Massimo Bartolini

Born in 1962 in Cecina/Italy
Lives and works in Cecina/Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
Basements, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy

2010
Dews, Institute of Contemporary Art Sofia, Sofa, Bulgaria

2009
Three-Quarter-Tone Pieces, Magazzino D’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

2008
Concert Rooms with Voices, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY
Massimo Bartolini, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Anche oggi niente, Dialogues with the City, MAXXI Rome, Italy, curator: L. Cherubini
Organs, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy

2007
Airplanes and Horizon, D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY
Rose garden and stone fountain, Espais Obert, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Massimo Bartolini, Fundacao Serralves, Oporto, Portugal, curator: Joao Fernandes
Massimo Bartolini-Labratorio di storia e storie, Anselmetti Chapel, Turin, Italy
Triple loop, IKON Gallery, Brimingham, England

2005
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

2004
Fountains and Mountain, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Altre Voci, altre Stanze/Other voices, other rooms, Magazzini d'Arte Moderna Roma, Rome

2003
Museum Abteiberg Monchengladbach, Germany, curator: Veit Loers
Lounge, C-Arte Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, curator: S.Pezzato

2002
Sopra cielo, sotto cielo, Associazione culturale VistaMare, Pescara, Italy
Frith Street Gallery (with Wibeke Sien), London, Great Britain
Magazzini d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy, curator: C. Piccoli
La California - Frazione di Cecina', Galleria Massimo De Carlo,
Milan, Italy

2001
Or Should I Stay, BASE, Florence, Italy
Special Project: "Untitled (Wave)", PS1, New York, USA, curator: C.C.Bakargiev

2000
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Forum Kunst Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany, curator: G. Bonomi

1998
Studio Barbieri (with M. AirÉ), Venice, Italy
Casa Masaccio, S. Giovanni V.no, Arezzo, Italy, curator: R. Selvaggio

1997
Viali Kwatz!, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
British School at Rome (with M. Creed), Rome, Italy, curator: A.S. Jacques
Head n. 4, Fondazione Teseco per l'Arte, Pisa, Italy

1996
Galleria Artra (with G. Toderi), Milan, Italy, curator: G. Verzotti
Special Project: 'Head n. 3 (Library)', Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, Great Britain, curator: P. Curtis

1995
Galleria Gentili, Florence, Italy
Galleria Marconi, Milan, Italy

1994
Cofanetto, Care Of, Cusano Milanino/Milan, Italy

1993
Galleria Untitled e Artra, Milan, Italy
F. Sorace's House, Florence, Italy


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany.
Track, a contemporary city conversation, Gent, Belgium.

2011
Yokohama 2011: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan, curator: Akiko Miki
Terre Vunerabili, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy, curator: Chiara Bertola
Sotto quale cielo? Riso Museum of Contemporary Art, Sicily, Italy, curator: Daniela Bigi
The Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy, curators: Daniela Feretti, Rosa Martinez, Francesco Poli, Axel Vervoordt
OH! Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
Spaceship Earth, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun, Torun, Poland

2010
In the Manner of Today, Gallery of the Academy, Florence, Italy, curator: Marco Bazzini
Annunciations, Masaccio Home / Center for Contemporary Art, San Giovanni Valdarno Arezzo, Italy, curators: Christian Collu, Saretto Cincinelli, Alessandro Sarri
ROTOR, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
-2 +3: Steafno Arienti. Massimo Bartolini. The Museion Collection, Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
Beyond Entropy, When Energy Becomes Form, Research Cluster,
Architectural Association School of Architure, Fondazione Giorgio Cini – Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy; 12th Architecture Biennial
Otre II Grande Rettile, Ex Granai di Villa Mimbelli, Livorno, Italy; curated by Anna Nassisi and Stefano Pezzato
After the Volcano: a summer show of gallery artists, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK

2009
Making Worlds, 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, curator: Daniel Birnbaum
The Collectors, Nordic and Danish Pavillion, 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, curators: Ingar Dragset, Michael Elmgreen
Fragile, Fields of Empathy, Museum of Modern Art, St Etienne, France, curator: Lorand Hegyi

2008
Colossal, Art, Fact, Fiction, Bramsche-Kalkriese (archaeological park) and other venues in and around Bohmte, Belm and Ostercappeln, Germany, curator: Lorenzo Bendetti
L’angelo Sigillato, Museo delle Icone Russe, Peccioli, Italy, curator: Rita Selvaggio
A Room of One’s Own / una stanza tutta per se, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, curator: Marcella Beccaria
Mediterraneo, Villa Rufolo, Ravello, Naples, Italy, curator: Manuela Annibali
Italics – Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968 – 2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy, MCA Chicago, IL, curator: Francesco Bonami
15th Quadriennial of Rome, Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, Italy, curators: Chiara Bertola, Lorenzo Canova, Bruno Cora, Daniela Lancioni, Claudio Spadoni
3 Rooms: Dario Robleto, Cornelia Parker, Massimo Bartolini, D’Amelio Terras, New York

