Emanuele Becheri was born in Prato in 1973. ​

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Emanuele graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 1995. His work shows an idea of expanded drawing through various modes and means, from photography to video and music to sculpture and terracotta. Becheri has exhibited frequently in Italy and abroad including solo shows at Galerie Bernard Bouche, Paris (2020), Museo Novecento, Florence (2020), Galleria FuoriCampo, Siena (2019), RITAURSO Gallery, Milan (2015), MAN, Nuoro (2013), Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2009) and PAC, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara (2009). He also took part in important group shows at Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,  Rome (2019), EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2018), Casa Masaccio Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno (2018), MART, Rovereto (2015), American Academy, Rome (2012), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (2009) and Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (2009).

 

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2021

• Opere (with Carlo Guaita), RITAURSO Artopia Gallery, Milan

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2020

• Emanuele Becheri, Galerie Bernard Bouche, Paris

• CAMPO APERTO – EMANUELE BECHERI. SCULTURE E DISEGNI, Museo Novecento, Florence

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2019

• Stati d'animo, Galleria Fuori campo, Siena

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2015

• Va, Pensiero..., RITAURSO Artopia Gallery, Milan

• Action Fantasy, Kuhlhaus, Berlin. Curated by Drew Hammond

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2014

• Future Perfect, Ex-Solvay Headquarters, Roman Road, Bruxelles, Belgium. Curated by Marie Canet

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2013

• Alcuni istanti del mio tempo, ELASTIC Gallery, Malmö

• 32a Penton place, Southwark, London SE173JT, 17 September

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2010

• Drome Space/LUMI Project, Bruxelles. Curated by Gino Pisapia and Valentina Grandini

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2012

• Tempus edax rerum, LUMI Project, Rome. Curated by Gino Pisapia

• Time out of joint, CHINA GIRL, Bordeaux. Curated by Marie Canet

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2010

• Impressioni, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin

• Hauntology, MAN (Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro), Nuoro. Curated by Saretto Cincinelli

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2009

• Fankoo, Galleria Fabio Tiboni, Bologna. With Nim Kruaseng. Curated by Pierluigi Tazzi

• Après Coup, Museo Marino Marini, Florence. Curated by Simone Menegoi

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2008

• Time out of joint, PAC, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara. Curated by Maria Luisa Pacelli

• Shuffling the same card, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato

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2007

• Lightness, neon>campobase, Bologna. With Paolo Gonzato. Curated by Marinella Paderni

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2006

• Sept Dessins, Galerie Bernard Bouche, Paris

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2005

• Gemine Muse, Museo di Pittura murale, Prato

 

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES

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2021

• Antonio Calderara|Luciano Fabro|Carlo Guaita|Emanuele Becheri|Gianni Caravaggio, Accrochage italiane, Galerie Bernarde Bouche, Paris

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2020

• Thordis Adalsteinsdottir | Emanuele Becheri | Adrian Paci | Renata Poljak | Giada Giulia Pucci | Moira Ricci | Jelena Tomašević | ZAPRUDER Filmmakersgroup, The Line of Sight, Rita Urso Gallery, Milano, Italy

• BILDHAUER*IN DER SINNE, Emanuele Becheri, Beth Collar, GIG Munich (Germany)

• a world that troubles curated by Gaia Bobò, Gallery of Art, Temple University Rome

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2019

• PERNO 2, Castello di Perno, Monforte d’Alba (CN)

• Ragione e sentimento,  La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,  Rome

• Opere su carta per l’Archivio Storico Magnani, curated by Ilaria Bernardi,  Archivio Storico Magnani – Cartiera Le Carte, Pietrabuona - Pescia

• EMST in the World 3 Italy, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

• ILMONDOINFINE: VIVERE TRA LE ROVINE, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, a project by Ilaria Bussoni

• DE SCULTURA, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, curated by Saretto Cincinelli and Cristiana Collu

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2018​

• Video from the Collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte e Moderna e Contemporanea, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

• De scultura, Casa Masaccio Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno

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2016

• MIART, Emanuele Becheri|Jean-Baptiste Maitre|Elizabeth McAlpine|ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup - (RITA URSO artopia gallery), Milano

• Preludio (Emanuele Becheri, Francesco Carone, Giovanni De Lazzari), Artforms, Prato, curated by Matteo Innocenti

• Altri Tempi altri Miti, XVI Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma, Periferiche a project by Denis Viva

• L'edito inedito. Cap IV, Il Faro, Villa Romana, Firenze, project by Francesco Carone

• The Lasting. L'intervallo e la durata, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma, curated by Saretto Cincinelli

