Mario Rizzi — Artist & Filmmaker CV
Selected Awards —
2025
Ebru Timtik Award - Selected Artist
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
2022
Premio Gallarate, XXVI Edizione
MAGA Museo d'Arte Gallarate, Italy
2018
Italian Council Award
Italian Ministry of Culture & Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2012
Production Program Award
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2005
Best Artist Prize at the 7th Sharjah Biennial
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2004
The Mulliqi Best Artist Prize
Kosova Art Gallery, Pristina, Kosovo/UNMIK
Solo Exhibitions —
2026
La Sedia Vuota
Ospedale Santi Cosma e Damiano, Pescia, Italy
Permanent installation
2022
Exercices d'empathie
Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2022
Mario Rizzi. A traveler with a camera
MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
2022
Film Trilogy Bayt
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2019
بيت Bayt
Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2019
My Dear Lamis
Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture, Beirut, Lebanon
2017
Bare Lives
Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
2015
L'Attesa
Galleria Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
2013
Karagöz
Galleria Gagliardi, Turin, Italy
2013
The Waiting
Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2011
Partial Truths
Podbielski Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2010
La vie est à nous
Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2008
Murat ve Ismail
Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland
2004
The Sofa of Jung
MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
2002
Drafting Moods
Diana Stigter Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001
Seven Finnish Identities
Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Group Exhibitions and Main Film Festivals —
2026
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
2025
The Library of Palimpsests
Sankt Studio, Berlin, Germany
2024
Luce sulla Città
Piazza Tasso, Florence, Italy
2024
Unhealed
Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
2024
an ecology of images
Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2024
In the eyes of our present, we hear Palestine
Sheikh Khalid Bin Mohammed Arts Palace, Al Dhaid, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2023
Fuori Tutto
MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
2023
Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
2023
6th Berlin Herbstsalon - GEZI TEN YEARS AFTER
Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
2023
Palestinian Nakba 75
P21 Gallery, London, UK
2023
Rainbow
Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2022
Sunbird Documentary Film Award Competition - 9th Palestine Cinema Days
Ramallah, Palestine
2022
14th Manifesta
Centre of Narrative Practice Screening Space, Prishtina, Kosovo/UNMIK
2022
Screens. Culture dello schermo e immagini in movimento
MAGA Museo d'Arte Gallarate, Italy
2022
8th Festival Ciné-Palestine
Paris, France
2022
Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties
The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA
2021
39th EVA International - Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art
City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2021
1st Helsinki Biennial
Helsinki Art Museum & Vallisaari Island, Helsinki, Finland
2021
Blocks
Real Albergo delle Povere - Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palermo, Italy
2021
Babies are knocking
Galleria Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
2021
30 + 30 ... IS THE NEW PUNK
Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2020
Art is always public
Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2019
Territorium: Tijuana
Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Tijuana, Mexico
2019
Moving Women
Magda Danysz Galerie, Paris, France
2018
VIDEOART AT MIDNIGHT Festival 2018
BABYLON Film Theatre, Berlin, Germany
2018
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Residents 2017-2018
Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Beautiful Distress
Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017
#resist
Goethe Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2017
Images du monde laborieux
HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas, France
2017
The Absence of Paths
Tunisian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Italy
2017
Artapes #1. Walking Around the Clock
MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
2017
IN SITU
Palazzina Reale, Florence, Italy
2017
Deconstructing Borders
Tonala, Tijuana, Mexico
2016
Zehn Positionen aus der Türkei
Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany
2016
When Home Won't Let You Stay
Heiligenkreuzer Hof, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2016
27th Ankara International Film Festival
Ankara, Turkey
2016
We Refugees - Of the Right to Have Rights
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
2015
Istanbul. Passion, Joy, Fury
MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
2015
Where are the Arabs?
Al Riwaq Art Space, Manama, Bahrain
2015
The World of Shadow Theatre
Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
2015
Sublime de Voyage - Biennale Art Nomad
Arnac-la-Poste, France + Hauterives, France + Marseille, France + Venice, Italy
2015
26th Ankara International Film Festival
Ankara, Turkey
2015
Layalina Festival
Cinéma Spoutnik, Geneva, Switzerland
2015
Too Early Too Late
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, Italy
2014
17th Randevu Istanbul
French Cultural Institute, Istanbul, Turkey
2014
Open Museum Open City
MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
2014
Open Memory: Echoing Borders
Amman Lab, Amman, Jordan
2014
Refugees and Borders Film Series
Studio-X, Istanbul, Turkey + GSAPP Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, New York, USA
2014
Water is on the house
Polistar, Istanbul, Turkey
2014
Video Forever
Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
2014
24th Festival del Cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina
Milan, Italy
2014
Open Systems
GPL Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2014
Where are the Arabs?
