Stefano Cagol

Stefano Cagol (Trento, IT, 1969) studied at Brera Academy in Milan and Ryerson University in Toronto with a post-doctoral fellowship from the Government of Canada. He has given lectures and conferences, including Bauhaus University in Weimar, Brera Academy in Milan, and Goldsmiths University in London. In 2022, he initiated the We Are the Flood platform on the climate crisis at MUSE Science Museum Trento, and in 2023, he founded the MUSE Anthropocene collection. He has been the artistic director of Castel Belasi, a hub for eco practice and thought, since 2023. He has participated in the 59th, 55th, 54th Venice Biennale; Manifesta 11; 14th Curitiba Biennale; 2nd OFF Cairo Biennale; 1st Xinjiang Biennale; and 1st Singapore Biennale. Solo exhibitions include MAC Museum in Lissone (2023); CCA Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv (2021); MA*GA Museum in Gallarate (2019); Galleria Civica in Trento (2016); ZKM Karlsruhe (2012) and Mart – Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto (2000). A 2-times recipient of the Italian Council (2023, 2019) of the Italian Ministry of Culture, he works in the fields of Conceptual Art, Environmental Art, Eco-Art and Land Art, reflecting for years on borders, influences, energy and the environment.

Solo shows (selection): We Are the Flood. Interazioni su ambiente e trasformazioni, curated by Francesca Guerisoli, MAC Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Monza Brianza, IT; Archeologia dell'Antropocene. Molto prima di noi e dopo, in the frame of Art Site Fest, Area Archeologica, Turin, IT; Basilica paleocristiana di San Secondo, Museo Lavazza, IT, 2023; The Time of the Flood. Beyond the myth through climate change, presented by A. Castiglioni, Palazzo Sternberg, IIC, Italian Institute of Culture, Vienna, AT; 2021; Hyperobject. Visions btw borders, energy and ecology, curated by A. Castiglioni, MA*GA Museum, Gallarate, Varese, IT 2019; Stefano Cagol. Works 1995 | 2015, curated by M. de Pilati, D. Isaia, Mart - Galleria Civica di Trento, Trento, IT, 2016; The Body of Energy (of the mind), project room, MA*GA Museum, Gallarate, Varese, IT, 2014; The Flu ID, curated by Y. Uematsu, NADiff – New Art Diffusion, Tokyo, JP, 2007; Lies, curated by M. Kataoka, Platform, London, UK, 2005; Irrational Exuberance, project room: video windows, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, US, 2004; Entropia, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, CA, 1998; Sex-Net-Mort Nuclèaire, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, AT, 1995.

Group shows (selection): Swerving The apocalictic angle into Hope, curated by S. Cagol, Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting, Milan, IT, 2024; Biennale. Le Latitudini dell'Arte, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE, 2023; Pera + Flora + Fauna: The story of indigenousness and the ownership of history, collateral event 59th Venice Biennale, curated by K. Ramadan, A. Zainorin, Archivi della Misericordia, Venice, IT; Il respiro della natura. AQUA, curated by P. Nuzzo, GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna Achille Forti, Verona, IT, 2022; Good Trouble. Artists respond to the 2020 Presidential Election, curated by R. Zamudio, Jan Puntes, White Box, New York, US; Boxenstopp, curated by P. Ungeheuer, Kwadrat, Berlin, DE; La fantasia è un posto dove ci piove dentro, curated by A. Castiglioni, MA*GA Museum, Gallarate, Varese, IT, 2020; 999. Una collezione di domande sull'Abitare contemporaneo, curated by S. Mirti, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, IT; Off Biennale Cairo. Something Else, curated by chief curator S. Nijami, artistic director M. Nasr, curator V. G. Levy, Cairo, EG; Biennale. Le Latitudini dell'arte, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, IT, 2017; Manifesta 11, curated by C. Jankowski, Cabaret der Künstler - Zunfthaus Voltaire, Zurich, CH, 2016; 2nd Xinjiang Biennale. New Art on the Silk Road, curated by P. Feng, Urumqi, CN, 2014; Maldives National Pavilion, curated by CPS-Chamber of Public Secrets (K. Ramadan, A. Cramerotti, A. Eltorie), 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, IT, 2013; Gap-Generazioni a confronto, curated by M. di Veroli, G. Sarno, MAXXI B.A.S.E., Rome, IT, 2012; CONCILIO, curated by G. Jansen, collateral event 54th Venice Biennale, Chiesa di San Gallo, Venice, IT, 2011; Cento anni di imprese per l'Italia, curated by G. Calvenzi, C. Colombo, L. Pratesi, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, IT; Ara Pacis, Rome, IT 2010; Eurasia, curated by A. Bonito Oliva, with L. Benedetti, I. Boubnova, C. Casorati, H.Fang, C. Rekade, J. Trolp, Mart, Rovereto, Trento, IT, 2008; 1st Singapore Biennale. Belief, curated by N. Fumio, National Arts Council Singapore, Singapore, SG; 6: a free contemporary art-thing, presented by E.U.NITE Committee Toronto, coordinated by M. Stiglio, Consulate General of Italy, Toronto, CA, 2006; MacroVideoteca: On Air, curated by V. Valentini, MACRO-Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, IT; La Biennale Europea Arti Visive - Premio del Golfo 2004. Costanti Diversità, curated by B. Corà, CAMeC-Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, La Spezia, IT, 2004; In Faccia al Mondo, curated by M. Fochessati, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa, IT, 2003; Video.it, promoted by Torino Arte Giovane, GAM Turin, IT; Care of, curated by M. Gorni, F. Poli, E. Volpato, Chiostro di San Pietro in Vincoli, Turin, IT, 1999; Generazione Media, concept by P. Rosa, curated by F. Alessandrini, S. Campagnola, P. Darra, L. Ghirardelli, F. Rossi, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, IT, 1997; Adicere Animos, curated by A. Rubbini, Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea, Cesena, IT; Video Forum. 2nd edition, Art Basel | Basel 27, Basel, CH, 1996.