ROSSELLA BISCOTTI
b. 1978, ItalyRossella Biscotti uses montage as a gesture to reveal individual narratives and their relation to society. In her cross-media practice, cutting across filmmaking, performance and sculpture, she explores and reconstructs social and political moments from recent times through the subjectivity and experiences of individuals often posed against the backdrop of institutional systems. In the process of composing her personal encounters and oral interrogations into new stories, the site of investigation tends to leave its mark on her sculptures and installations. Traces of people’s life, objects and ideas are sensibly weaved together into new visual narratives. By examining the relevance of the recovered material from a contemporary perspective, Biscotti creates links and networks to the present, empowering the spectators’ imagination, culture and experience.
Rossella Biscotti (born 1978 in Molfetta, Italy) graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002 and attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2010-2011. Biscotti has received several art awards including the Premio NY, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Italian Academy and the Columbia University in New York (2006); The City of Geneva Grand Prize at the 12th Biennial of Moving Images (2007);The 2nd Prix de Rome in the Netherlands (2009); The Premio Michelangelo at XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrare (2010); the Mies van der Rohe Stipendium, (2013); Premio della 16e Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma (2016), and the ACACIA Prize for Contemporary Art (2017).
Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions including Rossella Biscotti. Title One, I dreamt, Clara and other stories, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2024); Cable City Dance Cable City Sea, Fabra i Coats: Contemporary Art Center of Barcelona, Spain (2023); Rossella Biscotti, new work, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2019); Clara and Other Specimen, Fondazione Ratti, Como (2019); The City, daadgalerie, Berlin (2019); A shirt, blue pants, blue jeans, a towel, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Koln, Germany (2018); and The City, Protocinema Istanbul (2018) among others.
Text courtesy Green Art Gallery.
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