• IMPRESSION 15.04.2016, EmanueleBecheri/Cointreau (a movie-concert and sound performance), Fondazione Caript, Pistoia, curated by Luca Sposato

• Prière de Toucher 5, Spazio C.O.S.M.O, Milano

• Silenzi, Galleria Milano, curated by Angela Madesani

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2015

• Ri-pensare il medium. Il fantasma del disegno, Casa Masaccio per l'Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo, curated by Cristiana Collu and Saretto Cincinelli

• Se una notte d'inverno. IMPRESSION 02.10.2015 , EmanueleBecheri (a movie-concert and sound performance), G.C.A.C, Monfalcone, Gorizia, Italy, curated by Giorgia Gastaldon  

• Edra. All of Italy is silent, Polish Institut, Villa Medici, Roma. Curated by Davide Ferri. WORK n°0, Emanuele Becheri & Giovanni Kronenberg ( sound performance), Polish institute, Roma, curated by Davide Ferri

• Après Coup - Dischiusure,  Ex Lanificio Lucchesi, Prato, curated by Saretto Cincinelli

• Ophelia. Della muta eloquenza, RITA URSO Gallery, Milan, curated by Paola Caravati

• IMPRESSION 04.06.2015, EmanueleBecheri/Cointreau (a movie-concert and sound performance), Cinema Colonna, Firenze

• Attraversare nuovi percorsi, WeGallery, Berlin

• L’edito inedito, Cap III, La stiva, Spazio C.O.S.M.O., Milan, a project by Francesco Carone

• The Wall (archives)#10, Assab one, Milan, a project by Pietro Gaglianò

• WORK n°0, Emanuele Becheri & Giovanni Kronenberg (sound performance), Unflop Magazine, Milan, curated by Esther Biancotti e Jacopo Figura

• Grand Hotel, Complesso Museale SMS Santa Maria della Scala, Siena. Curated by Serena Fineschi, Elena El Asmar, Marco Andrea Magni, Luca Pancrazzi

• Distances, Lato (Prato), Galerie See Studio (Paris). Curated by Matteo Innocenti and DERIVA (Valeria Cetraro & Edouard Escougnou), in collaboration with Thomas Fort

• IMPRESSION 28.02.2015, EmanueleBecheri/Cointreau, (a movie-concert and sound performance), MART, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto

• Passaggi, Collezione comunale d’arte contemporanea, Casa Masaccio/Casa Giovanni Mannozzi, San Giovanni Valdarno

• Progetto Italiano N.3, The Workbench, Milan, curated by Pietro di Lecce

• IMPRESSION 24.01.2015 EmanueleBecheri/Cointreau, (a movie-concert and sound performance). Behind the mambo, Centro Costa, Bologna. Curated by neon>campobase archives and a.a.a (agenzia anonima anarchica)

• Ceci n’est pas une idée, TornabuoniArt, Paris. Curated by Gino Pisapia

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2014

• IMPRESSION 05.12.2014, Emanuele Becheri/Cointreau, (a movie-concert and sound performance), Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Florence

• L’edito inedito, Casabianca, Bologna, a project by Francesco Carone

• Ceci n’est pas une idée, Fondazione Biagiotti Arte, Firenze. Curated by Gino Pisapia

• Have you seen the divine colours of the Lake Constance?, Spazio Tethis, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice. Curated by Caterina Benvegnù in collaboration with Enoch Battagin

• L’IMMAGINE DEL TEMPO /Anatomie dell’immateriale, RITA URSO|artopiagallery, Milan. Curated by Gino Pisapia

• IMPRESSION 25.09.2014 , Emanuele Becheri/Grunewald (a movie-concert and sound performance), RITA URSO|artopiagallery, Milan, curated by Gino Pisapia

• Grovigli?-Tangles? Writings, marks,sculptures, Melesi Gallery, Lecco. Curated by Gaspare Luigi Marcone

• Post-excavation, Emanuele Becheri, Lea Porsager & Dick Hedlund, ELASTIC Gallery, Stockholm. Curated by Ola Gustafsson and Alida Ivanov

• IMPRESSION 10.08.2014, Emanuele Becheri/Marco Bernacchia, (a movie-concert and sound performance), Teatro Paravento, Locarno. Curated by Riccardo Lisi, La Rada

• IMPRESSION 05.06.2014, Emanuele Becheri/Cointreau,(a movie-concert and a sound performance), Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci/Associazione Apart, Prato

• IMPRESSION 23.05.2014, Emanuele Becheri/Cointreau, (a movie-concert and a sound performance)

