Mario Rizzi
Born 1962 in Barletta, Italy Based Berlin, Germany & Rome, Italy Web www.mariorizzi.com
Phone (D) +49 172 8814001 Phone (I) +39 327 9484830 Email mariorizzi@gmail.com
Selected Awards:
2025 Ebru Timtik Award Selected Artist. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
2022 Premio Gallarate, XXVI Edizione. MAGA Museo d’Arte Gallarate, Italy
2018 Italian Council Award. Italian Ministry of Culture & Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Pecci, Italy
2012 Production Program Award. Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2005 Best Artist Prize. 7th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2004 The Mulliqi Best Artist Prize. Kosova Art Gallery, Pristina, Kosovo/UNMIK
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2022 Exercices d'empathie. Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Mario Rizzi. A traveler with a camera. MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
Film Trilogy Bayt. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2019 ﺑ9ﺖ Bayt. Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
My Dear Lamis. Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture, Beirut, Lebanon
2017 Bare Lives. Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
2015 L'Attesa. Galleria Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
2013 Karagöz. Galleria Gagliardi, Turin, Italy
The Waiting. Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2011 Partial Truths. Podbielski Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2010 La vie est à nous. Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2008 Murat ve Ismail. Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland
2004 The Sofa of Jung. MART Museo Arte Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
2002 Drafting Moods. Diana Stigter Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Seven Finnish Identities. Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Selected Group Exhibitions and Main Film Festivals:
2025 The Library of Palimpsests. Sankt Studio, Berlin, Germany
2024 Luce sulla Città. Piazza Tasso, Florence, Italy
Unhealed. Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
an ecology of images. Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
In the eyes of our present, we hear Palestine. Sheikh Khalid Bin Mohammed Arts Palace,
Al Dhaid, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2023 Fuori Tutto. MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde. Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
6th Berlin Herbstsalon_GEZI TEN YEARS AFTER. Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
Palestinian Nakba 75. P21 Gallery, London, UK
Rainbow. Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2022 Sunbird Documentary Film Award Competition. 9th Palestine Cinema Days, Ramallah, Palestine
14th Manifesta. Centre of Narrative Practice Screening Space, Prishtina, Kosovo
Screens. Culture dello schermo e immagini in movimento. MAGA Museo d’Arte Gallarate, Italy
8th Festival Ciné-Palestine. Paris, France
Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of
Technology, New York, USA
2021 39th EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art. City Gallery of Art,
Limerick, Ireland
1st Helsinki Biennial. Helsinki Art Museum & Vallisaari Island, Helsinki, Finland
Blocks. Real Albergo delle Povere – Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palermo, Italy
Babies are knocking. Galleria Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
30 + 30 ... IS THE NEW PUNK. Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2020 Art is always public. Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2019 Territorium: Tijuana. Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Tijuana, Mexico
Moving Women. Magda Danysz Galerie, Paris, France
2018 VAM Festival 2018. BABYLON Film Theatre, Berlin, Germany
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Residents 2017-2018.
Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Beautiful Distress. Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
#resist. Goethe Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Images du monde laborieux. HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas, France
The Absence of Paths. Tunisian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Italy
Artapes #1. Walking Around the Clock. MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
IN SITU. Palazzina Reale, Florence, Italy
Deconstructing Borders. Tonala, Tijuana, Mexico
2016 Zehn Positionen aus der Türkei. Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany
When Home Won't Let You Stay. Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Univ. Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
