Rossella Biscotti, Circulations, 2024
Steel, Dimensions determined by the space
Rossella Biscotti, Crude Oil, 2016
Murano glass, arsenic and metal bowls, Variable dimensions
Rossella Biscotti, Circulations, 2024
Steel, Dimensions determined by the space
Rossella Biscotti, Crude Oil, 2016
Murano glass, arsenic and metal bowls, Variable dimensions
Rossella Biscotti, Circulations, 2024
Steel, Dimensions determined by the space
Rossella Biscotti, Circulations (detail), 2024
Rossella Biscotti, Drifting, 2022 - 2023
Hand-blown Murano glass, metal and laminate, Variable dimensions
Rossella Biscotti, Drifting, 2022 - 2023
Hand-blown Murano glass, metal and laminate, Variable dimensions
Rossella Biscotti, Come fare?, 2015-2023
Artisanal bricks and concrete
Total area of approx. 150 square metres x maximum height 200 cm
Rossella Biscotti, Stranded, 2021
Glass sculpture, Dimensions variable
Rossella Biscotti, Stranded, 2021
Glass sculpture, Dimensions variable
Rossella Biscotti, Stranded, 2021
Glass sculpture, Dimensions variable
Rossella Biscotti, Trees on Land, 2021
Series of 20 clay pots
Rossella Biscotti, Annalies, Mei, Princess of Kasiruta, Sanikem—Nyai Ontosoroh—Madame Le Boucq, Surati, Maiko, 2019
Rossella Biscotti, Sanikem—Nyai Ontosoroh—Madame Le Boucq, 2019
Natural rubber, food coloring, 350 x 108 cm, 210 x 100 cm (3 pcs)
Rossella Biscotti, Princess of Kasiruta, 2019
Installation of two natural rubber sheets
225 x 105 cm / 230.5 x 98.5 cm
Rossella Biscotti
Left: Dismembered Rafflesia, 2019
Right: Seeds, 2019
Rossella Biscotti, Dismembered Rafflesia, 2019
Silkscreen print on cotton, rubber strips, 700 x 160 cm
Rossella Biscotti, Dismembered Rafflesia (detail), 2019
Rossella Biscotti, Seeds, 2019
Silkscreen print on cotton, rubber strips, 700 x 150 cm
Rossella Biscotti, Seeds (detail), 2019
Rossella Biscotti, Live Feed, 2019
Silkscreen print on cotton, rubber strips, 4000 x 160 cm
Rossella Biscotti, Live Feed, 2019
Rossella Biscotti, Amorphophallus (Blue/Yellow), 2019
Silkscreen print on cotton, rubber strips
1185 x 155 cm (textile)
Rossella Biscotti, Amorphophallus (Blue/Green), 2019
Silkscreen print on cotton, rubber strips
807 x 155 cm (textile)
Rossella Biscotti, The City, 2018
8-channel video installation, colour, 3-channel sound, 5 screens
Rossella Biscotti, The City, 2018
Rossella Biscotti, The City (still), 2018
Rossella Biscotti, Alfabeto, 2018
12 inkjet prints , 40 x 40 cm each
Rossella Biscotti, Alfabeto (detail), 2018
Rossella Biscotti, A shirt, blue pants, blue jeans, a towel, 2018
24 sculptures, concrete, various used textiles, Dimensions variable
Rossella Biscotti, A shirt, blue pants, blue jeans, a towel, 2018
Rossella Biscotti, A shirt, blue pants, blue jeans, a towel, 2018
Rossella Biscotti, A shirt, blue pants, blue jeans, a towel (detail), 2018
Captions Rossella Biscotti, The Journey, 2016
Rossella Biscotti, The Journey (Borders), 2016
Territorial waters Italy/Malta, MRCC Italy/Malta/Greece, SAR Area UCG, MARE SICURO 15, Libya Standing Orders, Frontex / Triton and EUNAVFORMED
Vinyl map pasted on Wall (In collaboration with Elman Srl), 259 x 500 cm
Rossella Biscotti
Left: The Journey (Relics), 2016
Right: The Journey (From Cape Africa (Tunisia) till Misrata (Libya)), 2016
Rossella Biscotti, The Journey (Relics), 2016
Blueprint (in collaboration with Soprintendenza del Mare, Palermo IT) , 117 × 154.5 cm
Rossella Biscotti, The Journey (From Cape Africa (Tunisia) till Misrata (Libya)), 2016
Blueprint, 88 x 122 cm
Rossella Biscotti, The Journey (From Cape Africa (Tunisia) till Misrata (Libya)) (detail), 2016
Rossella Biscotti, yow-wow-wow-wow (Lioness Footprint), 2016
Concrete , +/- 20 x 20 x 3 cm
Rossella Biscotti, yow-wow-wow-wow (Lioness Footprint) (detail), 2016
