1969, born in Trento. Lives and works in Trentino South Tyrol, Italy
Education
1998. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada Grant Award Holder, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
1993. Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy
Solo shows
2023. Sulla materia e l’energia. Stefano Cagol, Hannah Rowan, Torino, A Pick Gallery, 2.11.2023-13.01.2024
Archeologia dell’Antropocene. Molto prima di noi e dopo, in the frame of Art Site Fest, Torino, Area Archeologica – Basilica paleocristiana di San Secondo,
Museo Lavazza, Nuvola Lavazza, 26.10-12.12.2023
We Are the Flood. Interazioni su ambiente e trasformazioni, curated by Francesca Guerisoli, Lissone, MAC Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 8.10.2023-
7.01.2024
2022.Archeology of the Anthropocene, essay by Elisa Barison, Milano, C+N Canepanery, 9.11.2022-13.01.2023
Il fato dell’energia. Ghiacci glaciali, surriscaldamento e divinazioni, curated by Emanuele Quinz, Campodenno, Castel Belasi Cultura, 27.05-30.10.2022
Il Crepaccio Instagram Show: Stefano Cagol, curated by Caroline Corbetta, @ilcrepaccio, 11-15.04.2022
2021. Primaparete: Stefano Cagol – The Diviner, curated by Patrizia Nuzzo, Verona, GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna Achille Forti, 11.12.2021-30.09.2022
2020. The Time of the Flood, curated by Giorgia Calò, Tel Aviv, CCA Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv, 12.12.2020-3.04.2021
The Time of the Flood. Beyond the myth through climate change, presented by Alessandro Castiglioni, Vienna, Palazzo Sternberg, IIC – Italian Cultural
Institute, 16-25.09.2020
Reagente, curated by Francesca Guerisoli, part of the series “Gli amici di Pietro Rossini”, Briosco, Fondazione Pietro e Alberto Rossini, 13.05-13.06.2020
2019. La Forma del Vento, Ossana, Castello di San Michele, 28.06-15.09.2019
Hyperobject. Visions btw borders, energy and ecology, curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, Gallarate, MA*GA Museum, 23.03-21.09.2019
2017. The consequences of vacua, Milano, Canepaneri Gallery, 21.09-20.10.2017
2016. 697 madri, Bondo, Antica Chiesa di San Barnaba, 17.07-17.09.2016
Abat-jour, Milano, MARS-Milan Artist Run Space, 29.06-7.07.2016
Stefano Cagol. Works 1995 | 2015, curated by Margherita de Pilati, Denis Isaia, Trento, Mart – Galleria Civica di Trento, 24.03-12.06.2016
2015. The Body of Energy (of the mind), CLB Berlin Collaboratorium, Berlin, Germany
2014. The Body of Energy (of the mind), project room, Museo MA*GA, Gallarate, Italy
2012. Sensor, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
Fight or Flight, L’Ozio, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2011. CONCILIO, Collateral Event at 54th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Chiesa di San Gallo, Venice, Italy
Stockholm Syndrome (always with you), Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York City, USA
2010. Salon, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York, USA
Undergo Alarms, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
2008. Guinea Pig, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York City, USA
2007. The Flu ID, NADiff, New Art Diffusion, Tokyo, Japan
2005. Babylon Zoo, Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy
Atomicwerk, Forte Strino, Vermiglio, ItalyLies, Platform, London, UK
2004. Irrational Exuberance, project room: video windows, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2000. Contemporanea: Stefano Cagol, MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
Spider & Empire, Galleria Estro, Padova, Italy
1999. The Cat’s Moon, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
1998. Entropia, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1996. Disintegrazione, Galerie der Berchtold Villa, Salzburg, Austria
Fattore Artificiale – Dirbtinis Faktorius, Arka Galerija, Vilnius, Lithuania
1995. Sex-Net-Mort Nuclèaire, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria
Solo projects
2015. Be-diversity, curatorial project, MUSE Science Museum, Trento, Italy
The Body of Energy (of the mind), participative action, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Body of Energy (of the mind), participative action, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
The Body of Energy (of the mind), participative action, Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Italy
The Body of Energy (of the mind), participative action, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
The Body of Energy (of the mind), participative action, Madre. Museo Arte Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
The Body of Energy (of the mind), participative action, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
The Body of Energy (of the mind), participative action, Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
BE-DIVERSITY, NAB – New Art Building, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2013. The End of the Border (of the mind), public art project, installation / action, Diga del Vajont, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Italy