27th Ankara International Film Festival. Ankara, Turkey
We Refugees – Of the Right to Have Rights. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
2015 Istanbul. Passion, Joy, Fury. MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
Where are the Arabs? Al Riwaq Art Space, Manama, Bahrain
The World of Shadow Theatre. Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Sublime de Voyage: Biennale Art Nomad. Arnac-la-Poste, France + Hauterives, France
+ Marseille, France + Venice, Italy
26th Ankara International Film Festival. Ankara, Turkey
Layalina Festival. Spoutnik, Geneva, Switzerland
Too Early Too Late. Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, Italy
2014 17th Randevu Istanbul. French Cultural Institute, Istanbul, Turkey
Open Museum Open City. MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
Open Memory: Echoing Borders. Amman Lab, Amman, Jordan
Refugees and Borders Film Series. Studio-X, Istanbul, Turkey + GSAPP Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, New York, USA
Water is on the house. Polistar, Istanbul, Turkey
Video Forever. Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
24th Festival del Cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina. Milan, Italy
Open Systems. GPL Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Where are the Arabs? VW Dome, Museum of Modern Art PS1, New York, USA
2013 Giornata del Cortometraggio. Museo del Cinema, Cinema Massimo, Turin, Italy
Arabian Nights _ 10th Dubai International Film Festival. Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Villa Romana 1905 – 2013. Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Iskele 2. TANAS, Berlin, Germany + Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Süden. DB KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany
Summer Shorts. Strelka Institute, Moscow, Russia
Off Side. La Rada Space for Contemporary Art, Locarno, Switzerland
15th Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos. Buenos Aires, Argentina
10th El Espejo Film Festival. Bogotá, Colombia
5th Cinéma Arabe. Rialto, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4th Middle East Now Film Festival. Cinema Odeon, Florence, Italy
63rd Berlinale Shorts Official Competition. Berlin, Germany
Signs Taken in Wonder. MAK Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna,
Austria + Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2012 In Spite of it All. Collections Building, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Parco Nomade. Padiglione Italia, 13th Int. Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
The Road not Taken. Chung Hwa Centenary Arts Festival, Muar, Malaysia
State of Transit. Open Space, Vienna, Austria
2011 Videoforma. National Center for Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia
(Dis)assembled. Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden
2010 29th International Istanbul Film Festival. Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Rotte Metropolitane. Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2008 6th Doclisboa. Culturgest, Lisboa, Portugal
6th Taipei Biennial. Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
13th International Carrara Biennial. Centro Internazionale Arti Plastiche, Carrara, Italy
Be(com)ing Dutch. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Working Men. Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
58th Berlinale Shorts Official Competition. Berlin, Germany
Something from Nothing. Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA
2007 Résidents. Espace Electra, Paris, France
4th Göteborg International Biennial. Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden
This Day. Tate Modern, London, UK
World Factory. Walter & McBean Galleries, SFAI Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
2006 We are what we are. Rotor, Graz, Austria + 2B Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
Art, Life & Confusion. 47th Oct Salon, Museum Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia
Padiglione Italia Out of Biennale. Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
5 Tage bis zum Ende der Kunst. Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
6th EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art. City Gallery of Art,
Limerick, Ireland
2005 3rd Bienalja e Tiranës. Kompleksi Goldi, Tirana, Albania
9th Istanbul Biennial. Antrepo Warehouse no. 5, Istanbul, Turkey
Padiglione Italia Out of Biennale. Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
Identità & Nomadismo. Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
7th Sharjah Biennial. Expo Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2004 14th Sydney Biennale. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2003 Anomalie _ Fuori Uso. Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy
2nd Bienalja e Tiranës. National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
1st Prague Biennial. National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2002 Exit. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2001 The Gift. Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
Selected Film Screenings:
2025 Kauther. International Fair Trial Day 2025, Bruxelles, Belgium
2023 The Little Lantern. Al Ma'mal Foundation, Jerusalem, Palestine
Anni, Kauther, Ekhlas. Fondazione Fulvio Croce, Turin, Italy
2017 Videoart at Midnight #88. BABYLON Film Theatre, Berlin, Germany
Limina @ Tunnel below / Skyjacking above. NGBK, Berlin, Germany
2014 Al Intithar. SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
Al riparo dalla tempesta. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy
2013 L'attente. Palais des Arts, Marseille, France
Murat ve Ismail. SALT Ulus, Ankara, Turkey
2011 Kazın Ayağı Öyle Değil. SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Modern Mondays: Mario Rizzi. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Curated Exhibitions:
2025 OLTRE. Aula Colleoni, Academy of Fine Art, Rome, Italy (with brochure)
2004 PLUG IN. Futura Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (with catalogue)
Selected Institutional Art Collections:
• The Fund for the 21st Century _ Permanent Collection. MoMA, New York, USA
• MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
• Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato, Italy
• Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
• Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
• Musée Réattu, Arles, France
• Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Academic Theses Focusing on My Artwork:
2021 Angelica Zucconi, “The trilogy BAYT by Mario Rizzi: analysis of the films and of the language of the
artist”, B.A. Thesis, University of Pisa, Italy
2005 Elena Keidan, “Mario Rizzi e l’estetica relazionale”, B.A. Thesis, Brera Academy of Fine Art, Milan,
Italy
Academic Appointments:
2025 Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Italy _ Spring Semester. Appointed to teach a course titled “Il viaggio
come percorso artistico e introspettivo” in the Department of Contemporary Art History
2012 Chung Hwa International Art School, Muar, Malaysia_Spring Semester. Appointed to teach a course
on Contemporary Art
Selected Residencies and Honors:
2019 Structures of Displacement _ Symposium and Screenings. University Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
(18-19.10.2019)
2017 Tokyo Arts and Space Residency Program. Tokyo, Japan
BARE LIVES _ Talk and Film Screenings. Accademia Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy (7.3.2017)
2016 Jury Member of the Kurdish Cinema Competition at 4th Duhok International Film Festival. Duhok,
Iraqi Kurdistan
Keynote lecture “BAYT”. Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy (19.5.2016)
Jury Member of the National Short Films Competition at 27th Ankara International Film
Festival. Ankara, Turkey
2015 Artist Residency. Fondazione Jorio Vivarelli, Pistoia, Italy
2011 National Center for Contemporary Arts _ Studio Program. Saint Petersburg, Russia
2010 The Fund for the 21st Century _ Permanent Collection. MoMA, New York, USA
2006 Al Ma'mal Foundation _ Studio Program. Jerusalem, Palestine
2005 Cité Internationale des Arts _ Studio Program. Paris, France
2002 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Internationales Atelierprogramm Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin, Germany
Selected Bibliography:
• Manuela De Leonardis, Viaggi straordinari. Mario Rizzi in Giappone. exibart, 5.08.24
• Neema Vitali, «une écologie des images» au cœur de l’Histoire. Art Critique, 3.04.24
• Luisa Franzini, “Stories make us”: Raccontare la Palestina attraverso pratiche di storytelling. In:
“Deportate, Esuli, Profughe”, Università Ca’ Foscari Venice, Italy, September 2024
• Yasmin Khan, 75 Years After the Palestinian Nakba. HYPERALLERGIC, 15.05.2023
• Elena Bordignon, FOCUS sulla mostra Screens. Culture dello schermo e immagini in movimento.
ATP DIARY, 21.09.2022
• Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, Mario Rizzi le féministe. Les Blogs _ De l’art helvétique contemporain,
20.09.2022
• Hamid Dabashi, Anni Kanafani Lives Here. In: “BAYT”, 2022, NERO Editions, Italy, pp 56-62
• Stephanie Bailey, Portraits Of Bayt: On The Conviction Of Making Homes. In: “BAYT”, 2022, NERO
Editions, Italy, pp 74-81
