Stefano Cagol (b. in Trento, 1969) lives and works in Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy.
He studied at the Brera Academy in Milan and Ryerson University in Toronto with a post-doctoral fellowship from the Government of Canada. Recipient of the Italian Council (2019) of the Italian Ministry of Culture and awards such as the Visit of E.on Stiftung and the Terna for Contemporary Art, he works in the fields of Conceptual Art, Environmental Art, Eco-Art and Land Art, reflecting for years on borders, viruses, flags and climate issues. He participated in the 55th Venice Biennale, Manifesta 11, 14th Curitiba Biennale, 2nd OFF Cairo Biennale, 1st Xinjiang Biennale, Barents Art Triennale 2013 and 1st Singapore Biennale. He did solo exhibitions at museums such as the CCA Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv (2021), MA*GA in Gallarate (2019), Galleria Civica di Trento/Mart (2016), ZKM Karlsruhe (2012) and Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (2000).In 2022, realizes a performance in the exhibition “Macht! Licht!” at the Wolfsburg Museum (Germany), participates in the pavilion of Perak state of Malaysia as a collateral event at the Venice Biennale, in “The State-of-the-art Science” series by IBSA Foundation in collaboration with MASI museum in Lugano (Switzerland), in Bergen (Norway) does a residency at BEK and a solo video screening at Kunsthall 3.14, and the Gallery of Modern Art of Verona devotes to him the Primaparete solo exhibition through September 30th. He has initiated and curated the project “We are the Flood. Liquid platform on the climate crisis, anthropocenic interactions and ecological transition” of MUSE Science Museum in Trento (Italy).
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