Solo exhibitions:
2009
Greed: The New Fragrance by Francesco Vezzoli, Gagosian Gallery, Rom / Rome [IT]
2008
Democrazy. An Installation by Francesco Vezzoli, The Wolfsonian FIU, Miami [US]
2007
Francesco Vezzoli: Primadonnas, Pinakothek der Moderne, München / Munich [DE]
Francesco Vezzoli: A True Hollywood Story! (curator Gregory Burke), The Power Plant, Toronto [CA]
Francesco Vezzoli: Democrazy (curator Ida Gianelli), Biennale di Venezia, Italienska paviljongen / The Italian Pavilion, Venedig / Venice [IT]
Trailer for a remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula, Museum Ludwig, Köln / Cologne [DE]
2006
Francesco Vezzoli’s Caligula, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad / Belgrade [RS]
Marlene Redux: A True Hollywood Story!, Tate Modern, London [GB]
Francesco Vezzoli, Le Consortium, Dijon [FR]
The Bruce Nauman Trilogy, Galerie Neu, Berlin [DE]
The Gore Vidal Trilogy, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles [US]
2005
Francesco Vezzoli – Trilogy of Death, Fondazione Cini, Venedig / Venice [IT]
Francesco Vezzoli (curator João Fernandes), Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto [PT]
2004
Premio Acacia 2004, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano / Milan [IT]
Francesco Vezzoli – Trilogy of Death (curator Germano Celant), Fondazione Prada, Milano / Milan [IT]
2002
Francesco by Francesco: A Collaboration with Francesco Scavullo, Galleria Giò Marconi, Milano / Milan [IT]
The Needleworks of Francesco Vezzoli (curator Jan Winkelmann), Blinky Palermo award of the East German Savings Bank Foundation for the Free State of Saxony, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig [DE]
Art Statements, Art 33 Basel, Basel [CH] (Galleria Giò Marconi, Milano / Milan)
The Films of Francesco Vezzoli (curator Dan Cameron), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York [US]
Francesco Vezzoli (curator Marcella Beccarla), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli [IT]
2000
A Love Trilogy – Self-portrait with Marisa Berenson as Edith Piaf (curator Danilo Eccher), Spazio Aperto, GAM, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna [IT]
1999
Francesco Vezzoli, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London [GB]
An Embroidered Trilogy, Centre d’Art Contemporain (curator Paolo Colombo), Genève / Geneva [CH]; Galleria d’Arte Moderna (special screening), Bologna [IT]; The British School at Rome(curator Cristiana Perrella), Rom / Rom [IT]; Galleria Giò Marconi, Milano / Milan [IT]
Group exhibitions:
2009
Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 (curator Francesco Bonami), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago [US]
Un Certain Etat du Monde? – A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation (curator Caroline Bourgeois, The Garage CCC, Moskva / Moscow [RU]
2008
Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 (curator Francesco Bonami), Palazzo Grassi, Venedig / Venice [IT]
Review, Galerie Neu, Berlin [DE]
Head to Head: Political Portraits, Museum Für Gestaltung, Zürich / Zurich [CH]
I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl, Asia Song Society, New York [US]
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image. Part II: Realisms (curator Kerry Brougher, Anne Ellegood, Kelly Gordon, Kristen Hileman), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC [US]
Thoughts on Democracy, The Wolfsonian FIU, Miami [US]
Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, MAMBO Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna [IT]
Just Different!, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen [NL]
Une Saison à Bruxelles, Dépendance, Bryssel / Brussels [BE]
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London [GB]
Re-Education – You Can Be Like Us, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin [DE]
2007
Deutsche Geschichten, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig [DE]
Idylle, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca; National Gallery, Prag / Prague [CZ]
Looking Up, Mário Sequeira Gallery, Braga [PT]
Reverence, HVCCA, Peekskill [US]
Vertigo, MAMbo, Bologna [IT]
Les Fleurs du Mal (curator Danilo Eccher), Arcos – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea del Sannio, Benevento [IT]
Performa07 (curator RoseLee Goldberg), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York [US]
Senso Unico : A show of eight contemporary Italian artists (curator Alanna Heiss), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York [US]
Passage du Temps: Une sélection d’oeuvres autour de l’image, François Pinault Foundation, Tripostal, Lille [FR]
