Biography
Caterina Pecchioli (Florence/Italy 1978) lives between Florence and Amsterdam. She works as visual artist, director and theorist. She studied at the Art Lyceum Leon Battista Alberti of Florence and at the DAMS (Visual Arts, Cinema, Music and Performing Arts Studies) University of Bologna, where she received her master degree with laude in 2005. Her thesis, Antonin Artaud: Signs and Drawings, won the DAMS Prize.
In 2006 she moved in Amsterdam where in 2009 she graduated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and she was nominated for the Gra Award. In 2007 she took part in the project Performativity of Art at the Piet Zwart Institute, Master in Fine Art in Rotterdam.
Specialized in photography and theater she works in a interdisciplinary way. Her photographs, videos and performances are focusing on identity and social issues investigated thorught the analysis of daily gestures and community dynamics. The work hybridize traditional and relational aesthetics, where the viewer is invited to take an active position.
Collaborative projects:
She is co-funder of the collaborative project Nation25 and co-curator of the Nationless Pavilion in Venice, 2015.
From 2011 she is taking part in the organization of the Goleb, an indipendent art-run space in Amsterdam.
She collaborated in 2014 with Lu Cafausu (Emilio Fantin, Luigi Negro, Giancarlo Norese, Cesare Pietroiusti and Luigi Presicce) in the publication "Besides it is always the others who died”; in 2013 she took part in the project CCDS (Controcarrettadellasperanza) in Pantelleria, and in 2005 in the project Wall(k) in Belin with Stalker e Studio.eu.
She also worked for many years as organizer and secretary for the artist-in-residence program Thami Mnylele Foundation in Amsterdam.
She is often invited to give workshops and lectures in Art Schools and Univestity in Italy and The Netherlands, from 2009 till 2012 she was advisor at the DNA, post-academic department of the Vrije Academie/Gemak in Den Haag.
Since 2003 she is taking part to many national and international exhibitions, festivals and screening.
Selection of Exhibitions, Festivals and Screenings:
2014 The White Page, performance with Cesare Pietroiusti, Label201, Rome, Italy. - Sedeo Ergo Sum 3.0, Label201, Rome, Italy. Curated by Abbiatici_Levy. - Cairo Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt. Curated by Medrar. - Festival Why Not at Pllek, Amsterdam, The Netherland - Home Theatre Domestic Video Art , MAAM_Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove, Metropoliz Rome, IT. Curated by Mattia Pellegrini. - Sedeo Ergo Sum, in the context of In Relazione, Tenuta Dello Scompiglio, Lucca, IT. - Meglio mangiare poco tutti i giorni che tanto una volta al mese, in the context of “Di tutto di più”, Montelupo Fiorentino, Florence, IT. Curated by Something Like This with Outarte. - Automatismi Psichici, Centro Luigi di Sarro, Rome, IT. Curated by Stefania Valente.
2013 Alternative Exactitudes, PAKT, Platform for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam NL. Curated by Kunstlicht. - Art in Progress, Museo Nazionale di Arte Medievale e Moderna, Arezzo, IT. Curated by Danilo Sensi.
2012 Helemaal Melkweg, Melkweg Theater, Amsterdam, NL. - INexactly This: Festival of Independents, Kunstvlaai 2012, Amsterdam, NL - Mulle International Arts Festival, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, KR - Beyondmemory, Fondazione Studio Marangoni Florence, IT. Curated by Marinella Paderni.
2011 L’oeil sur le rues, Parc de la villette, Paris FR. - Palais Paradiso #3, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL. Curated by Jeldau Kwikkel - Relazioni Interpersonali, Associazione dello Scompiglio, Lucca, IT. Curated by Angel Moya Garcia - All there is, Korzo Theater, Den Haag, NL. - Videoart Yearbook 2011, Festival della videoarte italiana, Bologna University IT.
2010 Between Heaven and Earth, Museumnacht Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL; - Violenza Invisibile, FestarteVideoartFestival, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, IT - 23rd Instant Video with Anemic Festival Prague Independent Film & New Media Art, Prague, CZ. - In the Evidence of Experience, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL. Curated by bLA, Basis for Live Art - Maggio dello Scompiglio, Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Lucca, IT. - In Between, (solo) Filmtheater 't Hoogt Utrecht, NL. Curated by Kostana Banovic.
2009 - Altijd Bewegen!, GEMAK, Den Haag, NL, invited by Felix Villanueva - Back to the Present, Networking 2009, Arezzo, IT. Curated by Elisa del Prete - Prognosis for the future, Havenkwartier, Deventer, NL. - SerrONE Biennale Giovani Monza ’09, Villa Reale, Monza, IT. Curated by Valentina Gensini - (M)éditorial, 21st Instant Video, Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, Strasburg, FR.
2008 - Contemporanea/Colline Festival 08, Montemurlo, organized by Metastasio Theater, Prato, Italy.Curated by Edorado Donatini - SwanDay Festival, Das Pumpwerk, Berlin. - Corti di Teatro, Palladium Theater, Rome, Italy. - Cinque Anni di Digiarte 2004-2008, City Palace of Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy. Curated by Lorenzo Guasti.
2007 - 20th Instant Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques, Marseille, France. - MUSAE (Urban Museum of Emergin Art), Chiostro Palazzo di Città, Catania, Sicily, Italy. - ArteVideoArt(Te)mpoAttivo, Plasma, Florence, Italy. Curated by Fiammetta Strigoli.
2006 - Rotte Metropolitane, Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy. Curated by Lorenzo Bruni. Qui si Vola, Piazza del Vecchio Macello, Rizziconi, RC, Italy. Curated by Metteo Chini.
2005 - Il Magazzino Festival, Ex Convento, Scarlino, Italy. Curated by Jan De Clercq
2003 - Riflessi, (solo) Photo Gallery Piccolo Formato, Bologna, Italy. - Kairòs, Contemporary Art Center, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli.
2002 - Premio Dams, Scuderie Bentivoglio, Bologna, Italy.
Theoretical publications:
2011 L’esperienza del video, in Video d’Artista, La video-arte dalle Origini ad Oggi (Video Art History), Ed. Polistampa curated by Valentina Genzini.
2007 Il corpo adolescente nella fotografia contemporanea: uno sguardo tra Olanda e Giappone (The Adolescent body in contemporary photography: a look between The Netherlands and Japan) in the book Il Corpo Adolescente, ed. CLUEB, Curator Stefano Ferrari.
2005 - Antonin Artaud: segni e disegni (Antonin Artaud: signs and drawings), in Artaud Microstorie, Culture Teatrali n°11, magazine directed by Marco De Marinis and edited by the University of Bologna.
- Amsterdam tra Oriente ed Occidente (Amsterdam between East and West), in Rotte Metropolitane, magazine curated by Lorenzo Bruni, edited by the Commune of Florence.
Filmography:
Neverland-L'isola che non c'è 2013, Giglio 2013, Carillon, Autonomous Object 2012, In Between 2011, David & Caterina 2009, Angiolina detta “Sputaci” 2009, Male-es 2009, Safety Instructions 2009, Virus 2008, Chalk line 2008, Die Walküre 2008, Nc’era na vota 2007.
