Michelangelo Consani (Livorno, 1971).
1971 Born 1971 in Livorno, Italy.He lives and works in Castell’Anselmo and San Gimignano (Italy)
Education
1984/89 I.S.A School of Art, Pisa
Work collaboration
1995/2000 Lighting design for Artemide Group, Milano
Project
2021 He founded in San Gimignano ie, a new space for research on sustainability,
degrowth and new forms of ecological resistance
Selected exhibitions
2002 Light & Building, solo show, Frankfurtmesse, Frankfurt, Germany
2003 Artkliazma: Festival of Contemporary Art, various locations, Moscow, Russia
Controlled Revolution, Vecchio Ospedale Soave, Codogno, Italy
2004 Crash Landing, solo show, 2WK2, Berlin, Germany
Macrovideoteca, Macro Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italy
Spread in Prato 2004, various locations, Prato, Italy
On Air, video in onda dall’Italia:
- Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
- c/o careof, Milano, Italy
- Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2005 Anarchica morte di un occidentale, solo show, White Project, Pescara, Italy
New Territories, Special Project for Arco 05, Madrid, Spain
Mediterraneo, Castello Malaspina, Massa, Italy
2006 Belef Belgrad Summer Festival/On air, Kapetan Misino Zdanje, Belgrade,
Serbia
28° International Festival di Clermont-Ferrand, Short Video Section,
Clermont-Ferrand, France
La necessità di un’isola, Isola Art Center, Milano, Italy
2007 Suitcase Illuminated Parallel Economies:
- Mac/Val - Musee d'Art Contemporain du Val de Marne, Paris, France
- P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Undeaf Dutch Elettronic Art Festival, The Hangar Space, Rotterdam,
Netherlands
2008 Michelangelo Consani and Richard Nonas, double solo show, Casa Eva
Menzio, Torino, Italy
Progetto di disperdere energia, solo show, White Project, Pescara, Italy
Seek Refuge, Official Events of XI° Architecture Venice Biennial, Ex
Ospedale degli incurabili, Venezia, Italy
Permanent Green, Isola Art Center, Milano, Italy
Per adesso noi siamo qua, Villa Romana, Firenze, Itay
Italiani in vacanza, Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, San
Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2009 Rites de Passage, Shunck, Heerlen, Netherlands
Splav meduze, Center for Contemporary Art Celje, Celje, Slovenia
Picnic 3, Isola Art Center, Milano, Italy
2010 Dinamo: biciclette contro il black-out, solo show, EX3 Contemporary Art Center, Firenze, Italy
Aichi Triennal: Art and Cities, Aichi Art Center, Nagoya, Japan
Practicing Memory, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Postmonument: niente da vedere tutto da vivere, XIV° International Sculpture
Biennial of Carrara, Carrara, Italy
2011 M.H.G three personalities for a new ecological memory, solo show,
Kunstraum München, München, Germany
La festa è finita, solo show Sponda/MAMbo, Bologna, Italy
Ancora ancora la nave in porto, solo show, CAMeC Centro Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy
Quattro progetti d’artista, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci,
Milano, Italy
2012 Évolution de l’Art, Frigoriferi Milanesi Centro per L’arte Contemporanea,
Milano, Italy
Wednesdays and Fridays, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain,
Luxembourg
Anno del drago, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Dakar Biennal: AtWork Dakar 01, Institut français du Sénégal, Dakar,
Senegal
2013 In vitro, solo show, MAC Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy
Barter: the solar project, solo show, Progetto Riva, Ponte Vecchio, Firenze,
Italy
Fuori posto, Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni
Valdarno, Italy
Lettera 27, Donowahi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2014 Nove elefanti bianchi e una patata, solo Show, Gallery Side2, Tokyo, Japan
Fellow traveler, solo show, Zirkumflex, Berlin, Germany
Past forward, solo show, Glassbox, Paris, France
AtWork, guest of Pascale Marthine Tayou, Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou,
Belgium
III Conart - Territorios abiertos: AtWork, mARTadero, Cochambamba, Bolivia
2015 Le cose potrebbero cambiare, solo show, Prometeo Gallery, Milano, Italy
Something Else OFF Biennial Cairo, 1718 Contemporary Art & Culture,
Cairo, Egypt
The wall, Assabe One, Milano, Italy
The Wrong Biennale, Valenzia, Spagna,
2016 Azione da fermacarte, solo show, Pavillon social ~ Kunstverein (PsK), Lucca,
Italy
16a Quadriennale di Roma: Altri tempi, altri miti, Palazzo delle Esposizioni,
Roma, Italy
L’edito inedito, Villa Romana, Firenze, Italy
2017 Il passo sospeso. Esplorazione del limite, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca,
