Project Description
Francesco Fossati
Francesco Fossati (1985) is a visual artist and wild plants forager, who lives and works in Lissone (Italy).
He recently created an eco-sustainable artotheque at the Porto Museum of Tricase (Italy), he participated in the exhibition Solstice curated by American artist Judy Chicago at the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe (New Messico) part of the larger project called Create Art for Earth launched by Hans Ulrich Obrist together with Judy Chicago and Jane Fonda. He supported the transition of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles to become the first fully solar-powered museum.
Recent solo exhibitions and projects has been held at: IAGA Contemporary Art, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) Eight Autumns, 2023; MA*GA Museo, Gallarate (Italy) Fuori Stagione, 2023; Surplace, Varese (Italy) and Subplace, Milan Hortus siccus, Hortus Vivus, 2022; Manuel Zoia Gallery, Milan, Liminal Wild Plants, 2021; Spazio Hangar, Rome Leaves Bar, 2021; Magazzini, Palermo (Italy), Erbatinta, 2019; Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia (Italy), Paradossi, 2017; Casa Testori, Novate Milanese (Italy), Fake History, 2016; Dimora Artica, Milan (Italy), La nuova concezione artistica, 2016; CantinaMontone, Montoro (Italy), FalseFriend, 2015, MAC Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Lissone (Italy), Displace, 2013.
His work has also been shown in group exhibitions in museums and institutions such as: Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe (New Mexico); Museo Madre, Naples (Italy); Casa-Museo Boschi Di Stefano, Milan (Italy); Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (Italy); PAN | Palazzo Arti Napoli, Naples (Italy); MACsa Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Salta (Argentine); Mill of Pappas, Larissa (Greece); MUSE, Trento (Italy); Galleria Renata Fabbri, Milan (Italy); Szatyor Gallery, Budapest (Hungary); Fondazione Isola Comacina, Milan (Italy); Museo della Permanente, Milan (Italy); Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial, Ancona (Italy); Kaiserliche Hofburg, Innsbruck (Austria); Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza (Italy); GAMeC, Bergamo (Italy); il Crepaccio, Milan (Italy).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Fuori Stagione
Museo MA*GA, curated by Francesca Chiara and Lorena Giuranna, Gallarate (Varese), Italy
2023
Eight Autumns
IAGA Contemporary Art, curated by Camilla Remondina, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2022
Hortus siccus, Hortus vivus
Surplace, Varese, and Subplace, Milan, curated by Rossella Moratto, Italy
2021
Liminal Wild Plants
Manuel Zoia Gallery, text by Lorenzo Madaro, Milan, Italy
2021
Leaves Bar
Spazio Hangar, Curated by Rosaria Madeo and Arianna Sera, Rome, Italy
2020
Windows Project
Spazio 22, Milan, Italy
2019
Erbatinta (with Paola Cianardi)
Magazzini of Alloro Street, curated by Dario Orphee La Mendola, Palermo, Italy
2017
Paradossi
Complesso Museale Santa Giulia, curated by Team Cäef, Brescia, Italy
2016
FalseFriend [Martin]
Das KloHäuschen, curated by Anja Uhlig, Munich, Germany
2016
Fake History
Casa Testori and Parco Nord, curated by Marta Cereda, Milan, Italy
2016
Die Neue Künstliche Konzeption (with Stefano Spera)
Dimora Artica, Milan, Italy
2015
FalseFriends [Diego]
cantina Montone, Montoro (Avellino), Italy
2013
Displace (with Andrea Magaraggia)
Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Lissone, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Lissone (Monza and Brianza), Italy
2013
Non-Specificity of Medium
Galleria Cart at Flash Art Event, curated by Simone Frangi, Milan, Italy
2012
Francesco Fossati
Galleria Cart, curated by Giorgio Viganò, Monza (Monza and Brianza), Italy
2011
Volume 2, VANNI
curated by Olga Gambari, Turin, Italy
2010
quattro o cinque volte F
Galleria 42 Contemporaneo, Modena, Italy
2010
Hippy Architecture (and more and fun and peace and love)
Apeiron Gallery, Macherio (Monza and Brianza), Italy
2009
Manifatture
Mon Ego Contemporary, curated by Nicola Cecchelli, Como, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
E IL TOPO
Museo MADRE, curated by Giorgio Verzotti, Naples, Italy
2023
Babylon
Spazio Serra, curated by Joykix and Rossella Moratto, Milan, Italy
2023
Do/Don’t Paint
Plain Gallery, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, Milan, Italy
2023
Di Noi Tre
Manuel Zoia Gallery, Milan, Italy
2023
Riportando tutto a casa
2022
Be Natural/Be Wild
