Leaving Buru: Aesthetics of Ecology - 2021

Rossella Biscotti in conversation with Sophie Goltz (Director, Salzburg Summer Academy). In English language, documentation via YouTube: https://youtu.be/wfz7kEA74N0

Information

Venue: Stadtgalerie Zwergelgarten
Date: 18. 8. 21, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Rossella Biscotti

Rossella Biscotti's work deals with the exploration of forgotten or untraced events that reveal changing value systems. She is interested in narrating and manifesting a subject's constitution through its alliances and resistances against violent institutionalised structures.

Using sculpture, performance, filmmaking, Biscotti sensibly weaves together traces of lives, concepts and materials into new narratives, using montage as a spatial gesture of layering their origins.

Her methods show care and attentiveness towards details of individual narratives by gathering information through the recording of oral stories, as from archival research and fieldwork. 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, Biscotti creates links and networks to the present, empowering imagination and experience.

Website

http://www.mor-charpentier.com/artist/rossella-biscotti/

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2022 Trees on land, mor Charpentier, Paris. 2021 Clara and other Specimens, Stadtgalerie Zwergelgartenpavillon, Salzburg (AT). 2019 New Work, Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL). Clara and Other Specimen, Fondazione Ratti, Como (IT). Three works and a script, Blitz, Valletta. The City, daadgalerie, Berlin. 2018 A shirt, blue pants, blue jeans, a towel, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne (DE). The City, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz (CH). The Standing Wave, Steirischer Herbst, Volksfronten, Graz (AT). 2017 PREMIO ACACIA A ROSSELLA BISCOTTI, Museo Del Novecento, Milan (IT). 2016 The Trial, GULAG History State Museum, Moscow. 2015 The future can only be for ghosts, Museion, Bolzano (IT). 2014 10 x 10, Haus Lange, Kunstmuseen Krefeld (DE). For the Mnemonist, S., Wiels, Brussels. The Undercover Man, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, NY (US). 2013 The Trial, e-flux, New York, NY. The Side Room, Secession, Vienna. 2012 This is a special blackout edition!, Kadist Arte Foundation, Paris. Title One: The Tasks of the Community, CAC, Vilnius. Isola, de Vleeshal Middelburg (NL).

Group Exhibitions
2021 15th Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca (EC). Dream City–Festival d’Art dans la Cité, L’ArtRue, Tunis. Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers, Nest, Den Haag (NL). Beaufort 21, Triennale de Beaufort, Beaufort (BE). 2020 Eroded Landscape, Musée de Rochechouart, Rochechouart (FR). Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka. A Story for the Future, Fondazione MAXXI, Rome. Radical Hope, mor charpentier, Paris. 2019 Deep Sounding–History as multiple narratives, daad galerie, Berlin. The Remains of the day, mor charpentier, Paris. Je suis né étranger, Les Abattoirs–Frac Occitanie Toulouse Château d'Assier, Assier (FR). Borderlines, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (GB). Hybrid Sculpture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. entre, hacia, hasta, para, por,segùn, sin, ESPAI d'art contemporani de Castelló, Castello (ES). 2018 The world as prison?, IVAM, Valencia (ES). Dropping Knowledge, Mecenes du Sud, Montpellier (FR). Turbulence, The Model, Sligo (IE). Conversation Piece PArt IV, Fondazione Memmo, Rome. I am Native Foreigner, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Manipulate the World, Moderna Museet, Stockolm. The Humans, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen (CH). 2017The Materiality of the Invisible, Bureau Europa, Maastricht (NL). Transition, Sonsbeek, Arnhem (NL). Rossella Biscotti & Kevin van Braak, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana. Please come back. The world as prison?, MAXXI, Rome. Contour Biënnale #8, Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium, Mechelen (BE). 2016 Against the Romance of Community, Swiss Institute, New York, NY. Exodus, mor charpentier, Paris. Les Incessants, Villa du Parc, Annemas (FR). Riddle of the Burial Grounds, Extra-city, Antwerp (BE). Position III, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL). Dispatches, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC (US). House of Commons, Portikus, Frankfurt (DE).

Publications

Letizia Ragaglia (ed.), Rossella Biscotti: Bozen, Museion, Walter Koenig Cologne, Bozen 2015.
Dirk Snauwaert (ed.), Rossella Biscotti: For the Mnemonist, S., Wiels, Brussels, Rome 2015.
Magdalena Holzhey (ed.), Rossella Biscotti, 10x10, Krefeld Museum Haus Esters, Revolver Pubishing, Krefeld 2015.
Rossella Biscotti: The Side Room, exh.-cat., Wiener Secession, Revolver Publishing, Wien 2013.
Rossella Biscotti: Ten Work, Maxxi Museum, Mousse Publishing, Milan 2012.
Rossella Biscotti: The Trial, in conjunction with DOCUMENTA (13), 2012.

Photo: Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen

Sophie Goltz

Sophie Goltz lives and works in Salzburg and Berlin as a curator, art mediator and author. In 2020 she was appointed director of the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg. From 2017 to 2020, she taught as an Assistant Professor in the new Museum Studies and Curatorial Practice (MA) programme at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University Singapore and served as Deputy Director of Research and Academic Education at NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore). From 2013 to 2016, she was Artistic Director of Stadtkuratorin Hamburg. From 2008 to 2017, she worked as a curator at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), where she also became Head of Communication and Art Education until 2013.