Mario Rizzi.

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Based in Berlin ..... Email: mariorizzi@gmail.com ..... Phone: 00.49.172.8814001









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Rizzi is a storyteller.

His work focus on individuals and groups thrown apart by the impact of the uprooting force of neo-liberal globalization.

He concentrates on collective memories and individual stories. (Vasif Kortun)



Selected Awards

2005 Best Artist Prize, 7th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates

2004 Best Artist Prize, The Mulliqi Prize at Kosova Art Gallery, Pristina, Kosovo/UNMIK


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009 Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

2008 Kerava Art Museum, Finland

2007 Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (screening)

2004 MART - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Rovereto e Trento, Italy

2002 Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2001 Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland


Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 Rotte Metropolitane, Villa Romana, Firenze, Italy

2008 6th Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Working Men, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland

Official Program, Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany

Something from Nothing, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA

2007 Résidents, Espace Electra, Paris, France

4th Göteborg International Biennial, Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden

This Day, Tate Modern, London, UK

World Factory, Walter & McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, USA

2006 Art, Life & Confusion, 47th Oct Salon, M. of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia

5 Tage bis zum Ende der Kunst, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

EV+A, 6th Biennial Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland

2005 3rd Tirana Bienale, Kompleksi Goldi, Tirana, Albania

9th Istanbul Biennial, Antrepo Warehouse no. 5, Istanbul, Turkey

7th Sharjah Biennial, Expo Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

2004 14th Sydney Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

2003 2nd Tirana Bienale, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania

1st Prague Biennial, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic


Selected Bibliography

November Paynter, Taipei Biennial, Bidoun, Issue 16, pp161-162

Simon Rees, 6th Taipei Biennial, Frieze, Issue 120, pp 147-148

Anna Daneri, Gwangju and Taipei Biennials, Flash Art, Vol. XLI, #263, p 34

Domeniek Ruyters, Harteloos Nederland, De Volkskrant, 29 May 2008, pp 14-15

Katerina Gregos, Mario Rizzi, Contemporary, #86, pp 54-55

Grant Watson, EV+A, Flash Art, Vol. XXXIX, #248, p 1

Michele Robecchi, Mario Rizzi, Flash Art, Vol. XXXIX, #255, Italy, pp 68-71

Sabine Vogel, International Istanbul Biennial, Artforum Web, Critics’ Picks, October 2005

Jamie Robinson, Sharjah International Biennial 7, Contemporary, #76, pp 56-57

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Sharjah Biennial, Flash Art, Vol. XXXVIII, # 242, pp 71 & 90

Isabel Carlos, Beyond Self-Expression, in “Mario Rizzi 96_04”, 2004, Skira, pp 25-32

Lilly Wei, South by Southeast, Art in America, # 11, pp 58-65

Christian Rattemeyer, Biennale of Sydney, Artforum, Vol. 43, # 3, pp 238-239


Selected Artist Residencies

2006 Al Ma'mal Artist-in-Residence, Jerusalem, Palestine

2005 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

2002 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Internationales Atelierprogramm Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2001 Helsinki International Artist-in-Residence Programme, Helsinki, Finland