Micol Assael nasce a Roma nel 1979. Attualmente vive e lavora tra l’Italia e la Grecia.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021    Converting Words, Plato, Ostrava, CZ
2020    Converting Words, Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK
2020    On Zone, Zoo Zone Art Forum, Rome, IT
2017    Lettura di un’onda, curated by Bruno Corà e Valentino Catricalà, Museo Riso, Palermo, IT
2016    Stone Broken Circuit, König Galerie, Berlin, DE
2015    Eddy Current, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2014    Asymmetry of Probability, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2014    ILIOKATAKINIOMUMASTILOPSARODIMAKOPIOTITA, curated by Andrea Lissoni, HangarBicocca, Milan, IT
2013    Maybe Tomorrow, international artist-in-residence program, Artpace, San Antonio, USA
2010    Фомушка (Fomuška), curated by Letizia Ragaglia, MUSEION, Bozen, IT
2009    Фомушка (Fomuška), curated by Annette Sudbeck, Secession, Wien, AT
2009    Inner Disorder, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2009    Inner Disorder, Johann König, Berlin, DE
2009    Фомушка (Fomuška), curated by Rein Wolfs, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE
2009    Gdzie indzej, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL
2009    Chizhevsky Lessons, curated by Marc Olivier Wahler, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2008    Altrove/Elsewhere (in collaboration with Mika Vainio), curated by Daniela Cascella, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, IT
2008    Edicola Notte, Rome, IT
2007    Mindfall in collaboration with Mika Vainio, Galerie Johann König, Berlin, DE
2007    Chizhevsky Lessons, curated by Adam Szymczyk, Kunsthalle Basel, CH
2005    Free Fall in the Vortex of Time, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2004    D-segni, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
2004    Sleeplessness, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, IT
2002    La Folie de la Villa Médicis, curated by Chiara Parisi, Villa Medici, Accademia di Francia, Rome, IT
2001    Galleria Studio 34, Salerno, IT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022    This curent between us, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos and Georgia Liapi, Public Power Corporation of Greece (PPC)/ Blow Up, Athens, GR
2022    What a Wonderful World, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, MAXXI Rome, IT
2022    The Dream of Ulysses, curated by Francesco Stocchi, Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, FR
2022    Des futurs désirables, curated by LABO148, Frac Grand Large – Hauts – de – FR
2021    Ulisse lineare, Zero…, Milan, IT
2021    Space Oddity, spazi e corpi al tempo del distanziamento sociale, curated by Irene Calderoni, Fondazione Sandretto Re rebaudengo, Torino, IT
2021    The Earth is flat again, curated by Jakub Gawkowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, PL
2021    Mines and Minerals, curated by Alexandros Tzannis, Serifos old mines, GR
2021    Le FRAC s’invite au Musée, Musée des Maisons comtoises, Nancray, FR
2021    La vita nova, curated by Alessandra Mammì, Museo Barracco, Rome, IT
2020    Fuori, Quadriennale di Roma, curated by Sarah Cosulich and Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT
2020    Insieme, curated by Gianni Politi, Mura Aureliane, Rome, IT
2019    La Plage, Zero… , Milan, IT
2019    On the edge of the blade we run, curated by Alexandros Tsiannis, Ex PLYFA Factory, Athens, Greece
2019    The Source, curated by Chiara Parisi, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, FR
2018    Take Me (I’m Yours), curated by Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Chiara Parisi, Villa Medici, Accademia di Francia, Rome, IT
2018    Mapping Sounds, Goethe Institut, Rome, IT
2017    The place to be, curated by Margherita Guccione and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, MAXXI, Rome, IT
2017    Take me (I’m yours), curated by Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi and Roberta Tenconi, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, IT
2017    Le Paradoxe de l’Iceberg, curated by Keren Detton, Frac Grand Large, Hauts-de-France Paris, FR
2017    Trigon 67/17, curated by Jürgen Dehm, Grasz Kunstlerhaus, Grasz, AT
2017    The act of drinking a Coke by yourself is the lowest form of art, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, IT
2017    Good Boy – Bad Boy, curated by Keren Detton, Kunstencentrum Ten Bogaerde, Koksijde, BE
2016    Partoftheprocess7 (Imitatio Christe’s II), FuturDome, Milan, IT
2016    The Milky Way 3, Fondazione Marconi, Milan, IT
2016    Scarecrows, Sigalas Vineyard, Santorini, GR
2016    The Picture Club, curated by Ilaria Gianni, American Academy in Rome, IT
2015    519+40, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, IT
2015    Andy Warhol sul comò, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa, IT
2015    Collecting for Tomorrow: New Works at Museion, MUSEION, Bozen, IT
2014    The Yellow Side of Sociality, curated by Nicola Setari, Bozar, Brussels, BE
2014    Intenzione Manifesta. Il disegno in tutte le sue forme, curated by Beatrice Merz, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT
2014    Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea, curated by Giulia Ferracci, MAXXI, Rome, IT
2014    Sculpture Unchaperoned – contemporary international positions selected by artist Michael Kienzer, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Wien, AT
2014    Imitatio Christie’s – (partoftheprocess6), ZERO…, Milan, IT
2014    Video screening 25, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2013    Des Mondes Possibles, curated by Sylvie Zavatta, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, FR
2013    New works #1, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Sprovieri, London, UK
2013    Have you seen me before?, curated by Francesco Bonami and Achim Burchardt-Hume, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2013    Dread – Fear in the age of technological acceleration, curated by Juha van’t Zelfde, De Hallen Haarlem, NL
2013    Future Generation Art Prize 2013, curated by Bjorn Geldhof, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, IT
2013    Of Love, Pain, and Passioned Revolt (Then Farewell, My Beloved, ‘til It’s Freedom Day), Invited by Alice Conconi and Antonio Scoccimarro, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2013    Extra Large, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, MACRO Testaccio, Rome, IT
2013    Jorge Peris, Micol Assaël, Nunzio, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, IT
2012    Future Generation Art Prize 2012, curated by Bjorn Geldhof, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, UA
2011    Space Ship Earth, curated by Dobrila Denegri, Centre of Contemporary Art Torun, PL
2011    Out of Storage, Maastricht, NL
2010    Spazio. From MAXXI’s collections of Art and Architecture, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, MAXXI, Rome, IT
2010    Press Art – Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, curated by Christoph Doswald, Museum Der Moderne – MdM Rupertinum, Salzburg, AT
2010    Director’s Choice, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, DK
2010    Mutiny seemed a probability, curated by Adrienne Drake, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, IT
2010    21×21, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
2010    Star City, The Future Under Communism, curated by Alex Farquharson, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2010    Arrivi e Partenze Europa, a cura di Andrea Bruciati e Walter Gasperoni, Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, IT
2009    Aspects of collecting, Essl Museum, Wien, AT
2009    Barock – Arte. Scienza. Fede e Tecnologia nell’Età Contemporanea, curated by Eduardo Cicelyn and Mario Codognato, Museo MADRE, Naples, IT
2009    Italics. Arte italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione, 1968-2008, curated by Franceso Bonami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2009    Chasing Napoleon, curated by Marc Olivier Wahler, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2009    1989 – 2009. Overview, Celebration, Critique, curated by Andrea Viliani, Galleria Civica, Trento, IT
2009    Espellos = Espejos = Mirrors, curated by Gyonata Bonvicini, MARCO, Vigo, ES
2009    Life Forms, curated by Sara Arrhenius, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2009    Second Hand, curated by Jasper Sharp, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Wien, AT
2009    Short Circuits, Peter Blum, New York, USA
2009    Italian Open, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2008    In living contact, 28a Bienal de São Paulo, curated by Ivo Mesquita, Bienal Pavilion, São Paulo, BR
2008    Italics. Arte italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione, 1968-2008, curated by Franceso Bonami, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT
2008    Partoftheprocess3, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2008    When a clock is seen from the side it no longer shows the time, Galerie Johann König, Berlin, DE
2008    After Nature, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum, New York, USA
2008    Revolutions – Forms That Turn. 16th Biennale of Sydney, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Power House – Cockatoo Island, Sydney, AU
2008    … 5 minutes later, curated by Susanne Pfeffer, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2008    Ad Absurdum – Zeitgemäße Apparate, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, DE
2008    Impronta globale, curated by Daniele Arzenta, Ex Magazzini Generali, ISA Istituto Superiore Antincendi, Rome, IT
2007    Marta Schweight. Garde le silence, le silence te gardera, curated by Jan Hoet, Marta Herford, DE
2007    La parola nell’arte. Ricerche d’avanguardia nel ‘900. Dal Futurismo ad oggi attraverso le Collezioni del Mart, curated by Giorgio Zanchetti, Mart, Rovereto, IT
2007    Schmerz, curated by Eugen Blume, Hamburger Bahnohf, Berlin, DE
2007    Oú? Scenes du Sud : Espagne, Italie, Protugal, curated by Françoise Cohen, Carré d’Art Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nimes, FR
2007    Silence. Listen to the Show, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
2007    Luce di pietra, curated by Henry-Claude Cousseau e Marcello Smarrelli, Palazzo Farnese, Rome, IT
2006    My Private escaped from Italy, curated by Barbara Casavecchia and Anna Daneri, Centre International d’art et du paysage, l’île de Vassivière, Vassivière, FR
2006    Inaugural Exhibition, Johann König, Berlin, DE
2006    Of mice and men – 4th Berlin Biennale, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, Former Jewish School for Girls, Berlin, DE
2005    T-1 La sindrome di Pantagruel, curated by Carolyn Christoph-Bakargiev and Francesco Bonami, Turin, IT
2005    Sempre un po‘ più lontano, curated by Rosa Martinez, Biennale di Venezia – 51° Esposizione Internazionale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venice, IT
2005    Bidibibobidiboo, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
2005    Material Time/Work Time/Life Time​, curated by Jessica Morgan, Reykjavik Art Festival, Vestmannaeyjar, IS
2005    Radio Days, curated by Claire Staebler, CTP of The Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
2005    Non Toccare la Donna Bianca, curated by Francesco Bonami, Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, IT
2005    Dialectics of hope, 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Nicolas Bourriaud, Iara Boubnova, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rosa Martinez, Former Lenin Museum, Moscow, RU
2004    Rendez-Vous, La Jeune Creation Contemporaine, curated by Hauviette Bethemont, Isabelle Bortolotti, Yves Robert and Dirk Snauwaert, Museé d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, FR
2004    Non Toccare la Donna Bianca, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
2004    With all due Intent… Manifesta 5, curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Marta Kuzma, Donostia, San Sebastián, ES
2003    Sleeplessness, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, IT
2003    Sogni e Conflitti: La Dittatura dello Spettatore, curated by Francesco Bonami, Biennale di Venezia-50° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Sezione: La Zona, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, IT
2003    Sub-Real-Reality Survival Strategies, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
2003    Micol Assaël, Nico Dockx, Rirkrit Tiravanja, Museum in Progress, curated by Chris Dercon and Hans Ulrich Obrist, San Gimignano, Siena, IT
2003    Great Expectations!, curated by Chiara Parisi, Marcello Smarrelli, Charlotte Laubard, Fuori Uso, Pescara IT
2002    Fatamorgana, ZERO…, Piacenza, IT
2002    Exit. Nuove geografie della creatività italiana, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
2002    Fullcontact, curated by Sergio Risaliti, Salvatore Lacagnina and Caroline Corbetta, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, IT
2001    Prototipi 0.1, curated by Stefano Chiodi and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Fondazione A.Olivetti, Rome, IT
2000    Affinités Électives 2, invited by Koo Jeong-A, Galerie du Jour-Agnes B., Paris, FR
2000    Offered Spaces-Spazi Offerti, curated by Simonetta Lux e Chiara Parisi, San Casciano Dei Bagni, IT
1999    Young International Artists, Palazzo Rialto, Rome, IT

AWARDS

2020    Krasner Pollock Foundation
2013    international artist-in-residence program, Artpace, San Antonio, USA
2012    Future Generation Art Prize