RACHELE MAISTRELLO
Rachele Maistrello (Vittorio Veneto, 1984) lives and works in Bologna. She studied at the IUAV University in Venice, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zurich. Her research is articulated along different lines and employs digital sources and tools together with analogue components or those linked to forms of craftsmanship. Photography plays a central role and is used together with other forms of expression to narrate the connection between the individual and the environment, and how they mutually contaminate each other in defining the sphere of identity.
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Ordinary Wounds 平凡的伤痕, Artopia Gallery, Milan (Italy)
2023
Blue Diamond, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea Museum, curated by Claudia D’Alonzo, Milan (Italy)
Gao Yue, Galleria Eugenia Delfini, Rome (Italy)
2022
Blue Diamond, MAXXI Museum, Rome (Italy)
2021
Green Diamond, MAXXI Museum, Rome (Italy)
2019
Green Diamond, I: project space, curated by Antonie Angerer, Anna Eschbach, Beijing (China)
The wonderful stories of Shijingshan park, curated by Caroline Corbetta
2018
Stella Maris, Pelagica gallery, curated by Laura Lecce, Milan (Italy)
2017
One of us, The cabinet, curated by Zoë De Luca, Museo Fattori, Livorno (Italy)
2016
Arcadia, Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio, Bologna (Italy)
2015
Once were Warriors, curated by Samuele Menin, Milan (Italy)
Beyond Reasonable Evidence, UPP gallery, curated by I. Piso and S.Noach, Venice (Italy)
2014
The History Within, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, curated by I. Spaniol, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
2013
Beyond Reasonable Evidence at Ca’ Rezzonico, curated by Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Ca’ Rezzonico Museum, Venice (Italy)
2012
This Side of Paradise, Parco Nord, curated by Matteo Balduzzi, Milan (Italy)
2010
Spot 3, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Sala del Camino, Venice (Italy)
2008
Les cadres de l’apparence, curated by Carlo Werner and Bruno Dubreuil, IMMIX gallery, Paris (France)
RECENT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
OFF Bratislava Photography Festival, Kunsthalle Bratislava (Slovakia)
Anatomy of a Museum, Biblioteca Bernardini, curated by Federica Chiocchetti, Lecce (Italy)
Biennale di Gubbio, Palazzo Ducale, curated by Spazio Taverna, Gubbio (Italy)
L’Italia è un desiderio, Collezioni Alinari e Mufoco, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome (Italy)
Rencontres de la jeune Photographie international, Villa Pérochon, Niort (France)
TRE-DI-CI Sguardi sui musei della Lombardia, Palazzo Reale, Milano (Italy)
2022
Universo Giovane, Palazzo Lombardia / Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo (Italy)
Circulation(s), Centrequatre, Paris (France)
Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens (Greece)
Vento, Festival Nomade di Film Immaginari, Filattiera (Lunigiana Land art) (Italy)
Productive Leisure, final project of Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Campo 21, Turin (Italy)
Fotografia Italiana Contemporanea, Scalo Lambrate, Milan (Italy)
2021
The Edge Effect, curated by C.Bardelli Nonino and J. Anderson, Marsèll, Milan (Italy)
Metafotografia (3), curated by M.Zanchi and S.Benaglia, Baco, Bergamo (Italy)
Subterranean Virtualscapes, Virginia Bianchi Gallery, Milan (Italy)
Fortuna instabile quasi possibile, curated by A. Tinterri, L. Zuccala, Rocca Malatestiana, Fano (Italy)
2020
In This Layered World, All Perception Is Real, Kunstverein Bielefeld (Germany)
2019
BAITBALL (01), curated by Pane project and more, Polignano a Mare (Italy)
Breakfast on Ani Schulze, Hamlet, curated by A. Angerer and A.Eschbach, Zürich (Switzerland)
Open Studio, casa Masaccio, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, San Giovanni Valdarno (Italy)
