Matteo Rubbi

Born 1980 in Seriate (Bergamo), Italy. Lives in Milano.

ART RESIDENCIES

2017
Lucas Artists Program, Montalvo arts Center, Saratoga, California, USA.
2014 – 2015
MACRO, with Cherimus, Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy.
2014
Le Cube, Independent Art Room, Rabat, Morocco.
2011 – 2012
ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
2008 – 2009
Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
2006
CSAV, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Visiting professor: Marjetica Potrč, Como, Italy.

PRIZES
2011 - 8th Furla Prize, Bologna

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2015-2017
ARTLINE MILANO – Cieli di Belloveso, Piazza Alberto Burri, Milan, Italy
CITTÀ IN RESIDENZA – Notte d’estate a Montevideo, Parco di Via Anzani, Como, Italy
Ritorno a Solzaland, Solza, Bergamo, Italy

SOLO SHOWS (selection)

2017
Voyages dans la mer perdue, curated by Marie Bechetoille, CAC La Synagogue de Delme, France (catalogue)
2014
Côte à Côte, with Yassine Balbzioui, curated by Susana Moliner-Delgado and Emiliana Sabiu, Le Cube, Independent Art Room, Rabat, Marocco
Polvere di stelle. La ceramica contemporanea di Céleste Boursier Mougenot e Matteo Rubbi, Fondazione Museo della Ceramica, Mondovì
2013
Let the stars sit wherever they will, Studio Guenzani, Milano
2012
The Closest Thing, ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2011
Matteo Rubbi, Viaggio in Italia, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Venezia
Elodrado: Matteo Rubbi. Bounty nello Spazio, GAMeC-Galleria d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo
2010
Matteo Rubbi, Studio Guenzani, Milano
2008
Nantucket, with Sabina Grasso, Studio Guenzani, Guenzani Via Melzo, Milan, Italy
2007
A Voyage on the North Sea, a project by aiPotu (Norway) e Matteo Rubbi, Unorossodue, space for contemporary art, Milan, Italy
2006
FALSCH!, curated by Alessandro Mancassola, Unorossodue, space for contemporary art, Milan, Italy

GROUP SHOWS (selection)

