Flavio Favelli

Flavio Favelli was born in Florence in 1967, lives and works in Savigno (Bologna).

After graduating in Oriental History at the University of Bologna, he takes part in the Link Project (1995-2001). Join the TAM residence in direct Pietrarubbia by Arnaldo Pomodoro in 1995 and the Advanced Course in Visual Arts of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti Como with Allan Kaprow in 1997. He has exhibited with solo projects at the Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci in Prato in 2005, to projectspace 176 in London in 2006, the Fondation Antoine de Galbert in Paris in 2007, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin in 2008, the Marino Marini Museum in Florence in 2009, the Rice Museum in Palermo in 2010, at MACRO in Rome at the MAMbo - Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, in 2011, at the Maison Particulière in Brussels in 2014, at the MAXXI in 2015 in Rome. He designed and built the Waiting Room in the Pantheon of Bologna inside the Certosa Monumental Cemetery in 2008, which hosts the celebration of lay funerals. He participated in two Venice Biennales: the 50th ( "Clandestine", curated by Francesco Bonami) in 2003 and the 55th ( "Vice versa", Italian Pavilion curated by Bartholomew Pietromarchi) in 2013. In 2015 the opera The Angels degli Eroi is chosen by the Quirinale and the Ministry of Defense to represent the soldiers who fell on the 4th November anniversary. In 2017 he produced the Imperial Series project with the support of the Italian Council. In 2021 the work I Maestri serie Oro was commissioned and purchased by the Torino Musei GAM Foundation through the Contemporary Art Plan of the Ministry. He has more than twenty monographs to his credit and has written for the newspaper La Repubblica edition of Bologna and for the magazines Doppiozero, Exibart and Artribune.