Apocalittici e Integrati: Utopia nell’Arte Italiana di oggi, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rom / Rome [IT]
2006
Idylle: Traum und Trugschluss, Phoenix Kuntlurstiftung / Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg [DE]
À la recherche d’une beauté disparue: Omaggio a Luchino Visconti, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone [IT]
Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner and Wirth, New York [US]
Le Paradoxe du comédien – Figures de l’acteur, Collection Lambert, Avignon [FR]
People, Museo Madre, Neapel / Naples [IT]
Review – Videos from the Pierre Huber collection, Magasin – Centre national d’art contemporain, Grenoble [FR]
La force de l’Art, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris [FR] Short History of Performance IV, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London [GB]
40 years, Yvon Lambert, Paris [FR]
The Adelaide Festival of Arts 2006, Adelaide [AU]
The 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [US] Satellite of Love, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam [NL]
Hollywood Boulevard, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo [BR]
Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei [TW]
Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale Köln in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin [DE]
Neo-con: Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art, The British School at Rome, Rom / Rome [IT]
Hyper Design, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai [CN]
Neo-con: Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art (curator Cristiana Perrella), Apexart, New York [US]
2005
Superstars: Celebrity Factor in Art from Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien / Vienna Homage to the Square, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin [IT]
From the Electronic Eye: The Video Collection of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (curator Marcella Beccarla), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli [IT]
Girls on Film (curator Kristine Bell), Zwirner and Wirth, New York [US]
The Experience of Art (curator Maria de Corral), Padiglione Italia, Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venedig / Venice [IT]
Prague Biennale 2 – Expanded Painting, Karlin Hall, Prag / Prague [CZ]
Contrabandistas de Imágenes: Selección 26ª Bienal de Sao Paulo, Espacio Quinta Normal, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago [CL]
XIV Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rom / Rome [IT]
The Italian Look – Italian Fashion Photographs from 1951 to today (curator Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery, DARC – Direzione Generale per l’Architettura e l’Arte Contemporanee, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica), Rotonda di via Besana, Milano / Milan [IT]
African Queen (curator Rashida Bumbray, Ali Evans, Sandra D. Jackson & Christine Y. Kim), The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York [US]
BYO: Bring Your Own, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro [IT]
Square: Die Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch [DE]
Kunst Film Biennale Köln, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln / Cologne [DE]
2004
Experiments with Truth (curator Mark Nash), The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia [US]
Nuit Blanche (curator Gianfranco Maraniello), Hôpital Cochin (Port Royal Chapter House), Paris [FR]
Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão da Bienal (Ciccillo Matarazzo), Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo [BR]
Nocturnal Emissions / Nachtelijke uitspattingen, Groninger Museum, Groningen [NL]
The Future Has a Silver Lining: Genealogies of Glamour, Migros Museum, Zürich / Zurich [CH]
The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists Vršac 2004, Konkordija Cultural Centre, Vršac, Belgrad / Belgrade [RS]
Angelo Filomeno, Simon Periton, Philip Taaffe, Francesco Vezzoli, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York [US]
Lucio Fontana, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf [CH]
L’Arte in Testa (curator Luca Beatrice), MACI Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia, Isernia [IT]
2003
The Tale of the Thread – Embroidery and Sewing in Contemporary Art (curator Francesca Pasini & Giorgio Verzotti), Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Mart [IT]
Edinburgh International Film Festival (curator Shane Danielsen & Suzanne Dunn), Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh [GB]
Fantastic Prophecy (curator Annie Fletcher & Liutauras Psibilskis), BAK, basis voor actuele kunst; Academiegalerie, Utrecht [NL]
