Ludovica Carbotta was born in Turin in 1982, Italy
Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain
Education
2014-2015
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2011-2012
MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins London, UK, Scholarship Ariane de Rothschild Prize, Milan, Italy
2008
Advanced Course in Visual Arts – Yona Friedman Visiting Professor, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
2005
BA in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Turin, Italy
Selected solo exhibitions
2021
Growing Pains, Sala Veronicas, Murcia, Spain
2020
Die Telamonen, Art Museum Graubünden, Chur, Switzerland
Objects of Defence, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2019
Monowe (The powder Room), Special Project Forte Marghera / May You Live In Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff, The 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Faustine, curated by Xavi Ristol, David Bestué and Enric Farrés Duran, Pipistrello, Baix Empordà – Catalunya, Spain
Monowe, curated by Irene Calderoni, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Monowe (The residence, the lodge, the shelter), curated by Ilaria Gianni, SmART, Rome, Italy
2018
Present Future, curated by Chloé Perrone, Juan Canela, Myriam Ben Salah, Artissima, Turin, Italy
Inches, Feet, Verse, Metre, Ludovica Carbotta – Sara Enrico Marselleria, New York, USA (NY Prize)
2017
Falsetto, Galleria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Monowe, an interview, curated by Carlo Fossati, blank, Turin, Italy
2016
Monowe, Remnants from the future, produced by Gasworks (UK), Kiosko, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Monowe / On, curated by Martina Angelotti, Public project, Bologna, Italy
2014
A motorway is a very strong wind, curated by Martina Angelotti, Care Of, Milan, Italy
2013
Ludovica non abita più qui, studio presentation in collaboration with Simone Menegoi, Via Settala, Milan, Italy
Vitrine 270°, Ludovica Carbotta, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, GAM, Turin, Italy
2011
Greater Torino. Ludovica Carbotta – Manuele Cerutti, curated by I. Calderoni, G. Bertolino, MT. Roberto, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2010
Contenuto ridotto, curated by Julia Trolp, NeroCuboProject, Rovereto, Trento, Italy
Il viaggio è andato a meraviglia. Ludovica Carbotta, Chan Arte, Genoa, Italy
campo volo. Il viaggio è andato a meraviglia, curated by Carlo Fossati, blank, Turin, Italy
2009
Costruttore di mondi molto simili al nostro, Placentia Arte, Piacenza, Italy
2007
Different Sea?, curated by Claudio Cravero, SuPalatu, Villanova Monteleone Sassari, Italy
Selected group exhibitions
2019
May You Live In Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff, The 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
XV edition of Fotonoviembre, Myths of the Near Future, directed by Laura Vallés Vílchez, Museum TEA, Tenerife, Spain
Non-Places and the Spaces in Between, curated by Ylinka Barotto, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, New York, USA
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Open Sessions 12, curated by Rosario Guiraldes and Lisa Sigal, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Tercero Ato: o Verso, curated by Jéssica Varrichio and Guilherme Giufrida, Museu do Louvre Pau Brazyl, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2018
Future Ruins, curated by Davide Daninos, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Te toca a ti, curated by Laura Vallés Vílchez, Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló, Spain
a…is alter(ed): Open Sessions 12, curated by Rosario Guiraldes and Lisa Sigal, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Ineditos 2018 Regreso al futuro, curated by Rafael Barber Cortell, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
That’s IT, curated by Lorenzo Balbi, MAMBO, Bologna, Italy
Open Studios, ISCP, New York, USA
Open Studios, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, the Netherlands
2017
Thinking Songs of Things, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, 8th edition curated by_vienna, Mario Mauroner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Trigon 67/17, curated by Jürgen Dehm and Sandro Droschl, Künstlerhaus , Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
A house, halfway, curated by Andrew de Brún, Inês Geraldes Cardoso, Kateryna Filyuk, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2016
Premio ITALIA - MAXXI 2016, curated by Giulia Ferracci, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
