Benassi Elisabetta

BIO
Elisabetta Benassi (b. 1966 in Rome) is active on the international scene since the early 2000’s. She took part three times in the Venice Biennale: in 2015 with Personne et les Autres, Belgian Pavilion, curated by Katerina Gregos; in 2013 with Viceversa, Italian Pavilion, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi; in 2011 with ILLUMInazioni | ILLUMInations, curated by Bice Curiger. Among the great international exhibitions we remember the participation to Manifesta, Frankfurt, 2002 and II Berlin Biennale, Berlin in 2001. She has presented solo exhibitions, most recently: The Sovereign Individual, Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris (2018); It Starts With The Firing, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2017); Passato e Presente, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome (2017); Letargo, Magazzino, Rome (2016); That’s Me in the Picture, Gallery Jousse Entreprise, Paris (2015); Voglio fare subito una mostra, Fondazione Merz, Turin (2013); Smog a Los Angeles, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (2013); Soledad, FIAC! Grand Palais, Paris (2011); Art | 40 | Unlimited, Basel (2009). Some of her group exhibitions include: Untitled, Peter Freeman, Inc. Gallery, New York (2019); Archeologi, Villa Lontana, Rome (2018); ITALIANA, L’Italia vista dalla moda 1971-2001, curated by Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi, Palazzo Reale, Milan (2018); Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente, Artissima OVAL, Lingotto Fiere, Turin (2017); MAXXI Collection. The Place To Be, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome (2017); Après, curated by Erique Baudelair and Marcella Lista, Galerie 3, Centre George Pompidou, Paris (2017); A House, Halfway, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2017); More Than Just Words [On the Poetic], Kunsthalle Wien, (2017); Please Come back. The world as a prison?, MAXXI, Rome (2017); Par Tibi Roma Nihil, Palatine Forum, Rome (2016); Todo o Patrimonio é Poesia curated by Filipa Oliveira, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida in Évora, Portugal (2016); SubBrixia, produced by Brescia Museums Foundation, Brescia Mobility and the City of Brescia (2016); Industriale Immaginario, Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia (2015-2016); NERO SU BIANCO, curated by Robert Storr, Lyle Ashton Harris and Peter Benson Miller, American Academy in Rome (2015); Corsaro, performance realized at the exhibition Non Basta Ricordare curated by Hou Hanru, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome (2014); Newtopia: The State of Human Rights. Exhibition for the City of Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium (2012); Mutatis Mutandis, curated by Catherine David, Wiener Secession, Wien (2012). Elisabetta Benassi is a member of the Pontificia Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon.