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Sissi Daniela Olivieri
Born in Bologna in 1977.
Lives and works between London and Bologna. Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna and Board Member of the Collegio Artistico Venturoli, Bologna.

EDUCATION

1991-1997 I.S.A.B., Bologna
1997-2007, Fondazione Collegio Venturoli, Bologna
2001 Degree in Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna
2002 Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como

RESIDENCES

2026 Museo della Ceramica di Montelupo Fiorentino, Montelupo, Florence
2022 Casa degli Artisti, Milan
2009 Fondazione Civitella Ranieri, Perugia
2008 Tokyo Wonder Site, Institute of Contemporary Art – International Cultural Exchange, Tokyo
2006 Affiliated Fellow, Rome Prize, American Academy, Rome
2005 Affiliated Fellow, Italian Academy of Columbia University, New York
2004 Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz

AWARDS

2022 Una scultura per Margherita Hack, curated by Casa degli Artisti, promoted by Deloitte and Comune di Milano, Milan
2022 Premio Campigna, Comune di Santa Sofia, Santa Sofia, Forli
2021 ArteParco, promoted by Ente Parco, Comune di Pescasseroli, Parco 1923, National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, Pescasseroli; 9th Edition Italian Council: participation in international events, MiBACT, Rome
2012 Gotham Prize, curated by Laura Barreca, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italian Institute of Culture, New York
2005 New York Prize, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italian Academy of Columbia University, New York
2003 XVIII Premio Alinovi, curated by Renato Barilli, Roberto Daolio, Dede Auregli, GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
2002 Premio Furla, curated by Chiara Bertola, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice

PUBLIC COMMISSION

2026 Roseto, Teatri Comuni, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, support by Mama Tourism Rebuild, Cingoli, Macerata
2022 Una scultura per Margherita Hack, curated by Casa degli Artisti, support by Deloitte and Comune di Milano, Milan
2022 The drift is the knot of my throat, Parco Fluviale, Comune di Santa Sofia, Santa Sofia, Forli
2021 ArteParco, support by Ente Parco, Comune di Pescasseroli, Parco 1923, National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, Pescasseroli;
2017 Human shape: Homage to Bruno Jori, curated by Herta Torggler and Mario Arnold Dall’O, MeranoPasseggiata Lungopassirio, Kunst Meran, Meran

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 Per filo e per segno, curated by Alberto Fiz, Building Box, Milan
2022 Trasguardi, Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m., Bologna Sacri Indici, curated by Leonardo Regano, LabOratorio degli Angeli, Bologna
2020 Cene, ACP – Palazzo Franchetti, Venice Corpi e Processi – Storie di fili, curated by Valentina Rossi, Palazzo Pigorini, Parma Vestimenti, curated by Antonio Grulli, Palazzo Bentivoglio, Bologna
2016 Motivi ossei, curated by Maura Pozzati, Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m., Bologna Istinti-Estinti, curated by Antonio Grulli, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Naples
L’imbandita, curated by Maura Pozzati, Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna
2015 Manifesto Anatomico, curated by Gianfranco Maraniello and Sabrina Samori, Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Collezioni Comunali d’Arte, Museo Civico Archeologico and Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna
2014 Anatomia Parallela in tour, Anatomical Theatre, University of Padua – Palazzo Bo, Padua; Dissection Hall of the Palazzo degli Istituti Anatomici, Turin;
Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio, Bologna; Anatomical Theatre, Ospedale del Ceppo, Pistoia; The Operating Theatre, St. Thomas Hospital, London
2013 Lezioni d’Italiano, curated by Fiorucci Art Trust, The Old Operating Theatre, London Elica, Aspiranti Aspiratori, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, Aike-Dellarco
Gallery, Shanghai Gotham Prize, Double Show Sissi-Marinella Senatore, curated by Laura Barreca, Italian Institute of Culture, New York Congresso dei disegnatori,
curated by Nero Magazine, Istituto Svizzero, Rome
2012 Volume Interno, curated by Claudia Gioia, Fondazione VOLUME!, Rome
Elica, Aspiranti Aspiratori, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, Fuori Salone del Mobile, Milan
2011 Abitanti, curated by Danilo Eccher, FaMa Gallery, Verona
2010 La fantasia morde nella piega in bilico – Domani a Palermo, curated by Laura Barreca, Galleria Francesco Pantaleone, Palermo Addosso, curated by Angela Vettese and Milovan Farronato, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan
2008 Over the Glance Ties the Rope, Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo
2007 Voliare, Fattoria Celle, Collezione Privata Giuliano Gori, Pistoia
Macro perspective of a Museum, curated by Dobrila Denegri, Italian Cultural Institute, Belgrade
2006 Nature, curated by Julia Draganovic and Manon Slome, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2005 Suspended, curated by Laura Barreca, Italian Academy of Columbia University, New York
2004 Nidi, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, MACRO, Rome
2003 Interstice / Double Impact, Double Solo Show Sissi / Ian Kiaer, curated by Ann Demeester, W139, Amsterdam
2002 Foresta, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Biagiotti Arte Contemporanea, Florence