Weird Domesticity (Gallery Delivery / Milan), curated by Silvio Lorusso, Milan (Italy)
Stand by Me, Pelagica, curated by Laura Lecce, Milan (Italy)
2018
Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop, PhotoEspana, curated by Hester Keijser, Madrid (Spain)
La torre maluttona, Monitor gallery with Fondazione Malutta, Rome (Italy)
Talpe. Well said, old mole, curated by Marta Cereda, Laura Lamonea, collateral event of Manifesta 12, Palermo (Italy)
ArtcityPolis, curated by Angela Vettese with the coordination of Nicolas Ballario, spazio Carbonesi, Bologna (Italy)
Artefiera, Metronom booth, PHOTO section curated by Andrea Pertoldeo, Bologna (Italy)
2017
Unseen fair, Metronom stand, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Parallel Vienna, Fondazione Malutta booth, Vienna (Austria)
Artverona fair, Metronom booth, Verona (Italy)
Alchimie Culturali, curated by Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (Italy)
Tutti la chiamano la casa delle ragazze, public art project, Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale, Tirana (Albania)
Passengers that come and go, by Fondazione Malutta, Tulla art center, Tirana (Albania)
Collezione Malutta and Black market, Monitor gallery, Rome (Italy)
2016
Fondazione Malutta meets the Albanian Pavilion, Albanian Pavillion , 15. Biennale di Architettura , Arsenale, Venice (Italy)
Versus, curated by Daniele de Luigi and Andrea Bruciati, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena (Italy)
Demanio Marittimo km 278, performance curated by Andrea Bruciati, Senigallia (Italy)
Vedo non Vedo, curated by Filippo Luini, the LoneT, Milan (Italy)
Assula, curated by Zoe De Luca, The Workbench International, Milan (Italy)
Memorie, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Villa Manin, Codroipo (Italy)
Convivio, a cura di Caroline Corbetta, Fiera Milano City, Milan (Italy)
Live studio#2, curated by Marcella Manni, Metronom gallery, Modena (Italy)
2015
Fourth edition of Francesco Fabbri prize for contemporary arts, Francesco Fabbri Foundation, Pieve di Soligo (Italy)
Combat prize, Museo Civico G. Fattori ex Granai di Villa Mimbelli, Livorno (Italy)
L’esprit de l’escalier, curated by Alice Ginaldi, Dimora Artica, Milan (Italy)
ARTS, public art project curated by Francesca Lazzarini, Trieste (Italy)
Sogni di Otello, curated by Tracy Kinnaly, photissima, Venice (Italy)
Rob Pruitt’s flea market, Finding Goran Gocic by Fondazione Malutta, AplusA gallery, Venice (Italy)
Se a Milano ci fosse il mare!, Careof, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (Italy)
Le gallerie veneziane e la fotografia, casa dei Tre Oci, Venice (Italy)
2014
Artsiders, curated by Massimo Mattioli and Fabio De Chirico, National Gallery of Umbria, Perugia (Italy)
10 years of MUFOCO, curated by Roberta Valtorta and Matteo Balduzzi, Triennale, Milan (Italy)
Handle with care, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (Italy)
Evoluzione, curated by Marco Tagliafierro, Monotono gallery, Vicenza (Italy)
2013
Il crepaccio: da Venezia a Porta Venezia, curated by Caroline Corbetta, Milan (Italy)
Second edition of Francesco Fabbri prize for contemporary arts, Francesco Fabbri Foundation, Pieve di Soligo (Italy)
La Materia, curated by Marco Tagliafierro, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (Italy)
Southernity, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Giudecca Island, Venice (Italy)
Performing oracolo, performance with Antonio Bigini, og9 Zürich, Switzerland (Switzerland)
2012
94ma collettiva, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, curated by Angela Vettese and Stefano Coletto, Venice (Italy)
Alpenraum, curated by Andrè Gelpke, Galerie 201, Zurich (Switzerland)
Io tu lui lei, curated by Francesco Ragazzi Urbano, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (Italy)