2016
Fotografia ’80 – ‘ 90 – 2000, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
THE HOUSE IS LOOKING FOR AN ADMIRAL TO RENT, curated by Marie Bechetoille, MNAC, Bucarest, Romania
Je ne sais what?, a project by Aston Ernst, Belle Sunn, Burt Lancaster, Claire Hachette, Clint Eastwood, Johnny Jarrett, Matias Rub e René Le Haut. Carnelutti Studio Legale Associato, Milan, Italy
2015
ArtLine Milano. Progetti per il Parco d’Arte Contemporanea Citylife, curated by Sara Dolfi Agostini and Roberto Pinto, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Bonne chance pour vos tentatives naturelles, combinées, attractives et véridiques en deux expositions”, collaboration with Chloé Maillet and Louise Hervé, curated by Filipa Oliveira and Elfi Turpin, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
Studio Guenzani Milano: 1986 – 2015 Molto – Tutto, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
KATA TJUTA, curated by Nathalie Ergino and Magalie Meunier, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France
Un Nouveau Festival 2015: Air de Jeu”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Growing Roots”, curated by Chiara Bertola, Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Yuko Hasegawa, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Artisti in residenza – Cherimus e Valentina Vetturi, with Cherimus, MACRO, Rome, Italy
2014
Open Museum, Open City, Esercizi di Rivoluzione, with Cherimus, curated by Hou Hanru, MAXXI Rome, Italy
On stage, curated by Lorenzo Bruni, KARST, Plymouth, UK
Domesticity V, curated by Lucie Fontaine, Lucie Fontaine , Bali, Indonesia
Scenario di Terra, curated by Veronica Caciolli, Daniela Ferrari, Denis Isaia, Paola Pettenella, Alessandra Tiddia, Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto.
2013
Trip and Trveling, curated by Lorenzo Bruni, KCCC, Klaipéda, Lithuania
Non è un paese per vecchi?, curated by Antonella Croci and Federico Florian, Sala Dogana, Villa Croce, Genova
48. Edizione Premio Suzzara, La terra si muove con il senso, curated by Paola Boccaletti, Elisabetta Modena, Marco Scotti, Galleria del Premio Suzzara, Suzzara, MN
Souvenir,  curated by Lucie Fontane, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
La biblioteca fantastica,  curated by Emiliana Sabiu, MAN, Museo d’Arte della Provincia di Nuoro
2012
Fuoriclasse, with Cherimus, curated by Luca Cerizza, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Villa Reale, Milan, Italy
Estate, a project by Lucie Fontaine, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Gibst du mir Steine, geb ich Dir Sand, curated by Burkhard Meltzer, LISTE17, Basel, Switzerland – ça & là, curated by Claude Closky, Fondation Ricard Paris
IN OTHER WORDS The Black market of Translation – Negotiation Contemporary Cultures, with Cherimus, curated by Elena Agudio, Stephane Bauer, Elena Bellantoni, Paz Guevara, Giulia Piccini, NGBK and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlino
I quadri di Annibale, Museo di Storia Naturale, Milano
2011
Viaggio in Italia, Premio Furla 2011, Palazzo Pepoli, Bologna.
Il Bel Paese dell’Arte, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
Par coii bsogna semna/Chi semnina raccoglie/You reap what you sow, a project by Daria Carmi, Frassineto Po, Italy.
Two Times once, a show by Mr Rossi, Limoncello Gallery, london, UK
Let’s Circus, a project by Marco Colombaioni, Milan, Italy
Pleure qui peut, rit qui veut, 8th Furla prize, Palazzo Pepoli, Bologna, Italy
2010
Klondike River, performance con Isa Griese, Shuppen 1 /Europahafen, Konsul-Smidt-Strasse, Bremen
Il Museo Privato. La passione per l’arte contemporanea nelle collezioni bergamasche, curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio and Maria Cristina Rodeschini, GAMeC, Bergamo*
Video Report Italia 2008_09, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone
SI, Sindrome Italiana, curated by Yves Aupetitallot, Le Magasin, Grenoble 
Low Déco, curated by Alessandro Rabottini, Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milano
ARS -
Artists in Residence Show, curated by Angela Vettese and Milovan Farronato, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano
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21×21. 21 artisti per il 21° secolo, curated by Francesco Bonami Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
Mal d’archive, a project by Careof DOCVA and Documents d’artistes, curated by Chiara Agnello and Katia Anguelova
La Friche La Belle da Mai, Marseille
Ibrido, genetica delle forme d’arte,  curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio and Francesco Garutti PAC, Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea, Milano
2009
Perarolo09, curated by Daniela Zangrando, diverse venues, Perarolo, italy
Italian Open, curated by AAW, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
L’indiano in giardino, a project by Alek O’ and Santo Tolone, various venues, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
Le plan methodique de F Le Play, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Una collezione trasversale, ALT, Arte, lavoro, territorio, spazio Fausto Radici, Alzano Lombardo, Bergamo, Italy
As you enter the exhibition you consider this a group show by an artist you don’t know by the name of Mr.Rossi, curated by AAW, Spazio minerva, ,Milan, Italy
Ange Leccia et le Papillon, Musée Bourdelle, Paris
As you enter the exhibition you consider this a group show by an artist you don’t know by the name of Mr. Rossi, Via Ventura, Milano
2008
Caro Giacomo e Cara Anna/Dear Giacomo and dear Anna, five artists show their work, at both St. Giacomo’s and St. Anna’s day celebrations in Perdaxius, Sardinia, Italy
Soft Cell, dinamiche dello spazio in Italia, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Galleria comunale d’arte contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy.
I Festival internazionale dell’arte contemporanea, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy
Permanent green – Verde permanente, Arte per le strade dell’Isola, Isola Art Center, Milano, Italy
Luoghi per eroi, Via Nuova Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy
2007
III International Price for Performance, Centrale di Fies, Dro, Trento, Italy
A Certain Ratio, Room gallery, Milano, Italy
Laws of Relativity – La legge è relativa per tutti, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Cuneo, Italy
2006
Onufri 2006, National Gallery, Tirana, Albany
Fragmented show, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Viafarini, Careof, Neon>fdv, Fabbrica del vapore, Milano, Italy
La necessità di un’isola, Isola Art Center, Stecca degli artigiani, Milano, Italy
2005
Art-chitecture of change,  Isola Art Center, Stecca degli artigiani, Milano, Italy
Videominutopoptv, Centro per l’arte contemporanea, Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

Special Projects

2015 – 2016
Città in Residenza, workshop and public art project, in collaboration with Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Artificio, Radici e Ali, Como, Italy
2014
Astrosafari, Pique-nique nocturne et atelier d’observation du ciel, with Lorenzo Chiappini, presented by Claire Migraine / thankyouforcoming, Nice, France.
2013
Sulcis Oddity, selected by GAMeC, Bergamo, Kaleidoscope Venice Bar, Venice Italy
Magic Friday, ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA
I quadri di Annibale, a project by Marco Colombaioni, curated by Cherimus, Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano
Bounty Summer School, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2011-2012
Le avventure di Kon Tiki, workshop by Matteo Rubbi and Leonardo Chiappini, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
Artissima Lido, with Cherimus, curated by Renato Leotta, Diego perrone, Christian Frosi, Turin, Italy
2010
Piero e Alweg,  curated by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, monorotaia ALWEG, Turin, Italy
I muri della memoria, curated by GAMeC, galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Bergamo, Ex Chiesa della Maddalena, Bergamo, Italy.
2009
SCUDO, l’invention d’une radio, radio program, January 25th 2009, France Culture Ajaccio, Corsica, France
2008
LA SFIDA, curated by Luca Cerizza e Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Giornata del Contemporaneo 2008, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy.
44° Mostra Internazionale del nuovo cinema, Dopofestival – After hours, curated by Antonio Pezzato, Pesaro, Italy
I Festival Internazionale dell’arte contemporanea, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy.
“I sette arcobaleni”, a project by Matteo Rubbi, Careof, DOCVA, New Dancing Apollo, Associazione combattenti e reduci, Piccola scuola di circo, Teatro Verga, Bticino, Ricky Bar, Milan