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 In the name of the clay, curated by Claudia Casali, Valentins Petjko and Aivairs Baranovskis, Design Museum, Riga; National Museum, Lubiana
2025 Le ferrovie d’Italia (1861-2025). Dall’unita della Nazione alle sfide del futuro, curated by Edith Gabrielli and a scientific committee composed of Francesco Benigno, Alessandra Calise, Lorenzo Canova, Andrea Giuntini and Stefano Maggi, Vittoriano, Rome
2024 Panorama Edition 4, curated by Sarah Singh, supported by ICI Delhi, Gwalior Fort, Gwalior
L’oro Blu, curated by Leonardo Regano, Museo dei Bronzi Dorati e della Citta di Pergola, Pergola, Ancona
L’animale che dunque sono, curated by Arianna Rosica and Gianluca Riccio, Festival del Paesaggio Anacapri 2024, Capri, Naples
Eccentriche Nature, curated by Pasquale Fameli with a contribution by Valentina Rossi, Cubo Unipol, Bologna
2023 Camere con vista, Aby Warburg, Firenze e il laboratorio delle immagini, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence
Performative03, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, MAXXI L’Aquila, L’Aquila
74th Premio Michetti, curated by Costantino D’Orazio,Museo Michetti, Francavilla a Mare, Macerata
Memory Cloth, curated by Lucy Orta, Studio Orta Les Moulins, Moulin Sainte-Marie, Boissy-le-Chatel
Casting the Castle, curated by Saverio Verini, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Perugia
2022 CRAZY – La follia nell’arte contemporanea, curated by Danilo Eccher, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
Corpi e Processi – Storie di fili, curated by Valentina Rossi, CSAC, Parma
2021 Orizzonti del corpo: Arte/Danza/Realta Virtuale, curated by Marina Dacci, Fondazione Magnani, Palazzo del Mosto, Reggio Emilia
Le stanze dell’oro, curated by Carmen Lorenzetti, Collezioni Comunali d’Arte di Palazzo d’Accursio, Bologna
Verso sera, Ipercorpo – Secondo Tempo reale, XVII International Festival of Live Arts, curated by Davide Ferri, Faenza
PANORAMA, city-wide exhibition curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Villa Sofia, Procida, Naples
2020 Italia: una generazione, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni, Auditorium S. Pancrazio, Tarquinia
2019 Sublimi Anatomie, curated by Andrea Carlino, Philippe Comar, Anna Luppi, Vincenzo Napolano and Laura Perrone, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
The Academic Body, curated by Peter Benson Miller and Mark Robbins, American Academy in Rome, Rome
Biennale di Vallauris, Terre d’Italia, curated by Claudia Casali, Musee de la Ceramique, Vallauris Donne.
Corpo e immagine tra simbolo e rivoluzione, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome
2018 Santarcangelo Festival, curated by Eva Neklyaeva and Lisa Gilardino, Santarcangelo di Romagna
Da Magritte a Warhol, da De Chirico a Sissi, Galleria d’Arte Maggiore g.a.m., Bologna
40 gradi sopra La Performance, curated by Maura Pozzati and Fabiola Naldi, Palazzo Magnani, Sala dei Carracci, Bologna
Builders of Tomorrow. Imagining the Future between Design and Art, curated by Marinella Paderni, International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza
Porto Marghera 100, curated by Gabriella Belli, Palazzo Ducale, Venice
2016 Corpus: Anatomical Theatre, curated by NCCA, Museum of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
Par tibi, Roma, nihil, curated by Raffaella Frascarelli, Musei dei Fori Imperiali, Rome
Geometric Cabinet, Kristen Lorello Gallery, New York
Biennale Disegno, Profili del mondo, curated by Marinella Paderni, Museo della Citta / FAR Fabbrica Arte Rimini
Parallel Anatomy in Tour, XX Festivaletteratura, Biblioteca Comunale Teresiana, Mantua
2015 Il mercato delle pulci di Rob Pruitt a Venezia, curated by Tommaso Speretta, A plus A Gallery, Venice
Fondazione VOLUME!, Musee d’Art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Etienne
Metropole Tirana Open / Pamour, curated by Klod Dedja / M.A.M Foundation – Albania / Parter Event, Tirana
Home and Away, curated by Francesca Sarti, Mons2015, Mons
Growing Roots, curated by Chiara Bertola, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Yuko Hasegawa, Palazzo Reale, Milan
Oggetti su piano, curated by Antonio Grulli, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna
La scrittura degli echi, curated by Nero Magazine, MAXXI, Rome
2014 Lezioni d’Italiano, curated by Fiorucci Art Trust, The Old Operating Theatre, London
2013 Arimortis, curated by Milovan Farronato and Roberto Cuoghi, Museo del Novecento, Milan
2012 Homo Faber, curated by Mimmo di Marzio and Nicoletta Castellaneta, Castello Sforzesco, Milan