Artaround, one year project of public art commissioned by Museo di Fotografia contemporanea of Cinisello Balsamo, curated by Matteo Balduzzi e Chiara Buzzi, supervisor Beat Streuli, in collaboration with city of Milan (Italy)
2011
Dolomitenhof resort, curated by Associazione E, Sospirolo (Italy)
Byob, Padiglione Internet, curated by Rafael Rozental, 54. International Biennal of Venice, Venice (Italy)
94ma collettiva, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, curated by Angela Vettese and Stefano Coletto, Venice (Italy)
2010
Les Recontres, curated by Francesco Ragazzi and Francesco Urbano, Venice (Italy)
2008
Jardin regassem, ENSBA Portes Ouvertes, curated by Annette Messager, Paris (France)
2007
Ephimeral, Curated by Lawrence Carrol, Magazzini Ligabue, Venice (Italy)
How to look at Venice? Curated by Armin Linke et Elger Esser, Galleria Contemporaneo, Venice (Italy)/ ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany)
2006
La castellana. Un resoconto. Curated by Guido Guidi, Spazio Antonino Paraggi, Treviso (Italy)
EDUCATION
2011-2012
ZHDK, (photography department), Zürich (Switzerland)
2006-2009
IUAV University, B.A. in Visual Art, Venice (Italy)
2008-2009
ENSBA, atelier Annette Messager, Paris (France)
SELECTED AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2022 Lunigiana Call On-Site, Italy (winner)
2022 PhMuseum Grant (shortlisted)
2022 Lydia prize, IlLazzaretto Foundation (winner)
2022 Athens Photo Festival, Greece (winner)
2021 Circulation(s) festival, Paris (winner)
2021 ESSENZIALE, Nctm e l’arte purchase award, Italy (winner)
2021 Images Gibellina Photofestival, Italy/Switzerland (winner)
2021 Art4future Unicredit prize, Italy (winner)
2020 Emilia Romagna collection purchase award, Italy (winner)
2020 Nuovo Forno del Pane / Mambo Museum, Bologna, Italy (artist residency)
2019 Inside Out Museum, Beijing, China (artist residency)
2019 Movin’ Up prize, Italy (winner, international section)
2018 I:project space, Bejing, China (artist residency)
2018 Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (nominated by Hester Keijser)
2017 ABITARE, commissioned by Triennale, MUFOCO and MiBACT, Italy (winner)
2017 NCTM prize, Italy (winner)
2016 Level 0, Fattori Museum, Artverona, Italy (winner)
2015 Combat Prize, Livorno, Italy (winner)
2014 6th European Month of Photography Berlin, Germany (Honorable mention)
2014 Handle with care for pubic art project in Museum MG/MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia (winner)
2013 Francesco Fabbri for contemporary arts, Italy (shortlisted)
2013 Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy (artist residency)
2013 Prima Visione, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Cosenza, Italy (artist residency)
2012 Careof/ViaFarini, Milan, Italy (artist residency)
2011 Dolomiti Contemporanee, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Sospirolo, Italy (artist residency)
2010 Spot, curated by Francesco Ragazzi and Francesco Urbano, Giudecca Island, Venice, Italy (artist residency)
2010 Connected flows, Foundation Jarfo, Kyoto, Japan (Nominated)
RECENT TEACHING / LECTURES / PANELS
2022
CANDALU’, Almanac, Turin (Italy)
2021
Artist talk with Piero Percoco, Lago Film Festival (Italy)
Cura, in conversation with Gabi Scardi, Francesco Bertocco, NCTM e l’arte (Italy)
PIRELLI HANGAR BICOCCA, Artist workshop, Milan (Italy)
2020
FACULTY OF APPLIED ART BIELEFELD, Artist lecture, Bielefeld (Germany)
FONDAZIONE MODENA ARTI VISIVE, Artist lecture (Italy)
2019
CFP BAUER, Full Professor, Milano (Italy)
2018
In conversation with Ted Whitaker, Gabriela Löffel, I: project space, Beijing (China)
Public Talk for B/Side Design Festival, Beijing (China)
Un percorso attraverso la fotografia italiana: il lavoro di Rachele Maistello, istituto di cultura, Beijing (China)
MARIE CURIE SCHOOL, Special project for disability childrens, Savignano (Italy)
ANDREA FERRI Secondary school, Workshop on Visual Education, Sala Bolognese (Italy)