Artist Statement
Tiziana Contino, a versatile artist, expresses herself through painting, photography, drawings, and interactive multimedia installations. Her style is characterized by the use of reflections acquired from bodies of water, weaving them into a dreamlike mosaic that reflects the philosophical ideas of Deleuze and Guattari on the nomadism of thought and deterritorialization. Her works evoke a sacred transcendence, casting an intimate light on the connection between humanity and the cosmos.
CV
PRIZE
2013 ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE, Venice, Italy (finalist for performing arts)
2010 Celeste Prize 2010, Catania, Italy (finalist for performing arts)
2009 UNCENSORED finalist, Kunstart Bozen,- Bozen, Italy (finalist with multimedia installation)
2008 VIDEOMINUTO pop tv – International Video Festival, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (finalist with video)
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023 CLASSIC DARK WORDS , Medina Art Gallery, Rome
2012 Interactive Media Performance, BT’F Gallery – Bologna, Italy
2012 AAM interactive media performance / Auditorium Sole24ore – Milan, Italy
2011 PERTURBAMENTO – UNHEIMLICHKEIT / Sponge Living Space – Pesaro, Italy
2009 RUBER RUBRA RUBRUM…E’ COME DIRE ABRACADABRA / City Hall of Morbegno – Morbegno (SO), Italy
2006 <Transgenderismo>, Galleria Amantes – Turin, Italy
2006 In Depth, Galleria Studio Arte Fuori Centro – Rome, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2023 EXPERIMENTUM CRUCIS, Ex-Caserma Cassonello – Noto (SR), Italy
2019 7,7 lb Exhibition – Talk – Screening / NanaHomeGallery – Vancouver, Canada
2017 Imago Mundi ROTTE MEDITERRANEE (Luciano Benetton Collection) / ZAC Zisa – Contemporary Art Zone – Palermo, Italy
2015 CORPO – Performing Art Festival, LAGO apartment – Pescara, Italy
2015 Emotional Replacement, Montevergini Civic Art Gallery – Siracusa, Italy
2015 I-ART, “5 square, 5 senses”, C.o.C.A. Contemporary Arts Library Archive, – Modica, Italy
2014 TEOREMI performance festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Villa Croce – Genova, Italy
2014 The Others Art Fair / Le Nuove – Turin, Italy
2014 This is Sponge, BIO50} Hotel BIO50 – 4th Biennial of Design / Museum of Architecture and Design of Ljubljana – Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014 IV edition Bienal del Fin del Mundo, “Contrastes y Utopias” / Mar del Plata – Mar del Plata, Argentina
2013 Let’s Body talk, CRAC Contemporary Art Center – Cremona, Italy
2013 IN SERIES – artist’s multiples for a multiple show, RARE Office – Rethinking Architecture Research Experience – Berlin, Germany
2013 CROSSWAIS – III Expo – Marche Art Center, PalaRiviera – S. Benedetto del Tronto (AP), Italy
2013 CUNTemporary, ArtVerona Fair – Verona, Italy
2012 EAT, Emergent Artist Trans-mediterranean, Lombardy Regional Palace – Milan, Italy
2012 PIXEL – The New Generation of Italian videoart, PalaRiviera – San Benedetto del Tronto (AP), Italy
2012 PRIMA LUCE – Young ideas in transit, Sala dogana – Palazzo Ducale di Genova – Genova, Italy
2012 SENSE 1+1, Werkbank – Lana (BZ), Italy
2012 ArtHUB / Spazioborgogno – Milan, Italy
2012 Performance as self-portrait, Dams – Bologna, Italy
2011 Festival Miden’”THE MONEYING OF LIFE”, OpenShowstudio – Athens, Greece
2011 DA2011, Institut für alles mögliche – Berlin, Germany
2011 In body. From performance to video – Circuito OFF Arte Fiera 2011, BT’F Gallery – Bologna, Italy
2011 RELOAD: SO EXOTIC! Exhibition Performance Series, Officine Rosati – Rome, Italy
2011 Contaminazioni, Civic Museum Polironiano – San Benedetto Po (MN), Italy
2011 TRACE BECOMING ART, Studio28 – Milan, Italy
2011 Fragments of reality, Palace of Culture – Catania, Italy
2011 54 VENICE BIENNIAL ITALIAN PAVILLION/ACADEMY, Tese di San Cristoforo, Arsenale – Venice, Italy
2010 Anakata 24+, Municipal Cultural Center IRIS – Salonicco, Greece
2010 QUANT AU LIVRE, Galerie Martainville – ERBA – Rouen, France
2010 FestArte VideoArt Festival – section off, MACRO Testaccio – La Pelanda Contermporary Art Museum – Rome, Italy
2010 VIDEO.IT – VIDEOmed “MEDITERRANEAN NORTH – SOUTH: MAPPING HOSPITALITY”, Merz Foundation – Turin, Italy
2009 Espressioni italiane, Italian Embassy – Athens, Greece
2009 GEMINE MUSE – (GAI giovani artisti italiani) / San Placido Monastery – Catania, Italy
2008 VIDEOMINUTO pop tv – International Video Festival, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci – Prato, Italy
2008 Nevralgie, Pu-rì gallery – Mondolfo, Pescara, Italy
2008 DARKNESS IS NOON – Tina b – Festival of International Contemporary Art of Prague, Italian Culture Institute Prague – Praga, Cechia
2007 20th Instants Video Festival, Friche Belle de Mai – Marsille, France
2007 AFX Amsterdam Film Experience, Het Ketelhuis – Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007 Zone video 6 – Dream machines, Cinema La Perla – Empoli, Italy
2007 Video Art – Start from Zero, Alekton artspace – Athens, Greece
2007 CHOISES.IT, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art “Montevergini” – Siracusa, Italy
2005 BJCEM – XII Biennial of european and mediterranean young artist, Castel Sant’Elmo – Napoli, Italy
2003 – 2004 Anteprima-QUADRIENNALE di Roma, Royal Palace – Napoli, Italy
2004 RE-FLEX, Court of city hall – Catania, Italy
2004 PIXEL – Microvision, selectionINVIDEO (Milano), Grimaldi Foundation – Modica (RG), Italy
PERMANENT COLLECTION
2015 Imago Mundi Collection – Luciano Benetton, Italia
1999 Lendava Gallery-Museum – Mednarodna likovna kolonija Lendava, Slovenia
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2010 “Narration and conveniences in the video”, with Marinella Senatore – San Giovanni Valdarno (Arezzo), Italy
WORKSHOPS
2012 VISUAL ART PRIZE SANFEDELE, Visiting Professor Alvaro Gafaro, SANFEDELE Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010 coreographic workshop with Ime Essien –Hassel, DID studio, Ariella Vidach, AIEP, Milan, Italy
2008 Contemporary Mithologie; with: Matthew Barney; curator Olga Gambari. Academy of BB AA-Torino. Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
2008 Fucina.Off ’08, Performing media with Jan Klug and Actor Site Specific with Andrea Paciotto, Gallery of Modern Art of Spoleto, Italy
2007 Manufatto in situ, with: Hidetoshi Nagasawa, organization viaindustriae, Cancelli di Foligno, Perugia, Italy
2006 ISIDEM , with: Artur Zmijewski (Venice Biennal 2005); Salvatore Lacagnina (dir. Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art), Siracusa, Italy
2005 Animated movie; with Pierre Hebert in collaboration with Bob Ostertag- Acc.BB AA Catania, Zo contemporary culture Catania, Italy
SELECTION OF PUBLICATIONS
2023 “L’Arte come filtro storico” pp. 184 – 189 in Insight – la cultura dell’altro n. 10, Fausto Lupetti editore, ISBN 9788868743871
2023 “Dematerialized book”, Camera book 2. New shares, formats and languages. Graphics, artistic publishing and book work, Fausto Lupetti editore, ISBN 978-8868743512
2022 “EXSISTENTIA Divenire + ∞” pp. 34 – 37 in Insight – la cultura dell’altro n. 9, Fausto Lupetti editore, ISBN 978-88-68743567
2016 “Il corpo che abito – Identità di genere e suoi transiti. Analisi dei linguaggi performativi contemporanei,” ed. Nicomp L. E., DAMS of Bologna, edited by Monalisa Tina and Stefano Ferrari. ISBN 978-88-97142744
2015 “Il senso del corpo,” FISAD 2015, First International Festival of Art and Design Schools, Albertina Press ISBN 978-88-909848-6-0
2013 “Interactive Psychosocial Art” essay by Tiziana Contino, ed. Quaderni del DAMS of Bologna, edited by Stefano Ferrari ISBN 97888905252420
2014 “Il corpo solitario. L’autoscatto nella fotografia contemporanea,” by Giorgio Bonomi, Rubbettino Editore ISBN 978-88-49850512
2013 “CROSSWAIS – III Expo – Marche Centro d’Arte, PalaRiviera, S. Benedetto del Tronto (AP),” Vanilla Editions ISBN 978-88-6057-191-5
2013 ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE 2013, curator Igor Zanti
2012 “PIXEL – The New Generation of Italian Video Art,” ed. Marte, edited by Giovanni Viceconte
2011 “54th Venice Biennale, Academies Pavilion,” ed. Skira ISBN 978-88-572-1160-2
2011 Con-fine,n°18, “Il corpo in situazione”, Tiziana Contino, pagg. 51 – 53, Bologna
2010 Video.it, Ferrero Editore, Torino, curator Francesco Poli, Francesco Bernardelli, Mario Gorni, Paola Nicita, Cristiana Perrella
2010 Narrazione e convenienze nel video, Ed. Casa Masaccio Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno
2010 Premio Celeste, ZeL ed. Treviso, curators Julia Draganovic, Gabi Scardi, Antonio Arèvalo, Francesca Baboni, Chiara Canali
2010 Arte e Critica n°62, pag 112, ed. Lithograph, Città di Castello (PG)
2009 Arte e Critica n° 59 june/august, pag 107, ed. Lithograph, Città di Castello (PG)
2009 Gemine Muse 2009, ed. Mondadori – Electa,Verona
2009 KunstArt 2009 International Art fair of Bolzano
2009 Espressioni Italiane, City of Athen, Athen
2008 Matthew Barney, “Mitologie del contemporaneo” (sez. workshop with Matthew Barney) ed. hopefullmonster
2008 Libro sensibile, Foligno, ed. Viainsdustriae
2008 Exibart.onpaper n° 47 gennaio/febbraio, pag 54
2008 Tina b., Festival of Contemporary Art of Praga, pagg. 48, 49, Praga
2007 ISIDEM, Choises.it, “Che ci faccio qui?” ed. Erre produzioni, Siracusa, curator Salvatore Lacagnina
2007 Arte e Critica n° 53, pag.120, ‘Young art #2 CaAcB Piazza Armerina’, by Emanuela Nicoletti, ed. Lithograph, Città di Castello (PG)
2006 – Arte e Critica febbraio, ‘doppia personale Contino – Catania da Arte fuoricentro’, pag.91; by Daniela Bigi ed.Lithograph, Città di Ca-stello (PG)
2006 Arte e Critica n° 47, Speciale Sicilia ‘Giovanissimi a Catania’ by Emanuela Nicoletti, ed. Lithograph, Città di Castello (PG)
2006 Arte e Critica n° 46, pag 70, ‘Tiziana Contino da Dietro le quinte’, by Emanuela Nicoletti, ed. Lithograph, Città di Castello (PG)
2005 Repubblica XL, “L’Arte inquieta”, pag. 136, by Alfredo D’Agnese
2005 BJCEM – XII Biennale dei giovani artisti d’Europa e del mediterraneo
2004 AA.VV., XIV Quadriennale d’Arte / Anteprima Napoli, ed. De Luca, Rome, edited by M. Bignardi, V. Conte, R. Notte, V. Trione, L. Barreca, F. Guida, G. Agnese
Artist Statement
Tiziana Contino, a versatile artist, expresses herself through painting, photography, drawings, and interactive multimedia installations. Her style is characterized by the use of reflections acquired from bodies of water, weaving them into a dreamlike mosaic that reflects the philosophical ideas of Deleuze and Guattari on the nomadism of thought and deterritorialization. Her works evoke a sacred transcendence, casting an intimate light on the connection between humanity and the cosmos.
CV
PRIZE
2013 ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE, Venice, Italy (finalist for performing arts)
2010 Celeste Prize 2010, Catania, Italy (finalist for performing arts)
2009 UNCENSORED finalist, Kunstart Bozen,- Bozen, Italy (finalist with multimedia installation)
2008 VIDEOMINUTO pop tv – International Video Festival, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (finalist with video)
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023 CLASSIC DARK WORDS , Medina Art Gallery, Rome
2012 Interactive Media Performance, BT’F Gallery – Bologna, Italy
2012 AAM interactive media performance / Auditorium Sole24ore – Milan, Italy
2011 PERTURBAMENTO – UNHEIMLICHKEIT / Sponge Living Space – Pesaro, Italy
2009 RUBER RUBRA RUBRUM…E’ COME DIRE ABRACADABRA / City Hall of Morbegno – Morbegno (SO), Italy
2006 <Transgenderismo>, Galleria Amantes – Turin, Italy
2006 In Depth, Galleria Studio Arte Fuori Centro – Rome, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2023 EXPERIMENTUM CRUCIS, Ex-Caserma Cassonello – Noto (SR), Italy
2019 7,7 lb Exhibition – Talk – Screening / NanaHomeGallery – Vancouver, Canada
2017 Imago Mundi ROTTE MEDITERRANEE (Luciano Benetton Collection) / ZAC Zisa – Contemporary Art Zone – Palermo, Italy
2015 CORPO – Performing Art Festival, LAGO apartment – Pescara, Italy
2015 Emotional Replacement, Montevergini Civic Art Gallery – Siracusa, Italy
2015 I-ART, “5 square, 5 senses”, C.o.C.A. Contemporary Arts Library Archive, – Modica, Italy
2014 TEOREMI performance festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Villa Croce – Genova, Italy
2014 The Others Art Fair / Le Nuove – Turin, Italy
2014 This is Sponge, BIO50} Hotel BIO50 – 4th Biennial of Design / Museum of Architecture and Design of Ljubljana – Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014 IV edition Bienal del Fin del Mundo, “Contrastes y Utopias” / Mar del Plata – Mar del Plata, Argentina
2013 Let’s Body talk, CRAC Contemporary Art Center – Cremona, Italy
2013 IN SERIES – artist’s multiples for a multiple show, RARE Office – Rethinking Architecture Research Experience – Berlin, Germany
2013 CROSSWAIS – III Expo – Marche Art Center, PalaRiviera – S. Benedetto del Tronto (AP), Italy
2013 CUNTemporary, ArtVerona Fair – Verona, Italy
2012 EAT, Emergent Artist Trans-mediterranean, Lombardy Regional Palace – Milan, Italy
2012 PIXEL – The New Generation of Italian videoart, PalaRiviera – San Benedetto del Tronto (AP), Italy
2012 PRIMA LUCE – Young ideas in transit, Sala dogana – Palazzo Ducale di Genova – Genova, Italy
2012 SENSE 1+1, Werkbank – Lana (BZ), Italy
2012 ArtHUB / Spazioborgogno – Milan, Italy
2012 Performance as self-portrait, Dams – Bologna, Italy
2011 Festival Miden’”THE MONEYING OF LIFE”, OpenShowstudio – Athens, Greece
2011 DA2011, Institut für alles mögliche – Berlin, Germany
2011 In body. From performance to video – Circuito OFF Arte Fiera 2011, BT’F Gallery – Bologna, Italy
2011 RELOAD: SO EXOTIC! Exhibition Performance Series, Officine Rosati – Rome, Italy
2011 Contaminazioni, Civic Museum Polironiano – San Benedetto Po (MN), Italy
2011 TRACE BECOMING ART, Studio28 – Milan, Italy
2011 Fragments of reality, Palace of Culture – Catania, Italy