• Isin Õnol, Conditions Of Objection. In: “BAYT”, 2022, NERO Editions, Italy, pp 102-109
• Simone Frangi, (Un)Certain Assessment: Unravelling The Documentary Form, Going On Strike At
The History-Making Factory, Listening To Anni. Notes On Mario Rizzi’s The Little Lantern. In:
“BAYT”, 2022, NERO Editions, Italy, pp 116-121
• Roger Atta, Anni Høver Kanafani’s Lanterns. Almodon, 04.06.2022
• Chiara Bontacchio, Con le mie opere cerco di dare voce alla marginalità. Berlino Magazine, Jan-Feb
2022
• Hanno Rehlinger, Die Andere. Der Tagesspiegel, 9.01.2022
• Sabrina Vedovotto, Racconti da lontano. Telescope _ Quidmagazine, 15.03.2020
• Manuela De Leonardis, Fiabe a Burj el Barajneh. Alias _ Il Manifesto, 13.4.2019
• Jonas Tinius, The privilege of life itself: sovereignty, power, and the figure of the refugee. In: “Bare
Lives”, 2017, Archive Books, Germany, pp 68-75
• Charlotte Bank, Wandering Witness. In: “Bare Lives”, 2017, Archive Books, Germany, pp 56-59
• Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Giving shape to Life, Society and Oneself. In: “Bare Lives”, 2017, Archive
Books, Germany, pp 24-31
• Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, On Scars and Scarifications. In: “Bare Lives”, 2017, Archive Books,
Germany, pp 20-23
• Hamid Dabashi, Sacred Souls, Bare Lives. In: “Bare Lives”, 2017, Archive Books, Germany, pp 5-11
• Cristiana Perrella, Altre voci, nuovi miti. Zero.eu, 18.10.2016
• Isabel Mehl, Landkarten von Flucht und Ankommen. Artline.org, 24.5.2016
• Sabine Weier, Migrant Identities After the Global Crisis. Camera Austria, #134/2016, pp 84-85
• Cristiana Perrella, The Outsider. Ibraaz.org, 30.6.2016
• Pia Lauro, Io e il Medio Oriente. Exibart.com, 25.2.2016
• Manuela De Leonardis, L'arte sbocciata tra i rifugiati. Il Manifesto, 29.1.2016
• Valentina Bruschi, Una mostra per scoprire Istanbul. Il Messaggero, 22.1.2016
• Cristiana Perrella, La Primavera araba in un film. Artribune.com, 9.12.2015
• Ida Panicelli, Mario Rizzi at Studio Stefania Miscetti. Critics' Picks, Artforum.com, December 2015
• Ludovico Pratesi, La crisi siriana vista con gli occhi dell'arte. Exibart, 14.12.2015
• Tilman Spreckelsen, Der dunkle Lord ist so flach wie nie. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16.11.2015
• Rüdiger Otto von Brocken, Warten als Weg, um zu überleben. Husumer Nachrichten, 29.9.2015
• Barbara Polla, L'humanisme envers et contre tout. L'Extension Suisse Mag., Printemps 2015, p 60
• Dorothea Schoene, À la recherche d'une redéfinition de la condition humaine. In: “Penser la
Méditerranée au XXI siècle”, 2014, Éditions Parenthèses, France, pp 205-215
• Stefania Crobe, L'attesa del ritorno. Il Giornale dell'Arte, 18.6.2013
• Hamid Dabashi, Syrians, Camps and a New Cosmopolis. In: “The Waiting”, 2013, argobooks,
Germany, pp 5-15
• Angelika Stepken, Al Intithar. In: “The Waiting”, 2013, argobooks, Germany, pp 3-4
• Dorothea Schoene, A State of Exception. Ibraaz.org, 8.5.2013
• Dorothea Schoene, An Unconventional Angle. Ibraaz.org, 22.4.2013
• Igal Avidan, Das lange Warten auf den Frieden. Zeit.de, 11.2.2013
• Simon Rees, Murat ve Ismail, In: "Signs Taken in Wonder", 2013, Hatje Cantz, Germany, p 154
• Dmitry Golynko, The Ethics of Human Biographies. Arterritory.com, January 2012
• Sabine Vogel, “Biennials – Art on a Global Scale”, 2010, Springer-Verlag, Wien, Austria
• November Paynter, Taipei Biennial. Bidoun, #16, pp 161-162
• Özge Ersoy, Hybrid Models in Art Infrastructure. RES, #4, pp 146-153
• Simon Rees, 6th Taipei Biennial. Frieze, #120, pp 147-148
• Vasif Kortun, The Chicken Soup. In: "TB 08", 2008, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, pp 68-69
• Domeniek Ruyters, Harteloos Nederland. De Volkskrant, 29.5.2008, pp 14-15
• Bruno Latour, Résidents. 2007, Editions du Panama, France, pp 192-195
• Katerina Gregos, Mario Rizzi. Contemporary, #86, pp 54-55
• Grant Watson, EV+A. Flash Art Italy, Vol. XXXIX, #248, p 1
• Michele Robecchi, Mario Rizzi. Flash Art Italy, Vol. XXXIX, #255, pp 68-71
• Sabine Vogel, International Istanbul Biennial. Critics’ Picks, Artforum.com, October 2005
• Charles Esche, Murat ve Ismail. In: "9th International Istanbul Biennial", 2005, Istanbul Foundation
for Culture and Arts, Turkey, pp 141-144
• Jamie Robinson, Sharjah International Biennial 7. Contemporary, #76, pp 56-57
• Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Sharjah Biennial. Flash Art Italy, Vol. XXXVIII, #242, pp 71 & 90
• Isabel Carlos, Beyond Self-Expression. In: “Mario Rizzi 96_04”, 2004, Skira, Italy, pp 25-32
• Lilly Wei, South by Southeast. Art in America, #11, pp 58-65
• Christian Rattemeyer, Biennale of Sydney. Artforum, Vol. 43, #3, pp 238-239
