Curriculum Vitae

Personalia
Born 01.06.1967 in Milan (I). Works in Amsterdam (NL)
Bilderdijkstraat 163, 1053 KP Amsterdam  +31619716114

Education
2017    ENGAGE Public Art School  Viafarini (Milan I)
2002    Post-BA course Project Management
            Highschool Amsterdam (NL)
1997    MA painting Academia Belle Arti di Brera
            prof. F. Breschi (Milan I)
93/94   MA painting A.I.S. Phil Bloom /
           Jurriaan van Hall (Amsterdam)
1991   Post BA-course Art enterprise, entrepreneurship
           is an Art (Amsterdam)
86/90  BA painting + theater design  Academy of Arts
           HKU Hogeschool voor de Kunst Utrecht (NL)

Exhibitions (selection)
SOLO
2024    City Sphere Corvetto, the studio works,
            Wisselatelier (Amsterdam NL)
2023    City Sphere Corvetto, Arti et Amicitiae, 
            Artspace (Amsterdam NL)
2022    City Sphere Schalkwijk, De Vishal (Haarlem NL)
            Hot-tempered Spheres, Kunsthuis Waterland (NL)
2020    Fragile Spheres Baukje Spaltro and Welhuis&Smit
            Art Traverse (Bilthoven NL)
2019    City Sphere SO36, SOMA Art Space (Berlin) 
            City Sphere Beek, B53 (Arnhem NL)
2018    InsideOut Panorama (Cultural Capital Leeuwarden NL)
            City Sphere KNSM (Amsterdam)
2017    City Sphere Isola, Viafarini (Milan I) 
            City Spheres Galerie BMB (Amsterdam)
2016    City Sphere Aura, B-Galleria (Turku Fin) 
            Spheres performance Barker Theater (Turku Fin)
            City Sphere Civic Pride, H-LAB Bijlmer (Amsterdam SE) 
            INCANTO: Open Stal (Oldeberkoop NL)
2015    City Sphere Den Nieuwen Helder, Kunsthal45 (DenHelder NL)
            Den Nieuwen Helder Westerdok (Amsterdam)
            La Dolce Vita Dikker&Thijs Art Gallery (Amsterdam)
2012    BAUC  Jan van Bremen Instituut (Amsterdam) 
            VERBINDING Inforsa/Jellinek clinic (Amsterdam)
2011    PANORAMA: Kijk Kijk  Stopera (Amsterdam) 
            INCANTO Gallery Ruimte Remmelink (Delft)
2010    PANORAMA:  Retort Art Space (Amsterdam)
2009    INCANTO Artspace MHT9 (Amsterdam) 
            INCANTO Gallery Klinik GUT (St Moritz CH)
2008    INCANTO  Frantoio (Tuscany I)