There is no place like home, curated by Stanislao Di Giugno, Giuseppe Pietroniro, Daniele Puppi, Marco Raparelli and Alessandro Cicoria, Houseboat Project, Rome, Italy
Urban Mining / Rigenerazioni Urbane, curated by Michele Dantini, Carolina Italiano, Adachiara Zevi, Emma Zanella, Alessandro Castiglioni, Lorena Giuranna e Alessio Schiavo, MAGA Gallarate, Milan, Italy
If I were you, I’d call me Us, curated by Elisa Strinna and Elena Forin, Galleria Massimo De Luca, Mestre Venice, Italy
Art Situacions, curated by Ilaria Gianni, Maria De Corral, Vicente Todolì and Lorena Martínez de Corral, Matadero Madrid, Spain
2015
Susy Culinski & friends, a project by Beatrice Marchi, Fanta Spazio, Milan, Italy
Art Situacions, curated by Ilaria Gianni, Maria De Corral, Vicente Todolì and Lorena Martínez de Corral, Villa Croce Genova, Macro, Rome, Italy
SPIN-OFF, Centro de Arte Contemporanea de Quito, Ecuador, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Ce l’ho, mi manca, Museo Mandralisca, Cefalù, Sicily, Italy
Degree Show, MFA Goldsmiths University, London, UK
Patientes Politicos, Espai Colona, Barcelona, Spain / Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
Cura, Camec, La Spezia, Italy
Grand Domestic Revolution, curated by Martina Angelotti e Silvia Simoncelli, in collaboration with Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht - Yolande van der Heide, Careof, Milan, Italy
Arte in Memoria 8, curated by Adachiara Zevi, Sinagoga di Ostia Antica, Ostia, Rome, Italy
2014
Panta rei, tutto si trasforma, curated by Federica Forti, Museo Civico del Marmo, Carrara, Italy
DIVERSI MURI. UN OMAGGIO A N.O.F.4 - Oreste Fernando Nannetti, curated by Egija Inzule and Cesare Pietroiusti, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Italy
What’s cooking, curated by Anne Koskiluoma & Tanja Trampe, Museum Bärengasse / Gasthaus zum Bären, Zurich, Switzerland
No music was playing, curated by Daniele Balit, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, Paris, France
Killing Floor, studio / A motorway is a very strong wind, curated by Carlo Fossati, blank - e/static, Turin, Italy
Non potendomi arrampicare sulle nuvole, presi per le colline, curated by Eva Fabbris, Galleria Civica Valdagno, Vicenza, Italy
2013
Vitrine Alle radici della democrazia, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Osmosis, a project by Luiss Master of Art, Stazione Tiburtina, Rome, Italy
Artists' Film Club: Walking Sideways, curated by Elsa Coustou, Lucia Garavaglia and Alana Kushnir, ICA, London, UK
2012
Young London, curated by Tara Cranswick, V22 The Biscuit Factory, London, UK
Sotto la strada, la spiaggia, curated by Benoit Antille, Michele Fiedler, Andrey Parshikov, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
MA Fine Art 2012 Central Saint Martins INTERIM SHOW, V22 The Biscuit Factory, London, UK
Take The Leap, Peep-Hole Annual Benefit, Peep Hole, Milan, Italy
Neve chimica, curated by Lorenzo Balbi, organized by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Casa Olimpia, Sestriere, Italy
Silverstein annual, invited by Alberto Salvadori, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, USA
2011
Aghilysti, Gum Studio, Artissima Lido, Torino, Italy
Dublin Contemporary 2011, Terrible Beauty - Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, curated by Jota Castro, Christian Viveros Fauné, Dublin, Ireland
Ariane de Rothschild Prize 2011, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Terre vulnerabili, curated by Chiara Bertola, Andrea Lissoni, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Emerging talents 2011, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS), Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2010
Argonauti, curated by Andrea Bruciati, ArtVerona, Verona, Italy
Fort/Da, curated by Alis/Filliol, Cars, Omegna, Italy
Il migliore dei mondi possibili, Conduits, Milan, Italy
Un archivio storico: quattro interpretazioni, curated by Francesca Pagliuca, Unicredit Studio, Milan, Italy
21x21:21 artisti X il 21° secolo, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Titolo grosso, Cripta 747, Turin, Italy
2009
Opening. Il Balletto dell’ Esperia incontre l’arte contemporanea, curated by Lisa Parola, Cavallerizza Reale / Manica Corta, Turin, Italy
00 processo espositivo, Ludovica Carbotta – Alis/Filliol, Via Artisti, Turin, Italy
Usine de reve, curated by Cecilia Casorati, Sabrina Vedovotto, 26 cc, Rome, Italy
2008
Public Improvisations, curated by Luca Cerizza, Anna Daneri, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
Corso Aperto, curated by Luca Cerizza, Anna Daneri, Cesare Pietroiusti, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy
No Location Relocation, curated by Milovan Farronato, A.T. Kearney, Milan, Italy