Progetto Video (curator Maria Rosa Sossai), Sala Murat, Bari [IT]
New Space! Group Show!, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin [IT]
Carte Blanche, La Fémis, école Nationale Supérieure des métiers de l'image et du son, Centre national des arts plastiques (DAP), Paris [FR]
2002
VideoZone, The 1st International Video-Art Biennial in Israel (curator Sergio Edelsztein & Tal Yahas), Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv [IL]
Ipotesi di Collezione (curator Danilo Eccher), MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rom / Rome [GB]
Second Liverpool Biennal of Contemporary Art (curator Christoph Grunenberg), Liverpool [GB]
Premio del Golfo – Biennale Europea Arti Visive 2002 (curator Bruno Corà), Palazzo dello Sport, La Spezia [IT]
Disturb (curator Dimitrios Antonitsis), Hydra [GR]
Verso il Futuro: Identità nell'arte italiana 1990–2002 (curator Ludovico Pratesi, Costantino D'Orazio), Museo del Corso, Rom / Rome [IT]
Opening Show (curator Gavin Brown, Franco Noero & Toby Webster), Galleria Roma Roma Roma, Rom / Rome [IT]
Ouverture… arte dall'Italia (curator Andrea Bruciati), Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone [IT] Penetration (curator Mark Fletcher), Friedrich Petzel and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York [US] Melodrama (curator Doreet Levitte Harten), Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporàneo,Vitoria [ES]; Palacios de los Condes de Gabia / Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada [ES]; Marco, Museo de Arte Contemporàneo, Vigo [ES]
Spring Forward (curator Downtown Art Projects i samarbete med / in collaboration with The Drawing Center, The Swiss Institute, Artists Space, Exit Art / The First World, New Museum of Contemporary Art), Chanel SoHo, New York [US]
Campy Vampy Tacky : Leigh Bowwery, Brice Dellsperger, Takashi Ito, Michel Journiac, Ugo Rondinone, Francesco Vezzoli, Andy Warhol (curator Larys Frogier), La Criée Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes [FR]
De Gustibus – Collezione privata Italia (curator Sergio Risaliti e Achille Bonito Oliva), Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena [IT]
2001
East Wing Collection No.5 (curator Cathleen Chaffee), Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London [GB]
A Sense of Wellbeing: Loss, History and Desires (curator Marco Scotini), Bagni Imperiali, Karlovy Vary [CZ]
The 1st Tirana Biennial (curator Helena Kontova), Tirana [AL] Generator 3 (curator Gea Politi), Baluardo di San Regolo – Giardino Botanico, Lucca [IT]
Haraldur Jònsson, Annika Strom, Francesco Vezzoli (curator Evaldas Stankevicius & Anders Kreuger), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius [LT]
Squatters (curator Vincente Todoli), Fundação Serralves, Porto [PT]
Boom! Espresso: Arte oggi in Italia (curator Sergio Risaliti), Manifattura Tabacchi, Florens / Florence [IT]
Platea dell’Umanità, 49a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte (curator Harald Szeemann), Biennale di Venezia, Venedig / Venice [IT] SurFace (curator Pontus Kyander), Lunds Konsthall, Lund [SE] Bra mot melankoli / Remedy for Melancholy (curator Anders Kreuger), Edsvik konst och kultur, Sollentuna [SE]; Baltic Art Center, Visby [SE]
Magic and Loss – Contemporary Italian Video (curator Rhidian Davis), Pandemonium: The London Festival of Moving Image, The LUX Centre, London [GB]
2000
Premio per la giovane arte italiana ”Migrazioni” (curator Paolo Colombo), Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Rom / Rome [IT]
Generator (curator Gea Politi), Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (PG); Galleria Loretta Cristofori, Bologna [IT]
Group Show, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London [GB]
Art and Facts (curator Mariuccia Casadio), Galleria Franco Noero, Turin [IT]
1999
EXIT, Chisenhale Gallery, London [GB]
Videodrome (curator Dan Cameron), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York [US]
6th International Istanbul Biennal (curator Paolo Colombo), Istanbul [TR]
Omaggi e oltraggi, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milano / Milan [IT]
1998
Fast Forward: Independent Italian Films and Videos, Brown University, Providence [US]
La coscienza luccicante, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rom / Rome [IT]
1997
Fatto in Italia / Made in Italy (Video selection) (curator Paolo Colombo), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève / Geneva [CH]; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London [GB]; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston [US]
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