2011 54 VENICE BIENNIAL ITALIAN PAVILLION/ACADEMY, Tese di San Cristoforo, Arsenale – Venice, Italy
2010 Anakata 24+, Municipal Cultural Center IRIS – Salonicco, Greece
2010 QUANT AU LIVRE, Galerie Martainville – ERBA – Rouen, France
2010 FestArte VideoArt Festival – section off, MACRO Testaccio – La Pelanda Contermporary Art Museum – Rome, Italy
2010 VIDEO.IT – VIDEOmed “MEDITERRANEAN NORTH – SOUTH: MAPPING HOSPITALITY”, Merz Foundation – Turin, Italy
2009 Espressioni italiane, Italian Embassy – Athens, Greece
2009 GEMINE MUSE – (GAI giovani artisti italiani) / San Placido Monastery – Catania, Italy
2008 VIDEOMINUTO pop tv – International Video Festival, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci – Prato, Italy
2008 Nevralgie, Pu-rì gallery – Mondolfo, Pescara, Italy
2008 DARKNESS IS NOON – Tina b – Festival of International Contemporary Art of Prague, Italian Culture Institute Prague – Praga, Cechia
2007 20th Instants Video Festival, Friche Belle de Mai – Marsille, France
2007 AFX Amsterdam Film Experience, Het Ketelhuis – Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007 Zone video 6 – Dream machines, Cinema La Perla – Empoli, Italy
2007 Video Art – Start from Zero, Alekton artspace – Athens, Greece
2007 CHOISES.IT, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art “Montevergini” – Siracusa, Italy
2005 BJCEM – XII Biennial of european and mediterranean young artist, Castel Sant’Elmo – Napoli, Italy
2003 – 2004 Anteprima-QUADRIENNALE di Roma, Royal Palace – Napoli, Italy
2004 RE-FLEX, Court of city hall – Catania, Italy
2004 PIXEL – Microvision, selectionINVIDEO (Milano), Grimaldi Foundation – Modica (RG), Italy
PERMANENT COLLECTION
2015 Imago Mundi Collection – Luciano Benetton, Italia
1999 Lendava Gallery-Museum – Mednarodna likovna kolonija Lendava, Slovenia
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2010 “Narration and conveniences in the video”, with Marinella Senatore – San Giovanni Valdarno (Arezzo), Italy
WORKSHOPS
2012 VISUAL ART PRIZE SANFEDELE, Visiting Professor Alvaro Gafaro, SANFEDELE Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010 coreographic workshop with Ime Essien –Hassel, DID studio, Ariella Vidach, AIEP, Milan, Italy
2008 Contemporary Mithologie; with: Matthew Barney; curator Olga Gambari. Academy of BB AA-Torino. Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
2008 Fucina.Off ’08, Performing media with Jan Klug and Actor Site Specific with Andrea Paciotto, Gallery of Modern Art of Spoleto, Italy
2007 Manufatto in situ, with: Hidetoshi Nagasawa, organization viaindustriae, Cancelli di Foligno, Perugia, Italy
2006 ISIDEM , with: Artur Zmijewski (Venice Biennal 2005); Salvatore Lacagnina (dir. Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art), Siracusa, Italy
2005 Animated movie; with Pierre Hebert in collaboration with Bob Ostertag- Acc.BB AA Catania, Zo contemporary culture Catania, Italy
SELECTION OF PUBLICATIONS
2023 “L’Arte come filtro storico” pp. 184 – 189 in Insight – la cultura dell’altro n. 10, Fausto Lupetti editore, ISBN 9788868743871
2023 “Dematerialized book”, Camera book 2. New shares, formats and languages. Graphics, artistic publishing and book work, Fausto Lupetti editore, ISBN 978-8868743512
2022 “EXSISTENTIA Divenire + ∞” pp. 34 – 37 in Insight – la cultura dell’altro n. 9, Fausto Lupetti editore, ISBN 978-88-68743567
2016 “Il corpo che abito – Identità di genere e suoi transiti. Analisi dei linguaggi performativi contemporanei,” ed. Nicomp L. E., DAMS of Bologna, edited by Monalisa Tina and Stefano Ferrari. ISBN 978-88-97142744
2015 “Il senso del corpo,” FISAD 2015, First International Festival of Art and Design Schools, Albertina Press ISBN 978-88-909848-6-0
2013 “Interactive Psychosocial Art” essay by Tiziana Contino, ed. Quaderni del DAMS of Bologna, edited by Stefano Ferrari ISBN 97888905252420
2014 “Il corpo solitario. L’autoscatto nella fotografia contemporanea,” by Giorgio Bonomi, Rubbettino Editore ISBN 978-88-49850512
2013 “CROSSWAIS – III Expo – Marche Centro d’Arte, PalaRiviera, S. Benedetto del Tronto (AP),” Vanilla Editions ISBN 978-88-6057-191-5
2013 ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE 2013, curator Igor Zanti
2012 “PIXEL – The New Generation of Italian Video Art,” ed. Marte, edited by Giovanni Viceconte
2011 “54th Venice Biennale, Academies Pavilion,” ed. Skira ISBN 978-88-572-1160-2
2011 Con-fine,n°18, “Il corpo in situazione”, Tiziana Contino, pagg. 51 – 53, Bologna
2010 Video.it, Ferrero Editore, Torino, curator Francesco Poli, Francesco Bernardelli, Mario Gorni, Paola Nicita, Cristiana Perrella
2010 Narrazione e convenienze nel video, Ed. Casa Masaccio Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno
2010 Premio Celeste, ZeL ed. Treviso, curators Julia Draganovic, Gabi Scardi, Antonio Arèvalo, Francesca Baboni, Chiara Canali
2010 Arte e Critica n°62, pag 112, ed. Lithograph, Città di Castello (PG)
2009 Arte e Critica n° 59 june/august, pag 107, ed. Lithograph, Città di Castello (PG)
2009 Gemine Muse 2009, ed. Mondadori – Electa,Verona
2009 KunstArt 2009 International Art fair of Bolzano
2009 Espressioni Italiane, City of Athen, Athen
2008 Matthew Barney, “Mitologie del contemporaneo” (sez. workshop with Matthew Barney) ed. hopefullmonster
2008 Libro sensibile, Foligno, ed. Viainsdustriae
2008 Exibart.onpaper n° 47 gennaio/febbraio, pag 54
2008 Tina b., Festival of Contemporary Art of Praga, pagg. 48, 49, Praga
2007 ISIDEM, Choises.it, “Che ci faccio qui?” ed. Erre produzioni, Siracusa, curator Salvatore Lacagnina
2007 Arte e Critica n° 53, pag.120, ‘Young art #2 CaAcB Piazza Armerina’, by Emanuela Nicoletti, ed. Lithograph, Città di Castello (PG)
2006 – Arte e Critica febbraio, ‘doppia personale Contino – Catania da Arte fuoricentro’, pag.91; by Daniela Bigi ed.Lithograph, Città di Ca-stello (PG)
2006 Arte e Critica n° 47, Speciale Sicilia ‘Giovanissimi a Catania’ by Emanuela Nicoletti, ed. Lithograph, Città di Castello (PG)
2006 Arte e Critica n° 46, pag 70, ‘Tiziana Contino da Dietro le quinte’, by Emanuela Nicoletti, ed. Lithograph, Città di Castello (PG)
2005 Repubblica XL, “L’Arte inquieta”, pag. 136, by Alfredo D’Agnese
2005 BJCEM – XII Biennale dei giovani artisti d’Europa e del mediterraneo
2004 AA.VV., XIV Quadriennale d’Arte / Anteprima Napoli, ed. De Luca, Rome, edited by M. Bignardi, V. Conte, R. Notte, V. Trione, L. Barreca, F. Guida, G. Agnese