vita

Mimmo Catania
1955 Born in Vittoria, Italy 1980-84 Studied painting and received an MA, from the Accademia di Belle Arti, Urbino Has lived and worked in Berlin, since 1984
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
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 M.C. 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 (Open Studio), Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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, Krakow 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, Lichthaus, 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 Tautologija i utjeha, Radobolja Colony, Mostar, BiH
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 DaimlerChrysler-Stipendium der Casa di Goethe-Rom/1998-2002, Cat., Curator U.Bongaerts, Rome, 2003 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 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 Jacobi, Fritz, 5. Maisalon/Kunst in Berlin, Cat., Curator A. Seyda, Bonn, 1994 Kreis, Elfi, Vervielfaeltigungen, Der Tagesspiegel 10.2.90, Berlin, 1990 M.C., Der Tagesspiegel 6.2.94, Berlin, 1994 Living Mind N.1, Review, Lodz, 1993 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 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 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 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 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 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 Varga, M., Anteprima 81, Cat., Curator M. Varga, Urbino, 1981 Vergine d'oliva, Cat., Curator Vito Caiati, Edizioni Geo arte Contemporanea, Bari, 2003 Vianello, Giancarlo, Il Nulla Liberato, Immagini Buddhiste, Edizioni Paramita, Rome-Venice, 1995 Volk, Gregory, Site-Ations, World Art 1/95, Melbourne, 1995 Wandering Library, an Artists' Book's Event to Mark the Venice Biennale, Curator D. Polak, Tel Aviv- Venice, 2003 Wandering Library at 1. Lodz Biennal, Cat., Curator D. Polack, The Topor Family Foundation, New York, 2004 Witte, Barthold C., M.C. in Stipendiaten 1. Cat., Casa di Goethe, Rome, 1999 Wolff, Detlef, Der Kunsthorizont kennt keine Grenzen, Weser Kurier-July, Bremen, 1997
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