GROUP
2024     Adress Unknown, curated by Viafarini
             Fabbrica del Vapore, Ex Cisterne, (Milan I)
2023     Salon 2023 Arti (Amsterdam NL)
             City Sphere SO36  Wanda Reiff Galerie (Plateaukunst  NL)
             Art Luxemburg Art Fair (Luxemburg)
             VGA Gallery (Madrid ES)
2022     Corvetto NZSD, Viafarini.work (Milan I)
2021     Spiegelingen, projectspace BMB (Amsterdam)
             Kunstsalon IJL, Galerie Noord (Groningen NL)
             Artist Support Pledge, DeBalie (Amsterdam)
             Love for Sale,  DeadDarlings W139 (Amsterdam)
2020     InsideOut IOP2 (Amsterdam)
             InsideOut Panorama IOP3 (Drachten NL)
             Saremo in Tanti: Viafarini (Milan I)
             The world problem & other inconveniences, by  
             R.v.d.Woude Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam)
             Corona Archives, Nieuw Dakota (Amsterdam)
2019     Zomerexpo Europa,  Museum de Fundatie (Zwolle NL)
             Contested Space, B53 (Arnhem NL)
             Win Win, Kunsthal45 (Den Helder NL)
             Art Hilversum, Museum Hilversum (NL)
2018     CS Platform1, Art Chapel (Amsterdam)
             Colorfull City @ Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam)
             Onderweg CSKNSM, Loods6 (Amsterdam)
             Cit.Sph. Civic Pride, Bijlmer Museum (Amsterdam)
2017     Painters Club VIR curated by Spaltro + MARS,
             Milan Artist Run Space (Viafarini Milan I)
             Salon Arti et Amicitae (Amsterdam)
             Museum Waterland (Purmerend NL)
2016     Noord-Hollandse Biënnale, Kunsthal 45 (Den Helder NL)
             My Amsterdam WG-kunst (Amsterdam)
             AIR 2016 presentation  (CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam SE)
             Imagining New Eurasia: Here, There, and Everywhere,
             The Asian Culture Centre (Seoul, KR)
             Roberto Zambelli Torre Strozzi (Perugia I)
2015     SIZE MATTERS, by We Like Art, TETEM (Enschede NL)
             Today everything is very strange,
             Fondazione Arte Contemporanea (Cittadella I)
             AiR! Kunsthal 45 (Den Helder NL)
             Goodbye Bottelier, Sanquin Art Collect. (Amsterdam)
             Now you are hanging, Arti et Amicitea (Amsterdam)
2014     2000 Maniacs, Art Fair Verona, by Lorenza Boisi
             and Andrea Bruciati (Verona I)
             BG Art Award 2014 (Amsterdam)
             Op reis, ID Artist Collective Hamme (B)
             Op Reis, INART Lemmer (NL)
2013     Labyrint, Museum Comenius (Naarden Vesting NL)  
             Op Reis, Gallery de Ploegh (Soest NL)
2012     COMBAT PRIZE’ Museo Arte Comtemporanea,
             Villa Mimbelli. Livorno (I)
             SCHETCHIKA’ Spazio San Giorgio Bologna (I)
             Incubate 2012 (Tilburg  NL)
2011     New Acquisitions, SBK Amsterdam (NL)
             Water&Tegenwind, Kunsthal52 (Den Helder  NL)
             LA LUCE VERDE Gallery BMB (Amsterdam)  
             New Acquisitions AA Kerk, CBK Groningen (Groningen NL)
             BG Artprize (Loods 6 Amsterdam)  
             Patron Saints, Museum Comenius  (Naarden Vesting NL)
             Patron Saints, Meertens Institute (Amsterdam NL)

Prizes
2018   Iepen Mienskip Award (Leeuwarden NL)
2015   Finalist Premio Zambelli 2015 (Perugia I)
2012   Finalist Premio Combat 2012 (Livorno I)
08/11/14  Nominated Beeldend Gesproken Artprize (Amsterdam)
2007   Nominated Celeste Art Prize (Rome I)
2005   Ritz Honourprize, Int. Art Biennale SIART (LaPaz Bolivia)
2002   Kon. Subsidie vrije Schilderkunst, nominated (Amsterdam)
1995   One Hour Kunst Ere Diploma, Arti et Amicitae (Amsterdam)

Collections
Achmea Art Collection
CBK Groningen
Cultuur-Ondernemen
DELA
Foundation Beeldend Gesproken
Marti-Brummelkamp Collection
Marti Clerici Foundation
Municipy of Amsterdam Town Collection
Pink Roccade Art Collection
Sanquin Art Collection
SBK Amsterdam
TTG Art Collection and
Versteeg Advocaten Art Collection
Corporate and private collections