2012. C, permanent installation, Jenny Collection, Via ventura 15, Milan, Italy
Novus Atlas, permanent public art installation, Martino Martini educational complex, Mezzolombardo, Italy
Love affair (a dialogue of light), site-specific installation for Start Up. Guardiamoci Intorno: Galleria dello Scudo, Piazza delle Erbe, Verona, Italy
FLOWER FEAR – SLEEP TERROR, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
Evoke Provoke (the border), for Media Facade Video Program – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Italy
Vogelgrippe Kuhlraum, public art installation, Westergasfabriek Cultuur Park, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2011. Tridentum, permanent public art installation, A22 gate, Trento, Italy
2010. Power of Recall, public art installation, Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza, Italy
Stefano Cagol / A week display, Fondazione Galleria Civica-Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità, Trento, Italy
2009. 11 settembre, installation, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
11 settembre, installation, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
11 settembre, installation, MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
Booom. Flu Power Flu, informal debate, Beursschouwburg kunstencentrum, Brussels, Belgium
2008. Light Dissolution (of the borders), parallel event, Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy
Süd-Tirol ist nicht Italien, cover project for Exibart magazine, Manifesta 7 Issue, Italy
White Flag, installation, Monte Finonchio, Calliano, Trentino, Italy
2007. Babylon Garden, installation, Prader Bank, Trento, Italy
Freier Vogel, installation, Palais Pock, Bolzano, Italy
Chess Time (Time Influence), permanent installation, Parco Mignone, Bolzano, Italy
Flu Power Flu, 5-years-long installation, Beursschouwburg kunstencentrum, Brussels, Belgium
Head Flu, public art installation, Tronchetto, Venice, Italy
2006. Tokyospace: Harajuku Influences, IIC – Italian Cultural Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Power Station, satellite project, 1st Singapore Biennale, Singapore
White Flag – Bandiera Bianca, public art installation, Monte Finonchio, Trento, Italy
White Flags, permanent installation, Forte Strino, Vermiglio, Italy
Bird Flu Vogelgrippe, off project, 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Bird Flu Vogelgrippe, public art project, installation / action, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Bird Flu Vogelgrippe, public art project, installation / action, Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Italy
Bird Flu Vogelgrippe, public art project, installation / action, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Italy
2005. White Flags, performance / action, Giardini, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Heart, site-specific installation, The Passion for Learning and Knowing, Faculty of Sociology, Trento, Italy
2004. Tokyospace, video screening, A.R.T. Foundation, Superdeluxe, Tokyo, Japan
The Wedding Project, site-specific installation and web project, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Italy
2003. Diary Project 03, web project, Miami, USA
Dress the Risk, performance, Miss Italia, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
Videoartproject1, video screening, Antonioli, Milan, Italy
2002. Open studio, Leube Zementwerk, Gartenau, Austria
Diary project 02, web project, Miami and New York, USA
2001. Diary Project 01, web project, New York, USA
Group shows (selection)
2022. Far before and after us, Bergen, Kunsthall 3,14, 11-13.11.2022
Signal to the Future, Art4All, Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 30.03.2022
2021. Der 11. September ist die Mutter aller Daten!. (September 11 is the mother of all dates), curated by Stefan Bidner, Vienna, Semmelweis-Frauenklinik, Parallel Vienna, 11.09.2021
2020. Die Zeit der Flut, part of Interventions, curated by Stefan Bidner, Vienna, Rudolf Sallinger Platz, Parallel Vienna, 22.09.2020
Signal to the Future, for the International Day of Light, supported by Water Light Festival, Bressanone, Piazza del Duomo, 16.05.2020
Il Tempo del Diluvio: Universo. Rogo. Oltre, part of Maggio dei Monumenti – Giordano Bruno 20/20: la visione oltre le catastrofi, Napoli, 02-31.05.2020
2019. Banal Lola Party, Bologna, Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio, 01.02.2019
2018. The Body of Energy. Reggia di Caserta, Caserta, Reggia di Caserta, 10.11.2018
The Body of Energy. Palermo, in the frame of Art & Connectography: Remapping the Global World through Art Practice, Manifesta 12 Collateral Event
curated by Arts & Globalization, Palermo, Piazza Magione, 16.06.2018
Media Façade: Stefano Cagol, Evoke Provoke (the border), curated by Frida Carazzato,
2017.Landscape of Loss.The Exhibition for the UN conference on Climate change, COP23, curated by C. Kleiner, Rachel Rits-Volloch, Berlin, The Ministry of Environment.
