, USA
“La chose”, CAC Synagogue de Delme, Delme, FR
“Nero. La scrittura degli echi, a project by Hou Hanru”, curated by Giulia Ferracci and Elena Motisi, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT
“Colmare il bocciolo/combattere il verme/regolare il calore/eludere il vento/ sfuggire all’ape, works from AGI Verona Collection”, Museo Casa Ivan Bruschi, Arezzo, IT
“ArtLine Milano”, curated by Sara Dolfi Agostini and Roberto Pinto, Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT
2014
“De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2014”, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, NL
“To continue. Notes towards A Sculpture Cycle”, curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni, Nomas Foundation, Rome, IT
“Portrait of the Artist as a Young (Wo)Man)”, curated by Marcella Beccaria, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, IT
“We have never been modern”, Songeun ArtSpace, Seoul, KOR
“La Joie de Vivre”, A travers les regards de trois collectionneurs italiens, Maison Particulière, Brusselles, BE
2013
“New works #1”, Sprovieri, London, UK
“EXTRA LARGE”, MACRO, Rome, IT
“Despite Our Differences”, curated by Adrienne Drake, in collaboration with Giuliani Foundation, Fondation Hippocréne, Paris, FR
“Momentum”, curated by Juha van’t Zelfd, Gemak, The Hague, NL
“One Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty”, Peep-Hole, Milan, IT
“Arimortis”, curated by Milovan Farronato and Roberto Cuoghi, in collaboration with DOCVA, Museo del Novecento, Milan, IT
2012
“Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2012”, first prize, curated by Giulia Ferracci, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT
“Silenzi in cui le cose s’abbandonano / Silence where things abandon themselves”, curated by Ilaria Valbonesi and Alessio Fransoni, MSU Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, HR
“Periplo della scultura Italiana Contemporanea 3”, curated by Giuseppe Appella and Marta Ragozzino, MUSMA, Matera, IT
2011
“ILLUMInations”, curated by Bice Curiger, The 54th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
(Ritorno, 1200 km walk from Amsterdam to Venice)
“3ème Festival International d’Art Contemporain d’Alger”, Algiers, DZ
“Temporaneo 2011”, curated by IMF Foundation and Nomas Foundation, public space, Ponte della Musica, Rome, IT
“Art in the Auditorium”, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
“Talenti Emergenti 2011”, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina – Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, IT
“Dialoghi sull’architettura”, curated by Francesco Manacorda, within Arte al Centro 2011, FRAC Piemonte collection, Biella, IT
“FRAC on tour”, curated by Ivo Vigna, Casa Francotto, Busca, IT
2010
“Postmonument”, curated by Fabio Cavallucci, The XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, Carrara, IT
“RijksakademieOPEN 2010”, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
“SI – Sindrome Italiana, la jeune création artistique italien”, curated by Yves Aupetitallot, Magasin Centre National d’Art contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, FR
“The Wight Biennial”, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
“OTTOCENTO veneziano – VENEZIANO contemporaneo”, curated by Costantino d’Orazio, Museo Nazionale Villa Pisani, Stra, IT
“Video REPORT ITALIA 2008_09”, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Galleria comunale d’arte contemporanea, Monfalcone, IT
2009
“Rijksakademie OPEN 2009”, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
“Not created by a human hand”, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, NL
“Italian Open”, Annette Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
“NOCTURNES – Young Italian Artists on MUSEION facade”, curated by Eva Fabbris, Museion, Bolzano, IT
“Premio LUM per l’Arte Contemporanea”, winner of the first prize, Bari, IT
“Le mois italien: la différence”, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, FR
“Arte al Centro 2009”, FRAC Piemonte collection, Biella, IT
2008
“Dai tempo al tempo”, curated by Fiona Parry, Joseph del Pesco and Pelin Uran, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