Projects / Assignments
2015<  City Spheres: AIR –  Amsterdam – Arnhem – Berlin –
            Den Helder – Haarlem – Milan – Turku. 
2026    Paintersclub, Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam)
2025    Together connecting to the rhizome to address
            questions of Governance for Society, collaboration
            with scientist and cultural diplomat R. den Hartog of  
            Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
2023    Sphere B&P, assignment department B&P VU,
            Vrije universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
2022    Corvetto NZSD, Viafarini.work (Milan I)
2020    Curator ‘The Inner world’ De Binnenwereld, 
            Beeldend Gesproken Gallery, (Amsterdam NL)
2020    Curator Panoramisten,  Museum Drachten (NL)
2020    Artistic director InsideOut Panorama IOP2 (Amsterdam)
            artistic director IOP3 Drachten 2020 (NL)
2018    Artistic director and artist of InsideOut Panorama (IOP1), 
            Leeuwarden Cultural Capital 2018 (NL)
2017    Founder Painters Club, one evening public event by
            Italian painters inspired by Pecha Kucha
2014    Bittersweet Emotions art installation with graffiti artist and
           twelve mental health patients, clinic INFORSA, Amsterdam
13/15   KEK: ceramics, private dining and art lecture, special
            locations, A collaboration With Peter van den Akker.
2013    Co-Creation module for municipalities in Dutch
            spaltro.nl/downloads/2013 CO-CREATIE
2012    Verbinding art installation, clinic ARKIN,
            Amsterdam vimeo.com/57129512
2011    Five Citymaps, Mentrum/Arkin clinics, Amsterdam
2011    Drawing the Coast, community art, collaboration Norbau
            for Cultuur Compagnie/Province Noord-Holland (NL)
2010    PANORAMA: AIR project about hard and soft landscapes
            in Amsterdam / St.Moritz / Tuscany
2009    TopdeK, drawingproject in Amsterdam.  
            Start Cultural Art Foundation NORBAU
2008    BAUC + INCANTO in Toscany :
            Artist-in-Residence  ‘il Frantoio’  in Montevettolini (I)
2006    BAUC project: V&D pop-up project, solo presentations in
            Amsterdam & High Court of Maastricht (NL)
2006    BAUC in the subway: art installation of 16×4 metres
            in the subway station Waterlooplein Amsterdam
05/07   Citymaps&Citysnacks: community art Amsterdam/La Paz
            (SIART: Internationale Biennale of contemporary art)
            Citymaps, 12th Internat. Literature Festival, LaPaz (Bolivia)
94/10   SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI, art installation,
            polyptych of angry saints, Vondelchurch, Amsterdam

Artist in residencies
2022    Archivio Viafarini Milan (I)
2021    Former shop V&D Haarlem Schalkwijk (NL)
2019    B53 in Arnhem (NL) and Soma Art Space (Berlin D)
2018    Loods6 Amsterdam and Franeker (NL)
2017    Viafarini in Milan (I) and Amsterdam Zuid (NL)
2016    B-Galleria in Turku (Finland)
2016    H-LAB, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam SouthEasth (NL)
2015    Kunsthal 45 Den Helder (NL)
2008    il Frantoio  Montevettolini Tuscany (I)
2002    Rotterdam (NL)

Filmed interviews about my series
2022    The making of City Sphere Schalkwijk,
            film by Inge Willems vimeo.com/752991155      
2021    City Spheres, behind the shadows 
2019    InsideOut Panorama -The legacy: a filmed document
            by Inge Willems about InsideOut panorama 2018
2016    SPHERES series a filmed interview
            by Inge Willems    vimeo.com/161094254
2016    Performance Spheres a collaboration with
            Marjan Raar   vimeo.com/192765976
08/15   PANORAMAS: BAUC, INCANTO,
            Connections a.o.   vimeo.com/user384992/videos

Art Advisor/lectures
2023     City Sphere Corvetto, lecture about social capital 
             And art clubs, Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam)
2022     City Spheres lecture for young architects and
             students Nada, Politecnico, IULM (Milan I). 
             Voci di Corvetto, co-creation project students Itsos
             Albe Steiner institute, Corvetto (Milan I)
2021     ARGGG lecture students of the Master Artistic
             Research University of Amsterdam (NL)
2020     Co-curator Museum Drachten (NL)
             art advisor cityspheres.com (NL)
2019     Art advisor – exhibition HIER! BLACK
             Rembrandt House Amsterdam (NL)
2016     Lecture art students Art Academy (Turku Fin)
2010<   Artistic director Stichting Norbau
01-07    Art advisor – Kunstenaars&Co ,
             Cultuur-Ondernemen (Amsterdam) 
2000     Art advisor TTG (Bologna  I)

Since 2005 I’m an artist Member of Arti.et.Amicitiae,
Amsterdam, the oldest art club of the Netherlands.