VW Dome, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
2013
Giornata del Cortometraggio
Museo del Cinema, Cinema Massimo, Turin, Italy
2013
Arabian Nights - 10th Dubai International Film Festival
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2013
Villa Romana 1905 – 2013
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
2013
Iskele 2
TANAS, Berlin, Germany + Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2013
Süden
DB KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany
2013
Summer Shorts
Strelka Institute, Moscow, Russia
2013
Off Side - Locarno Film Festival Parallel Event
La Rada Space for Contemporary Art, Locarno, Switzerland
2013
15th Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013
10th El Espejo Film Festival
Bogotá, Colombia
2013
5th Cinéma Arabe
Rialto, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013
4th Middle East Now Film Festival
Cinema Odeon, Florence, Italy
2013
63rd Berlinale Shorts Official Competition
Berlinale, Berlin, Germany
2013
Signs Taken in Wonder
MAK Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria + Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2012
In Spite of it All
Collections Building, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2012
Parco Nomade
Padiglione Italia, 13th International Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
2012
The Road not Taken
Chung Hwa Centenary Arts Festival, Muar, Malaysia
2012
State of Transit
Open Space, Vienna, Austria
2011
Videoforma
National Center for Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2011
(Dis)assembled
Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden
2010
29th International Istanbul Film Festival
Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2009
Rotte Metropolitane
Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2008
6th Doclisboa
Culturgest, Lisboa, Portugal
2008
6th Taipei Biennial
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
2008
13th International Carrara Biennial
Centro Internazionale Arti Plastiche, Carrara, Italy
2008
Be(com)ing Dutch
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2008
Working Men
Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
2008
58th Berlinale Shorts Official Competition
Berlinale, Berlin, Germany
2008
Something from Nothing
CACNO Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA
2007
Résidents
Espace Electra, Paris, France
2007
4th Göteborg International Biennial
Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden
2007
This Day
Tate Modern, London, UK
2007
World Factory
Walter & McBean Galleries, SFAI Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
2006
We are what we are
Rotor, Graz, Austria + 2B Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
2006
Art, Life & Confusion
47th October Salon, Museum Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia
2006
Padiglione Italia Out of Biennale
Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
2006
5 Tage bis zum Ende der Kunst
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2006
6th EVA International - Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art
City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2005
3rd Bienalja e Tiranës
Kompleksi Goldi, Tirana, Albania
2005
9th Istanbul Biennial
Antrepo Warehouse no. 5, Istanbul, Turkey
2005
Padiglione Italia Out of Biennale
Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
2005
Identità & Nomadismo
Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
2005
7th Sharjah Biennial
Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
2004
14th Sydney Biennale
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2003
Anomalie - Fuori Uso
Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy
2003
2nd Bienalja e Tiranës
National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
2003
1st Prague Biennial
National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2002
Exit
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2001
The Gift
Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
Film Screenings —
2025
Kauther
International Fair Trial Day, Bruxelles, Belgium
2023
The Little Lantern
Al Ma'mal Foundation, Jerusalem, Palestine
2023
Anni, Kauther, Ekhlas
Fondazione Fulvio Croce, Turin, Italy
2017
Videoart at Midnight #88
BABYLON Film Theatre, Berlin, Germany
2014
Al Intithar
SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
2013
L'attente
Palais des Arts, Marseille, France
2007
Modern Mondays: Mario Rizzi
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Curated Exhibitions —
2025
OLTRE
Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Aula Colleoni
With brochure
2004
PLUG IN
Futura Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
With catalogue
Art Collections —
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
MAXXI Museo Nazionale Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome
Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Pecci, Prato
Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Musée Réattu, Arles
Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne
Academic —
Appointments
2025
"Il viaggio come percorso artistico e introspettivo"
Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Italy — Department of Contemporary Art History, Spring Semester
2012
Course on Contemporary Art
Chung Hwa International Art School, Muar, Malaysia — Spring Semester
Theses Focusing on My Artwork
2021
Angelica Zucconi, "The trilogy BAYT by Mario Rizzi: analysis of the films and of the language of the artist"
B.A. Thesis, University of Pisa, Italy
2005
Elena Keidan, "Mario Rizzi e l'estetica relazionale"
B.A. Thesis, Brera Academy of Fine Art, Milan, Italy
Residencies & Honors —
2019
Structures of Displacement — Symposium and Screenings
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2017
Tokyo Arts and Space Residency Program
Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Jury Member — 4th Duhok International Film Festival
Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan
2016
Jury Member — 27th Ankara International Film Festival
Ankara, Turkey
2015
Artist Residency
Fondazione Jorio Vivarelli, Pistoia, Italy
2011
National Center for Contemporary Arts — Studio Program
Saint Petersburg, Russia
2010
The Fund for the 21st Century — Permanent Collection
MoMA, New York, USA
2006
Al Ma'mal Foundation — Studio Program
Al Ma'mal Foundation, Jerusalem, Palestine
2005
Cité Internationale des Arts — Studio Program
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2002
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst — Artist Residency
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001
Internationales Atelierprogramm
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Selected Bibliography —
Emanuele Cutsodontis, L'ospedale a misura di paziente. La Nazione, 12.04.2026
Manuela De Leonardis, Viaggi straordinari. Mario Rizzi in Giappone. exibart, 5.08.2024
Neema Vitali, «une écologie des images» au cœur de l'Histoire. Art Critique, 3.04.2024
Luisa Franzini, "Stories make us": Raccontare la Palestina. In: "Deportate, Esuli, Profughe", Università Ca' Foscari Venice, September 2024
Yasmin Khan, 75 Years After the Palestinian Nakba. HYPERALLERGIC, 15.05.2023
Elena Bordignon, FOCUS sulla mostra Screens. ATP DIARY, 21.09.2022
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, Mario Rizzi le féministe. Les Blogs – De l'art helvétique contemporain, 20.09.2022
Chiara Bontacchio, Con le mie opere cerco di dare voce alla marginalità. Berlino Magazine, Jan–Feb 2022
Hanno Rehlinger, Die Andere. Der Tagesspiegel, 9.01.2022
Hamid Dabashi, Anni Kanafani Lives Here. In: "BAYT", NERO Editions, 2022, pp 56–62
Stephanie Bailey, Portraits Of Bayt. In: "BAYT", NERO Editions, 2022, pp 74–81
Isin Önol, Conditions Of Objection. In: "BAYT", NERO Editions, 2022, pp 102–109
Simone Frangi, (Un)Certain Assessment. In: "BAYT", NERO Editions, 2022, pp 116–121
Sabrina Vedovotto, Racconti da lontano. Telescope – Quidmagazine, 15.03.2020
Manuela De Leonardis, Fiabe a Burj el Barajneh. Alias – Il Manifesto, 13.4.2019
Jonas Tinius, The privilege of life itself. In: "Bare Lives", Archive Books, 2017, pp 68–75
Hamid Dabashi, Sacred Souls, Bare Lives. In: "Bare Lives", Archive Books, 2017, pp 5–11
Cristiana Perrella, The Outsider. Ibraaz.org, 30.6.2016
Sabine Weier, Migrant Identities After the Global Crisis. Camera Austria, #134/2016, pp 84–85
Ida Panicelli, Mario Rizzi at Studio Stefania Miscetti. Critics' Picks. Artforum.com, December 2015
Cristiana Perrella, La Primavera araba in un film. Artribune.com, 9.12.2015
Tilman Spreckelsen. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16.11.2015
Dorothea Schoene, A State of Exception. Ibraaz.org, 8.5.2013
Igal Avidan, Das lange Warten auf den Frieden. Zeit.de, 11.2.2013
Simon Rees, 6th Taipei Biennial. Frieze, #120, pp 147–148
Dmitry Golynko, The Ethics of Human Biographies. Arterritory.com, January 2012
Sabine Vogel, International Istanbul Biennial. Critics' Picks. Artforum.com, October 2005
Isabel Carlos, Beyond Self-Expression. In: "Mario Rizzi 96_04", Skira, 2004, pp 25–32
Lilly Wei, South by Southeast. Art in America, #11, pp 58–65
Christian Rattemeyer, Biennale of Sydney. Artforum, Vol. 43, #3, pp 238–239
Bruno Latour, Résidents. Editions du Panama, 2007, pp 192–195
Charles Esche, Murat ve Ismail. In: "9th International Istanbul Biennial", Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, 2005, pp 141–144
Katerina Gregos, Mario Rizzi. Contemporary, #86, pp 54–55
Michele Robecchi, Mario Rizzi. Flash Art Italy, Vol. XXXIX, #255, pp 68–71