Rossella Biscotti, yow-wow-wow-wow (Rhino Circle (Clara)), 2016
Handcrafted bricks, ball (polyrea, polysterene foam and concrete), leftover tabacco
385 (diameter) x 40 x 45 cm , Ball: 50 cm high
Rossella Biscotti, yow-wow-wow-wow (Rhino Circle (Clara)) (detail), 2016
Rossella Biscotti, Crude Oil, 2016
Murano glass, arsenic and metal bowls, Variable dimensions
Rossella Biscotti, Crude Oil, 2016
Murano glass, arsenic and metal bowls, Variable dimensions
Rossella Biscotti, Clara, 2016
Installation with custom made bricks, tobacco, pallets and wall text in vinyl
Rossella Biscotti, Clara (detail), 2016
Rossella Biscotti, Clara (detail), 2016
Rossella Biscotti, The Heads in Question, 2015
Silicon RTV-2/118, ceramic-like acrylic resin, DImensions variable
Rossella Biscotti, The Heads in Question (detail), 2015
Rossella Biscotti, Acquired Nationality, 2014
Jacquard-woven textiles (wool), 820 x 172 cm
metal structure (steel), 26 x 187 cm
Rossella Biscotti, Acquired Nationality (detail), 2014
Rossella Biscotti, Single Mothers, 2014
Jacquard-woven textiles (wool), 445 x 176 cm
metal structure (steel), 290 x 188 cm
Rossella Biscotti, Single Mothers (detail), 2014
Rossella Biscotti, I dreamt that you changed into a cat… gatto… ha ha ha, 2013
Sculptures in compost, Dimensions variable, Audio, 60 mins
Rossella Biscotti, I dreamt that you changed into a cat… gatto… ha ha ha (detail), 2013
Rossella Biscotti, Title One: The Tasks of the Community, 2012 – 2014
Recycled lead from Ignalina nuclear power plant (LT), 340 x 240 x 0.8 cm
Rossella Biscotti, Title One: The Tasks of the Community (detail), 2012 – 2014
Rossella Biscotti, Title One: The Tasks of the Community (detail), 2012 – 2014
Rossella Biscotti, 168 Sections of a Human Brain, 2010 - 2014
108 gelatin silver prints on baryta paper, 30 x 40 cm each
Rossella Biscotti, 168 Sections of a Human Brain (detail), 2010 - 2014
Rossella Biscotti, 168 Sections of a Human Brain (detail), 2010 - 2014
Rossella Biscotti, The Prison of Santo Stefano, 2011
2 sculptures (lead sheet), Dimensions variable,
2 videos (10'16'' and 3'30'', b/w and color, no sound),
1 metal benche, printer matter, 1 agave plant
Rossella Biscotti, The Prison of Santo Stefano (detail), 2011
Rossella Biscotti, The Prison of Santo Stefano (detail), 2011
Rossella Biscotti, The Prison of Santo Stefano (detail), 2011
Rossella Biscotti, The Prison of Santo Stefano (still), 2011
Super8 film transferred to video, 10'16'', color, no sound
Rossella Biscotti, Il Processo (The Trial), 2010 – 2012
Sound piece (6 hours, loop), 8 casted sculptures, reinforced concrete, Dimensions variable
Performance with simultaneous translator
Rossella Biscotti, Il Processo (The Trial), 2010 – 2012
Rossella Biscotti, Il Processo (The Trial), 2010 – 2012
Rossella Biscotti, Il Processo (The Trial), 2010 – 2012
Detail of Rossella Biscotti, Princess of Kasiruta, 2019
Rossella Biscotti uses montage as a gesture to reveal individual narratives and their relation to society. In her cross-media practice, cutting across filmmaking, performance and sculpture, she explores and reconstructs social and political moments from recent times through the subjectivity and experiences of individuals often posed against the backdrop of institutional systems. In the process of composing her personal encounters and oral interrogations into new stories, the site of investigation tends to leave its mark on her sculptures and installations. Traces of people’s life, objects and ideas are sensibly weaved together into new visual narratives. By examining the relevance of the recovered material from a contemporary perspective, Biscotti creates links and networks to the present, empowering the spectators’ imagination, culture and experience.
