Marinella Senatore
Blue back
372 x 480.5cm
146.46 x 189.17 in
Marinella Senatore
Born in 1977, in Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy.
Lives and works between Rome, Italy and London, United-Kingdom.
Marinella Senatore is a multidisciplinary artist trained in music, fine arts, and cinema. Her practice is characterized by a strong collective and participatory dimension; her work combines aesthetic research with the transformative power of social engagement.
Marinella Senatore is a multidisciplinary artist trained in music, fine arts, and cinema. Her practice is characterized by a strong collective and participatory dimension; her work combines aesthetic research with the transformative power of social engagement.
The theme of light is one of the crucial aspects of her research since her training at the National Film School in Rome, where she studied direction of photography and camera. The light, both electric and optic, material and metaphorical, proves to be a tool for narration and poetic creation, as well as for resistance and cohesion. As the artist explains, "the light sculptures are generators of energy that - under the form of light beams - is propagated across a space, that changes it and modifies its structures as well as the individuals in it.”
Senatore’s works and performances have been commissioned and exhibited by Italian and international institutions alike, including: Palais de Tokyo, Paris; High Line, New York; Queens Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou Paris; Kunsthaus Zürich; Pearl Art Museum; MAXXI; Palais de Tokyo; Schirn Kunsthalle; Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago; Berlinische Galerie; Museo del Novecento, Milan; Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen; Faena Art Forum, Miami; Bozar; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; Museums der Moderne Salzburg; Serpentine Gallery; CCA Tel Aviv; Museo Madre; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; ICA, Richmond; Petach Tikva Museum of Art; BAK Utrecht; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo; Palazzo Grassi; Museo Boijmans Van Beuningen; Moderna Museet.
The artist has participated in the following contemporary art biennials: São Paulo Biennial; Venice Biennale; Lyon Biennial; Thessaloniki Biennial; Liverpool Biennial; Athens Biennial; Havana Biennial; Gothenburg Biennial; Cuenca Biennial; Pune Biennial; South Tyrol Biennial; Bangkok Biennial and Manifesta12, Palermo.
In 2012, Senatore created The School of Narrative Dance (SOND), a nomadic, free of charge, and non-hierarchical school that proposes an alternative educational system based on emancipation, empowerment, and self-education. With SOND, the artist creates platforms that invite professional and non-professional community members to create site-specific collective movements and storytelling activities, aligned with the collective rituals of public festivals and protests alike. So far, the school’s activities have taken place in over 23 countries, involving about 7 million people.
Marinella Senatore, Paris
February 09 - March 18, 2023
SOLO SHOWS
2023
The School of Narrative Dance, CCA, Tel Aviv, Israel
The School of Narrative Dance, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria Marinella Senatore.
We Rise by LIfting Others, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Bodies in Alliance, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
2022
Bodies in Alliance. Festival. Carte blanche to Marinella Senatore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Marinella Senatore. Remember the first time you saw your name, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Marinella Senatore: Art meets city, Baden Baden, Germany
Marinella Senatore. Afterglow, Mazzoleni, London, United-Kingdom
Marinella Senatore, Embassy of Italy, Bucarest, Romania
Something about you, Blitz, Malta
2021
Make it Shine, Mazzoleni, Turin, Italy
Invito 2021, Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy
The School of Narrative Dance, Taak, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marinella Senatore | A salir a le stelle | To Climb to the Stars, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy
2020
We Rise by Lifting Others, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Un corpo unico/Un cuerpo unico, IIC Madrid, Madrid, Spain
I’m going to make everything beautiful around me, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
2019
The School of Narrative Dance, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, in collaboration with Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Johannesburg, South Africa
The School of Narrative Dance, Magazzino Italian Art, New York, USA
Feminism in Italian Contemporary Art, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
2018
The School of Narrative Dance, curated by Hayward Gallery, The National Theater Mannheim and Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
WE the KIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
2017
Protest Forms: Memory and Celebration sonic version, BAK Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht York Symphony, York Museum, York, United-Kingdom
Zurich Parade, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
The School of Narrative Dance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Procession, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
Piazza Universale/Social Stages, Queens Museum, New York, USA
2016
The School of Narrative Dance, Faena Forum, Miami, USA
Modica Street Musical, Laveronica arte contemporanea, Modica
MétallOpérette, Les Laboratoires d‘Aubervilliers, France
Marinella Senatore, Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, United-Kingdom
2014
The Word Community feels good, MOT International, London Estman Radio, INSITU, Berlin, Germany
Public Secrets, Kunst Halle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2013
Marinella Senatore. Building Communities, Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Turin, Italy; travelled to Museum of Contemporary Art of Santa Barbara, USA
Gotham Prize, Italian Institute of Culture, New York, USA
2012
Rosas, Viafarini DOCVA Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
Rosas, Part one – Part two, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Rosas: The Attic, QUAD, Derby, United-Kingdom
Abierto por obras, Matadero Centro de Creación Contemporánea, Madrid, Spain
Perfect Lives, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2011
Roommates, Macro Museum / Museo Macro, Rome, Italy
8. Furla Prize “Pleure Qui Peut, Rit Qui Veut”, Palazzo Pepoli, Bologna, Italy
2007
Manuale per i viaggiatori, Madre Museum, Naples, Italy
GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)
2022
Aria di Capri, Festival del Paesaggio, Anacapri 2022, Capri, Italy
BAG, Bocconi Art Gallery, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy
Format Festival, Bentoville, USA
Colomboscope. Language is migrant, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Rosa Alchemico, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
MANIFEST yourself!, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Il video rende felici. Videoarte in Italia, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
2021
Di tutti i colori, Galleria Continua, Rome, Italy
LUCREZIA. Omaggio per un’antieroina, Palazzo Fontanelli Sacrati, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Cantinca 21, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Statements, Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, Italy
34th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Flying on the raven’s wing, Horst, Vilvoorde, Belgium
PANORAMA – an island wide exhibition, ITALICS, Procida, Italy
Sonsbeek 20-24, Sonsbeek, The Netherlands Italian Twist, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso, Italy
The Way Out, Steirischer Herbst ’21, Graz, Austria
Never cross the same river twice, Space 52, Athens, Greece
Park Platz, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Back to Nature 2021, Parco dei Daini, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Claire Fontaine, Pasquarosa, Marinella Senatore, Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, Naples, Italy
Breaking the Monument (Images of Resistance), CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
I Say I, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Dante nell’arte contemporanea italiana, ex teatro Piermarini, Foligno, Italy
2020
Bangkok Biennial, Bangkok, Thailand
Protext!, Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy
Europe’s Kitchen, Artists’ Perspectives on Europe, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Claire Fontaine, Pasquarosa, Marinella Senatore, La Fondazione, Rome Biennale Gherdëina, Italy
The School of Narrative Dance, La Commun, Geneva, Switzerland
2019
Bodies–Cities Collections and Excursions, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Germany
EMERGE, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Non-Places and the Spaces in Between, Italian Institute of Culture, New York, USA
The Quest of Happiness, Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland
Hotel Europa: Their Past, Your Present, Our Future, Open Space of Experimental Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
L’ultimo Espaliú, Real Academia de España en Roma, Italy
Art Club 27 #VillaMedici, French Academy in Rome, Italy
The Social Ecosphere: Ecologies of Work and Migration, Oulu Museum and Valve Cultural Center Wall-Eyes. Looking at Italy and South Africa, Italian Institute of Culture of South Africa as part of Keyes Art Mile, Johannesburg, South Africa
Guerrilla of Enlightenment, < rotor > Association for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria
ACT, Q18, Cologne, Germany Cabinet Pique-Nique, Villa Cameline, Nice, France
2018
THE STREET. Where the world is made, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Conversation Piece | Part V, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
The Missing Image: Video, photography, performance, La Rada, Locarno, Switzerland
Manifesta 12 Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Ver as vozes dos artistas | Seeing artists voices, Metro, Porto, Portugal
First Person. Plural Empathy, Intimacy, Irony and Anger. Proposition #5: First Person Plural, INSAS, Brussels Declaration, ICA, Richmond, USA
Agora, Highline, New York, USA
2017
Bi-City, Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China
Action!, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Proposition #1: What we mean, BAK Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Extra-Citizen, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium
Copenhagen Symphony, Code Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark
I Plan to Stay a Believer, Andrew Kreps, New York, USA
Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
Notes on Italia Videoarte, Palazzo Valmarana, Vicenza, Italy
Due South 2017, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, USA
Habit-co-habit, Pune Biennial, Pune, India
Writing about music, dancing, about architecture, Waterside Contemporary, London, United-Kingdom
2016
Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Hotel des Arts, Toulon, France
The Big Other, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
Long Night of Ideas: Unlearning the Given, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2015
La Vie Moderne, 13e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
5th Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art, The State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Good Luck with your Natural, Combined, Attractive and Truthful Attempts in Two Exhibitions, Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France
Do D!sturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The School of Narrative Dance, New York Procession, High Line, New York, USA
The School of Narrative Dance: Die Große Parade, Festival of Regions, Ebensee, Austria
Community Symphony, Stockholm, Sweden
Re:Verb | At:Sain, Llandudno, United-Kingdom
The School of Narrative Dance, The Night Art Made the Future Visible, Creative Time Summit: The Curriculum, Venice, Italy
2014
Open Museum, Open City, “Narrazioni”, Museo MAXXI, Rome, Italy
The Yellow Side of Sociality. Italian Artists in Europe, Bozar Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium
Leisure, Discipline and Punishment, Part of Liverpool Biennial, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, United-Kingdom Glitch, Pac, Milan, Italy Making Room (Spaces of Anticipation), Ar/Ge Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano, Italy
Portrait of the Artist as a Young (Wo) Man, Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
MAXXI Prize 2014, Museo MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Set in Motion, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Performative Resistance, as part of “Arena”, Coca-Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland
Ir para volver / leaving to return, 12a Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
The School of Narrative Dance, Roma, Museo MAXXI, Rome, Italy
The Third Paradise of M. Pistoletto, (performance orchestrated by Marinella Senatore), Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Agora, 4th Athens Biennial, National Bank of Greece Building and Camp Contemporary Art Meeting Point, Athens, Greece
Leisure, Discipline and Punishment as Part of: Play! Recapturing the Radical Imagination, 7th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg, Germany
Contour 2013, 6th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium
Screen Between Europe and Asia, 7th Shiryaeva Biennial, Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
Open Form, Art-Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, Greece
The 338 Hour Cineclub, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Pan, 4th Maretti Prize, Naples, Italy
Benzine, La Triennale, Milan, Italy
How to Tell a Story, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
The School of Narrative Dance: Little Chaos, Teatro Lirico and Teatro Massimo, Cagliari, Italy
A Theatre Cycle: Common Archive School, Teatro Valle Occupato, Rome, Italy
2012
Offen Auf Aeg, Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Where is the here if the here is in there?, Pallas Projects-Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Under a Tinsel Sun, 3rd Moscow International Biennial for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
La Ciudad como Conflicto, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Art Practices and Social Imaginaries, 11th Havana Biennial, Wifredo Lam Center, Cuba Visible Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, Untied-Kingdom
Rosas: Berlin Parade, (public performance), Berlin, Germany
2011
Dublin Contemporary, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, Ireland
The Power to Host, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, USA
Sotto quale cielo?, Museo Riso, Palermo, Italy
ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale / 54° Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2010
Sonrisas y Lágrimas, Museo Naval De Ferrol, Museo Naval De Ferrol, A Coruña Videoreport Italia, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone
SI Sindrome Italiana, Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
Persona in Meno, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Neither From, Nor Towards..., Art Pavillion, Zagreb, Croatia
2009
The Italian Sight, Tea Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain
Emerging Talents, Cccs, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2008
Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy – travelled to Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA
The Rocky Mountain People Show, Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy
2007
Carte Blanche, a project by C. Alemani, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA
Art Radio Live, a project by Moma Ps1 New York and Pan Naples, as Part of 52nd Venice Biennale Guestroom, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006
Vesuvius, 798 Space, Beijing, travelled to Moderna Museet, Stockholm Neverending Cinema, Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy
2005
Thin Line, Viafarini, Milan, Italy
Video Zone 2, 2nd International Video-Art Biennial in Israel, CCA – The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Aesthetics of Resistance, FAR, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy