Antonio Catelani was born in Florence in 1962. Based in Berlin for 10 years (2007-17) currently lives and works in Milan.

 

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EDUCATION

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1981-85

State Academy of Fine Arts, Florence (Italy)

 

1995-96

Artist-in-residence (Stipendium der): Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany)
 

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2019​

Doppio Soggetto, (with Luca Pancrazzi), RizzutoGallery, Palermo (Italy)

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2016

Redox, Artopia Gallery, Milan (Italy)

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2015

Assonometrie, (with Alice Cattaneo), RizzutoGallery, Palermo (Italy)

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2013

Serie Blu, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (Austria)

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2012

Rejected works, curated by Ermanno Cristini, RISS(E), Varese (Italy)

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2008

Verbinden, curated by Mauro Panzera, Galleria Maria Grazia Del Prete, Rome (Italy)

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2006

Reziario, Galerija Contra, Koper (Slovenia)

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2005

Ipercromo, text by Giorgio Maragliano, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (Austria)

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2004

Double, Incontri a Montellori, (with Daniela De Lorenzo), curated by Laura Cherubini, Fucecchio (Italy)

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2002

Ipercromo, Galleria No Code, Bologna (Italy)

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2001

Talee, text by Giorgio Maragliano, Kunstverein a-Art Bludenz, Bludenz (Austria)

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2000

Trapezi, Galerie Kubinski, Berlin (Germany)

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1999

Catalogue Dritto e traverso, text by Saretto Cincinelli, Elio Grazioli, and Giulio Paolini, Galleria Gianluca Collica, Catania (Italy), published by Fondazione Teseco, Pisa

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1998

Madreforma, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Siena (Italy)

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1996

Partito preso, curated by Anna Mattirolo, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome (Italy)

Catelani-De Lorenzo, Galleria La Nuova Pesa, Rome (Italy)

1995

Galleria Oddi Baglioni, Rome (Italy)

Il corpo del colore, text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Jean-Batiste Joly, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (Germany)

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1993

Galleria Roberto Monti, Modena (Italy)

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1992

Compresenze, text by Giorgio Verzotti, Elio Grazioli, Studio Guenzani, Milan (Italy)

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1991

Studio G7, Bologna (Italy)

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1989 

Pendant, Studio Guenzani, Milan (Italy)

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1988

Galleria Carini, text Elio Grazioli, Florence (Italy)

Galleria Matteo Remolino, Turin (Italy)

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2019

Walkabout/Passo mobile, Kunsthalle West, Lana (Italy)

BoCS-Art, curated by G. Di Pietrantonio, Cosenza (Italy)

Revolutions 1989/2019, curated by L. Beatrice, Castel Sismondo, Rimini (Italy)

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2018

MIART, (with De Grandi, Rapisarda), RizzutoGallery, Milan (Italy)

Prière de Toucher 6, curated by E. Cristini, L. Scarabelli, Fondazione Bandera per l’Arte, Busto Arsizio (Italy)

Uguali/Disuguali, curated by N.Ricci, G.Pellizzola, Palazzo Binelli Fondazione CRC Carrara (Italy)

Il disegno del disegno, curated by S.Cincinelli, Museo Novecento, Florence (Italy)

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2017

Quantum Leap, RizzutoGallery, Palermo (Italy)

Spunti per anni ‘80, curated by A. Mugnaini, StudioMugnaini, Milan (Italy)

Camminare l’orizzonte/Deriva, curated by E. Cristini, Space 4235, Genoa (Italy)

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2016

Shifts in register, (with Stefano Arienti e Daniela De Lorenzo), We Gallery, Berlin (Germany)

Sosta, RizzutoGallery, Palermo (Italy)

The Lasting. L'intervallo e la durata, curated by Saretto Cincinelli, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome (Italy)

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2015

Le Stanze D'Aragona, curated by Andrea Bruciati and Helga Marsala, Villino Favaloro, Palermo (Italy)

La camera delle meraviglie, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, Palazzo Panciatichi, San Giovanni Valdarno (Italy)

