Mimmo Catania
| 1955 | Born in Vittoria, Italy |
| 1980-84 | Studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Urbino |
| 1984-present | Has been living and working in Berlin |
Grants, Fellowships, Residencies
| 1995 | Grant, Art Omi International Artists' Residency Program, New York |
| 1996 | Grant, KULTURfonds Foundation, Berlin, for a residency in Haifa, Israel |
| 1998-99 | Daimler-Chrysler grant for a residency at the Casa di Goethe, Rome |
| 2005 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, New York |
| 2006 | Residency at the House Radobolja Colony, Mostar, BiH |
| 2007 | Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, New York, for residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 2008 | Studio at Pickled Art Centre, Beijing |
| 2012 | Katalogförderung, Senate of Berlin, Berlin |
| 2016 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, New York |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 1985 | La bestia del sonno, Schaufenstergalerie, Berlin Avvisi in Bakeka, Eiszeit Kino, Berlin |
| 1986 | La Fedelta del Camaleonte, Galerie Kunst-Raum, Hagen The Wind, Galerie IX, Berlin |
| 1987 | La strategia dei Gemelli, with R. Dreher, Planet Galerie, Düsseldorf |
| 1988 | Zwei Jahre später, Galerie IX, Berlin |
| 1990 | Reflessioni, Galerie Loulou Lasard, Berlin |
| 1993 | Notes, Konzept Museum Galerie, Berlin |
| 1994 | Notes & Notices, Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz, PL |
| 1995 | Mind the Step, Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw Selected drawings, Scuola Grande S. Giovanni Evangelista, Venice |
| 1996 | Night Day Light, Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa Labyrinth, Ephrat Gallery (with Abraham Eilat), Tel Aviv |
| 1997 | Window, Artists' Space, Berlin |
| 1999 | Mimmo Catania, Casa di Goethe Museum, Rome |
| 2003 | Selected works, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia Zeitgeist, Works 1998-2002, Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre-Venice |
| 2004 | Three paintings, Mietart Galerie, Berlin |
| 2005 | Spectator, Mietart Galerie, Berlin |
| 2007 | Set on Wet, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 2008 | The Corner, The Pickled Art Centre, Beijing The Enchanting Forest (Chuanbei Park), Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai |
| 2009 | Expected News, Galerija Charlama, Sarajevo Shouting all life long, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Cologne Catcher in the Act, Tallina Kunstihoone/City Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn |
| 2010 | Out of Order, Unit One Gallery, Beijing |
| 2011 | The Perfect Fake, Epicentro Art, Berlin |
| 2013 | Mimmo Catania, Casa del Arte, Zürich |
| 2015 | Storm, TAM, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance (US-CA) Shutter-Schütter, Irena Kos Arte Contemporanea, Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 2016 | Overturn, Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea Montevergini, Siracusa, It |
| 2017 | Odd One Out, Artloft, Berlin |
| 2018 | Idyllic Landscape, Corner Window Gallery, Auckland, NZ |
| 2019 | Traces of Absence, Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice |
| 2019/2020 | Interior Shot, Dispari & Dispari Project, Berlin |
Selected Group Exhibitions/Projects
| 1980 | Indipendenze, Galleria il Canale, Venice |
| 1981 | Anteprima 81, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara |
| 1982 | Il Golpe del Pianerottolo, Galleria Comunale Arte Moderna, Bologna |
| 1983 | Expo 83, Fiera del Levante, Bari |
| 1984 | Microcosmo-Macrocosmo, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, Galleria San Fedele, Milan |
| 1985 | Muziek Installaties, Museum Waterland, Purmarend, NL |
| 1986 | Pulitzer Art Gallery, Amsterdam |
| 1987 | Il Fare dell'Arte, Rocca Bernarda, Udine Pittura, Galleria Arco di Rab, Rome |
| 1988 | Ubi minor ubi maior, Galleria Arco di Rab, Rome Le Stanze della Pittura, Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea, Marsala |
| 1992 | Projekt 37 Räume, Kunst-Werke, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin |
| 1993 | Privat, Kunst-Werke, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin Construction in Process IV, Artists' Museum, Lodz, PL Werkschau 1, Neues Kunstquartier, Berlin |
| 1994 | Medium Bild, Galerie T & A, Berlin 5. Maisalon-Art in Berlin, Neues Kunstquartier, Berlin and Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Bonn Schattensprung, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw Site-Ations, The Artists' Museum Project, Mowlems Factory, Cardiff, Wales |
| 1995 | Co-Existence, Mitzpe-Ramon-Negev Desert, Israel Art/Omi International Arts Center, New York |
| 1996 | Ways of Seeing, Mudgee, Australia, (Drawings) Die Grundsteinkiste, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn and Goethe Institut, Rotterdam Artists messagers of Peace, Ha'aretz Museum, Tel Aviv Art-Focus '96, Contemporary Art in Israel, Ephrat Gallery, Tel Aviv Fort of Art, St. Benedict's Fort, Cracow |
| 1997 | Golden Seed, Mount Abu, India And still the Ship is not in Sight, Thessaloniki (Cultural Capital of Europe) Und noch ist das Schiff nicht in Sicht, GAK, Bremen |
| 1998 | Berlin-Bialystok, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok Aggregatzustand im ehemaligen elektrischen Umspannwerk, Berlin Artists messagers of peace, Museo De Arte Contemporanea Neo de Caracas |
| 1999 | Centre Cultural De la Villa, Madrid Zwei aus Fünfundzwanzig, Druckwerkstatt in Bethanien, Berlin (Prints) |
| 2000 | Save the Building, International Artists' Museum, New York, (Drawings) Spazi di Pace, Palazzo Consoli, Gubbio |
| 2001 | Art for Peace, Eye-Five Gallery, Los Angeles and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Jaffa Sarajevo Depot Cafe, CDA Mladost, Sarajevo La Casa dell'Angelo, Cantieri alla Zisa, Palermo Markers, (Tableau der Menschheit), 49. Biennale di Venezia, Venice Re-Duchamp, 7th Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul Milestones, Milton J. Weill Gallery, New York |
| 2002 | Reactions, Exit Art, New York, The Williamson Gallery, Pasadena (CA) and The Library Congress, Washington D.C. Post-Visa, Tecla Galerie, Berlin Markers 2, EAM Building Gallery, Kassel and Edinburgh Theater Festival, Edinburgh |
| 2003 | Vergine d'oliva, Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari, Bari Wandering Library, Venice Jewish Museum, Venice Banners III, Regional Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas |
| 2004 | Inaugural show, Mietart Galerie, Berlin The 8th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Grand Halle de la Villette, Paris Impermanence, Scuola Grande S. Giovanni Evangelista, Venice MUF, Malogradanske Umjetnosti Frakcija, Galerija Tautologija, Sarajevo |
| 2005 | The Eye of the I, Outdoor projection at Alexanderplatz, Berlin Poles apart/Poles together, 51. Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
| 2006 | Homo grandis natu, Exhibition Hall of Russian State University, Moscow |
| 2007 | Tautologija i utjeha, Radobolja Colony, Mostar, BiH |
| 2008 | The door was open, Galerija Charlama, Sarajevo Paperfile #2, Galerie Oqbo, Berlin Backstop, Erzeugmarkt, Berlin Intrude 366 Art&Life, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai |
| 2009 | Art swap at East Festival 2009, August Art Gallery, London Culture Kiosk, ScalaMata Gallery, Venice Dependtendency, Isola della Certosa, Venice Passing through, Galerie Kunstpunkt, Berlin Art Protects, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris Wielkie Serce, Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Cracow Sub-Documenta, Galerija Charlama, Sarajevo |
| 2010 | From the Edge, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York Papierfile on tour, Edvard Munch Haus, Warnemünde, Germany ARTEXCHANGE 3, Istrian Art Fair, Multimedia Centre (MMC) Rovinj, Museum of Contemporary Arts of Istria, Pula |
| 2011 | Shadows of the Bright, Showroom Unter den Linden, Berlin Mapping Exhibition, ArtLife Gallery, Venice Die Leistungsschau, Kunsthalle am Hamburgerplatz, Berlin Artexchange 4, organizer: Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria, Rovinj, Croatia Agency of Unrealized Projects, Kopfbau Building (Art Basel), Basel |
| 2012 | Papierfile on tour, Kunstraum Tosterglope, Tosterglope, Germany Agency of Unrealized Projects at daadgalerie, daadgalerie, Berlin Fragmente, Stadtgalerie Mannheim, Mannheim |
| 2013 | Sleep is different, Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin Herzflattern, Junge Kunst der 1990er Jahre in Berlin, Abgeordnetenhaus, Berlin Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Collateral Events, 55. Biennale di Venezia, Venice Pieces, Kwadrat Galerie, Berlin Let us snow, Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin |
| 2014 | Clashart, Thossprojekte at SchimidtMarc Gallery, Berlin In eager anticipation of a house search, Hotes International Fine Art, Berlin Synthesis, Suomesta, Gallery for Finnish Contemporary Art, Berlin Let’s fix it, Freies Museum Berlin, Berlin Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris |
| 2015 | Alptraum, Salon de Lirio, Velim, Salcete, India Bring the Darling, Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin Jungle of Sculptures, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin Nightmare, Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal, CA Alptraum, Visual Arts Centre –McClure Gallery, Montreal, CA Works in White, Schau Fenster, Berlin KIK Five, Kino Internationale Kunst, Berlin |
| 2016 | Alptraum, RAE art space, Berlin Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris Creators, Gallery for Contemporary Art Charlama, Sarajevo Murder, she said, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York |
| 2017 | The Vitesse Collection, RAE FARM, Lentzke/Fehrbellin The Research Pavillion, in the context of the 57. Biennale di Venezia, Venice Los Angeles, Serrone della Villa Reale, Monza, IT |
| 2018 | Art Noah, Kunsthalle Feldbach, Feldbach, AT Biennale, Gallery for Contemporary Art Charlama, Sarajevo Eos, Spazio Mazzone, Vittoria, IT Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris |
| 2019 | Alptraum, La Estacion Gallery, Chihuahua, Mexico Bridges and Walls, Walls and Bridges, AC Institute, New York +1, Safe Gallery, Berlin Alptraum, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ, USA |
Bibliography,Catalogues, Interviews
Art-Focus, Contemporary Art in Israel, Cat., Curator Doron Polak, Jerusalem , 1996
Art for Peace/Spazi di Pace, Cat., Curators S. Sannipoli, D. Polak, Gubbio, 2000
Art/Omi, Ledig House, Cat., Critic in Residence Carlos Basualdo, New York, 1995
Apa, Mariano, Microcosmo-Macrocosmo, Cat., Curator M. Apa, Urbino, 1984
Baumgart, Eva, Reflessioni, Cat., Berlin, 1990
Bastarde, New Art International N.7, Paris, 1990
Macchine per ascrivere, Monograph, Bagheria, Italy, 1990
Bayliss, Sarah, Construction in Process, in World-Art N. 3/95, Melbourne, 1995
Berlin -Bialystok, Cat., Curator Monika Szewczyk, Bialystok, 1998
Black-out, Folder with 5 silkscreens, printed and produced by Arte y Naturaleza,
Madrid, 2005
Brafman, Ora, Interviews Mimmo Catania, in Kolbo 23.2.96, Haifa, 1996
La Casa dell'Angelo, Cat., Curator Fabio Alfano, Clean Edizioni, Naples, 2001
Catania, Mimmo, From "Diary 1988-90", Weast an Art Magazine, N. 3, Berlin, 1992
Anschlaege im Schaukasten, TAZ 5.10.1985, Berlin, 1985
Ciesielska, Jolanta, Niemiecka To'zsamo's'c, Format 18/19, Wroclaw, 1995
Co-Existence, Negrev Desert, Cat., Curator Doron Polak, Israel, 1996
Crispolti-Fileccia, 2. Biennale Arte Sacra, Cat., Siracusa,Italy, 1991
Cuadernos de viaje, Review Arte y Naturaleza, Madrid, 2004
Cultur Kiosk, Détournement 2009, Venice, 2009
DaimlerChrysler-Stipendium der Casa di Goethe-Rom/1998-2002, Cat., Curator
U. Bongaerts, Rome, 2003
Dependtendency, Cat., Carlo Cambi Editore, Poggibonsi (SI), Italy, 2009
Elken Jaan, Mees, kes mäletab viiekümnendaid, Ekspress, 15/11/2009, Tallin, 2009
Fricke, Harald, in: Tageszeitung-12.2.94, Berlin, 1994
Goethe in Italia – Goethe a Roma, Editoriale' Espresso, Rome, 1999
Golden Seed, Cat., Curator M. Sidor, Book Art Museum, Lodz, 1997
Grabovac, A., Vaznije je izlagati u Sarajevu, Dnevni avaz 15.03.2009, Sarajevo, 2009
Greve, Kaspar, Pittura, Cat., Rome, 1988
Grundsteinkiste, Die, Cat., Curator Dr. Stefan Geppert, Bonn, 1996
Hock, Dorothee, Stipendiaten 1, Kultur Berichte-2/99, Bonn, 1999
Impermanenza, Cat., Curator Giancarlo Vianello, Venice, 2004
Intrude ART Issue 11, Cat., Curator Biljana Ciric, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, 2008
Jacobi, Fritz, 5. Maisalon/Kunst in Berlin, Cat., Curator A. Seyda, Bonn, 1994
Karadza, Selma, Unerwartet über die Erwarteten Ereignisse, Interview, Depo Portal,
Sarajevo, 2009
Kreis, Elfi, Vervielfaeltigungen, Der Tagesspiegel 10.2.90, Berlin, 1990
Living Mind N.1, Review, Lodz, 1993
M.C., Der Tagesspiegel 6.2.94, Berlin, 1994
Markers, an outdoor Banner event of artists and poets for Venice Biennal 2001,
Cat., Curators Doron Polak and Giancarlo Vianello, Venice, 2001 and
49.Biennale di Venezia, General Catalog, Venice, 2001
Markers 2, Electric Pole as outdoor Sculpture@ Kassel City of Documenta, Cat.,
Curator Doron Polak, Kassel, 2002
Menna, F.-Mango, L., Il fare dell'Arte, Cat., Curator Carola Marchegiani, Udine, 1987
Morgan, Robert C., Mimmo Catania's Transposition of signs/Mimmo Catanias
Transponierung der Zeichen, Cat. Schattensprung, Warsaw -Berlin, 1994
Mimmo Catania's Transposition of Signs, Cat. Art for Peace Gubbio,
Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, Gubbio, 2000
Morgan, Robert C., M.C.'s Transpositions of signs, Cat. Mimmo Catania. Reunion-Works 1982-2012, VTKT, Berlin, 2012
Museum, Cat., I Tascabili dell'Arte, Bagheria, I, 1996
Museum, Collection's general Catalog; texts by E. di Stefano, E. Crispolti, V. Fagone,
G. Dorfles, Edizioni Ezio Pagano, Bagheria, Italy, 2005
Muzeum Artystow/The Artists' Museum, Curator R. Wasko, Book, Lodz, 1996
Night Italia 2, Homo acheropitus, Review, Edizioni Jouvence, Rome, 2008
Pepper, Jens, Spreeflorenz, Neue Bildende Kunst 6.92, Berlin, 1992
Mimmo Catania, Zitty -9.93, Berlin, 1993
Poli, F., Mimmo Catania, in Le Arti News-3/4, Milan, 1983
Poles apart/Poles together, Cur. D. Polack, 51. Biennale di Venezia,
General Catalog, Venice, 2005
R.E.D. Spiegelechospiegel, Die Tageszeitung-16.2.90, Berlin, 1990
Rossi, Mariella, Il Giornale dell’Arte/The Art Newspaper. Special Issue: Vedere in Sicilia (#365, June, 2016) SOCIETÀ EDITRICE ALLEMANDI & C., Torino, 2016
Schattensprung, 11 Kuenstlerinnen und Kuenstler aus Berlin, Cat., Curator Eckhart
Gillen, Museumspaedagogischer Dienst, Berlin, 1994
Schefferski, R., 37 Przestrzeni/ 37 Raeume, Obieg-9/10, Warsaw, 1992
Wazne jest to dokad sie zmierza z M.C. (L'insistenza dimostra di non
arrendersi di fronte alle difficolta), Interview,
Obieg N.53/54, Warsaw, 1993
Seconds, Issue Nr. 10, Mimmo Catania, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, 2009
Shouting all life long, Cat. Curator Stefania Falone, Verlag für zeitgenössische
Kunst und Theorie, Berlin, 2009
Stegmayer, Benedikt, Colour, Composition and Narration, Cat. Mimmo Catania. Reunion-Works 1982-2012, VTKT, Berlin, 2012
Still the Ship is not in sight, Cat., Curators K. Koskina, D. Richter-Glueck, E. Schmidt,
Athens, 1997
Stipendiaten 1, Cat., Curator U. Bongaerts, Casa di Goethe, Rome, 1999
Strano, C., Il Fare dell'Arte, in l'Arca-Sept. 87, Milan, 1987
Tannert, Christoph, About Mimmo Catania's Meta-Realism, Cat. Storm, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, 2015
Tutsch, C., Das Rapunzel Maerchen in der Interpretation moderner Kuenstler, Cat.,
Curator I. Husemann, Brueder Grimm Museum, Kassel, 1993
Universo/Diverso-Universe/Diverse, Esodo N. 4, Venice 2002
Varblane, Reet, Man who remember, Cat. Mimmo Catania. Reunion-Works 1982-2012, VTKT, Berlin, 2012
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Vergine d'oliva, Cat., Curator Vito Caiati, Edizioni Geo arte Contemporanea, Bari, 2003
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Rome-Venice, 1995
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Foundation, New York, 2004
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WU Chen, Fall winds blowing at the windchimes, sh.eastday.com, Shanghai, 2008