• INCANTO 2014, Istituto Ernesto de Martino, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence

• De Rerum Natura, Galleria Studio La Città. Verona. Curated by Angela Madesani e Andrea Lerda

• IMPRESSION 24.04.2014, Emanuele Becheri/Cointreau (a movie-concert and a sound performance), Ex-Macelli, Prato. Curated by Martina Bartalini

• IMPRESSION 19.04.2014, Emanuele Becheri/Cointreau (a movie-concert and a sound performance), NUOVO CINEMA MASACCIO, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo. Curated by Pierluigi Tazzi

• Krobylos un groviglio di segni. Da Parmigianino a Kentridge, Rimini, Museo della città - FAR (Fabbrica Arte Rimini). Curated by Marinella Paderni

• IMPRESSION 15.03.2014, Emanuele Becheri & Massimo Carrozzo, Edificio Ernest Solvay, Bruxelles (a movie-concert and a sound performance). Curated by Roman Road, London

• IMPRESSION 09.03.2014, Emanuele Becheri & Marco Bernacchia (a.k.a.’Above the Tree’), Museo MAGA, Gallarate (a movie-concert and a sound performance). Curated by Vittoria Broggini

• 8+1, LATO/BBS, Prato. Curated by Matteo Innocenti

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2013

• IMPRESSION 13.12.2013, Emanuele Becheri/Cointreau, Teatro Studio, Florence (a movie-concert and a sound performance). Curated by Pietro Gaglianò

• IMPRESSION 14.11.2013, Emanuele Becheri/Cointreau, NUB/SC17, Prato (a movie-concert and a sound performance)

• Fabula Muta, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo. Curated by Saretto Cincinelli

• IMPRESSION 29.09.2013, Emanuele Becheri/Cointreau, Magazzini Prensili, Feltre (a movie-concert and a sound-performance)

• Lo Spazio Inventato, La Spezia, Scalinate 2013. Curated by Pietro Malaspina and Maddalena Fossombroni (sound-performance with Matteo Bennici)

• IMPRESSION 10.06.2013, Emanuele Becheri & Marco Bernacchia (a.k.a.’Above the Tree’) – a movie-concert and a sound performance, Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, Urbino

• A Story Video Screening, Fabio Tiboni Sponda, Bologna

• 49a Pesaro Film Festival. Fuori Norma, la via Sperimentale del Cinema Italiano. Pesaro. Curated by Adriano Aprà

• (P)ARERGA & (P)ARALIPOMENA DELLA PITTURA, BonelliLAB, Canneto sull’Oglio, Mantova. Curated by Alberto Zanchetta

• IMPRESSION 04.05.2013, Emanuele Becheri/Cointreau, Castello di Fosdinovo (Massa-Carrara), (a movie.concert and a sound-performance)

• FUORI POSTO, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo. Curated by Pierluigi Tazzi

• La Magnifica Ossessione, MART, Rovereto. Curated by Denis Viva

• Fine della Specie/End of Species, curated by ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup, Cinema Lumière, CINETECA di Bologna (sound-performance)

• Ishmael:’Uno è Pittore’, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Lissone, Lissone, Milan. Curated by Alberto Zanchetta

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2012

• Perspective, G9, Berlin. Curated by Drew Hammond

• Annottazioni e mancate risposte, Galleria AplusB, Brescia. Curated by Mauro Panzera

• Brightlight/Darklight, American Academy, Rome. Curated by Ludovico Pratesi and Valentina Ciarallo

• La Matta bestialitade, progetto cartabianca_Florence, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa. Curated by Pietro Gaglianò

• Notturno, unosolo project room, Milan. Curated by Paola Caravati

• Marey-Effect, Villa Romana, Florence. Curated by Alessandro Sarri

• Sei gradi di separazione, Villa Pacchiani, Santa Croce sull’Arno, Florence. Curated by Ilaria Mariotti

• Meriggio a Carignano, Villa al Console, Carignano, Lucca. Curated by Ludovico Pratesi

• Genealogia#1,(with Carlo Guaita), Galleria Fuoricampo, Siena

• Chez moi la nuit, 11# Contemporanea Festival, STUDIOCORTE17, Prato

• Chez moi la nuit, Laboratoire Imprudences, Eglise de Saint-Merri, Paris

• Film d’artista, Fortezza del Priamar, Savona. Curated by Lelio Aiello

• Temporale Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Paris. Curated by Choghakate Kazarian

• LIVE, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato. Curated by Luca Beatrice e Marco Bazzini

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2010

• Le Méthode graphique et autres lignes, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, Paris. Curated by Johana Carrier e Joana Neves