Exploring Resilience, Peninsula c/o MILA Kunstgalerie, Berlin (Germany)

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2014

Luce Coatta, Dischiusure, curated by Saretto Cincinelli, Artopia Gallery, Milan (Italy)

auf Papier, Galerie Fuerstein, Feldkirk (Austria)

Conjunction, curated by Dodi Reifenberg, Greenhouse, Berlin (Germany)

Natura naturata, curated by Chen Yang, WiE Kultur, Berlin (Germany)

6 Rooms, curated by Alessandra Pace, hosted by James Austin, Berlin (Germany)

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2013

Catelani, Guaita, De Lorenzo, Masi, Parisi, Kunstverein a-Art Bludenz, Bludenz (Austria)

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2012

Arte torna Arte, curated by Franca Falletti, Daria Filardo, Bruno Corà, Polo museale-Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence (Italy)

Rapporto confidenziale, curated by Stefano Pezzato, Museo Pecci Milan (Italy)

Madeinfilandia: Muro di China, Eva Menzio, Turin (Italy)

Un ritrovarsi amichevole e piacevole, curated by Mauro Panzera, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence (Italy)

ITaliens: Italienische Künstler im Volkswagen Pavillon, curated by Alessandra Pace, Marina Sorbello, Wolfsburg Autostadt (Germany)

Labor12/Drifting, curated by Valerie Smith, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Germany)

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2011

Dialogos, Assab One, Milan (Italy)

Made in Filandia, curated by Luca Pancrazzi, Pieve a Presciano (Italy)

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2010

Kunstpreis der Messmer Foundation, Kunsthalle-Riegel, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl (Germany)

Roaming: Absence of everything, curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, Forum Stadpark, Graz (Austria)

Berlin-ITaliens: junge Kunst in der Botschaft, curated by Alessandra Pace, Marina Sorbello, Botschaft der Italienischen Republik, Berlin (Germany)

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2009

Roaming: Streaming Time, curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, 91mQ.Art Project Space, Berlin (Germany)

Zeigen. An Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander, curated by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin-Zeigen (Germany)

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2008

XV Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (Italy)

Un bel posto per dimenticare, curated by Paolo Toffolutti, SPAC, Buttrio, Udine (Italy)

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2006

Il tempo delle trasformazioni, Arte Europea dal Centro Pecci, MoCA, Shanghai (China)

Are you sensitive?, curated by Daria Filardo, Museo Marino Marini, Florence (Italy)

Misure del Tempo, curated by Giovanni Uzzani, Museo Arte Contemporanea e Novecento, Monsummano Terme (Italy)

2005

BYO. Bring Your Own, Man, curated by Saretto Cincinelli, Alberto Mugnaini, Nuoro (Italy)

Expo Universale di Aichi, Padiglione Italia, Aichi (Japan)

Senza confine, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Siena (Italy)

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2004

Sonde, curated by Bruno Corà, Mauro Panzera, Palazzo Fabroni Arti Visive, Pistoia (Italy)

La sezione equatoriale, curated by Luca Scartabelli, Elisa Vladilo, C/O CareOf, Milan (Italy)

2003

Collezione permanente, C-ARTE Prato, Prato (Italy)

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2002

Continuità 1990-2000, curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Museo Pecci, Prato (Italy)

Continuità 1968-1989, curated by Daniel Soutif, Palazzo Fabroni Arti Visive, Pistoia (Italy)

Super-Abstr-Action 2, Galleria No Code, Bologna (Italy)

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2001

Abitanti, curated by Mauro Panzera, Palazzo Fabroni Arti Visive, Pistoia (Italy)

Contemporaneo Temporaneo, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Sala Mazzoniana, Rome (Italy)

2000

Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris (France)

X Biennale internazionale Città di Carrara, curated by Antonio Paolucci, Carrara (Italy)

Futurama, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Marco Meneguzzo, Museo Pecci, Prato (Italy)

