Giorgio Andreotta Calò

Giorgio Andreotta Calò (1979, Venice, Italy) lives and works between Italy and the Netherlands. His research revolves around an intense crossover dimension as a way of approaching his work, developed through a process of withdrawing fragments from reality and the reappropriation of architecture, landscape and his own history. Andreotta Calò comes to create works that cross boundaries between sculpture, actions and direct architectural intervention. Therefore, the artwork presented to the public is never a specially-made object or simply the result of a project, but rather a time process immersed in a physical matter and space, taking its "form" from the environment with which it interacts and from the energies released within. His artworks may be interpreted as "active residues" of processes and actions that have taken place in a specific time and space.

Andreotta Calò studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (1999-2005), graduating with a thesis on Gordon Matta-Clark, and at the Kunsthochschule Berlin (2003-2004). Between 2001 and 2007 he was assistant to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Residencies include the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (2009-2011); Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Villa Arson, Nice (2012); and ISCP, New York (2013-2014). He currently holds the sculpture chair at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

Solo exhibitions include Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2024); In Girum Imus Nocte, Museo MAN, Nuoro (2024); Remoto, Musei Civici di Verona (2022); ΊΚΑΡΟΣ (ICARUS), ZERO..., Milan (2022); Ellissi, LabOratorio degli Angeli, Bologna (2020); Annunciazione, Sprovieri, London (2019); CITTÀDIMILANO, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2019); Anastasis (ἀνάστασις), Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2018); 5122,65 miles, DEPART Foundation, Los Angeles (2016); La scultura lingua morta (III), Sprovieri, London (2015).

Group exhibitions include Il mondo magico, Italian Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale (2017); Everybody Talks About The Weather, Fondazione Prada, Venice (2023); Rethinking Nature, Museo Madre, Naples (2021-22); Litosfera, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (2020-21); ILLUMInazioni, 54th Venice Biennale (2011); Ritratto dell'artista da giovane, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli (2014); Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2012, MAXXI, Rome (2012).