• Cimento dell’armonia e dell’invenzione: or Drawing Machines, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin. Curated by Simone Menegoi

• VideoREPORT ITALIA 2008-09, G.C.A.C, Monfalcone, Gorizia. Curated by Andrea Bruciati

• L’evento immobile (Annunciazioni), Casa Masaccio, S.Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo. Curated by Saretto Cincinelli, Cristiana Collu, Alessandro Sarri

• Drawing Space, Impronte Contemporary art, Milano/ Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow. Curated by Walter Guadagnini

• SC13, Antique & Design Mall (SFADM), San Francisco. Curated by Cris Fitzpatrick and Post Brothers

• I Giovani Isan, Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi, Pelago. Curated by Pierluigi Tazzi

• L’Evento Immobile, Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo. Curated by Saretto Cincinelli

• My favourite things, Sottobosco/an art platform, Galleria Contemporaneo, Mestre-Venice

• Cul-de-sac, neon>campobase, Bologna. Curated by Alessandro Sarri

• La Pesanteur et la Grâce, Collège des Bernardins, Paris. Curated by Eric de Chassey. Show travelled to Villa Medici, Académie de France à Rome, Rome

• Linguaggi e Sperimentazione. Giovani artisti in una collezione contemporanea, MART, Rovereto

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2009

• Sensibili Energie, GCAMC, Arezzo. Curated by Alberto Salvadori and Giovanna Uzzani

• Playlist (video project), neon>campobase, Bologna. Curated by Saretto Cincinelli

• Italian Open (video project), Gallery Annet Gelink, Amsterdam. Curated by Art At Work Our Time (video project), Smallbox 28, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiatrico, Lisbon

• Lo Sguardo Ostinato, Casa Masaccio, Arezzo. Curated by Cristiana Collu and Saretto Cincinelli

• And yet it moves, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene. Curated by Pieternel Vermoortel, Inti Guerrero and Julia Klaering

• Show travelled to Palazzo Ducale, Genoa

• Strutture Precarie, Ex-essiccatoi, San Vito al Tagliamento. Curated by Denis Viva

• Nocturnes, Museion, Bolzano

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2008

• L’Evento immobile (Incantamenti), Casa LAI, Gavoi. Curated by Saretto Cincinelli and Cristiana Collu. In collaboration with MAN, Nuoro

• Soft cell: dinamiche nello spazio in Italia, Galleria Comunale d’arte contemporanea, Monfalcone

• All our Everydays, Gallery VER, Bangkok. Curated by Pierluigi Tazzi

• Sporgersi prego, Galerie Lange & Pult, Zurich

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2007

• IM02 - L’Immagine sottile, works from the collection of Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone. Curated by Andrea Bruciati

• Nessuna Paura. L’Arte dall’Italia dopo il 2000, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato. Curated by Marco Bazzini

• Pittura / Materiale, Galleria Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, Florence. Curated by Pierluigi Tazzi

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2006

• Generazioni / Rigenerazioni, CAMeC, La Spezia. Curated by Bruno Corà

• Confini-Boundaries, MAN, Nuoro. Curated by Cristiana Collu, Saretto Cincinelli and Roberto Pinto Dialogo 1, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato. Curated by Simone Menegoi

• Scirocco, Kuenstlerhaus Palais Thurm und Taxis, Bregenz. Curated by Wilhelm Meusburger

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2005

• Arte all’Arte 10, special project “-a+a’, Associazione Arte Continua, Castello di Linari, Poggibonsi. Curated by Wilhelm Meusburger

 

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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

 

2016   Isola Comacina Artists in Residence, Isola Comacina, Como, curated by Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera

2015   GAFF Farné Spazio, Milan. Curated by Fabio Farné

2010   Castello Malaspina di Fosdinovo, Massa Carrara. Curated by Alberto Salvadori

           Gasworks, International Residency Programme, London

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SELECTED CATALOGUES AND TEXTS

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Marie Canet and Massimo Carrozzo, Emanuele Becheri FUTURE PERFECT, published in the occasion of the exhibition ‘Emanuele Becheri: Future Perfect’ at Roman Road Brussels, Belgium, 2014

Saretto Cincinelli and Chris Sharp, Becheri HAUNTOLOGY, published for Emanuele Becheri's solo show at MAN in Nuoro, 2010, Mousse edizioni

ART TEXT | Startpoint 1314 | Emanuele Becheri

ART TEXT PICS | Becheri - Kronenberg : WORK n° 0

ARSHAKE | Becheri

ART TEXT | Fabula muta

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