Biennale. Le latitudini dell’arte, Genova, Palazzo Ducale
Una visione Oltre, Adria, Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Adria
2016. Global Learning, curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, Francesca Chiara, Lorena Giuranna, Gallarate, MA*GA
Aftermieter / Lodgers, curated by Veit Loers, Kerpen, Köln, Haus Mödrath – Räume für Kunst
Trägerstoffe, curated by Felix Fischer, Düsseldorf, Onomato Künstlerverein
Idioma, Bolzano, Museion, 10.03-9.04.2017
2015. Collezionare per un domani: nuove opere a Museion, Museion. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Italy
Nature, Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy
Flow, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy
Visit 2010-2015. Die Stipendiaten der RWE Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Smach: Confini, San Martin De Tor, Italy
Visioni Contemporanee, Museo Pecci, Milan, Italy; SPSI Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Politics of Water, Kumho Museum, South Korea
2014. After image, Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy
The Politics of Water, Pohang Museum, South Korea
Portable Nation, Fondazione Pescheria-Centro Arti Visive, Pesaro, Italy
Visioni Contemporanee, Certosa di San Giacomo, Capri, Italy
The Xinjiang Biennale: New Art on the Silk Road, Urumqi, China
TIME::CODE, White Box Art Center, New York, USA
2013. Maldives Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Twenty for one, Loft Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
Twenty for one, special project of 5th Moscow Biennale, Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Name, the Nose, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo, Italy
ARType, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy
Fernsicht. Reiserouten Tiroler und Trentiner Künstler von 1800 bis heute, Stadtmuseum Bruneck, Italy
Art Jungle, La Venaria Reale. Giardini della Reggia. Gran Parterre, Turin, Italy
Barents Art Triennale, Kirkens, Norway
Lavoro – work – vore, SPAC (Spazi Pubblici Arte Contemporanea), Buttrio, Italy
2012. Video Arte Italiano: 2004-2012, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Amerikkka the beautiful, White Box, New York, USA
La magnifica ossessione, Mart – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
Piccolo Festival dell’Arte, University of Trento, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Trento, Italy
Alpenrepublik, Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria
Macello Butch-ennal, via Macello 47, Bolzano, Italy
Gap, Generazioni a confronto, MAXXI B.A.S.E., Rome, Italy
2011. Grrr(eece) & Hmmm, ReMap, Athens, Greece
Ename Actueel: Sediment, Pam, Ename-Oudenaarde, Belgium
Anteprima, Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy
Pino Pascali. Ritorno a Venezia. Puglia Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo Bianchi Michiel, Venice, Italy
Il Giardino Segreto, Convento di S. Scolastica, Bari, Italy
Look. ‘800 versus ‘900, MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
Mind the Map!, Barents Spektakel, Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes, Norway
2010. Suspensions of Disbelief, Other Gallery, Shanghai, China
Cento anni di imprese per l’Italia. Centenario Confindustria, Ara Pacis, Milan, Italy
Art//Tube, Galleria Civica Cavour, Padova, Italy
Bittersweet: the chocolate show, The Paul Robeson Galleries. Rutgers University, Newark, USA
New A22 gate in Trento, Fondazione Galleria Civica-Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità, Trento, Italy
Stirrings Still, White Box, New York City, USA
There is no flag large enough, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, USA
Intramoenia Extra Art. Miraggi, Castello Aragonese, Taranto, Italy
Contemporary Energy. Italian Attitudes, SUPEC – Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
Queens Move, White Box Satellite at the Juvenal Reis Studios and Residencies, Long Island City, New York, USA
Open Studios. 15th anniversary special, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, USA
Cento anni di imprese per l’Italia. Centenario Confindustria, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy
Aktuelle Positionen Italienischer Kunst. Premio Agenore Fabbri, Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany
Here and Now. Bologna Art First, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy
2009. Terna Prize 02, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo; Tempio di Adriano, Rome, Italy
Into the Light, Error One, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
Cimatics Festival, Beursschouwburg kunstencentrum, Brussels, Belgium
The Forgotten Bar, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
Incontri d’aria, Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy
Universalkode: Stefano Cagol, Arthur Kostner, Galerie Gefängnis Le Carceri, Caldaro, Italy
National Day, The Ever Mass Land by Nadine, Brussels, Belgium
2008. Loss of Control. Abschiedsausstellung: Jan Hoet, MARTa Herford, Germany
TINA B. The Prague Contemporary Art Festival. Petrin Tower, Prague, Czech Republic
Invisible Cities, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
The Peekskill Project, HVCCA – Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA
Insiumus, Progjet utopie, Colonos, Udine, Italy
Genius Loci, Fortezza Umberto I, Isola Palmaria, La Spezia, Italy
Fragile, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
Eurasia, MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
Arrivals and Departures, White Box, New York, USA
Urban Landscape, Muratcentoventidue, Bari, Italy
2007. From and to, Kunst Meran – Merano Arte, Merano, Italy
Le luci dell’Arte, Auditorium di Mecenate, Rome, Italy
War, Peace and Ecstasy. Artissima, Lingotto, Turin, Italy
L.A. Auction Bellavita, New Chinatown Barbershop Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Auslaender Marathon, A4 Zero Space, Bratislava, Slovakia
Videoart Yearbook 2007, Chiostro di Santa Cristina, Bologna, Italy
Paesaggi Metropolitani, MLAC – Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Italy 1980-2007. Tendencies of the contemporary research, Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
On the Edge of Vision, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kalkota; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbay, India
2006. ZOO logical garden, Harry Malter Park, Gent, Belgium
Euronite, IIC – Italian Cultural Institute, Toronto, Canada
Videoart Yearbook 2006, Chiostro di Santa Cristina, Bologna, Italy
FairPlay. Festival delle Culture Giovani, Complesso Monumentale di Santa Sofia, Salerno, Italy
2005. Atomica. Making the invisible visible, Lombard Freid Projects; Esso Gallery, New York, USA
Pensieri sul relativismo, Villa Tonda, Ansedonia, Italy
2004. Moving Pictures. A Video Installation Survey, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
MacroVideoteca: On Air, MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Costanti Diversità. European Biennial of Visual Arts, CAMeC, La Spezia, Italy
Medioevo prossimo venturo, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo, Florence, Italy
Interfacies Asteriae, Asteria Multimedia, Trento, Italy
On Air, La Comunale, Monfalcone, Italy
Artcore International, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Stop & Stor, Luxe Gallery, New York, USA
Quadriennale Anteprima, La Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
Enter. Casoli Art Prize, Barbara Behan Gallery, London, UK
Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
2003. Piccole Belve, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo, Italy
You can find it anywhere. Visioni by Renault, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Places of Affection. Luoghi d’Affezione, IKOB – Internationales Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Eupen, Belgium
30 Jahres, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
In Faccia al Mondo, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
Foto, Galleria Rebecca Container, Genova, Italy
Warm Up, Galleria Neon, Bologna, Italy
2002. Nuovo Spazio Italiano. New Italian Space, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Italy
Video Lab. Artissima, Torino Esposizioni, Turin, Italy
Mostra d’emergenza, Galleria Civica, Castel San Pietro Terme, Italy
First International Festival of Photography. Viasatellite, Mercati Traianei, Rome, Italy
First Detroit Video Festival, Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA
2001. Künstler Brücken. Ponti d’artista, Ponte Druso, Bolzano, Italy
Panorama II, Tiroler Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck, Austria
River Run: Paesaggi in movimento, Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia, Italy
All’Esedra, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Udine, Italy
S.A.A. Strategies Against Architecture, Galleria Gian Carla Zanutti, Milan, Italy
2000. Dintorni/Umgebung, Galerie Im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
1999. Whichkraft?, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, USA
Video.it, S.Pietro in Vincoli, GAM – Gallery of Modern Art, Turin, Italy
Atlante, Atlante, geografia e storia della giovane arte italiana, MACS – Museum of Contemporary Art, Masedu, Italy
Super Mega Drops, Viafarini, Milan, Italy
1998. Laboratorio, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Italy
1997. Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy
1996. Adicere Animos, Galleria Civica, Cesena, Italy
1996. Video Forum. 2nd edition, ART 27’96, Basel, Switzerland