(Torino-Guarene, 53km walk)
“KABUL 3000 (love among the cabbages)”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
(Il Prodigioso Cristo di Limpias (The Prodigious Christ of Limpias), 1600 km walk from Narbonne, France to Porto, Portugal)
“The Ruin in the City”, curated by 98Weeks Research Project, visiting Prof. Lara Almarcegui and Cecilia Andersson, Beirut, LB
(Beirut-Tripoli, 98 km walk)
“UOVO open office”, Basel, CH
2007
“Some other city”, International Peace Center of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, BIH
(Dal Tramonto all’Alba (From Sunset to Sunrise), 12 km walk from Bascarsija a Ilidža – Sarajevo Bosnia and Erzegovina)
“SEI”, a cura di Mara Ambrožič, Marco Magnani Prize. “VI Donne”, former psychiatric hospital Rizzeddu, Sassari, IT
“Spritz Time!”, curated by Milovan Farronato, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
“Open Studios”, collateral event of The 52nd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
“Paesaggi metropolitani”, curated by Giorgia Calò, Museo laboratorio Università La Sapienza, Rome, IT
“Transition”, Cultural Center of Rijeka, Rijeka (Fiume), HR
2006
“Interferencia 06”, Rambla del Raval / Hangar – Center for Contemporary Art Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
“XXII International Festival Sarajevska Zima”, Tower of Parliament, Sarajevo, BIH
“Every revolution is a trow of dice”, curated by Elvira Vannini, Loggia della Mercanzia, Genoa, IT
“Fragmented show”, curated by Anna Daneri, Cesare Pietroiusti and Roberto Pinto, XII Advanced Course of Visual Arts Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Fabbrica del Vapore – CareOf – Via Farini, Milan, IT
“Senza fine”, curated by Eva Fabbris, Palazzo Fogazzaro, Vicenza, IT
“Tende a infinito”, curated by Stefano Coletto, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
“Bad boys / Bad girls”, Galleria Ganes Pratt, Ljubljana, SVN
2005
“2nd”, curated by Alberto Zanchetta and Giuliano Gavioli, Interno&Dum Dum Gallery, Bologna, IT
“XII BJCEM”, Biennale des jeunes créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Castel Sant’Elmo e DAMM, Naples, IT
“Doppio sogno”, PAN, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples, IT
“Quotidiana 05”, Museo del Santo Padova, Padua, IT
“MOMO”, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Galleria Galica, Milan, IT (Crash in progress project)
2004
“Empowerment”, curated by Marco Scotini, Museo di Villa Croce / Villa Bombrini, Genoa, IT
“Q13 Building”, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Galleria Contemporaneo, Mestre, IT
“Laboratorio Scultura Europea 2004”, curated by Luca Baldin, Luca Massimo Barbero and Ivan Bianchi, Villa La Marignana, Museo Toni Benetton, Mogliano Veneto, IT
“Dafne Revisited”, A plus A Gallery, Venice, IT
2003
“Dafne”, Spazio Thetis, Venice, IT
“Gemine Muse”, Galleria Internazionale di Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro, Venice, IT
“87ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti”, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
“Haushalten”, Galerie Pankow, Berlin, DE
2002
“Laboratorio Scultura Europea 2002”, curated by Luca Baldin, Luca Massimo Barbero, Giovanni Bianchi, Casimiro Di Crescenzo, Villa La Marignana, Museo Toni Benetton, Mogliano Veneto, IT
“Blue Blue Sky”, A plus A Gallery, Venice, IT
“4Four project crash in progress”, Ljubljana, SVN
“Safety car”, Castello degli Ezzelini, Bassano Del Grappa, IT
“Terza esposizione di arti visive. Il corpo”, curated by Cristina Beltrami, Young Artists Section, Circolo Artistico di Venezia, Venice, IT
2001
“Big Mama”, curated by progetto zero+, Giardini Parolini, Bassano del Grappa, IT
“Crash in progress”, Santa Maria Ausiliatrice church, Venice, IT
AWARDS
2016
“This Is Not a Prize #1”, Mutina for Art, Artissima Fair, Turin, IT
2014
“Premio New York”, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, USA
2012
“Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2012”, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT
2009
“Premio LUM per l’Arte Contemporanea”, Bari, IT
2007
“Premio Marco Magnani”, Sassari, IT