1999

Itinere 2: Catelani, Spalletti, Taaffe, Toroni, Tuttle, curated by Sergio Risaliti, Arabella Natalini, Centro Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (Italy)

Super-Abstr-Action, curated by Andrea Busto, Galleria The Box Associati, Turin (Italy)

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1998

Due o tre cose che so di loro..., curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (Italy)

Au rendez-vous des amis, curated by Bruno Corà, Museo Pecci, Prato (Italy)

Trend zum Leisen, curated by Riccardo Caldura, Holzpavillon im Mirabellgarten, Salzburg (Austria)

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1997

Licht, Raum... Schwarz: Beckman, Catelani, Egender, Lasker, Umberg, curated by Ingo Springenschmid, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (Austria)

1996

XII Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (Italy)

Il formaggio e i vermi, curated by Marco Scotini, Laura Vecere, Palazzo Casali, Cortona (Italy)

Forma urbis, XXIII Biennale di scultura, curated by Bruno Corà, Gubbio (Italy)

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1994

Turbare il tempo, curated by Saretto Cincinelli, Museo archeologico, Florence (Italy)

Millenovecentonovantaquattro, curated by Filippo Fossati, Galleria Eva Menzio, Turin (Italy)

1993

Screening, curated by Danilo Eccher, Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Trento (Italy)

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1992

Korrespondenzen, curated by Ursula Prinz-Giorgio Maragliano, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (Germany)

Il Teatro dell'Arte, curated by Vittoria Coen, Galleria Comunale d'Arte, Cesena (Italy)

Architettonico e Pittoresco, curated by Katalin Burmeister, Skive Kunstmuseum, Skive Künstlerhaus Villa Romana, Florence (Italy)

1991

Una scena emergente, curated by Amnon Barzel, Elio Grazioli, Museo Pecci, Prato (Italy)

Kunst Europa, curated by Heiner Georgsdorf, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel (Germany)

La scena, curated by  Lorannd Hegyi, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien (Austria)

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1990

Passions, curated by Elio Grazioli, Galerie Montenay, Paris (France)

Palestra, curated by Vera Vita Gioia, Castello di Rivara, Rivara, Turin (Italy)

1989 

10 Anni di Acquisizioni, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (italy)

Die Erste Ausstellung, curated by Wulf Herzogenrath, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (Germany)

Prospect '89, curated by Peter Weiermair, Frankfurter Kunstverein-Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (Germany)

Materialmente, curated by Dede Auregli, Cristina Marabini, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy)

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1988

Geometrie dionisiache, curated by Lea Vergine, Rotonda della Besana, Milan (Italy)

Aperto '88, XLIII Biennale di Venezia, curated by Giovanni Carandente, Venice (Italy)

Da Zero all'Infinito, curated by  Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Loredana Parmesani, Castello di Volpaia, Radda in Chianti (Italy)

Acquisizioni, curated by Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy)

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1987

Galleria Carini, curated by Maria Luisa Frisa-Loredana Parmesani, Florence (Italy)

Spunti di giovane arte italiana, curated by Corrado Levi, Galleria Buades, Madrid (Spain)

Arte nuova d'Italia, curated by G. Di Pietrantonio, Maria Luisa Frisa, Studio Marconi, Milan (Italy)

Equinozio d'Autunno, curated by Franz Paludetto, Castello di Rivara, Rivara (Italy)

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1986

Il cangiante, curated by Corrado Levi, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (Italy)

Galleria Piero Cavellini, Milan (Italy)

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1985

Scultura, curated by Maria Luisa Frisa, Galleria Schema, Florence (Italy)

Desideretur, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo (Italy)

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HIS WORK HAS BEEN EXHIBITED AT

