Chiara Fumai

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Born 1978, Rome, IT, lives and works in Milan, IT.

Solo exhibitions

2016
The Book of Evil Spirits, waterside contemporary, London, UK
2015
Der Hexenhammer, curated by Frida Carazzato, Museion, Bolzano, IT

2014
With Love from $inister / С любовью от $инистера, curated by Andray Parshikov, Victoria Gallery, Samara, RU

2013
With Love from $inister, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, IT
Follow This You Bitches, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Futura Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
I Did Not Say or Mean "Warning", curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, IT

2011
Valerie Solanas non è nata ieri / Valerie Solanas wasn't bon yesterday, curated by Antonella Marino, Muratcentoventidue, Bari, IT
There Is Something You Should Know, curated by Andrea Lissoni, Nomas Foundation, MACRO Testaccio, Rome, IT

2008
Tutto Giusto (All Right), curated by Chiara Agnello, Careof - DOCVA, Milan, IT

Group exhibitions


2016
Premio VAF, MARCO, Rome, IT
Premio VAF, Kiel Standgalerie, Kiel, DE
Premio VAF, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, DE
PUNK. Its Traces in Contemporary Art, curated by David G. Torres, MACBA, Barcelona, ES

2015
Nascent States, waterside contemporary, London, UK
Growing Roots - 15 anni del Premio Furla, curated by Chiara Bertola, Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT
PUNK. Its Traces in Contemporary Art, curated by David G. Torres, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, ES
DZ Hosts the Violet Crab – Nights of Cabaret at DRAF, curated by Than Hussein Clark, Vincent Honoré and Nicoletta Lambertucci, with special guest Milovan Farronato., DRAF, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
A Rose has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, curated by Andrey Parshikov, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, IT
Contour 7, curated by Nicola Setari, Mechelen, BE
Waiting for the Accident to Happen, curated by Antonella Croci, Screenspace, Melbourne, AU
Towards the Object, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, HR
Secret Agent, curated by Hemera Collective, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
Suite Rivolta - Carla Lonzi's Feminism and the Art of Revolt, curated by Anna Daneri and Giovanna Zapperi, Museu da Eletricidade, Lisbon, PT
PUNK. Its Traces in Contemporary Art, curated by David G. Torres, Artium, Araba, ES
Susy Culinski & friends, curated by Beatrice Marchi, Fantaspazio, Milano, IT
Mychorial Theatre Open House, curated by Paulina Olowska and Milovan Farronato, Villa Kadenowka, Rabka, PL
Mychorial Theatre Open House, curated by Paulina Olowska and Milovan Farronato, Villa Kadenowka, Rabka, PL
UK
PUNK. Its Traces in Contemporary Art, curated by David G. Torres, ARTIUM Baque Museum Center of Contemporary Arts, Araba, ES

2014
PER/FORM, How To Do Things With [Out] Words, with Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Mathieu Abonnenc, Carole Douillard, Camille Henrot, Haroon Mirza, et al., curated by Chantal Pontbriand, CA2M Centro d'Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, ES
When Elephants come marching in, with Melanie Bonajo, Taf Hassam, Michael Stubbs and al., curated by Mark Kremer, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, NL
The Yellow Side of Sociality. Italians Artists in Europe, with Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marinella Senatore, Ettore Spalletti, Franz West et al., curated by Nicola Setari, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE
'Semiotics of the Kitchen', What Happened After, with Irene Fortuyn, Amalia Pica, Martha Rosler, Sue Tompkins et al., Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
Open Museum Open City, curated by Hou Hanru, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, IT
Double Vision, curated by Gaia Tedone, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Due o tre cose che so di lei, Teatro delle Esposizioni #5, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano, Villa Medici, Rome, IT
Italy in SongEun: We Have Never Been Modern, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai, Angelo Gioè, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, KR
Lezioni d’Italiano, curated by Milovan Farronato, Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK
Open Museum Open City, curated by Hou Hanru, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT

2013
Arimortis, with Alfredo Aceto, Matteo Guarnaccia, Laura Matei, Laura Matei and al., curated by Roberto Cuoghi and Milovan Farronato, Museo del Novecento, Milan, IT
Add Fire. IX Furla Art Prize, with Thomas De Luca, Invernomuto, Davide Stucchi, Diego Tonus, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol and Bart van der Heide, Ex Ospedale degli Innocenti, Bologna, IT
I remember it differently from you, curated by Andrey Parshikov, Museon Arts Park, Moscow, RU
Lecture-Performance. New Artistic formats, Places, Practices and Behaviours, curated by Manuel Olveira, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, ES
Lecture Performance – Between Art and Academia, curated by Anna Holm, Overgarden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK

2012
dOCUMENTA (13), curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Karlsaue and Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, DE
Io, Tu, Lui, Lei. Una mostro eterosessuale, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
House of Voltaire, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

2011
Intermission, curated by Virginija Januskeviciute, CAC Vilnius, Survival Kit Festival, Riga, LV
I eat fish although I don’t eat fish performance i.c.w., with Audrey Cottin, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas, Jeu de Paume, Paris, Paris, FR
Volcano Extravaganza, with Loukia Alavanou, Arabeschi Di Latte, Alessandro Di Giampietro, Anna Franceschini, Paolo Gonzato, Christian Holstad, Runa Islam, Liliana Moro, Igor Muroni, Dragana Sapanjos, Sissi, Matthew Stone, Jessica Warboys, curated by Milovan Farronato, Rita Selvaggio, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli Island, Stromboli Island, IT
A Ruota Libera, curated by Chiara Agnello, Milovan Farronato, Maxxi National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, IT
A Ruota Libera, curated by Chiara Agnello, Milovan Farronato, Maxxi, Rome, IT
Agora Não (Not Yet), curated by Filipa Ramos. António Contador, The Barbershop, Lisbon, PT

2010
Videoreport Italia 2008-2009, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Galleria Civica di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, IT
MashUp, curated by Trama21, Ar.ri.vi., Archivio Ricerca Video, Milano, IT
Gemine Muse, curated by Antonella Marino, Palazzo Mincuzzi, Bari, IT
HaVE A LoOk! HAve a LOok! HaVE A LoOk!, curated by FormContent, Form Content, London, UK
Persona in meno (Person in less), curated by E. Cooke, A. Campens, C. Fitzpatrick, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene!d’Alba, Torino, IT
Videoprogetto Roma–Birmingham, curated by G. Gaspari, V. Checchia, C. Jones, 26CC, Roma; Grand Union, Birmingham, Roma, Birmingham, UK
Lo Spazio Bianco, curated by Sabrina Vedovotto, Cecilia Casorati, 26CC, Roma, IT
Gemine Muse, curated by Antonella Marino, Palazzo Mincuzzi, Bari, IT

2009
Ekstatic Auditoria, curated by Gabriel Lester, Claire Todd, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
A camel is a horse designed by the committee, curated by Anna Daneri, Stefano Coletto, Cesare Pietroiusti, Fondazione Buziol, Venice, IT
Videoit 2009. Un ponte sul Mediterraneo, curated by Francesca Di Nardo, Fondazione Merz, Fondazione Stelline, Turin, Milan, IT
Corso Aperto, curated by Anna Daneri, Cesare Pietroiusti, Fondazione Ratti, Como, IT
Equilibri Soggettivi, 45ma Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, curated by Antonio Pezzuto, Palazzo Gradari, Pesaro, IT

Performances


2015
The Violent Crab, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
PER4M, Artissima, Turin, IT

2014
Open Museum Open City, curated by Hou Hanru, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT
Double Vision, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Shut Up, Acutally Talk, Notthingham Contemporary, Notthingham, UK
Teatro delle Esposizioni #5, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano, Villa Medici, Rome, IT
Lezioni d'Italiano, curated by Milovan Farronato, Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK

2013
Lecture-Performance. New Artistic Formats, Places, Practices and Behaviours, curated by Manuel Olveira, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, ES
Lecture Performance. Between Art and Academia, curated by Anna Holm, Overgarden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
The Criminal Woman, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, IT
I Did Not Say or Mean Warning, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, IT

