EDUCATION

1992-94
Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1985-89
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy
1983-85
Istituto d’Arte Beato Angelico, Milan, Italy
WORK EXHIBITED
(*solo exhibitions)

2016
Haunted (procession)
LottoZero
Prato, Italy
You Consider that a mask (scape)
Kunsthalle Eurocenter Lana (Festival Transart)
Bolzano, Italy
Shhh be quiet (Knitown) (mise en scène)*
Missoni via Solferino 9
Milano, Italy
2014
Your Song (dj set)*
Spazio Maliparmi
Milano, Italy
Aliens (illegal aliens)
Materia
MUST Museo del territorio
Vimercate, Italy
The last to be removed is the first to be placed (installation)
The Soft House (curated by Beppe Finessi)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Milano, Italy
Three of us (crochet works)
Italian Design Beyond the Crisis Autarky, Austerity, Autonomy
Museo della Triennale
Milano, Italy
2013
Get your own little place and lose it (werk)
Benny and Javier Ninja
Peter Pan Club
Riccione, Italy
May I come in? (illegal aliens)
Nero Fumo di Cinzia Ruggeri
Edolo27
Milano, Italy
Do not avoid the inevitable (face)
Immagini d’Io (curated by Tam/Tam)
Museo della Triennale
Milano, Italy
Face (photograph)
With a little help from my friends Museo MAGA
Gallarate, Italy
2012
Les Yeux sont la quand ils voient (mise en scène)*
Galerie Paul Bovee (curated by Fondation Tanagra)
Delemont Switzerland
Hear the Drums (dj set)*
Musee des Arts Decoratifs
Paris, France
2011
In and out (crochet)
Filo di segno Opposto: Museo del Ricamo e del Tessile
Valtopina, Italy
If you complain once more you’ll meet an army of me ((illegal aliens)
Future Pass - From Asia to the World (curated by Victoria Lu, Renzo di Renzo, Felix Schober)
Fondazione Buziol (54th Venice Biennial)
Venice, Italy
Voices in my head (dj set)*
Fondazione Buziol (Notte Bianca)
Venice, Italy
2010
Learn from the Spider make your own web (installation)
20+10 Il Museo dei Musei, Museo Teo
Lambretto Art Project
Milano, Italy
If you stay still you sweat less (performance)*
Missoni, Università Statale
Milano, Italy
The Drop (mise en scène)*
Le Case d’Arte
Milano, Italy
In tasca l’uncinetto e’ piu leggero del martello (strut)*
Le Case d’Arte
Milano, Italy
Dopo Le cause prima delle conseguenze (mise en scène)*
Museum Triennale Bovisa
Milano, Italy
Aliens (illegals aliens)
Enliven-In Between Realities and Fiction-Animamix Biennial 2009-2010 (curated by Victoria Lu)
Today Art Museum
Beijing, China
2009
Gli Occhi sono li dove vedono, le cose sono li dove le vedo (photographs)
“Faccia Pure”
Galleria Luisa delle Piane
Milano, Italy
Gli Occhi sono li dove vedono, le cose sono li dove le vedo (photographs)
Dritto e Rovescio
Museo della Triennale Milano
Milano, Italy
Adoption Event (illegal aliens)*
Studio Simonelli
Milano, Italy
2008
You play you lose you play you win you play (performance)
DayDreamFields (curated by Andrea Lissoni)
Fondazione Buziol
Venice, Italy
Aliens (illegal aliens)
AnimaMix Biennial (curated by Victoria Lu)
Moca Museum of Contemporary Art
Shangai, China
2007
Come closer (Adoption Event)*
Mediateca degli Atellani
Milan, Italy
Ghosts (mise en scène)
Pitti Immagine, Stazione Leopolda
Florence, Italy
Above is my crochet (mise en scène)*
Spazio Vivienne Westwood
Milano, Italy
2006
YouCanLiveOrYouCanDieThereIsNoTimeToWonderWhy (mise en scène)
in MIXMilano Fashion Trade Show
Fabbrica del Volo
Milan, Italy
Adoption night (illegal aliens)*
Piazzale Loreto, 1
Milan, Italy
2005
On your bed (mise en scène)
Fuori Mano curated by M.Dell’Angelo and A. Boccola
Boffalora
Milan, Italy
IllegalAliens Everywhere OneOfAKindPleaseBeKind (adoption event)*
Spazio Lima
Milan, Italy
IllegalAliens (illegal aliens)*
Ristorante Orti di Leonardo Fondazione Stelline
Milan, Italy
2004
Aliens (illegal aliens)
Airport Gift Shop Terminal 5 (project by Tobias Wong)
JFK Airport, New York
NY, USA
Vive la difference (mise en scène)*
dedicated to Quintin Crisp
Galeries Lafayette Mason
Paris, France
2003
Aliens next to Yoko (illegal aliens)
Property Design Store
New York, NY, USA
2000
Till we burn us apart (a dance with Renee Turner)
W.139 Gallery
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Blues (visual poetry)
Museum of Modern Art Manhattan Artists' Books (280718)
New York, USA
1998
Dispossess (illegal aliens)*
dedicated to Yoko Ono
Bloomingdales’s
New York, NY, USA
1997
S.Rocco (fresco)*
San Rocco Church
Piateda (SO), Italy
1996
I let you see me (animation)
Ovideo1 traveling exhibition trough Europe
1995
De betekenis van het tekenen (drawings)
Rijksakademie
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Box (visual poetry)
Centre Pompidou Kandinsky Library Livre d'artiste
Paris, France
1994
Poems + Imaginary friend (visual poetry)
Notizie Palazzo Massari
Ferrara, Italy
EmpyWords (visual poetry)
Notizie Sala Malapaga
Trento, Italy
That night he could not make it (video)
International Animation Festival, Aachener FilmHaus,
Aachen, Germany
Heart’s beat (performance and sound)*
Le Temps Perdu
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
I would talk to you if you were not blind (drawings)*
Le Temps Perdu
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Brown (visual poetry)*
Le Temps Perdu
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Box (visual poetry)
Artist Book Exhibition
Museum Mermanno Westernianum
Den Haag, The Netherlands
Box (visual poetry)
Museum of Modern Art Manhattan Artists' Books (L24646 A12a)
New York, USA
This is all i have to tell you (mise en scène)
Fragile (curated by Diego Esposito)
Mercato Austro~Ungarico
Crema, Italy
Blue room (mise en scène)*
Rijksakademie
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1993
The Ungainly Band in concert (sound performance)*
Rijksakademie
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Light's concert ((mise en scène)*
Rijksakademie
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1990
Eraclito’s river (mise en scène)*
Val di Sella Borgo Valsugana
Trento, Italy
Pinocchi (mise en scène)
Galleria Civica
Trento, Italy
1989
Animals in single line (mise en scène)*
Accademia di Brera
Milan, Italy
Four Blues (installation)
Museo della Triennale
Milan, Italy