Superfici Sconnesse, curated by Lisa Parola, Palazzo Barolo, Turin, Italy
Germinazioni - A new breed, curated by Norma Mangione, Chiara Canali, Alberto Zanchetta, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy
2007
Leap into the Void. Proposte XXII, curated by a.titolo, Accademia Albertina Turin, Italy
Grants and Awards
2018
New York Prize, IIC, New York, USA
2016
Special Mention Finalist Premio ITALIA, Museo MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Winner Prize Gallarate, MAGA, Gallarate, Milan, Italy
2012
Finalist Talent Prize, Talarico Editore, Rome, Italy
2011
1° Prize Ariane de Rothschild Prize, Rothschild Foundation, Milan, Italy
Finalist Talenti Emergenti, Strozzina Museum, Florence, Italy
Residencies/Workshops
2018
New York Prize residency at ISCP, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2017-2018
Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, the Netherlands
2016
Gasworks International Fellowship, Triangle Network, Kiosko, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
2014
Database Carrara Residency program, curated by Federica Forti, Carrara, Italy
Hommage to Nannetti, workshop run by Cesare Pietroiusti organized by Istituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy
Academy of Asociality, Utopian Communities. Refusal, Participation and Anarchistic Practice, run by Francis Cape, steirischer herbst, Graz, Austria
But does it float?, summer school curated by Margarida Mendes, The Barber Shop, Lisbon, Portugal
FDV Residency Program, curated by Careof, Milan, Italy
2013
The Harder You Look, curated by Nicoletta Lambertucci and Pieternel Vermoortel, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, organized by Collecting Matters (DRAF, Kadist Art Foundation, Nomas Foundation) and CAHF (S.M.A.K, Mu.ZEE,M HKA&Middelheimmuseum), London, UK
2011-2012
Residency Central Saint Martins University, London - Ariane de Rothschild Prize 2011 (winner), UK
2008
Advanced Course in Visual Arts – Yona Friedman Visiting Professor, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
Workshop with Milovan Farronato Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’ Arte, Poirino, Italy
Workshop with A Constructed World Greenwashing Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Workshop with Tobias Rehberger Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’ Arte, Poirino, Italy
2007
Workshop Artelier, collaboration between artists and mental health patients, Il Bandolo, Turin, Italy
Workshop with Stalker, Osservatorio Nomade, ProposteXXII, Turin, Italy
2005
Workshop with Alberto Garutti, Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’ Arte, Poirino, Italy
Collective/Curatorial Projects
2017
The Institute of Things to Come, co-founded with Valerio Del Baglivo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy www.theinstituteofthingstocome.com
2009
00 processo espositivo, exhibitions program, different venues, Turin, Italy
2007-2012
Founder of Progetto Diogene, since 2007. Progetto Diogene, a program of international residencies, workshops and projects experimental education and self-education, run by artists in the public space of Turin Italy. www.progettodiogene.eu
2011
Solid Void, curated by Progetto Diogene, editors: Gian Antonio Gilli and Roberto Cuoghi, Turin, Italy
Guide Straordinarie by Progetto Diogene, curated by Marcella Beccaria, Castello di Rivoli Museum, Italy
Saverio Adamo Tonoli “Selbstbildnis”, curated by Progetto Diogene, blank, Turin, Italy
2010
Solid Void, curated by Progetto Diogene, visiting professors: Gian Antonio Gilli and Giovanni Morbin, Turin, Italy
Giovanni Morbin “Lid”, curated by Progetto Diogene, blank, Turin, Italy
Talks and Workshops
2017
Chiribiri / Iribirihc, workshop, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
Piazza+, workshop on public art, Padova, Italy
2011
Le correzioni, workshop with Ludovica Carbotta and Manuele Cerutti, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
DIOGENE VS DIOGENE, Galleria Franco Soffiantino, Turin, Italy
Reading Room #10 PROGETTO DIOGENE, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy
Sentimento Nuevo, invited by Antonio Grulli and Davide Ferri, Mambo, Bologna, Italy
Progetto Diogene with Ludovica Carbotta and Graham Hudson, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Arte e sfera pubblica, workshop curated by Pietro Gaglianò and Progetto Diogene, Teatro Studio, Scandicci, Florence, Italy
2010
senza linea - come lavoro (ammesso che sia un lavoro), with Luca Bertolo, Alis/Filliol, Ludovica Carbotta, Festival Faenza, Faenza, Italy
2009
Diogenebivaccourbano_ICEBERG GAP-Giovani, per l’Arte PubblicaSpazio gAP, Bologna, Italy