Rossella Biscotti (born 1978 in Molfetta, Italy) graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 2002 and attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2010-2011. Biscotti has received several art awards including the Premio NY, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Italian Academy and the Columbia University in New York (2006); The City of Geneva Grand Prize at the 12th Biennial of Moving Images (2007);The 2nd Prix de Rome in the Netherlands (2009); The Premio Michelangelo at XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrare (2010); the Mies van der Rohe Stipendium, (2013); Premio della 16e Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma (2016), and the ACACIA Prize for Contemporary Art (2017).
Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions including Rossella Biscotti. Title One, I dreamt, Clara and other stories, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2024); Cable City Dance Cable City Sea, Fabra i Coats: Contemporary Art Center of Barcelona, Spain (2023); Rossella Biscotti, new work, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2019); Clara and Other Specimen, Fondazione Ratti, Como (2019); The City, daadgalerie, Berlin (2019); A shirt, blue pants, blue jeans, a towel, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Koln, Germany (2018); and The City, Protocinema Istanbul (2018) among others.
Additionally, her works have been exhibited at institutions and biennials such as: Sharjah Biennale 16, Sharjah, UAE (forthcoming); After Rain, Diriyah Biennale of Arts, Riyadh, KSA (2024); Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); Style Congo. Heritage and Heresy, KANAL, Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2023); Clara the Rhinoceros, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2022); The Future Behind Us, Villa Arson, Nice, France (2022); Beaufort 21, Beaufort Triennale, Belgium (2021); A Story for the Future, MAXXI Rome, Italy (2021); Io dico Io - I say I, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Italy (2021); 15th Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador (2021); Eroded Landscape, Musée de Rochechouart, France (2020); Seismic Movements, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2020); Hybrid Sculpture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2019); I Was Born A Foreigner, Les Abattoirs - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse Château d'Assier, France (2019); The Humans, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (2018); and The world as prison?, IVAM, Valencia, Spain (2018) among others.
She lives and works between Rotterdam and Brussels.
Sean O’Toole reviews Rossella Biscotti's first institutional anthological exhibition at Castello di Rivoli.
Anchoring her works in extensive research, Rossella Biscotti's art serves as a form of forensic investigation, foregrounding issues of collective significance.
Agnieszka Gratza's review of Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024: After Rain.
Rossella Biscotti speaks exclusively to Front Runner from the land of olive trees – Molfetta in Bari – and the city that baptized her as an artist: Napoli.
Rossella Biscotti’s current show at Witte de With subtly lays bare how sentient beings uprooted by colonialism refused to take root in foreign soil.
Rike Frank on Rossella Biscotti at the daadgalerie, Berlin.
Cathryn Drake review Rossella Biscotti's solo show Three Works and a Script at Blitz, Malta.
9000 years back: The artist and DAAD scholarship holder Rossella Biscotti brings vanished civilizations into the present.
Showing at Istanbul’s Protocinema, the artist’s new film uses the ancient site of Çatalhöyük to investigate a community and its collapse.
A review of Rossella Biscotti's video work The City on view at Protocinema.
Throughout her career, Rossella Biscotti has confronted both present and past history by creating works that explore the collective significance of sometimes dramatic, but always poignant events.
Brian Dillon review Rossella Biscotti's solo exhibition at Museion, Bolzano.
Rossella Biscotti's sculptural installation Come fare?, for Citylife, Milan.
