Alessandro Sambini
Alessandro Sambini
born in Rovigo (Italy) in 1982, lives and works in Milan.
Through photography, video and the use of performance reflects the need and methods of production of new images, their circulation and dissemination, the various areas of the relationship between the image and the public.
Education
2009 MA in Research Architecture, Department of Visual Culture at the Goldsmiths’ College of London.
2006 BA in Design at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy Partnership at the Studio Francesco Jodice, Milan, Italy.
awards/commissions
October 2016
People at an exhibition’s installation has been acquired by Fondo acquisizione privato di Artverona
Marzo 2015
Stories From The Edge, Trieste, Graz, progetto curated by Francesca Lazzarini. Among the five artists selected.
March 2014
Selected together with The Cool Couple in the public art project “EXPOSED, Sinfonie Urbane”, Milano
March 2011- May 2012
Among the 8 artists selected by the Museo della Fotografia Contemporanea di Cinisello Balsamo to produce a public art project in Milan
December 2009
Finalist in GD4Photoart the international competition for young photographers by invitation only. Fondazione Seragnoli
August 2008
Winner of the XXIII edition of “Premio Gallarate”, MAGA, Italy
public collections
MAGA, Museo d’arte di Gallarate, Gallarate, Italy
MAST, Manifattura di arti sperimentazione e tecnologia, Bologna, Italy
MUFOCO, Museo di Fotografia contemporanea di Cinisello Balsamo, Cinisello Balsamo, Italy
solo exhibitions
2016
People at an exhibition, curated by Denis Isaia, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venezia
group exhibitions
2018
Talking (about) Images, curated by Francesca Lazzarini and Marta Rovetta, Galerija Kortil, Rijeka, Croatia
Arte Fiera, Galleria Michela Rizzo and MLZ Art Dep, Bologna, Italy
2017
POIUYT. Punto Zero. Pratiche critiche nella fotografia contemporanea italiana, curated by Francesca Lazzarini and Gaia Tedone, MLZ Art Dep, Trieste, Italy
2016
On new Italian Photography, curated by FANTOM, Viasaterna, Milan, Italy
Stories from the edge, curated by Francesca Lazzarini, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
Stories from the edge, curated by Francesca Lazzarini, MLZ Art Dep, Trieste, Italy
2015
Giovane, non dimenticare, curated by Marta Cereda, Monza, Italy
II Biennale FOTO/INDUSTRIA, curated by François Hébel, MAST, Bologna, Italy
FLAGS, curated by Elena Forin - LaRete Project, in collaboration with Galleria Michela Rizzo, Serra dei Giardini, Venice, Italy
ArTS, curated by Francesca Lazzarini, La Piazza dell’Arte Pubblica, Trieste, Italy
2014
2004-2014 Progetti del Museo di Fotografia di Cinisello Balsamo, curated by Andrea Tinterri, Triennale, Milan, Italy
Contrappunti, The Great Saga Of The Infamous Image, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma, Italy
Lo Spettatore Emancipato, curated by Angela Madesani, Galleria Bonelli, Milan, Italy
Varva. Quello che avrei voluto vedere, curated by Angela Madesani, Circoloquadro, Milan, Italy
2013
Rotta di Collisione, curated by Gaia Tedone, Galleria Artopia, Milan, Italy
2012
Nostalgia del Presente, curated by Angela Madesani, Galleria Biffi Arte, Piacenza, Italy
Art Around, Immagini per lo spazio pubblico, curated by Matteo Balduzzi, Museo di Fotografia di Cinisello Balsamo, Cinisello Balsamo, Italy
2011
Or-Bits.com, Seeing is Believing?, online exhibition curated by Gaia Tedone
Di alcune case, curated by Walter Guadagnini, Arsnowseragiotto, Padova, Italy
Milano un minuto prima, as part of the project QD by Tommaso Perfetti, FORMA, Milan, Italy
Festival Europeo della Fotografia di Reggio Emilia, GD4Photoart, Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia,
2010
GD4PhotoArt, La fotografia s’industria, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2009
La grande riffa, curated by Denis Isaia, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Terzo Paesaggio, La fotografia Italiana Oggi, XIII Premio Nazionale Gallarate per le Arti Visive, MAGA, Gallarate, Italy
Screening, curated by Gaia Tedone and Maria Laura Ghidini, James Taylor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008
Bag-Borsa Arte Giovane: Del paese e altre storie, curated by Denis Isaia, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
2007
Lightworks, Galleria Civica, Bolzano, Italy