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XLIII Biennale di Venezia, Venezia (1988)
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (1989)
Frankfurter Kunstverein-Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/M (1989)
PAC: Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (1986, 1989, 1998)
Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel (1991)
Museum Moderner Kunst -MUMOK- Vienna (1991)
Berlinische Galerie/Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin (1992)
Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Trent (1993)
Museo archeologico, Florence (1994)
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (1995)
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (1995, 2001, 2016)
Künstlerhaus Villa Romana, Florence (1992)
Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (1997, 2005, 2013)
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (1988, 1989)
Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma, Rome (XII-1996, XV- 2008)
Museo Pecci, Prato (1991,1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2012)
Skive Kunstmuseum, Skive, Denmark (1992)
Centro Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (1999)
X Biennale internazionale di scultura Città di Carrara, Carrara (2000)
Palazzo Fabroni Arti Visive, Pistoia, (2001, 2002, 2004)
Museo MAN, Nuoro (2005)
Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2006)
MoCA, Shanghai, China (2006)
Expo 2005 Italian pavilion Aichi, Japan (2005)
Botschaft der Italienischen Republik, Berlin (2010)
Kunsthalle-Riegel, Riegel (2010)
Volkswagen Pavillon, Wolfsburg-Autostadt (2012)
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2012)
Polo Museale -Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence (2012)
Kunstverein, Bludenz (2001, 2013)
Museo Novecento, Florence (2014, 2018)

 

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

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Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (Italy)
Museum Moderner Kunst – MUMOK- Wien (Austria)
CIMAC, Palazzo Reale, Milan (Italy)
Museo Pecci, Prato (Italy)
Galleria d’Arte Moderna GAM, Bologna (Italy)
Palazzo delle Papesse Arte Contemporanea, Siena (Italy)
Collection Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Turin (Italy)
Collection Eni-Agip, Milan (Italy)
Raccolta del Disegno Galleria Civica, Modena (Italy)
Fondazione Teseco, Pisa (Italy)
Collezione Farnesina/Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome (Italy)
Collezione/Premio Suzzara, Mantova (Italy)
Mac,n Museo d’Arte Contemp. e Novecento, Monsummano T., Pistoia (Italy)
Museo Novecento, Florence (Italy)
Fondazione Domus, Verona (Italy)

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SELECTED CATALOGUES AND TEXTS

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2014 | Riccardo Previdi, A one-way dialogue between artists of different generations, in which the young testify to the influence of the old, NERO Magazine - Rome

2013 | Antonio Catelani, Abwesenheiten in Preuβisch Blau

2006 | Antonio Catelani, Il vento soffia, "Scirocco", Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz Gli Ori, Prato​

2005 | Antonio Catelani, Versicolore, "Ipercromo", Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz Gli Ori, Prato​

2005 | Giorgio Maragliano, Natura di luce, "Ipercromo", Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz Gli Ori, Prato2004 | Laura Cherubini, Antonio Catelani COSTRUZIONE/DECOSTRUZIONE, "Double", Incontri a Montellori, Gli Ori, Prato1999 | Saretto Cincinelli, THE PHANTOM OF THE POSSIBLE, "Dritto e traverso", Fondazione Teseco per l’Arte, Pisa

1996 | Carlo Sisi, Antonio Catelani, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma Edizioni SACS

1995 | Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Una natura da camera, "Il corpo del colore", Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Edition Solitude, Stuttgart - Maschietto & Musolino, Siena

1995 | Jean-Baptiste Joly, Marmo e piante in vaso, "Il corpo del colore", Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Edition Solitude, Stuttgart - Maschietto & Musolino, Siena1999 | Giulio Paolini, STEERING BY SIGHT, “Dritto e traverso”, Fondazione Teseco per l’Arte, Pisa

1992 | Giorgio Verzotti, THREE NOTES FOR ANTONIO CATELANI, "Compresenze", Studio Guenzani, Milano Edizioni d'Arte Renografica, Bologna

1991 | Manlio Brusatin, A Line preceeding another line, "Una scena emergente", Museo Pecci, Prato, Giunti, Firenze

1988 | Elio Grazioli, Galleria Carini, Firenze

1987 | Maria Luisa Frisa, Progetto quieto, catalogo "Catalani, De Lorenzo, Guaita", Edizioni Galleria Carini, Firenze1999 | Elio Grazioli, IN ACCORDANCE, "Dritto e traverso", Fondazione Teseco per l’Arte, Pisa