2007
From the Earth to the Moon: Metaphor of Journeying (part II), Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, curator: Marcella Beccaria
We try to build the future, MACRO, Rome and Arcos, Benevento, curator: Danilo Eccher
Mediterranee: Où? Scenes du Sud: Espagne, Italie, Portugal, Carre d'Art - Musee d'Art Contemporain de Nimes, Nimes
Records and Habits. The Time Machine/Images of Space, CAGC Santiago de Compostela
Idea. Disegno italiano degli anni Novanta, Archivio di Stato, Turin, Italy
Arte in memoria 2007, Sinagoga di Ostia Antica, Roma, Italy, curator: Adachiara Zevi
Camera con vista, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, curator: Claudia Gianferrari
Ironia Domestica. Uno sguardo curioso tra collezioni private italiane, Museion, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy, curator: Letizia Ragaglia
Fatto in Svezia, Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden, curator: Oscar Aschan

2006
Idea. Disegno italiano degli anni Novanta, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica di Roma, Rome
Resonance, Frith Street Gallery, London
Records and Habits. The Time Machine/Images of Space, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain, curator: Nuria Enguita Mayo
Hyperdesign, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
Young Italian Artists at the Turn of the Milennium, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Giardino Luoghi Della Piccola Realta, Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, Italy, curator: Lorand Hegyi
In su, nell’azzurro, come una piuma Cinque artisti incrociano I cento anni di Samuel Beckett, Scuola Holden, Turin, Italy, curators: Giorgina Bertolino, Lisa Parola
Il mistero delle cose, Centro culturale le Cappuccine, Bagnacavallo, Italy
Collezionami – Biennale d’arti Contemporanee 2006, Cittadella della Cultura, Bari, Italy, curator: Grazia De Palma
Art 37 Basel, Art in Public Space, Basel, Switzerland
Eco- Oltremonte, Magazin 4, Vorlarberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, AT
GeneraComunicazioni.tv, Casa Masaccio Centro per l’arte contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy
NowHere Europe - Trans:it. Moving Culture Through Europe, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
Core, Union Works, London, UK

2005
Domicile, Musee D'Art Moderne St Etienne Metropole, St Etienne
Myslivska, Galleria Gentili Montecatini Terme
Fuori Tema/ italian feeling' XIV quadriennale di Roma, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, Roma
Light Lab, Museion, Bolzano
Da un lato all'altro del disegno, (con Ettore Spalletti), Associazione Culturale VistaMare, Pescara
Slubfurt City, Frankurt oder-Slubice
Thrust, 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana International Centre of Graphic Arts
Ecstasy, in and about altered states, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Bidibidobediboo, works from Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, curator: Francesco Bonami
BYO. Bring Your Own, Man, museo d’arte della provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy, curators: Saretto Cincinelli, Alberto Mugnaini
Un filo d’acqua, Il Fondo, Casale Marittimo, Italy, curator: Roberta Fossati
Art-chitecture of change + progetti speciali, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy

2004
Drawings, Massimo Bartolini and Nedko Solakov, Magazzino D'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Aligned, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
None of the Above, Swiss Institute, New York, curator: John Armleder
L’arte dell’ascolto, RAM Sede di roma, Rome, Italy, curator: Zerynthia
Sound + Vision, Axel Vervoordt Kanaal, Wijnegem, Belgium, curator: Janus
La forma delle nuvole, Arte all’Arte. Arte, architettura, paesaggio 9, Siena, Tuscany, Italy, curators: Achille Bonito Oliva, James Putnam
Fitting Spaces, PAC, Milan, Italy, curators: Roberto Pinto, Jean-Hubert Martin
Territorio Livre, XXVI Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, curator: Alfons Hug
No principio era a viaxe, XXVIII Biennale di Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain, curators: Miguel von Hafe Perez, David G Torres
Two, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Perception of Space, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

2003
Working-Insider, Ex Mecanotessile, Stazione Leopolda, Firenze, Italy, curator: S. Risaliti
Catastrofi minime, MAN, Nuoro, Italy, curators: Fernando Castro, Saretto Cincinelli, Christina Collu
Tuscia Electa, Impruneta, Italy, curator: A. Natalini
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy, curator: C.C. Bakargiev
Das Lebendige Museum, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, curator: U. Kittelman
Arte pubblica in Italia, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy, curator: A. Detheridge
Le opere e I giorni, Certosa di Padula, Padula, Italy, curator: Achille Bonito Oliva
Orizzonti, Belvedere dell'Arte, Forte Belvedere, Florence, curator: A. Bonito Oliva, S. Risaliti

2002
Manifesta 4, Frankurt a.M., Germany, curated By N. Enguita Mayo, S. Moisdon Tremblay, I. Boubovna
Cargo 3, The Bagagenhal, Loods 6, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, curator: S. Van de Ven
Freespace, Provinciaal Centrum voor Beeldende Kunsten - Begijnhof, Hasselt, Belgium, curator: G.Robijns
Ouverture… arte dall’Italia, Galleria Communale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy, curator: Andrea Bruciati
Verso il futuro: Identita nell’arte italiana 1990 – 2002, Museo del Corso Roma, Rome, Italy, curator: Ludovico Pratesi
Paradiso Perdutto, Palazzo dell’Arengo, Rimini, Italy, curator: Ambra Stazzone

2001
Leggerezza, Lenbachhaus, Munchen, Germany, curator: G. Iovane, M. Ackermann
Squatters, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal, Witte de Wit, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, The Netherlands, curator: J. Hoet
Body & Sin, Biennal of Valencia , Convent of the Carmen, Valencia, Spain, curator: A.B. Oliva
Refreshing, Giardino delle Bombarde, Venice, Italy, curator: P. Tazzi, F. Cavallucci
Migrazioni, Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy, curator: L. Cherubini, A. Mattirolo P. Colombo
Inonia, Universita di Cassino, Cassino, Latina, Italy, curator: B. Cora
Strategies Against The Architecture ll, Fondazione Teseco, Pisa, Italy, curator: L. Cerizza
Atlantide, Museo del Bosco,Orgia, Siena, Italy, curator: E. Baiocco, A. Natalini
The Art is a Fifth Element, Premio Querini Stampalia – Furla per l’Arte, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy, curator: Chiara Bertola

2000
Ventana hacia venus, Teatro Nacional, Habana, Cuba, curator: Zerynthia
Homo Ludens, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centro Cultural Parque de Espana, Rosario, Argentina, curator: di F. Acevedo
La ViIle, le Jardin, la Memoire, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy, Accademia di Francia, curator: C.C. Bakargiev, L. Bosse, H.U. Obrist
Stanze e segreti, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy, curator: A. Bonito Oliva
Futurama, Museo L. Pecci, Prato, Italy, curator: B. Cora, M. Meneguzzo, R. Gavarro
Dopo Paesaggio, Castello di S. Maria Novella, Fiano, Italy, curator: L. Vecere, M. Scotini P. Tazzi
Future Identities - Reflections on a Collection, Sala del Canal da Isabela II, Madrid, Spain, curator: R. Doctor Roncero e F. Bonami
Migrazioni e multiculturalita, Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy, curators: Paolo Colombo, Anna Mattirolo, Laura Cherubini

1999
Esca, Milhaud de Nimes, Nimes, France, curator: R.Pinto M.Gorni
Arte al Centro, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
dAPERTutto, 48th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, curator: H. Szeeman
Effetto Notte, Napoli sotterranea, Napels, Italy, curator: P. Magni, L. Pratesi
L'ultimo disegno del millennio, Zerinthya, Rome, Italy
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrow, Something Blue, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo, Italy, curator: R. Selvaggio

1998
Atlantide, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy, curator: L. Cherubini
Indoor, (in collaboration with Mario Airo), Museo per l'Arte Contemporanea 'La Grancia', Serre di Rapolano-Siena, Italy
Interni, Galleria Moncada, Rome, Italy, curator: C.Perrella
Seamless, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, L. Curatorial Training Programme
Fuoriuso-Mostrato, Mercato ortofrutticolo, Pescara, Italy, curator: G. Dipietrantonio

1997
Light Slow, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Jingle Bells, 806, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy, curator: Uwe Schwarzer
Truce, SITE, Santa Fe, NM, USA, curator: F. Bonami
Versus 2000, MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy, curator: G. Sieni

1996
Mutoidi, Maschio Angioino, Napels, Italy, curator: M.Sgroi
Fuori uso, Pescara, Italy, curator: L. Cherubini
Interiora, Via S. Sofia 18, Milan, Italy, curator: L. Cerizza e M. Milizia
Ultime generazioni, Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma, Rome, Italy
High-Rise, Euston Road 100-110, London, Great Britain, curator: Space Explorations
More than Real, Palazzo Reale di Caserta, Caserta, Italy, curator: Galleria Raucci e Santamaria, M. Sgroi

1995
Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, USA
Anni 90 a Milano, Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan, Italy, curator: A. Vettese
Campo, Corderie, Venezia, Italy, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Kontmuseum Malmoe, Malmoe, Sweden, curator: F. Bonami
East International, Sainsbury Center for Visual Art, Norwich, Great Britain
Aperto 95, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Palazzo Lucarini, Trevi-Perugia, Italy
Moby Dick, Arsenali, Pisa, I. J. Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Great Britain, curator: R. Selvaggio.

1994
Potato, IAS, London, Great Britain, curator: A.S. Jacques, G. Thomas, S. McIntyre
Turbare il tempo, Museo Archeologico, Florence, Italy, curator: S. Cincinelli
Domestic Violence, Casa di G. Marconi, Milan, Italy, curator: A.S. Jacques

Press

Massimo Bartolini in Documenta (13)
Opens June 9th, 2012
Paola Noe, Artforum, February 2009
T.J. Carlin, Time Out New York, 24 - 30 January 2008
Giorgio Verzotti, Artforum, October 2002
Giorgio Verzotti, Artforum, January 1999