Italy
2018 Playbike, Manifesta 12 Collateral Event, Palermo, Italy
2019 “Non ho fatto io la sedia il tavolo il foglio la penna con la quale scrivo…”, solo
show, Museo d’inverno, Siena, Italy
Resistenza/Resilienza, PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Torino, Italy
Latitudes, Nelson Mandela Square, Johannesburg, South Africa
Heavenly Creatures, Kunsthalle West Eurocenter Lana, Bolzano, Italy
2020 Surroundings, Suburbia/satellite project space, Firenze/Barcelona,
Italy/Spain
Arcadia e Apocalisse: Paesaggi italiani in 150 anni di arte, PALP Palazzo
Pretorio, Pontedera, Italy
2021 Attraversò il campo di patate senza farsi alcun male, solo show, MEVannucci, Pistoia, Italy
Italia Zokugo, I.I.C Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Laboratorio 21, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo, Pescara, Italy
2023 Autoritratto per una collezione,, Museo D’inverno, Siena, Italy
Performance
2002 Io non sono povero: on Mario Merz, performance, Arte all’Arte VII,
Associazione Arte Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2003 Io non sono cattivo, performance in collaboration with Emilio Prini, Arte
all’Arte VIII, Associazione Arte Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2009 Il maestro è nell’anima e dentro l’anima per sempre resterà, Music Center,
Heerlen, Netherlands
2014 Wiki mon amour, Ring festival, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, Italy
Selected participations: lectures and workshops
2007 Barter Project, workshop, The Hangar Space, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2009 Solar Cooking Project, lecture in the context of the group show Green
Platform, CCC Strozzina, Centro Cultura Contemporanea Palazzo Strozzi,
Firenze, Italy
Beat on the brat, lecture, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze, Italy
2011 Solar Cooking, workshop, Kunstraum München, München, Germany
The Solar Project, lecture, PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Torino, Italy
2012 Printed Matter Inc., presentation of the book The Caspian Depression, MoMA PS1, New York, U.S.A
Talk of presentation The Caspian Depression book, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Milano, Italy
2015 Forum dell’arte contemporanea italiana, lecture, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2016 Fibrillazioni tra arte e politica: Michelangelo Consani with Alberto Garutti, lecture, Accademia di Belle Arti, Firenze, Italy
Grants
2010 EX3 Contemporary, jury: Adam Budak, Cristiana Perella, Nathalie
Zonnenberg, Firenze, Italy
Monographs
2008 Skip intro: Michelangelo Consani, texts by Paolo Emilio Antognoli, Anguelova & Poggianti, Marko Stamenkovic, Pier Luigi Tazzi; Ed. Shin Milano
2010 Barter Book, texts by Paolo Emilio Antognoli, Michelangelo Consani, Serge Latouche, Lorenzo Giusti, Marko Stamencovic, Pier Luigi Tazzi; Ed. Piano B
2012 The Caspian Depression. And a one straw revolution, texts by Paolo Emilio Antognoli, Serge Latouche, Matteo Lucchetti, Kunstverein Milano, Pier LuigiTazzi; Ed. Kunstverein (Milan, Amsterdam, New York)
2016 Milankyo, text by Matteo Lucchetti; Ed. Prometeo Gallery
2018 Sculpture, potatoes, lemons, pigs, numbers and white pages…, texts by Michelangelo Consani, Matteo Lucchetti, Junko Shimada, Pier Luigi Tazzi; self-produced
2021 Attraversò il campo di patate senza farsi alcun male, text by Pier Luigi Tazzi; Ed. ME Vannucci
Selected catalogues
2003 Artkliazma, texts by Jeffrey Deitch, Ekaterina Degot, Dmitry Gutov, Ed.O.P.K.B. Between the artists involved: Yuri Albert, Viktor Alimpiev, Tatyana Antoshina, Vladimir Arkhipov, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Gustavo Artigas, Vanessa Beecroft, Sergey Bratkov, Alexander Brodsky, Vladimir Dubossarsky, Yevgeniy Fiks, Alexandra Galkina, Dmitry Gutov, Irina Korina,
Elena Kovylina, Oleg kulik, Cedar Lewisohn,Vladimir Logutov, Aníbal López A- 1 53167, Nikolay Oleynikov, Jirí Skála, Blue,Rostan Tavasiev, Avdei Ter- Oganyan, Leonid Tishkov, Tomas Vanek, Alexander Vinogradov
2004 Spread in Prato 2004, text by Pier Luigi Tazzi; Ed. Archivio Fotografico Toscano. Between the artists involved: Takuma Nakahira, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Armin Linke, Isaac Julien, Tomoko Yoneda, Adi Nes, Bethan Huws, Mark Lewis, Yang Fu Dong, Zhang Peili, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Surasi Kusolwong , Gruppo A12, Italo Zuffi
2004 On Air: Video in onda dall’Italia, texts by Ilaria Bonaccossa, Barbara Casavecchia, Cristiana Collu, Milovan Farronato, Andrea Lissoni, Teresa Macrì, Marco Scotini, Andrea Viliani and other. Ed. Silvana Editoriale.
Between the artists involved: Davide Bertocchi, Alex Cecchetti, Paolo Chiasera, Lara Favaretto, Massimo Grimaldi, Deborah Ligorio, Armin Linke, Marcello Maloberti, Eva Marisaldi, Rä di Martino, Fabio Mauri, Marzia Migliora, Adrian Paci, Cesare Pietroiusti, Klaus Pobitzer, Marinella Senatore, Alessandra Spranzi, Nico Vascellari, Sisley Xhafa, Italo Zuffi
2007 Suitcase Illuminated Parallel Economies, texts by Katia Anguelova,
Alessandra Poggianti; Ed. Lobinski Saloon. Between the artists involved:
Meschac Gaba, Cao Guimarães, Gülsün Karamustafa, Surasi Kusolwong,
Tadej Pogacar, Oliver Ressler, Kamen Stoyanov, Superflex
2009 Rites de passage, texts by Richard Jacobs, Pier Luigi Tazzi; Ed. Shunck.
Between the artists involved: Adel Abdessemed, Pawel Althamer, Rineke
Dijkstra, Mu Chen & Shao Yinong, Yoshitomo Nara, Giovanni Ozzola, Wael
Shawky, Shih Chieh Huang, Société Réaliste, Italo Zuffi
2010 Aichi Triennale: Art and Cities, texts by Masahiko Haito, Emmanuelle de
Montgazon, Jochen Volz, Pier Luigi Tazzi. Ed. Aichi Triennale. Between the
artists involved: Adel Abdessemed, Juan Araujo, Jerom Bel, Chiharu Shiota,
Cai Guo-Qiang, Cerith Wyn Evans, Jan Fabre, Tom Friedman, Cyprien
Gaillard, Gelitin, Ryoji Ikeda, Amar Kanwar, Sonia Khurana, Jacob Kirkegaard,
Lucia Koch, Takehito Koganezawa, Yayoi Kusama, La Ribot, Hans Op de
Beeck, Amalia Pica, Navin Rawanchaikul, Shimabuku, Santiago Sierra,
Kamen Stoyanov, Sun Yuan + Peng Yu, Tatzu Nishi, Tatiana Trouvé, Franz
West, Yang Fudong, Héctor Zamora, Zhang Huan
2013 Dissentire, text by Alba Braza Boils; Ed. Settore8. Between the artists
involved: Cabello/Carceller, Yaima Carrazana, Fernando Sàncez Castillo,
Cristina Lucas
2015 Something Else - OFF Biennale, texts by Simon Njami, Pilar Tompkins Rivas,
Power Enroth, JeanF Jans, Aura Seikkula, Olaf FekiOrlando, Britto-Jinorio.