GRANTS

1993
Rijksakademie
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1992
N.U.F.F.I.C.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

COLLABORATIONS

2015
Bijou for Kevin
with Jean Marc Arnaude
2014
Apparitions
with Max Siedentopf
Namib, Africa
2010
L’anima delle cose
with Francesca Rigotti
Francavilla a Mare, Italy
2008
Abito in Periferia
Quarto Oggiaro, Italy
2007
Family dress
with Radio DeeJay and do-knit-yourself
Stazione Leopolda, Firenze, Italy
2005
Ghost track on electro NoWave
with Dafne Boggeri
Spazio Raum, Bologna, Italy
1996-2004
The body as a site for inquiry
with Kevin Aviance
New York (at night), USA
1993
Variation on the Scene
with Joan Jonas
Podewil, Berlin, Germany
100 Videos with candles
with Renee Turner
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1992
My memory of what happened is not what happened
with Joan Jonas and Renee Turner
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1989-1991
Use and Take Care
with Chiara Bianchi
Milano, Italy

ONGOING PROJECTS

from 1995
Ephemeral, Crochet, Body Ornaments
YouCanLiveOrYouCanDieThereIsNoTimeToWonderWhy
from 1996
IllegalAliens
 

WORKSHOPS

2012
Visual Poetry Words
NABA Milano Italy
2010
Talking hands
Triennale Bovisa, Milano, Italy
2009
Philosophy of every day life
Convegno sulla filosofia della vita quotidiana
Millesimo, Savona Italy
Id~entita’
Fondazione Buziol
Venice Italy
Cina Fuori Dogana
(with students from school: S.Cuore di Gesu’ di Monza)
Milan Italy
2008
Abito in Periferia (with Gisella Bassanini)
Metrocult Biennial-Biennale delle buone pratiche e dei progetti di cultura metropolitana
Politecnico Bovisa, Milan, Italy
Grembiulizzati (with Caterina Filice)
Dal Dire al Fare Salone della responsabilita’ Sociale
Universita Statale Milan, Italy
2007
I like it to be a veil
NABA Milan Italy

ACADEMIC

from 2014
Course Leader, Master of Arts in Fashion & Textile
NABA, Milan, Italy
2011/2013
Advisor, Master of Arts in Fashion & Textile
NABA, Milan, Italy
2007/2008
Lecturer, Methodology of Design III B.A.
NABA, Milan, Italy
2008/2009
Lecturer, Methods Tools and Materials III B.A.
NABA, Milan, Italy