/MIMMO CATANIA

MIMMO CATANIA







Defendants1989-1991 photocopied handmade
drawing, full bottles of water, cord, nails
195x240x10cm(Installation)



works on paper

























Fashion Shop2002 Oil on canvas100x100 cm



spectator 2003. Oil on canvas 200x200cm



suspensesion 2004. Oil on canvas 200x300cm




Night & Day 2003.Oil on canvas100x100 cm




Drawing Room 2005  Oil on canvas 210x208cm






the perfect fake 2010 Oil on canvas 120x90cm






the couple 2011 Oil on canvas 80x60cm
















mimmo.catania55Gust of Wind,2021,charcoal on cardboard,105x99cm(Burning cars series)




mimmo.catania55Hit&Run,2020

oil on canvas,60 x50cm(Burning cars series)



birth of ldea 2012oil on canvas,200x150cm



mimmo.catania55Bonfire2015oil on canvas,52x52cm



"Hit & Run" 2015,oil on canvas,200x200cm

mimmo.catania55La Memoria Artificiale,1985 tempera,ink on paper,38x57 cm



mimmo.catania55Slammed on White2016.

oil on canvas,200x140cm


mimmo.catania55ChamptheBit,2015,
graphite on paper,29,7x42cm




mimmo.catania5530201987graphite.

ink on paper,21x29,7cm



mimmo.catania55(0T87)# 2021,

oil ​on canvas,60x80cm



mimmo.catania55(0T87)#1,2021,oil 
​on canvas,60x80cm


mimmo.catania55(T87)#42021,oil 
on canvas,60x80cm


mimmo.catania55The bigjump,2014,
oil on canvas,46x35cm



wmimmo.catania55(T87)#4 2021,

oil on canvas,60x80cm




mimmo.catania55Gioco Strategico31986,
ink pastel on paper,48x32 cm



mimmo.catania55ldyllic Landscape,2014,

oil on found canvas,40x30cm



mimmo.catania55Gioco Strategico1,1986,
ink pastel on paper48x32cm


mimmo.catania55Winged,2014

oil on canvas,120 x90cm




mimmo.catania55 Gioco Strategico2,1986,ink pastell on paper,48x32cm



mimmo.catania55In the middle of nowhere,

1985 ink,chalk on paper,38x57cm



mimmo.catania55In the middle of nowhere,1985 ink,chalk on paper38x57 cm



mimmo.catania55High Voltage,1985,

ink, pastel on paper,57x78cm



mimmo.catania55Fish1983oil on canvas,80x85 cm



mimmo.catania55 Extreme poles,1985,

oil,pastell on canvas,170x135cm



mimmo.catania55 Mirrors,1985,

oil on fabric,165x75cm


mimmo.catania551984oil on fabric,80x60cm



mimmo.catania55Journeyin the cloud,1985,

oil pastell on canvas,110x90cm



mimmo.catania55Manitu,1985.chalk,pastell 

on canvas,90x70xm



mimmo.catania55 Profilo di Notte,1984 

oil on cavas,110x95cm



mimmo.catania55In the middle of nowhere,1985 

ink, pastels on paper each 38x57cm



mimmo.catania55High Voltage,1985,

ink, pastel on paper,57x78cm



mimmo.catania55LaMemoria 

Artificiale,1985 tempera,ink on paper,38x57 cm



mimmo.catania55 Gioco Strategico2,1986,ink pastell on paper, 48x32 cm




mimmo.catania550T1994watercolor 

on paper12x18cm



mimmo.catania55Eastern Hill,1984,mixed media, collage on paper 150x100cm



mimmo.catania55Traces of Absence,2017,
oil on canvas,200x140cm



mimmo.catania55Dots,2017oil on canvas,100x70 cm



"The Rim"2013,oil on canvas, 300x200cm



mimmo.catania55The imperfection of the thought2016,oil on canvas,55x42 cm



mimmo.catania55 Burning car2014,ink,

collage on paper,33x23cm


mimmo.catania55Dots,2017,oil on canvas,43x30 cm


"Footbridge"2004, oil on canvas,300x200 cm




mimmo.catania55Hide and Seek2016.
oil on canvas200x140cm






Mimmo Catania

1955 Born in Vittoria, Italy
1980-84 Studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Urbino 
1984-present Has been living and working in Berlin