CRB Foundation, curated by Alberto Fiz, Biella, Italy
2022
Imboscata
wood of Corniola, curated by Enrico Vezzi, Empoli (Florence), Italy
2022
Segni Elementari
various venues, curated by Francesco Carofiglio, Concettina Ghisu, Lorenzo Madaro and Brizia Minerva, Alberobello (Bari), Italy
2022
Imboscata
Corniola woods, curated by Rachel Morellet, Shilha Cintelli, Eva Sauer and Enrico Vezzi, Empoli (Florence), Italy
2022
Inside the Myth
Mill of Pappas, curated by Francesco Piazza and Vassilis Karampatsas, Larissa (Greece)
2021
See You, Tomorrow
a.topos, curated by Fernanda Andrade and Lucia Trevisan, Venice, Italy
2021
Stati della Materia
Gagliardi e Domke, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, Turin, Italy
2021
Arte per il bene comune
a project by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini at Galleria Civica Guzzini, Recanati (Macerata), Italy
2020
Solstice: Create Art for Earth
Turner Carroll Gallery, curated by Judy Chicago, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2020
Refolded – Percorsi meta-artistici
Pastificio Cerere Foundation, curated by Collettivo curatoriale Luiss Master of Art X, Rome, Italy
2020
Exhibition
Kunsthalle Chiavari, curated by Giancarlo Norese and Paola Pietronave, Novi, Italy
2020
From Discipline to Holobiont
Parco Nord, curated by Yiuxian Dong, Ko Yuhsin and Xiong Xiu, Milan, Italy
2020
D.O.P.O.
Riss(e) + Surplace, curated by Rossella Moratto, Varese, Italy
2019
Silenzioso, mi ritiro a dipingere un quadro
Galleria Renata Fabbri, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, Milan, Italy
2019
Replica
Villa Vertua Masolo, curated by Simona Squadrito, Nova Milanese (Monza and Brianza), Italy
2019
Residenze d’artista
Fondazione Isola Comacina, curated by Marco Pellizzola, Milan, Italy
2019
Imagine Nature
Galleria VentoBlu, Polignano a mare (Bari), Italy
2018
Sostituzioni
Casa-Museo Boschi Di Stefano, curated by Sabino Maria Frassà and Maria Fratelli, Milan, Italy
2018
Talpe
Liceo Classico Umberto I, collateral event of Manifesta 12, curated by Marta Cereda and Laura Lamonea, Palermo, Italy
2018
SHOT | inneschi contemporanei in polveriera
Parco delle Groane, curated by Marta Cereda, Ivan Quaroni and Elisa Fusi, Solaro (Milan), Italy
2018
Avevo 20 Anni
Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, curated by Sabino Maria Frassà, Varedo (Monza and Brianza), Italy
2017
Lupi in città
MUSE, curated by Samuela Caliari and Chiara Rindone, Trento, Italy
2017
Arte Contro la Corruzione
Casa Testori, curated by Giuseppe Frangi, Novate Milanese (Milan), Italy
2017
Rosso Freddo
Studi Festival#3, curated by Mattia Barbieri and Monica Mazzone, Milan, Italy
2016
Il crepaccio corner
Convivo, curated by Caroline Corbetta, Milan, Italy
2016
Contexto
curated by Marta Cereda, Davide Dall’Ombra and Giuseppe Frangi, Edolo (Brescia), Italy
2015
Chunk
Sala Ss. Filippo and Giacomo, curated by Team Caef, Alessandro Mancassola and Domenico Quaranta, Brescia, Italy
2015
Chunk
Sala Ss. Filippo and Giacomo, curated by Team Caef, Alessandro Mancassola and Domenico Quaranta, Brescia, Italy
2015
Locus-Loci
Villa Terzoli, curated by Eleonora Castagna, Brebbia (Varese), Italy
2014
Un rêve d’éternité
Frac Bretagne, (with the collective & IL TOPO), Rennes, France
2014
Indipendencia!
PAN | Palazzo Arti Naples, curated by Corrado Morra, Naples, Italy
2014
Giovani scultori alla Permanente
Museo della Permanente, curated by Giulio Gallera, Milan, Italy
2014
Il Collasso Dell’entropia/Zwei
MAC Lissone, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Lissone (Monza and Brianza), Italy
2014
Il Collasso Dell’entropia/Zwei
MAC Lissone, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Lissone (Monza and Brianza), Italy
2014
Vertical Depth
MARS, Milan, Italy
2014
Energia Vitale
Casa del Mantegna, curated by Francesca Baboni, Mantua, Italy
2014
Progetto Italiano N. 1
Dimora Artica, curated by Pietro Di Lecce, Milan, Italy
2013
Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial – Errors Allowed
Mole Vanvitelliana, curated by Charlotte Bank, Alessandro Castiglioni, Nadira Laggoune, Delphine Leccas, Slobodne Beze/Loose Associations, Marco Trulli, Claudio Zecchi, Ancona, Italy
2013
Studi aperti
Museo Tornielli, curated by Francesca Gattoni and Giorgio Caione, Ameno (Novara), Italy
2013
Upokeimenon
Dolomiti Contemporanee, curated by Gianluca D’Incà Levis, Casso (Pordenone), Italy
2013
Rage among the Tartars
Szatyor Gallery, curated by Dorka Kaposi, Budapest, Hungary
2013
Facciamo il punto?
