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
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.catania5530201987graphite.
ink on paper,21x29,7cm
mimmo.catania55(0T87)# 2021,
oil on canvas,60x80cm
wmimmo.catania55(T87)#4 2021,
mimmo.catania55ldyllic Landscape,2014,
oil on found canvas,40x30cm
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.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.catania550T1994watercolor
on paper12x18cm
mimmo.catania55Eastern Hill,1984,mixed media, collage on paper 150x100cm
mimmo.catania55Dots,2017oil on canvas,100x70 cm
"The Rim"2013,oil on canvas, 300x200cm
mimmo.catania55 Burning car2014,ink,
collage on paper,33x23cm
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 |
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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
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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
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Anschlaege im Schaukasten, TAZ 5.10.1985, Berlin, 1985
Ciesielska, Jolanta, Niemiecka To'zsamo's'c, Format 18/19, Wroclaw, 1995
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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,
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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
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Transponierung der Zeichen, Cat. Schattensprung, Warsaw -Berlin, 1994
Mimmo Catania's Transposition of Signs, Cat. Art for Peace Gubbio,
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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
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Athens, 1997
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