Grants, Fellowships, Residencies

1995 Grant, Art Omi International Artists' Residency Program, New York
1996 Grant, KULTURfonds Foundation, Berlin, for a residency in Haifa, Israel
1998-99 Daimler-Chrysler grant for a residency at the Casa di Goethe, Rome
2005 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, New York
2006 Residency at the House Radobolja Colony, Mostar, BiH
2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, New York, for 
residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 Studio at Pickled Art Centre, Beijing
2012 Katalogförderung, Senate of Berlin, Berlin
2016 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1985 La bestia del sonno, Schaufenstergalerie, Berlin
Avvisi in Bakeka, Eiszeit Kino, Berlin
1986 La Fedelta  del Camaleonte, Galerie Kunst-Raum, Hagen
The Wind, Galerie IX, Berlin
1987 La strategia dei Gemelli, with R. Dreher, Planet Galerie, Düsseldorf
1988 Zwei Jahre später, Galerie IX, Berlin
1990 Reflessioni, Galerie Loulou Lasard, Berlin
1993 Notes, Konzept Museum Galerie, Berlin
1994 Notes & Notices, Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz, PL
1995 Mind the Step, Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw
Selected drawings, Scuola Grande S. Giovanni Evangelista, Venice
1996 Night Day Light, Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa
Labyrinth, Ephrat Gallery (with Abraham Eilat), Tel Aviv
1997 Window, Artists' Space, Berlin
1999 Mimmo Catania, Casa di Goethe Museum, Rome
2003 Selected works, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Zeitgeist, Works 1998-2002, Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre-Venice
2004 Three paintings, Mietart Galerie, Berlin
2005 Spectator, Mietart Galerie, Berlin
2007 Set on Wet, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 The Corner, The Pickled Art Centre, Beijing
The Enchanting Forest (Chuanbei Park), Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2009 Expected News, Galerija Charlama, Sarajevo
Shouting all life long, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Cologne
Catcher in the Act, Tallina Kunstihoone/City Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn
2010 Out of Order, Unit One Gallery, Beijing
2011 The Perfect Fake, Epicentro Art, Berlin
2013 Mimmo Catania, Casa del Arte, Zürich
2015 Storm, TAM, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance (US-CA)
Shutter-Schütter, Irena Kos Arte Contemporanea, Pietrasanta, Italy
2016 Overturn, Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea Montevergini, Siracusa, It
2017 Odd One Out, Artloft, Berlin
2018 Idyllic Landscape, Corner Window Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2019 Traces of Absence, Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice
2019/2020 Interior Shot, Dispari & Dispari Project, Berlin

Bibliography,Catalogues, Interviews

Art-Focus, Contemporary Art in Israel, Cat., Curator Doron Polak, Jerusalem , 1996 