2012
The Moral Exhibition House, including: Shut Up, Actually Talk and The Prodigy of Nature, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, DE

2011
There Is Something You Should Know, curated by Andrea Lissoni, MACRO Testaccio, Rome, IT
Free Like the Speech of a Socialist, House of Extravaganza, Stromboli, IT

2009
A camel is a horse designed by the committee, curated by Anna Daneri, Stefano Colletto, Cesare Pietroiusti, Fondazione Buziol, Venice, IT

2008
I’m a Junkie, Careof, DOCVA, Milano, IT

Grants and awards


2016
Premio VAF (shortlist), Fondazione VAF, Frankfurt am Main, DE

2013
Furla Art Award, Fondazione Furla, Fondazione Carisbo, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, MAMbo - The Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, Bologna, IT

Talks and presentations


2015
Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, ES

2014
Chiara Fumai reads Valerie Solanas (2013), preceded by a conversation between Arnisa Zeqo and Chiara Fumai, followed by a 'listening session' presented by noalanguageschool, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
SALON session, Dutch Art Institue, Arnhem, NL
Accademia di Belle Arti, Bari, IT
STUDIUM GENERALE, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
Rovescia Tutto, incontro con Chiara Fumai, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bari, IT

2013
Carla Lonzi, Critique d'art et féministe, Maison Rouge, Paris, FR
Moscow School of Gender Studies, MUZEON, Moscow, RU
Provvedimenti contro i fanatici, lecture di Chiara Fumai , IUAV, class of Milovan Farronato, Treviso, IT
Precautions Against Fanatics. (Maßnahmen gegen Fanatiker), Kunsthochschule Mainz, class of Andrea Buettner, Mainz, DE
Art in the City series of lectures, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

2012
Park Schoenfeld Academy, dOCUMENTA(13, Kassel, DE
Studio d(13) für Kids und Teens, dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, DE
Doing Research, EARN (European Artistic Research Network), Ständehaus, Kassel, Kassel, DE

Publications


2015
Chiara Fumai, Der Hexenhammer, by Érik Bordeleau, Museion Bozen/Bolzano, Bozen, IT
PUNK. Its Traces In Contemporary Art, by David G. Torres, Gloria Guso, Eloy Fernández Porta, Dani Castillejo, Servando Rocha, Iván López Munuera., CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, ES
Growing Roots, 15 anni del Premio Furla, by Chiara Bertola, Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT

2014
Gagarin, with Valentin Carron, Erik Van Lieshout, Oscar Murrillo, Goshka Macuga, Leo Copers, Javanne Al Ani, Sven’t Jolie, by Wilfried Huet, GAGA vzw, Antwerp. 29, BE
Open Museum Open City, by Hou Hanru, Mousse publishing, Milan, IT
The Yellow Side of Sociality. Italian Artists in Europe, BOZAR BOOKS & Silvana Editoriale, Brussels, BE
Teatro delle Esposizioni #5, Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT
PER/FORM.How To Do Things With [Out] Words, with Mathieu Abonnenc, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, Geneviève Cadieux, Adrian Dan, Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, Carole Douillard, Cevdet Erek, Köken Ergun, Esther Ferrer, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Dora García, Camille Henrot, Sandra Johnston, Latifa Laâbisi, La Ribot, Ines Lechleitner, Franck Leibovici, Cristina Lucas, Haroon Mirza, Roman Ondak, Falke Pisano, Chloé Quenum, Pedro Reyes, Julião Sarmento, Ulla von Brandenburg, Carey Young, Héctor Zamora , by ean-Pierre Cometti, Amelia Jones, Antonio Negri, Chantal Pontbriand, José Antonio Sanchez, Sternberg Press, Berlin, DE