Ed. Darb 1718 Contemporary Art & Culture. Between the artists involved:
Adel Abidin, Hela Ammar, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Iván Argote, Nabil
Boutros, Robert Cahen, Tania Candiani, Carolina Caycedo, Lilibeth Cuenca
Rasmussen, Klas Eriksson, Jellel Gasteli, Khaled Hafez, Hsia-Fei Chang,
Pascale Marthine Tayou, Rä di Martino, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Marco Montiel-
Soto, Carlos Motta, Mwangi Hutter, Moataz Nasr, Eamon Ore-Giron, Georgy
Ostretsov, Yazid Oulab, Naufus Ramirez Figueroa, Faisal Samra, Johan
Zetterquist, Zimmerfrei, Amina Zoubir
2017 Il passo sospeso. Esplorazione del limite, texts by Gilberto Bedini, Paolo
Bolpagni, Alessandro Romanini; Ed. Fondazione Ragghianti. Between the
artists involved: Marina Abramović, Bas Jan Ader, Alighiero Boetti, Marcel
Broodthaers, Leone Contini, Gino De Dominicis, Lucio Fontana, William
Kentridge, Joseph Kosuth, Piero Manzoni, Marisa Merz, Jonathan Monk,
ORLAN, Marc Quinn Wael Shawky, Santiago Sierra, Giuseppe Uncini, Guido
van der Werve, Kan Yasuda
2016 16a Quadriennale di Roma: Altri tempi altri miti; section De Rerum Rurale, text
by Matteo Lucchetti; Ed. Nero. Between the artists involved: Nico Angiuli,
Rossella Biscotti, Beatrice Catanzaro, Leone Contini, Luigi Coppola, Danilo
Correale, Adelita Husni-Bey, Marzia Migliora, Moira Ricci, Marinella Senatore
2019 Resistenza Resilienza, texts by Enrico Bonanate, Orietta Brombin, Gaia Bindi,
Piero Gilardi; Ed. Prinp Editore. Between the artists involved: Marco Bailone,
Gea Casolaro, Leone Contini, Piero Gilardi, Michele Guido, Ugo La Pietra e
Gruppo Wurmkos
2020 Arcadia e Apocalisse: Paesaggi italiani in 150 anni di arte, texts by Paolo
Emilio Antognoli, Maria Francesca Bonetti, Daniela Fonti, Alessandro
Romanini; Ed. Bandecchi & Vivaldi. Between the artists involved: Wilhem Von
Gloeden, Giacomo Caneva, Giovanni Fattori, Francesco Paolo Michetti, Luigi
Gioli, Llewelynlloyd, Giacomo Balla, Mario Sironi, Umberto Boccioni, Plinio
Nomellini, Gaetano Previati, Leonardo Dudreville, Fortunato Depero, Duilio
Cambellotti, Felice Casorati, Ardengo Soffici, Osvaldo Licini, Antonio Donghi,
Giorgio Morandi, Carlo Carrà, Lorenzo Viani, Alberto Savinio, Giorgio De
Chirico, Afro, Galileo Chini, Luca Maria Patella, Nino Migliori, Mimmo Jodice,
Mario Cresci, Luigi Ghirri, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Piero Gilardi, Gabriele Basilico,
Ketty La Rocca, Olivio Barbieri, Giuseppe Bartolini, Luigi Ontani, Paolo Scirpa,
Gianni Pettena, Superstudio, 9999, Ugo La Pietra, Ettore Sottsass Jr,
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Public collections
Aichi Art Center, Nagoya, Japan
Kunstraum München, München, Germany
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
MUSPAC, L’aquila, Italy
Museo Laboratorio, Pescara, Italy
2007 Suitcase Illuminated Parallel Economies, texts by Katia Anguelova,
Alessandra Poggianti; Ed. Lobinski Saloon. Between the artists involved:
Meschac Gaba, Cao Guimarães, Gülsün Karamustafa, Surasi Kusolwong,
Tadej Pogacar, Oliver Ressler, Kamen Stoyanov, Superflex
2009 Rites de passage, texts by Richard Jacobs, Pier Luigi Tazzi; Ed. Shunck.
Between the artists involved: Adel Abdessemed, Pawel Althamer, Rineke
Dijkstra, Mu Chen & Shao Yinong, Yoshitomo Nara, Giovanni Ozzola, Wael
Shawky, Shih Chieh Huang, Société Réaliste, Italo Zuffi
2010 Aichi Triennale: Art and Cities, texts by Masahiko Haito, Emmanuelle de
Montgazon, Jochen Volz, Pier Luigi Tazzi. Ed. Aichi Triennale. Between the
artists involved: Adel Abdessemed, Juan Araujo, Jerom Bel, Chiharu Shiota,
Cai Guo-Qiang, Cerith Wyn Evans, Jan Fabre, Tom Friedman, Cyprien
Gaillard, Gelitin, Ryoji Ikeda, Amar Kanwar, Sonia Khurana, Jacob Kirkegaard,
Lucia Koch, Takehito Koganezawa, Yayoi Kusama, La Ribot, Hans Op de
Beeck, Amalia Pica, Navin Rawanchaikul, Shimabuku, Santiago Sierra,
Kamen Stoyanov, Sun Yuan + Peng Yu, Tatzu Nishi, Tatiana Trouvé, Franz
West, Yang Fudong, Héctor Zamora, Zhang Huan
2013 Dissentire, text by Alba Braza Boils; Ed. Settore8. Between the artists
involved: Cabello/Carceller, Yaima Carrazana, Fernando Sàncez Castillo,
Cristina Lucas
2015 Something Else - OFF Biennale, texts by Simon Njami, Pilar Tompkins Rivas,
Power Enroth, JeanF Jans, Aura Seikkula, Olaf FekiOrlando, Britto-Jinorio.