Silenzi, in cui le cose s’abbandonano, curated by Ilaria Valbonesi and Alessio
Fransoni, Muzej suvremene umjetnosti – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
L’arte di cambiarsi, Deutsche Bank Foundation, Milan
2011 Creating Memory, curated by Kristen Lorello, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Patterns of the Mind, Turku Biennial, Turku, Finland
Contemporaneo. doc / DOCVA, curated by Milovan Farronato and Patrizia Brusarosco, MAXXI, Rome
2010 La scultura nel XXI secolo, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan
No Soul for Sale, A Festival of Independents, curated by Viafarini with Massimiliano Gioni, Cecilia Alemani and Maurizio Cattelan, Tate Modern, London
Everything Has its Own Place, curated by Julia Draganovic, ArtMiami, Miami
2009 Artifici contemporanei e difformita barocche, curated by Claudia Gioia,
ARCOS – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento
Collaudi, curated by Luca Beatrice and Beatrice Buscaroli, Italian Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice
Ophelia – Sehnsucht, Melancholia and Desire for Death, curated by Krien Clevis and Flos Wildschut, MMKA, Arnhem Bal Masque, curated by Ann Demeester, De Appel, Amsterdam
2008 Quadriennale, curated by Claudio Spadoni, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
2007 Italian Genius Now, curated by Marco Bazzini, Museo Pecci, Prato; Museum
of Fine Arts, Hanoi; White House, Emily Hill House, Singapore; Korean Design
Center, Seoul; Xue Xue Institute, Taipei; Travancore Palace, New Delhi
Death of Winter, curated by Daniel Full, HVCCA Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
Global Feminism, curated by Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly, Brooklyn Museum,
New York Tina B, Festival, curated by Micaela Giovanotti, Prague
2006 IM 01 L’immagine sottile: le nuove acquisizioni della Galleria d’Arte
Contemporanea di Monfalcone, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Monfalcone, Udine
Eccentrics, curated by Peter Weiermair, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal,
Frankfurt Contemporary Photography: Recent Gifts and Loans to the Collection,
NMWA – National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Pitti Donna, curated by Maria Luisa Frisa, Pitti Immagine, Florence
Death of Winter, curated by Daniel Full, HVCCA Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
2005 Stretch Sculpture, curated by Marion Damiani Piffer, Kunst Meran, Merano
Bologna Contemporanea, curated by Peter Weiermair, GAM, Bologna
House’s Artist Project Didart, curated by Cristina Francucci, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
2004 The artists in residency, curated by Elisabeth Fielder, Neue Gallerie, Graz
Not in New York, curated by Marc Straus, Stux Gallery, New York
2003 In faccia al mondo, curated by Matteo Fochessati, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova
T, curated by Gianfranco Maraniello, MACRO, Rome
Phantom of Desire, curated by Peter Weibel and Christa Steinle, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
2002 Nuovo spazio Italiano, curated by Fabio Cavallucci, Giovanna Nicoletti and Giorgio Verzotti, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, MART, Rovereto
Eurostar, Galerie Im Traklhaus, Salzburg
Identita italiane. Arte oggi 1990-2002, curated by Costantino D’Orazio and Ludovico Pratesi, Museo del Corso, Rome
10 artisti da Bologna, curated by Marco Altavilla and Daniela Lotta, Galleria T293, Naples
2001 Arte all’Arte, special project Casa della musica, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi and Jerome Sans, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Siena
Somewhereovertherainbow, Galleria Neon, Bologna; Galerie Vigna, Nice, France; Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Poeziezomer “Een lege plek om te blijven”, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi and Ann Demeester, Watou, Belgium
Tracce di un seminario, workshop with Marina Abramovic, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Angela Vettese, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como
Plutot la Vie, Plutot la Ville,curated by Roberto Daolio and Mili Romano, Gallery Neon, Bologna Eurostar, curated by Dede Aureli Spazio Aperto, GAM, Bologna
Aerea, curated by Bonnie Clearwater, MOCA, Miami, Florida
2000 Finale di partita, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Piazza Ognissanti, Florence
Biennale dei giovani artisti dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo, Salara, Bologna
1999 L’accademia in stazione, curated by Roberto Daolio and Mili Romano, Stazione Centrale, Bologna

SPECIAL PROJECTS

2012 Candybrissima Show, curated by Fondazione Furla and Furla, Italian Embassy, Tokyo; Italian Embassy, Moscow; Lafayette Galeries Paris; Bloomingdales New York; La Rinascente Milano.
Aspiranti Aspiratori, curated by Marcelo Smarelli, Fondazione Ermanno Casoli – Elica, Fabriano

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

GAM, Turin; MAMbo, Bologna; MACRO, Rome; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum
Joanneum, Graz; Sackler Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Kunst Meran, Merano

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2022 Abitolario: l’esistenza enciclopedia dell’essere abito, Sissi, Ed. Poligrafo, 2021
2020 Abitanoidi, Sissi, Ed. Corraini,
2020 Vestimenti, texts by Antonio Grulli and Mariuccia Casadio, Ed. Corraini,
2018 Sissi, texts by Antonio Grulli, Electa,
2017 Motivi ossei / Bone Motifs, texts by Maura Pozzati and Alessia Calarota, Silvana Editoriale,
2016 Lezioni di Anato-Mia, Sissi, Ed. Corraini,
2012 Sintesi Anatomica, texts by Laura Barreca, Nero Editions,
2012 Aspiranti Aspiratori, Ed. Corraini,
2011 Abitanti, texts by Danilo Eccher, Mousse Publishing,
2005 Sissi, texts by Renato Barilli, Lia Durante and Roberto Daolio, Ed. Mazzotta,
2004 Sissi, texts by Pier Luigi Tazzi and Christa Steinle, Ed. Mondadori, Electa,