Artist Residencies

2007   Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

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

2005   Istanbul Residency Program, Istanbul, Turkey

            Cité Internationale des  Arts, Paris, France

2003   Pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin, Germany

2002   Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

            Internationales Atelierprogramm Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

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

            Mishkan Omanim, Herzeliya, Israel

1999   Päätalo-Instituutti, Taivalkoski, Finland

1998   Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, the Netherlands

 

 

Selected Film Presentations

2006

"Murat ve Ismail", Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, 18 October, Paris, France (curated by Jean-Marc Poinsot and Irène Bessière)

"Murat ve Ismail", Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, 16 June, Jerusalem, Palestine

2005

"Murat ve Ismail", 16 September, Istanbul, Turkey (special event of the 9th Istanbul Biennial)

 

 

Selected Lectures

2006

“Acting/Re-enacting Uprootedness”, AICA Conference “Exposed Memories: Family Pictures in Private and Public Memory”, Organized by the Hungarian Section of the International Association of Art Critics in collaboration with IAWIS (International Association of Word and Image Studies), 10-11 November, Goethe Institut, Budapest, Hungary

Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, 20 July, Jerusalem, Palestine

Sabanci University Visual Arts and Communication Design Programme, Lecture Series, 11 April, Istanbul, Turkey

School of Art and Design of the Limerick Institute of Technology, 9 March, Limerick, Ireland

2005

Ata Institute of Contemporary Art, 18 November, Sofia, Bulgaria

"Bridging Cultures and Identities", United NGO Network for Intercultural Action - Cyprus International Conference, 11-15 November, Larnaca/Nicosia, Cyprus

"In Between Cultures", 10th Art Forum Berlin Talks, 1 October, Berlin, Germany

"So about Sharjah", 7th Sharjah Biennial Symposium, 2 April, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

"The Wrong Place: Rethinking Context in Contemporary Art", Situations Conference - University of West England, 5 February, Bristol, England

2004

Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste, 12 July, Berlin, Germany

"Arte degli ultimi 10 anni", Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, 31 March, Milan, Italy

2003

Sandberg Institute, 17 May, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Post-graduate Doctoral Program "Praxis und Theorie des künstlerischen Schaffensprozesses", Universität der Künste, 9 February, Berlin, Germany

2000

"CommunicationS", Cooperation project GAM-DAMS, University of Turin, 2 May, Turin, Italy

 

 

Awards and Special Projects

2006

Video Workshop with Palestinian Youth, Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, 19-21 July, Jerusalem, Palestine

2005

"Arte Relazionale: Mario Rizzi", Ms. Elena Keidan's final thesis for the Art Degree, Brera Academy of Fine Art, Milan, Italy

Best Artist Prize, 7th Sharjah International Biennial, United Arab Emirates (Jury: Okwui Enwezor, Rina Carvajal, Walid Sadek)

"Zingari, spose ed altri imprevisti", Ms. Fabrizia Palomba's final thesis on Rizzi's work for the Master in Management per curatore nei musei d'arte e architettura contemporanea, Faculty of Architecture, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

2004

Best Artist Prize, The Mulliqi Prize, The Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina, UNMIK

"PLUG IN", curatorial project (invited artists: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Pavel Braila, Mircea Cantor, Phil Collins, Jimmie Durham, Lisa Glauer, Anna Jermolaewa, Renzo Martens, Susan Norrie, Khalil Rabah, Jalal Toufic), Futura, Prague, Czech Republic

2003

"The Honeymoon Project", Pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin, Germany

2001

Shortlisted Artist, "Premio Torino Incontra l'Arte", Turin, Italy

"Hafla Jerusalem", The Jerusalem Center for the Visual Arts (curator: Yona Fisher)

"Hafla Tel Aviv", Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel