Biography
Born 1991 in Merate, Italy. He lives and works in Milan.
His research focuses on the natural landscape as a set of ecological relationships, those processes that keep the landscape alive and contribute to the generation of the image we perceive of it. His work emphasises these processes by setting them in a technological, reductionist, scenarios where shape, color and matter highlight their fundamental role within the ecosystem.
“I’ve always been fascinating by the biological complexity I find in nature.
A dense network of hidden and interconnected relations ”
He seeks a tension between detail and context, a complexity that leads audience to a continuous shift of perspective. The artworks, fragments of the contemporary landscape, are the blossoming of an era in which the human-environment relationship is increasingly central. Math, ecology, programming and chemistry are the media used to focus the subject of an artwork in order to inspect the process of its creation. He adopts a transdisciplinary approach encompassing new media, sculpture, photography and installation.
“Sonic exploration is grafted into practice as a dialogue between me and machines. In improvisation, the algorithm, the synthesizers, the code, become an organism with which to dialogue to seek new aesthetics. The instrument, the medium, is not neutral inevitably influences the composition, the resultant. Thus, for sound synthesis, I use hybrid systems, computational and analog, as open as possible.”
Stefano Caimi’s works and installations have been exhibited at diverse solo and group exhibitions in Italy, Netherlands, China and the United States. His work is held in various public and private collections, including AkzoNobel Art Foundation (NL), Anthropocene Collection of MUSE Museum (IT) and In4Art (NL). He is in residency at Dolomiti Contemporanee (IT) and actively collaborates with the Centre for Studies on Alpine Environment, University of Padua.
Since 2019, he has taught Computer Art at New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. His course is focused on how digital media have changed the way to think, make and distribute art in the last century.
Curriculum vitae
2014 |
Bachelor degree in Architecture, Polytechnic of Milan |
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2016 |
Master degree in sustainable Architecture, Polytechnic of Turin |
2019 |
Lecturer – Computer Art at BA in NABA New academy of fine arts, Milan |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 |
Dancing in the ash, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT |
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2022 |
Prelude. A Botanical Invite, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT |
Tracce sottocorticali. il paesaggio degli xilofagi, curated by Gianluca D’incà Levis, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Centro Studi Ambiente Alpino, San Vito di Cadore, IT | |
2021 |
Il fascino dell’inutile, text by Annika Pettini, Megazzino – spaziENNE, Garbagnate Milanese, IT |
Un luogo dopo l’altro, Distretto Culturale del Barro, Galbiate, IT | |
World Environment Day – ArtVerona Digital, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, IT | |
2019 |
Phytosynthesis, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, CN |
2018 |
Oldness, curated by Rosa Cascone, That’s contemporary, Milan, IT |
Paesaggi Frammentati, The Other Space, Milan, IT | |
Hybrid Age, curated by Sara Cattaneo, Milan, IT | |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 |
Nexus, Echoes, and Connections, Sarah Crown, New York, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kiaf Seoul, Sarah Crown, Seoul, ROK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Le fogge delle rocce, curated by Gianluca D’incà Levis, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Nuovo Spazio di Casso, IT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Falsi Paradisi, curated by Daniela Barbieri, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art Rotterdam, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam, NL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023 |
EARTH – A collective landscape, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, NL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SMACH – Dolomites Biennial of Land Art, Val Badia, IT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Altered Perceptions, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Come pioggia, curated by Stefano Cagol, MUSE – Science Museum of Trento, Castel Belasi, IT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The New Atlas of Digital Art | Are humans still Necessary?, MEET Digital Culture Center, project room The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art Rotterdam, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam, NLPulsar, Dolomiti contemporanee, Borca di Cadore, ITEssenziale, curated by Francesca Canfora, Paratissima, Fondazione Amleto Bertoni, Saluzzo, IT2022Untitled Art, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Miami Beach, USAWho Killed Bambi?, curated by Gianluca D’incà Levis, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Spazio di Casso al Vajont, ITArt Rotterdam, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam, NLSuperlab Exhibit, curated by Francesca Canfora, Milan, ITTROMAMOTEL, Dolomiti contemporanee, Borca di Cadore, ITLe divinità aprono gli occhi e creano il mattino, curated by Casa Capra & Ife Collective, Marano Vicentino, ITAlternate lifeforms, curated by Ctrlzak, Jcp Universe, Milan, IT2021_studiOlimpico, Dolomiti contemporanee, Borca di Cadore, ITRebirthing, curated by Giulia Giglio & Paolo Lolicata, ARTiglieria Con/temporary Art Center, Turin, ITArt Rotterdam, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam, NL2020..and thence we came forth to see again the stars
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Premio Arte Cairo, Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT | Welcome to the machine, curated by Francesca Canfora, Festival della Tecnologia, Turin, IT | Naturale sintesi, Milano Design Week, Milan, IT | 2018 |
Serate Illuminate, curated by Riccardo Bargellini, PAC180 – Parco d’arte contemporanea, Livorno, IT | Frammenti di Simbiosi, Angelo della Pergola 1 – M2kr, Milan, IT | 2017 |
SIDE, Museo Giovio, Como, IT | Pop my bling bling, curated by Anni Wu, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT |
COLLECTIONS AND PRIZES
2024 |
Tomorrow Unicredit Award, Special mentions, IT |
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2023 |
MUSE – Museum, Anthropocene Collection, Trento, IT |
SPROUTING – SMACH, Val Badia, IT | |
In4Art, Rotterdam, NL | |
2021 |
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, NL |
Combat prize,Mention of the jury , IT | |
2019 |
Winner “Welcome to the machine”, Festival della Tecnologia, Turin, IT |
2018 |
First prize “Monte Barro_Arte e Natura”, Migro, permanent installation at Monte Barro’s art and nature, IT |
TALKS & LECTURES
2024 |
TEDxNAPOLI – Undressed, curated by Valeria Scialò & Francesca Nicolais, Napoli, IT |
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2023 |
We Are Who We Are, curated by Annika Pettini & Damiano Gullì, Triennale Milano, IT |
Symbiotic Bodies, curated by Chiara Scarpitti, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, IT | |
New technologies applied to natural processes mapping, hosted by Jacqueline Ceresoli, Art and New Technologies, Brera Fine Arts Academy, IT | |
2022 |
Member of the jury “Monte Barro Arte_Natura”, Galbiate, IT |
2018 |
Centro Residenziale Franco Basaglia UFSMA, PAC180, Livorno, IT |
Materia viva, Walden, Milan, IT | |
Synth Day & Night, Le Park, Milan, IT | |
LIVE PERFORMACES
2024 |
Metamorfosi delle crode | Organo Motore, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Borca di Cadore, IT |
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Improvisation | Accordi, Trascendanza & MA 間 Project, Perugia, IT | |
2023 |
Entwined | Opening biennale, Smach, Ciasa dl Maier, San Martin de Tor, IT |
Roots | ROUND TRIP – Fluidum2, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT | |
Roots | Soundviews, Cavallerizza Reale, Torino, IT | |
Folding Gellner | Pulsar, Dolomiti contemporanee, Borca di Cadore, IT | |
2022 |
Entwined & Gellner encoder | TROMAMOTEL, Dolomiti contemporanee, Borca di Cadore, IT |
Entwined | Prelude. A botanical invite, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT | |
Roots | Celidonia, Cinema Campana, Casa Capra e Ife Collective, Marano Vicentino, IT | |
2021 |
Roots | _studiOlimpico, Dolomiti contemporanee, Borca di Cadore, IT |
Roots | Il fascino dell’inutile, Cinema Teatro S. Luigi, Garbagnate Milanese, IT | |