The work of Rossella Biscotti deals with the exploration of forgotten or untraced events that reveal changing value systems. Rossella is interested in manifesting a subject's constitution through its alliances and resistances against violent institutionalized structures and sensibly weaving together traces of lives, concepts and materials into new narratives. By gathering information through recording oral stories, as from archival research and fieldwork, my work is often a montage of various materials and formats, compositions of sculptures, video, performance and sound. Places, which have been tapped historically by forms of mining, exploitation, and confinement, are often the backdrop of her artistic explorations. By questioning the relevance of the information used from a contemporary perspective, she is interested in increasing links and networks to the present, empowering imagination and experience.
The lecture will focus on the three projects The Heads in Question (2009-2015), The Trial (2006-2018) and The Journey (2016-ongoing) and will develop on the concept of monumentality, the relation between the artist and a commissioner, disappearance and invisibility, sound and the methodology of archival and on-site research.
Rosselia Biscotti
Rossella Biscotti graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002 and attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2010-2011. She has taken part at major international exhibitions, including the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), the 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), Documenta 13, Kassel (2012), and Manifesta 9, Genk (2012). Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Mor Charpentier gallery (2022) Kunstinstitut Melly, Rotterdam (2019); Fondazione Ratti, Como (2019); daadgalerie, Berlin (2019); Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2018); Protocinema Istanbul (2018); GULAG History State Museum, Moscow (2016); Museion Bolzano (2015); Haus Lange Haus Esters, Krefeld (2014); WIELS, Brussels (2014); Sculpture Center, New York (2014); Secession, Vienna (2013); e-flux, New York (2013); CAC Vilnius (2012).
Additionally, her works have been exhibited at institutions and international events such as Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels (2022-2021) Beaufort Triennale (2021); the 15th Bienal de Cuenca (2021); Dhaka Art Summit (2020); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018, 2019); Kunstmuseum St Gallen (2018); IVAM, Valencia (2018); Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017); MAXXI, Rome (2010, 2017, 2021); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2016); the Swiss Institute New York (2016); IMMA Dublin (2015); ICA London (2014); Pinchuk Art Center, Kyjiv (2014); Castello di Rivoli (2012), and Museu Serralves, Porto (2010), among others. Biscotti has received several art awards and her work is present in numerous international public collections.
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