Letizia Calori (b. 1986) studied at the Faculty of Visual Arts at IUAV University in Venice and at the HfBK Städelschule in Frankfurt.
She is an artist working on sculptures, installations and performance. Her practice investigates the relationship between architecture and bodies, forms of power and vulnerability, social structures and fallibility. Employing a variety of media, the artist transforms commonplace objects and materials into evocative sculptures and installations that give new, redemptive forms to subjective experience.
Calori has exhibited internationally in institutional spaces such as XII Sculpture Quadriennale in Riga, BIENNALSUR, Buenos Aires and Tucuman, Argentina, Istituto Italiano di Cultura São Paulo, MAMbo - Museo d'arte Moderna di Bologna, Pinacoteca in Bologna, Antonio Ratti Foundation, Como, ISCP and Institute of Italian Culture, New York, Pecci Museum, Prato, MMK- Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Deutsche Filmmuseum and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, Botin Foundation, Santander and Moderna Museet Stockholm.
Among the various prizes and awards: in 2023 she is a winner of the XII edition of the Italian Council Prize, in 2021 she is the recipient of the “Un'Opera per il Castello” Prize at Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples. In 2020-2021 she is in residence at the Nuovo Forno del Pane, MAMbo Museum, Bologna. In 2020 she is the winner of the “Cantica 21, Italian contemporary art everywhere” award, sponsored by MIBACT and MAECI, in 2017 she wins the call for Contemporary Panoramas, sponsored by MiBACT and GAI in 2016 she wins the 13th New York Prize and is artist-in-residence at ISCP, in 2015 she receives the Heinz und Gisela Friederichs Foundation artist grant, in 2013 she receives the Ernst & Young Prize.
Since 2009 she is part of the duo
Calori & Maillard.
CVSolo Exhibitions
2024 We are Fou, Galleria Paradisoterrestre, Bologna
2022 E noi sull’illusione, IIC São Paulo, Brasil
2022 Hard Work, Markt studio, Bologna
2021 Diving into poetry, Studioconcreto, Lecce*
2019 Grand Tour, Exit III, site specific project in various location in Bologna
2017 Energia Potenziale, curated by Daniele de Luigi site specifc project in Reggio Emilia
2017 Immortal game, curated by Giulia Morucchio and Irene Rossini, Locale Due, Bologna
2017 Fashion show, curated by Marenka Krasomil, x-temporary, Berlin
2016 Causerie, ex-showroom Gavina, Artcity Polis, Bologna
2014 L’oiseau de feu a ballet for tower cranes, Maintor, Frankfurt am Main
2013 Cibo, special project, Daimlerstrasse, Frankfurt am Main
2012 The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial, Solalanotte, Frankfurt am Main
Collective exhibitions
2024 What Would Not Have Been, curated by Kristiana Karklina, XIII Sculpture Quadriennale, Riga
2023 BIENALSUR, Los Gestos del Trabajo, curated by Clarisa Apendino and Benedetta Casini, Tucumàn, Argentina
2022 Cinema Galleggiante, Venezia, IT curator Microclima in collaboration with Ocean Space / TBA21-Academy, Pentagram Stiftung and Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana - Pinault Collection and In Between Art Film Foundation
2022 Design Forever, Palazzo Bovara, Milan, IT curator Calvi Brambilla
2022 La casa nella casa. Omaggio a Dino Gavina, ADI Design Museum, Milan, IT
2021 Premio Francesco Fabbri 9a edizione, Fondazione Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo, Treviso*
2020 L’aureola nelle cose: sentire l’habitat, curated by Guido Molinari, Michetti Foundation, Francavilla al mare, Chieti and Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna*
2020 Lost&found 1980-2020, Pubblicittà, Arte Fiera 2020, Bologna
2019 Non-places and the Spaces in Between, curated by Ylinka Barotto in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art Foundation, Italian Cultural Institute, New York
2019 E’ il momento di una coppia di forze, Luogo-e, Artdate, Bergamo
2019 Talent Prize 2019, Mattatoio Roma, Rome*
2019 Causal Loops / Squiggles, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como*
2019 Immersione Libera, curated by Giovanni Paolin, a project by Marina Nissim in collaboration with Galleria Continua, Palazzina dei Bagni Misteriosi, Milan*
2019 Under water, curated by Andrea Lerda and Daniela Berta, Foundation CRC, Filatoio di Caraglio, Cuneo
2019 About a City, Fondazione Feltrinelli, Milan
2019 Il disegno politico italiano, A plus A gallery, Venice
2018 That’s it, Sull’ultima generazione di artisti in Italia e a un metro e ottanta dal confine, curated by Lorenzo Balbi, MAMbo, Bologna*
2018 Energia Potenziale, curated by Daniele de Luigi, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
2017 Istantanee del cambiamento, Urban Center Metropolitano, Torino
2017 Whenever the heart skips a beat, curated by Marenka Krasomil, Mehring Platz, Berlin
2017 Omaggio ai caduti, curated by Laura Perrone, Foundation Lac o Le Mon, S. Cesario di Lecce
2017 TU35 Expanded, Museo Pecci, Prato
2017 V_Air, Must Vimercate, Milano
2017 And now for something completly different, L’Entrepot, Monaco
2016 Sublimina, Museo delle Mura, Roma*
2016 Theater der Bedienbarkeit, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart*
2016 Spring Open Studios, ISCP, International Study and Curatorial Program, New York
2016 New York Prize, Italian Cultural Institute, New York
2016 Low Grade Euphoria, curated by SVA, Pfizer Building, New York
2015 Parked like serious oysters, curated by Anna Goetz, MMK, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt*
2015 Seung Sanga, curated by Tobias Rehberger, OIOIX, Seoul
2015 Getting Lost, Fondation Botin, Santander
2015 Do we dream under the same sky, special project Art Basel, Basel*
2014 In then out, curated by Elisabeth Fiedler, Österreichische Skulpturenpark, Graz
2014 Index, Kunsthaus, Hamburg*
2014 Festival 2030, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna
2014 Evakuieren, curated by Akira Takayama, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt*
2014 Out of frames, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, MAC Lissone*
2014 FDJT, curated by Roos Gortzak, varous location, Offenbach*
2014 Power of chi, Spreez, Munich
2012 VIVA Performance, curated by Tania Bruguera and Cristiana Perrella, MAXXI Rome in Cosenza
2012 Search for the Fountain, curated by Cecilia Widenheim, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2012 Douglas Gordon Present Frankfurt Flash Fiction, The Elefant Club, Glasgow
2011 101 Peace Ideas, curated by Rob Pruitt, Venice
2011 Unfounded, Museo Casa Ariosto, Ferrara
2010 As Much As We Need, curated by Rene Gabri, Foundation Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
2009 Ogni limite ha una pazienza, curated by Cesare Pietroiusti, Foundation Gervasuti, Venice
2009 Playlist, Timeline, curated by Filipa Ramos, neon>campobase, Bologna
Awards e grants
2023 Italian Council XII
2022 Un’opera per il castello XVI, Naples
2020 Cantica 21, MAECI, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and MIBACT
2019 XII Talent Prize, Rome (finalist)
2016 XIII New York Prize, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2016 Movin’Up, Giovani Artisti Italiani
2016 Premio Generazione Contemporanea, Luiss Business school, Rome
2016 Premio città di Treviglio, IT (finalist)
2014 Heinz und Gisela Friederichs Project Stipends, Frankfurt am Main
2013 Staedelschule Portikus e.V. Frankfurt am Main
2013 Ernst & Young Preis, Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main
Workshops and residency programs
2022 Scuplture Quadriennal Riga, Latvia
2020 Nuovo Forno del Pane, MAMbo, Bologna
2019 CSAV Artists’ Research Laboratory Causal Loops/Squiggles, Fondazione Ratti, Como
2017 Residenze di Fotografia in Italia 2017 - Panorami contemporanei e luoghi in trasformazione, Ex Officine Reggiane, Reggio Emilia
2016 Artist in residence at ISCP, International Study and Curatorial Program, New York
2015 Getting Lost, Fondation Botin, Santander (visiting professor Julie Mehretu)
2014 Artist in residence at Österreichische Skulpturenpark, Graz
2012 Artist in residence at VIVA Performance Lab, Cosenza in collaboration with MAXXI Rome, (visiting professors: Tania Bruguera / Yoshua Okón)
Pubblications
2021 Diving into poetry, artist book, Studioconcreto, Lecce
2021 Nuovo forno del Pane, Edizioni MAMbo, Bologna
2020 Causal Loops and Squiggles, published Compagnia and Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como
2019 Flex in, published by IUAV, Venice
2019 222 artisti su cui investire Exibart, published by Edizioni Exibart
2018 That’s it, Sull’ultima generazione di artisti in Italia e a un metro e ottanta dal confine, published by Edizioni Mambo, Bologna IT
2018 IUAV Heritage published by IUAV, Venice
2017 Remixing Cities n°2, published by Edizioni GAI, Torino
2016 We Hope This Finds You Well, published by Immigration Office, Bremen
2016 DANCE how a city moves, publshed by Verlag fur Handbucher, Stuttgart
2016 Mountain School 10 Year Anniversary Book, publshed by Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA)
2016 Ditto Magazine, published by SVA, NY
2015 Hr published by Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee
2015 Our hot, artist book, edition of 30, Calori & Maillard
Collections
MAMbo, Museo Arte Moderna di Bologna
Fototeca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
Must, Museo del Territorio, Vimercate
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, New York
Italian Cultural Institute of New York