Ed. Darb 1718 Contemporary Art & Culture. Between the artists involved:
Adel Abidin, Hela Ammar, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Iván Argote, Nabil
Boutros, Robert Cahen, Tania Candiani, Carolina Caycedo, Lilibeth Cuenca
Rasmussen, Klas Eriksson, Jellel Gasteli, Khaled Hafez, Hsia-Fei Chang,
Pascale Marthine Tayou, Rä di Martino, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Marco Montiel-
Soto, Carlos Motta, Mwangi Hutter, Moataz Nasr, Eamon Ore-Giron, Georgy
Ostretsov, Yazid Oulab, Naufus Ramirez Figueroa, Faisal Samra, Johan
Zetterquist, Zimmerfrei, Amina Zoubir
2017 Il passo sospeso. Esplorazione del limite, texts by Gilberto Bedini, Paolo
Bolpagni, Alessandro Romanini; Ed. Fondazione Ragghianti. Between the
artists involved: Marina Abramović, Bas Jan Ader, Alighiero Boetti, Marcel
Broodthaers, Leone Contini, Gino De Dominicis, Lucio Fontana, William
Kentridge, Joseph Kosuth, Piero Manzoni, Marisa Merz, Jonathan Monk,
ORLAN, Marc Quinn Wael Shawky, Santiago Sierra, Giuseppe Uncini, Guido
van der Werve, Kan Yasuda
2016 16a Quadriennale di Roma: Altri tempi altri miti; section De Rerum Rurale, text
by Matteo Lucchetti; Ed. Nero. Between the artists involved: Nico Angiuli,
Rossella Biscotti, Beatrice Catanzaro, Leone Contini, Luigi Coppola, Danilo
Correale, Adelita Husni-Bey, Marzia Migliora, Moira Ricci, Marinella Senatore
2019 Resistenza Resilienza, texts by Enrico Bonanate, Orietta Brombin, Gaia Bindi,
Piero Gilardi; Ed. Prinp Editore. Between the artists involved: Marco Bailone,
Gea Casolaro, Leone Contini, Piero Gilardi, Michele Guido, Ugo La Pietra e
Gruppo Wurmkos
2020 Arcadia e Apocalisse: Paesaggi italiani in 150 anni di arte, texts by Paolo
Emilio Antognoli, Maria Francesca Bonetti, Daniela Fonti, Alessandro
Romanini; Ed. Bandecchi & Vivaldi. Between the artists involved: Wilhem Von
Gloeden, Giacomo Caneva, Giovanni Fattori, Francesco Paolo Michetti, Luigi
Gioli, Llewelynlloyd, Giacomo Balla, Mario Sironi, Umberto Boccioni, Plinio
Nomellini, Gaetano Previati, Leonardo Dudreville, Fortunato Depero, Duilio
Cambellotti, Felice Casorati, Ardengo Soffici, Osvaldo Licini, Antonio Donghi,
Giorgio Morandi, Carlo Carrà, Lorenzo Viani, Alberto Savinio, Giorgio De
Chirico, Afro, Galileo Chini, Luca Maria Patella, Nino Migliori, Mimmo Jodice,
Mario Cresci, Luigi Ghirri, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Piero Gilardi, Gabriele Basilico,
Ketty La Rocca, Olivio Barbieri, Giuseppe Bartolini, Luigi Ontani, Paolo Scirpa,
Gianni Pettena, Superstudio, 9999, Ugo La Pietra, Ettore Sottsass Jr,
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Public collections
Aichi Art Center, Nagoya, Japan
Kunstraum München, München, Germany
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
MUSPAC, L’aquila, Italy
Museo Laboratorio, Pescara, Italy
