Yuri Ancarani
b. in 1972, Ravenna, Italy
lives and works in Milan, Italy
Yuri Ancarani is an Italian video artist and filmmaker. His works come from a continuous mingling of documentary cinema and contemporary art, and are the result of a research aimed to explore regions which are not very visibile in the daily life, realities in which the artist delves in first person.
His works have been shown at national and international museums and exhibitions, such as:
Castello di Rivoli (Rivoli-Torino, Italy); Manifesta 12 (Palermo, Italy); Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, Switzerland); Art Basel Unlimited (Basel, Switzerland); 16a Quadriennale d’Arte – Altri tempi, altri miti, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome, Italy); 55th International Art Exhibition, The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennal (Venice, Italy); Beursschouwburg (Brussel, Belgium); CAC, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (Genève, Switzerland); Centre Pompidou (Paris, France); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy); MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (Rome, Italy); AMACI, Museo del Novecento (Milan, Italy); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, California); R. Solomon Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA); Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France); RaebervonStenglin (Zurich, Switzerland); Stiftung Insel Hombroich (Neuss, Germany); Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin, Germany); ZERO… (Milan, Italy).
And at several film festivals, such as:
New York Film Festival (New York City, USA); Camden International Film Festival (Maine, USA); New Directors/New Films, MoMA (New York, USA); Desert Exhibition of Art (Palm Spring, California); True/False Film Festival (Columbia, Missouri); SXSW South by Southwest (Houston, Texas); Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan, USA); Hot Docs (Toronto, Canada); TIFF Toronto International Film Festival (Toronto, Canada); BIM Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (Geneva, Switzerland); Locarno Film Festival (Locarno, Switzerland); Viennale (Vienna, Austria); Venice Film Festival (Venice, Italy); IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, The Netherlands); IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Cinéma du Réel (Centre Pompidou, Paris, France); CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark); Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon (La Roche-sur-Yon, France); Beat Film Festival (Moscow, Russia); Taipei Film Festival (Taipei, Taiwan).
He has also won several awards such as:
“Special Jury Prize”, 69th Locarno Film Festival (Locarno, Switzerland); five nominations for Cinema Eye Honors, Museum of Moving Image (New York, USA); “Grand Prix in Lab Competition”, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, France).
FILMOGRAPHY
2023 Il popolo delle donne
2021 Atlantide
2019 San Giorgio
2018 San Vittore
2017 Whipping Zombie
2016 The Challenge
2014 Séance
2014 San Siro
2013 Ricordi per Moderni (Memories for Moderns)
2012 Da Vinci
2011 Piattaforma Luna (Platform Moon)
2010 Il Capo (The Chief)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
“SI FAS EST, SUPERARE DIVOS (superiore, se è lecito, agli dei)”, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Mouseia, Villa Adriana, Tivoli, IT
2023
“LASCIA STARE I SOGNI”, curated by Diego Sileo and Iolanda Ratti, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea Milano, Milan, IT
“Atlantide 2017 – 2023”, curated by Lorenzo Balbi, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, IT
2022
“Yuri Ancarani. Arbeiten 2002-2022”, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, DE
2019
“The Roots of Violence”, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, IT
2018
“Sculture”, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH
“La malattia del ferro”, Cappella di Santa Maria dei Carcerati, Palazzo Re Enzo, Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, IT
2017
“Biennale of Moving Images”, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, CH
ZERO…, Milan, IT
2016
“Yuri Ancarani”, Raeber von Stenglin, Zürich, CH
“Bora.” Museum Calls the Artist – AMACI, Museo del Novecento, Milan, IT
2015
“The Malady of Irony”, HIT Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2014
“Yuri Ancarani”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
“La Malattia del Ferro / Die Krankheit des Eisens”, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, DE
2012
“Ricordi per moderni”, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, IT
“La malattia del ferro”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2010
“Made in Italy”, N.O. Gallery, Milan, IT
2009
“Souvenir”, Studio di via Ariani, Ravenna, IT
“Pink Flag”, T.I.C.A. Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana, AL
2008
“In God We Trust”, PlacentiaArte, Piacenza, IT
“Rendering Video, Yuri Ancarani”, Kjersti Sundland, T.I.C.A. Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana, AL
2007
“Yuri Ancarani”, N.O. Gallery, Milan, IT
2004
“Yuri Ancarani/Laura Henno”, Galleria Francesca Aversa, Perugia, IT
“Yuri Ancarani – personale”, Villa Serena, Bologna, IT
2003
“No border”, MAR Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Città, Santa Maria delle Croci, Ravenna, IT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
“La Via della Seta. Arte e artisti contemporanei dall’Italia”, Kyiv History Museum, Kiev, UA, CerModern, Ankara, TR, Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi Historical Museum, Tbilisi, GE, NBU Gallery, Tashkent, UZ
“Ulisse Lineare”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2016
“Race to the Bottom”, Schloss Ringender, Hammonkeln, DE
“Studio Systems”, The American Academy of Rome Gallery, Rome, IT
“People Like Us”, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart, AU
“Architecture of Life”, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
2015
“Ennesima / Umpteenth”, Triennale di Milano, Milan, IT
“GLOBALE: Exo-Evolution”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
“Body-Me: The Body in the Age of Digital Technology”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, DE
“Liebe Deine Maschine”, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim, DE
“Artists’ Film International”, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, TR
2014
“Shit and Die”, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, IT
“Inside”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
“Puisqu’on vous dit que c’est possible”, Saline Royale d’Arc et Senans, Arc et Senans, FR
“Glitch”, PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT
“Hypothèse de l’impact géant”, Le Carreau and Visages du Monde, Cergy, FR
“Sequence 5”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, USA
“The sea is my land. Artisti dal Mediterraneo”, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, IT
“Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea”, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT
“In forma di ceramica”, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
“Video screening 25”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2013
“The Sea is my Land”, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT
“Off course Fuori rotta”, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, IT
“The Encyclopedic Palace”, The 55th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
2012
“Le Associazioni Libere”, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR
“Database”, Museo del Marmo, Carrara, IT
“Sotto la strada, la spiaggia”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
“People have the Power”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
“Guarda che Luna”, 14 Media Art Biennale Wro, Wroclav, PL
2009
“New Italian Epic”, Brown Project Space, Milan, IT
2008
“200 Artisti per Careof”, Careof, Milan, IT
“Torinover 08”, Palafuksas, Turin, IT
“Stars”, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, IT
“Videoart Yearbook 2008”, various venues, Venice, IT
“Inscape Landscape”, N.O. Gallery, Milan, IT
“Fragili”, Espay Ubù, Barcelona, ES
“A, B, G, M, N, O, R, O, Z..”, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
“Gold/Zero Karati”, My Own Gallery, Milan, IT