riss(e), curated by Alessandro Di Pietro and Cecilia Guida, Varese, Italy
2012
Coordinate Ellittiche
Careof DOCVA, curated by Bruno Muzzolini, Milan, Italy
2012
nabavsbrera
Il Crepaccio, curated by Caroline Corbetta, Milan, Italy
2011
26th Biennial of art humour
curated by Andrea Gualandri, Tolentino (Macerata), Italy
2009
L’Indiano in Giardino
Neighborhood Isola (various locations), organized by Alek O. and Santo Tolone, in collaboration with Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
2009
VideoArtYearBook 2009
Cloister of Santa Cristina, curated by Francesca Grandi, Renato Barilli, Alessandra Borgogelli, Paolo Granata, Fabiola Naldi and Paola Sega, Bologna, Italy
2009
Dialog Und Identität
Kaiserliche, curated by Angela Madesani, Innsbruck, Austria
2008
Mastermind
Neon>Campobase, curated by Riccardo Giacconi, Michela Lupieri, Nataša Vasiljević, Daniele Zoico, Bologna, Italy
2008
Gradisca
Museo Carlo Zauli, curated by Daniela Zangrando and Alberto Garutti, Faenza (Ravenna), Italy
2007
No Boundaries
Contemporary Art Museum Genar Perez, Cordoba; MAC Contemporary Art Museum, Salta, curated by Antonia Iurlaro, Argentine
2007
Alberi d’Artista
GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
PUBLIC WORKS
2023
Reticolo Selvatico
curated by Veronica Pandiani and Manuela Sormani, Oggiono (Lecco), Italy
2022
Pietra che ritorna
Parco Monte Barro Arte_Natura, Lecco, Italy
2020
Artoteca Ecosostenibile
Porto Museo di Tricase, curated by Enrico Gentina, Tricase (Lecce), Italy
2018
FalseFriend [Joseph]
curated by MUSE, permanent installation in Trento, Italy
2018
Canapaio Ellittico
eco-garden in Parco delle Groane, Solaro (Milan), Italy
2016
FalseFriend [Martin]
curated by Anja Uhlig, temporary installation in Munich, Germany
2016
Fake History
permanent installation at Parco Nord, curated by Davide Dall’Ombra, Milan, Italy
2016
FalseFriend [Umberto]
curated by Giuseppe Frangi, permanent installation in Edolo (Brescia), Italy
2015
Fake History
curated by Francesca Nicoli, permanent installation in Carrara (Massa and Carrara), Italy
RESIDENCES AND WORKSHOPS
2020
B.R.A.C.T.
Porto Museo Tricase, curated by Enrico Gentina, Tricase (Lecce), Italy
2017
AIR program Casa A
Comacina Island, curated by Marco Pellizzola, Como Lake, Como, Italy
2017
Lupi in città
MUSE – Museo delle Scienze, scientific residence, Trento, Italy
2015
Effetto Venturi
Museo del 900, workshop with Ugo La Pietra, curated by Peep Hole, Milan, Italy
2015
Forum Nazionale di Scultura Contemporanea
residence in Carrara and workshop at Laboratori Artistici Nicoli, Carrara (Massa and Carrara), Italy
2012
Workshop Appunti Visivi
curated by Love Difference, inside Le Buone Pratiche by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Museum of Contemporary Art of Lissone (Monza and Brianza), Italy
2009
AIR program The Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art
Centre International d’accueil et d’echanges des Récollets, Paris, France
2009
Workshop ART HUB
visiting professor Steve Piccolo and Marc Vincent Kalinka, curated by Francesca di Nardo and UnDo.net, Milan, Italy
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MoMA Library
New York, United States
Museo MA*GA
Gallarate (Varese), Italy
Collezione Boschi Di Stefano
Milan, Italy
Cabinet du livre d’artiste at Université Rennes
Rennes, France
Comacina Island Foundation
Milan, Italy
Bibliotèque Municipale de Lion
Lion, France
MIUMOR
Tolentino (Macerata), Italy
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