WORKSHOPS

2015
Facciamo il Parco!, workshop with Carlo Spiga, Fondazione Ratti, Como
2014
Volo su Mondovì, Museo della Ceramica di Mondovì, Mondovì (CN), Italy
2013
Let the stars sit wherever they will – workshop, with Fiammetta Caime and Leonardo Chiappini, Studio Guenzani, Milano.
2009
Scudo, workshop for france Culture, with Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Ajaccio, Corsica, France
Residenza FAAP with Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Brasil
2006
Wherever We Go, visiting professor: Maja Bajevic,  Viafarini, Milano, Italy
Fragmented City, Advanced Course of Visual Arts, visiting professor: Marietica Potrc, spazio ex Ticosa, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
The Artist as Curator and the Curator as Artist, visiting professor: Jens Hoffmann, NABA, Milan, Italy
2005
Real presence, visiting professors Biliana Tomic, Dobrila Denegri, Belgrade, Serbian Repubblic

BIBLIOGRAPHY (selection)

2017
Bechetoille, Marie, Voyages dans la mer perdue, with text by Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, graphic design by Fomes Vives, Centre d’art Contemporain – la synagogue de Delme, June 2017
2015
Rubbi, Matteo, Bounty, with texts by Fabian Danesi, Marco Enrico Giacomelli, Paola Boccaletti, Andrea Rossi, Emiliana Sabiu, Eva Perini, Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di San Miniato, September 2015
2014
Caputo, Francesca, Matteo Rubbi, Flash Reviews, Flash Art, edizione italiana, no. 313, anno 47, dicembre – gennaio, 2014, pag. 72.
2013
La Terra si muove con il senso. 48. Edizione Premio Suzzara, Fortino Editions, Miami, USA, 2013; pag 46, ill. pag. 70-71.
Campanini, Cristiana, Matteo Rubbi in viaggio con gli Apache, La Repubblica, 7 dicembre 2013
2011
L.Bruni, C.Canziani, A. Camerotti, V. De Bellis, S. Menegoi, Premio Furla 2011 – 8. Premio Furla: Pleure qui peut, rit qui veut, Grafiche Antiga, 2011
Rabottini, Alessandro, Matteo Rubbi, (review), Frieze, Issue 136, January-February 2011, p.130
2010
Nappo, Alessandra, Matteo Rubbi,(review), Segno n.233, November-December 2010, p.40.
Casavecchia, Barbara, 21×21, Frieze Issue 132, June-August 2010
Latronico, Vincenzo, Missile Science, according to Rubbi, Domus (www.domusweb.it/art – October 11, 2010)
Bruciati, Andrea (curated by), Video Report Italia 2008-2009, GC. AC – Galleria d’arte contemporanea di Monfalcone, p. 136-137
Nappo, Alessandra, Matteo Rubbi,  Segno n°233, November-December 2010,  p. 40
Giacinto di Pietrantonio and Maria Cristina Rodeschini, (curated by) Il Museo Privato. La passione per l’arte contemporanea nelle collezioni bergamasche, GAMeC, Bergamo
Barbara Casavecchia, Una questione di chimica, (recensione), La Repubblica, Milano p. XV, 25 set.
Francesco Bonami et al. 21 x 21. 21 artisti per il 21° secolo. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Torino, catalogo
2009
Stefano Mazzoni, Sabina Grasso, Matteo Rubbi, (recensione), Exibart on paper, gennaio-febbraio 2009, Exibart.com
2008
Daniela Zangrando, Premio internazionale della performance. Le regole del premio. Limite o sfida?
Work. Art in progress 21, Winter 2007-2008 pag. 32-42
Patricia Buffa, Dizionario della giovane arte italiana (1), FlashArt n°268, February-March 2008 pag. 94, 100
Patricia Buffa, Performance a Trento,FlashArt n°267, December-January 2008
Roberta Tenconi, A Certain Ratio, spostamenti minimi, FlashArt n°267, December-January 2008
2007
Andrea Lissoni, Enchantment carriers (Interview), Work, art in progress 20, Autumn 2007 pag. 160, 161
Giancarlo Politi, curated by, Speciale Milano, FlashArt n°263 Aprile-Maggio 2007 pag. 78
Farronato, Milovan, curated by, Nuovi nuovi nuovi, Exibart n°38 Marzo-Aprile 2007 pag. 12.
2006
Trezzi, Nicola, FALSCH!, FlashArt, Ottobre-Novembre 2006, pag. 140
Pesapane, Lucia,  Matteo Rubbi, Temaceleste, Luglio-Agosto 2006, pag. 111