Art for Peace/Spazi di Pace, Cat., Curators S. Sannipoli, D. Polak, Gubbio, 2000

Art/Omi, Ledig House, Cat., Critic in Residence Carlos Basualdo, New York, 1995

Apa, Mariano, Microcosmo-Macrocosmo, Cat., Curator M. Apa, Urbino, 1984

Baumgart, Eva, Reflessioni, Cat., Berlin, 1990 

Bastarde, New Art International N.7, Paris, 1990

Macchine per ascrivere, Monograph, Bagheria, Italy, 1990

Bayliss, Sarah, Construction in Process, in World-Art N. 3/95, Melbourne, 1995

Berlin -Bialystok, Cat., Curator Monika Szewczyk, Bialystok, 1998

Black-out, Folder with 5 silkscreens, printed and produced by Arte y Naturaleza, 

Madrid, 2005

Brafman, Ora, Interviews Mimmo Catania, in Kolbo 23.2.96, Haifa, 1996

La Casa dell'Angelo, Cat., Curator Fabio Alfano, Clean Edizioni, Naples, 2001 

Catania, Mimmo, From "Diary 1988-90", Weast an Art Magazine, N. 3, Berlin, 1992

Anschlaege im Schaukasten, TAZ 5.10.1985, Berlin, 1985

Ciesielska, Jolanta, Niemiecka To'zsamo's'c, Format 18/19, Wroclaw, 1995

Co-Existence, Negrev Desert, Cat., Curator Doron Polak, Israel, 1996

Crispolti-Fileccia, 2. Biennale Arte Sacra, Cat., Siracusa,Italy, 1991

Cuadernos de viaje, Review Arte y Naturaleza, Madrid, 2004

Cultur Kiosk, Détournement 2009, Venice, 2009 

DaimlerChrysler-Stipendium der Casa di Goethe-Rom/1998-2002, Cat., Curator

U. Bongaerts, Rome, 2003

Dependtendency, Cat., Carlo Cambi Editore, Poggibonsi (SI), Italy, 2009

Elken Jaan, Mees, kes mäletab viiekümnendaid, Ekspress, 15/11/2009, Tallin, 2009 

Fricke, Harald, in: Tageszeitung-12.2.94, Berlin, 1994

Goethe in Italia – Goethe a Roma, Editoriale' Espresso, Rome, 1999

Golden Seed, Cat., Curator M. Sidor, Book Art Museum, Lodz, 1997

Grabovac, A., Vaznije je izlagati u Sarajevu, Dnevni avaz 15.03.2009, Sarajevo, 2009 

Greve, Kaspar, Pittura, Cat., Rome, 1988

Grundsteinkiste, Die, Cat., Curator Dr. Stefan Geppert, Bonn, 1996

Hock, Dorothee, Stipendiaten 1, Kultur Berichte-2/99, Bonn, 1999

Impermanenza, Cat., Curator Giancarlo Vianello, Venice, 2004

Intrude ART Issue 11, Cat., Curator Biljana Ciric, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, 2008

Jacobi, Fritz, 5. Maisalon/Kunst in Berlin, Cat., Curator A. Seyda, Bonn, 1994

Karadza, Selma, Unerwartet über die Erwarteten Ereignisse, Interview, Depo Portal, 

Sarajevo, 2009 

Kreis, Elfi, Vervielfaeltigungen, Der Tagesspiegel 10.2.90, Berlin, 1990

Living Mind N.1, Review, Lodz, 1993

M.C., Der Tagesspiegel 6.2.94, Berlin, 1994

Markers, an outdoor Banner event of artists and poets for Venice Biennal 2001,

Cat., Curators Doron Polak and Giancarlo Vianello, Venice, 2001 and

49.Biennale di Venezia, General Catalog, Venice, 2001

Markers 2, Electric Pole as outdoor Sculpture@ Kassel City of Documenta, Cat.,

Curator Doron Polak, Kassel, 2002 

Menna, F.-Mango, L., Il fare dell'Arte, Cat., Curator Carola Marchegiani, Udine, 1987

Morgan, Robert C., Mimmo Catania's Transposition of signs/Mimmo Catanias

Transponierung der Zeichen, Cat. Schattensprung, Warsaw -Berlin, 1994

Mimmo Catania's Transposition of Signs, Cat. Art for Peace Gubbio,

Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, Gubbio, 2000

Morgan, Robert C., M.C.'s Transpositions of signs, Cat. Mimmo Catania. Reunion-Works 1982-2012, VTKT, Berlin, 2012

Museum, Cat., I Tascabili dell'Arte, Bagheria, I, 1996

Museum, Collection's general Catalog; texts by  E. di Stefano, E. Crispolti, V. Fagone, 

G. Dorfles, Edizioni Ezio Pagano, Bagheria, Italy, 2005

Muzeum Artystow/The Artists' Museum, Curator R. Wasko, Book, Lodz, 1996

Night Italia 2, Homo acheropitus, Review, Edizioni Jouvence, Rome, 2008 

Pepper, Jens, Spreeflorenz, Neue Bildende Kunst 6.92, Berlin, 1992

Mimmo Catania, Zitty -9.93, Berlin, 1993

Poli, F., Mimmo Catania, in Le Arti News-3/4, Milan, 1983

Poles apart/Poles together, Cur. D. Polack, 51. Biennale di Venezia, 

General Catalog, Venice, 2005 

R.E.D. Spiegelechospiegel, Die Tageszeitung-16.2.90, Berlin, 1990

Rossi, Mariella, Il Giornale dell’Arte/The Art Newspaper. Special Issue: Vedere in Sicilia (#365, June, 2016) SOCIETÀ EDITRICE ALLEMANDI & C., Torino, 2016

Schattensprung, 11 Kuenstlerinnen und Kuenstler aus Berlin, Cat., Curator Eckhart

Gillen, Museumspaedagogischer Dienst, Berlin, 1994

Schefferski, R., 37 Przestrzeni/ 37 Raeume, Obieg-9/10, Warsaw, 1992

Wazne jest to dokad sie zmierza z M.C. (L'insistenza dimostra di non

arrendersi di fronte alle difficolta), Interview, 

Obieg N.53/54, Warsaw, 1993

Seconds, Issue Nr. 10, Mimmo Catania, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, 2009

Shouting all life long, Cat. Curator Stefania Falone, Verlag für zeitgenössische 

Kunst und Theorie, Berlin, 2009

Stegmayer, Benedikt, Colour, Composition and Narration, Cat. Mimmo Catania. Reunion-Works 1982-2012, VTKT, Berlin, 2012

Still the Ship is not in sight, Cat., Curators K. Koskina, D. Richter-Glueck, E. Schmidt,

Athens, 1997

Stipendiaten 1, Cat., Curator U. Bongaerts, Casa di Goethe, Rome, 1999

Strano, C., Il Fare dell'Arte, in l'Arca-Sept. 87, Milan, 1987

Tannert, Christoph, About Mimmo Catania's Meta-Realism, Cat. Storm, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, 2015

Tutsch, C., Das Rapunzel Maerchen in der Interpretation moderner Kuenstler, Cat.,

Curator I. Husemann, Brueder Grimm Museum, Kassel, 1993

Universo/Diverso-Universe/Diverse, Esodo N. 4, Venice 2002

Varblane, Reet, Man who remember, Cat. Mimmo Catania. Reunion-Works 1982-2012, VTKT, Berlin, 2012

Varga, M., Anteprima 81, Cat., Curator M. Varga, Urbino, 1981

Vergine d'oliva, Cat., Curator Vito Caiati, Edizioni Geo arte Contemporanea, Bari, 2003 

Vianello, Giancarlo, Il Nulla Liberato, Immagini Buddhiste, Edizioni Paramita, 

Rome-Venice, 1995

Volk, Gregory, Site-Ations, World Art 1/95, Melbourne, 1995

Wandering Library, an Artists' Book's Event to Mark the Venice Biennale, 

Curator D. Polak, Tel Aviv- Venice, 2003

Wandering Library at 1. Lodz Biennal, Cat., Curator D. Polack, The Topor Family

Foundation, New York, 2004 

Witte, Barthold C., M.C. in Stipendiaten 1. Cat., Casa di Goethe, Rome, 1999

Wolff, Detlef, Der Kunsthorizont kennt keine Grenzen, Weser Kurier-July, Bremen, 1997

WU Chen, Fall winds blowing at the windchimes, sh.eastday.com, Shanghai, 2008




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