DUBAI.- Green Art Gallery announced the representation of Rossella Biscotti (born 1978 in Molfetta, Italy).
Rossella Biscotti uses montage as a gesture to reveal individual narratives and their relation to society. In her cross-media practice, cutting across filmmaking, performance and sculpture, she explores and reconstructs social and political moments from recent times through the subjectivity and experiences of individuals often posed against the backdrop of institutional systems.
In the process of composing her personal encounters and oral interrogations into new stories, the site of investigation tends to leave its mark on her sculptures and installations. Traces of people’s life, objects and ideas are sensibly weaved together into new 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.
Rossella Biscotti’s first institutional anthological exhibition titled, Title One, I dreamt, Clara and other stories, is currently presented at Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy, until 24 November. The entire installation of her project, The Undercover Man (2008), will also be on view at Collezione La Gaia starting 3 November.
Biscotti will be part of the upcoming Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, at Sharjah, UAE, opening this February 2025.
Rossella Biscotti (born 1978 in Molfetta, Italy) graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002 and attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2010-2011. She is also represented by Mor Chapentier, Paris.
Other solo exhibitions include Cable City Dance Cable City Sea, Fabra i Coats: Contemporary Art Center of Barcelona, Spain (2023); Rossella Biscotti, new work, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2019); Clara and Other Specimen, Fondazione Ratti, Como (2019); The City, daadgalerie, Berlin (2019); A shirt, blue pants, blue jeans, a towel, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Koln, Germany (2018); and The City, Protocinema Istanbul (2018) among others.
Additionally, her works have been exhibited at institutions and biennials such as: After Rain, Diriyah Biennale of Arts, Riyadh, KSA (2024); Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); Style Congo. Heritage and Heresy, KANAL, Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2023); Clara the Rhinoceros, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2022); The Future Behind Us, Villa Arson, Nice, France (2022); Beaufort 21, Beaufort Triennale, Belgium (2021); A Story for the Future, MAXXI Rome, Italy (2021); Io dico Io - I say I, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Italy (2021); 15th Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador (2021); Eroded Landscape, Musée de Rochechouart, France (2020); Seismic Movements, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2020); Hybrid Sculpture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2019); I Was Born A Foreigner, Les Abattoirs - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse Château d'Assier, France (2019); The Humans, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (2018); and The world as prison?, IVAM, Valencia, Spain (2018) among others.
Biscotti has received several art awards including the Premio NY, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Italian Academy and the Columbia University in New York (2006); The City of Geneva Grand Prize at the 12th Biennial of Moving Images (2007);The 2nd Prix de Rome in the Netherlands (2009); The Premio Michelangelo at XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrare (2010); the Mies van der Rohe Stipendium, (2013); Premio della 16e Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma (2016), and the ACACIA Prize for Contemporary Art (2017).
Her works are featured in major private and public collections including Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy; Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Villa Sucota, Como, Italy; MAXXI, Rome, Italy; Museion Bolzano, Italy; Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy; Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy; Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France; CNAP - Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France; Kadist Foundation, Paris, France; FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France; Musée d'Art Contemporain de la Haute-Vienne - Château de Rochechouart, France; Groeninghe Collection, Brugge, Belgium; Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; The Ekard Collection, Wassenaar, The Netherlands; Robeco, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands; and the Black Gold Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
She lives and works between Rotterdam and Brussels.