2013
Conferencia performativa: Nuevos formatos, lugares, prácticas y comportamientos artísticos, with Fia Backström, Erick Beltrán y Bernardo Ortiz, Black Tulip, Cristina Blanco, Erik Bünger, Paco Cao, Pablo Fidalgo, Alistair Gentry, Pablo Helguera, Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Javier Peñafiel, Aimar Pérez Galí, Falke Pisano, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Tris Vonna-Michell. ., by Manuel Olveira, MUSAC/ This Side Up, Leon, ES
Add Fire: Premio Furla 2013, by Chiara Bertola (ed.), Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Francesco Garutti, Ilaria Gianni, Vincenzo Latronico, and Filipa Ramos., Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT

2012
Das Logbuch / The Logbook, by documenta und Museum Fridericianum, DE
Das Begleitbuch / The Guidebook, by Hrsg. documenta und Museum Fridericianum, DE
Io, tu, lui, lei. Una mostra eterosessuale, Associazione E, Venice, IT

2011
Agora Não (Not Yet), , Lisbon, PT

2010
Videoreport Italia 2008-2009, Monfalcone, IT
Gemine Muse, IT
Persona in meno (Person in less), Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT

2009
The girl with the blanket, Atomic Activity book n.3, by Chiara Fumai, Milan, IT
A camel is a horse designed by the committee, Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT
Videoit 2009. Un ponte sul Mediterraneo, Turin, IT
Equilibri Soggettivi, 45ma Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Fondazione Pesaro Nuovo Cinema, Rome, IT

Residencies


2014
Artist in residence at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre Brussels, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre Brussels, Brussels, BE

2013
Artist in residence at Futura Center for Contemporary Art, Futura Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ

Projects


2015
Mycorial Theatre II Open House, curated by Fiorucci Art Trust and Creative House Kadenówka, Villa Kadenówka, Rabka Zdrój, PL

Reviews


2016
Between Révolte and Self-portrait, by Carla Subrizi, Streaming Egos
Friday Dispatch, by Ilaria Puri Purini, Contemporary Art Society, January 2016

2015
Intervista con Chiara Fumai - Der Hexenhammer, by Elena Bordignon, Art Texts Pics Diary, 30 GENNATO 2015
Field Trip: The Yellow Side Of Sociality At BOZAR, Brussels, by Sineda Nunes, The Double Negative
Rossella Biscotti / Chiara Fumai, Flash Art Italia, Marzo - Aprile 2015
Parolen einer Terroristin: Chiara Fumai @ Museion Bozen, by Kunigunde Weissenegger, franzmagazine. com, January 26, 2015
Calchi e sovraimpressioni. Biscotti e Fumai al Museion, by Simone Rebora, artribune. com, 6 marzo 2015
I fantasmi dell’avvenire, by Sara Candidi, Exibart, 21 febbraio 2015
Ulrike Meinhof und ihr Poltergeist, by Heinrich Schwazer, Die Neue Sudtiroler Tageszeitung, 11 febbraio 2015
Il reale è il mistero, Intervista a Chiara Fumai, by Corinna Conci, Espoarte, 19 febbraio 2015
With Love from $inister, by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Mousse
Magic Mushrooms, by Linda Yablonski, Artforum

2014
Chiara Fumai, by Stella Bottai, Frieze, 3 March 2014
Chiara Fumai, by Marco Tagliafierro, Artforum, April 2014

2013
Chiara Fumai: “No admito que un hombre me defina cómo tiene que ser el feminismo”, by Camino Sayago, Tamtam press
Berlusconismo in the Lecture Performances of Chiara Fumai, by Emily Verla Bovino, frieze.com, 17 December 2013
Artista, guida e terrorista, by Anna D'Elia, Exibart, 31 maggio 2013
Chiara Fumai: arte al femminile. A Brescia da A Palazzo Gallery, by Sara Polotti, Espoarte, 19 december 2013

2012
Documenta 13: Conversazione con Chiara Fumai, by Antonella Marino, Premio Lum per l'arte contemporanea

Collections


Museion, Bolzano, IT
Fondazione Furla collection, Bologna, IT
Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection, London, UK
V-A-C Collection, Moscow, RU
Dena Fundation, Paris, FR

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