I have been selected for the longlist of Prix de Rome.
News coming soon...

www .prixderome.nl



LONGLIST PRIX DE ROME...





NOMINATION MIES VAN DER ROHE STIPENDIUM
07-11-2008
Curator Curator #2: What is my name ?
sat 08 → sun 23.11.2008

HISK. Charles de Kerchovelaan 187a. 9000 Gent

Project on the incommunicability of the present communication
Curated by
Lorenzo Bruni

With
Mario Airò
Simone Berti
Rossella Biscotti
Nina Beier & Marie Lund
Peter Coffin
José Dávila
Mario Garcia Torres
Koo Jeong-A
Jonathan Monk
Dan Rees
Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio
Nedko Solakov
Rirkrit Tiravanija


&
Bas Jan Ader
James Lee Byars
Félix Gonzàles-Torres
Jirí Kovanda
Maurizio Nannucci



WHAT IS MY NAME?
19/09 -22/10 2008
   
ROSSELLA BISCOTTI, 'THE UNDERCOVER MAN'
19 OCTOBER-22 NOVEMBER 2008

Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam
www.wilfriedlentz.com

T: +31 (0)104126459



THE UNDERCOVER MAN (SOLO SHOW)
27-09-2008
27-09-2009
YOU HAVE TO BE FOCUSED
Solo show

curated by Lorenzo Bruni

Prometeo Gallery by Ida Pisani
Chiesa di San Matteo, Lucca, Italy



YOU HAVE TO BE FOCUSED (SOLO SHOW)
26-09-2008
The sun shines in Kiev
is in the show 'The experience of Atopia'
curated by Delphine Bedel

opening reception 26-09-2008

Breda Photo / Lokaal 01
Kloosterlaan 138
4811 EE   Breda (The Netherlands)




THE SUN SHINES IN KIEV IN THE SHOW 'THE EXPERIENCE OF ATOPIA'
13-09-2008
If you are around the Venice Architecture Biennale...

13-09-2008
ZOOM_inside the human space
opening reception 18.30
Isola di San Servolo, Venezia (30170), Italy

Info: +39 0412765001 (info), +39 0412765402 (fax)



ITALY IS A DEMOCRATIC... AT THE EXHIBITION ZOOM IN SAN SERVOLO (VENICE)
14-08-2008
New Crossroads exhibited in...Varna, Bulgaria
Opening: 14th august 08
Curator: Lorenzo Bruni
Context: Section of the 7th Bulgarian Biennal of Contemporary Art in Varna. AUGUST IN ART. Director of the Biennal: Rumen Serafimov. Curator of the 7th Biennal: Philip Zidarov.

Artists: Francesca Banchelli, Rossella Biscotti & Kevin Van Braak, Joanna Billing, Paolo Chiasera, Joost Cojin, Petra Feriancova, Rainer Ganahl, Cristian Jankowsky, Maurizio Nannucci, Robert Pettena, Marco Raparelli, Matteo Rubbi and aiPotu, Maya Schweizer, Clemens von Wedemeyer.



SARAH'S JOURNEY. IS IT STILL POSSIBLE AND THUS NECESSARY TO GET LOST IN THE AGE OF GOOGLE MAPS?
07/2008
A photo from the series Everything is somehow related to everything else... has been used as cover for the magazine zona#2.

In July 2008 zona#2: signs in the city has been released as supplement to the prestigious architecture, design and art magazine Abitare. This issue of zona belongs to the set of publications “zona: for the observation of an unstable territory”, the editorial project of the Faculty of Design and Arts of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
a bitare.corriere.it



EVERYTHING IS SOMEHOW RELATED TO EVERYTHING ELSE... COVER OF THE MAGAZINE ZONA#2





THE GOOD LIFE AT VAN ABBEMUSEUM
25/05/2008
Lecture
by Rossella Biscotti
at the opening of the show:
Dai tempo al tempo
curated by Fiona Parry, Joseph del Pesco and Pelin Uran

Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba (TO), Italy
25th May 2008
6.00 p.m.
www.f ondsrr.org

The show will run from the
25 June - 27 July



LECTURE AT PALAZZO RE REBAUDENGO
24/05/2008
The newspapers
'Everything is somehow related with everything else jet the whole is terrifying unstable'
are the exhibition:

Peripheral vision and collective body
Museion, Bolzano/Bozen (Italy, South Tyrol)
www.mu seion.it

24 May - 21 September 2008
opening reception: 24th of May



NEWSPAPERS IN THE SHOW PERIPHERAL VISION AND COLLECTIVE BODY AT MUSEION
23/05/2008
The sun shines in Kiev
in screening at

Videoex
Experimentalfilm & Video Festival 
Zurich (Switzerland)
http://www.videoex.ch

23rd May - 1st June



THE SUN SHINES IN KIEV IN SCREENING AT VIDEOEX
17/05/2008
New Crossroads
Galleria Studio la Città

Verona (Italy)
show curated by Maria Rosa Sossai

Opening: Saturday 17th May, 11.30 a.m.
www.studiolacitta.it




SOLO SHOW GALLERY STUDIO LA CITTA'
09/05/2008
Screening of New Crossroads
at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
inside the framework of Rencontres Internationales.

Friday 9th may 2008
h. 19.45
www.art-action.org/fr_pro g.htm



NEW CROSSROADS AT MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA
09/05/2008
Interrupted landscape
screening curated by Elvira Vannini

9-25th May
Savignone, Colonia di Renesso, Italy.
(ex Child Fascist Summer Camp)



VUURGEVECHT OP DE DAM IN SCREENING AT INTERRUPTED LANDSCAPES
27/04/08
Cabinet of imagination
curated by Lorenzo Benedetti

Netwerk, Aalst (Belgium)
27/04/08 until 07/06/08
Opening Sun. 27/04 h. 14.00
ww w.netwerk-art.be



GROUP SHOW CABINET OF IMAGINATION
25/04/2008
I will show clips of my new movie "The undercover special agent"
and talk about the research that is behind it.
Documents from the FBI, transcripts, survelliance tapes will be shown during the presentation.

25/04/2008
time to be defined...
Fair Play Lugano
Atelier K10
via Lavizzari 10
CH-6900 Lugano / Switzerland
www.fairplay-lugano.com




LECTURE AND SCREENING AT FAIR PLAY LUGANO
23/04/2008
15.000 copies of the newspaper
"Everything is somehow related to everything else yet the whole is terrifyingly unstable"
are being distributed in the city of Bolzano/ Bozen



THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE NEWSPAPER STARTS NOW
23/04/2008
Presentation of  a new site specific work commissioned by Museion

Piccolo Museion (Cubo Garutti)
via Sassari17/25
Bolzano/Bozen
South Tyrol Italy
www.mu seion.it



EVERYTHING IS SOMEHOW RELATED TO EVERYTHING ELSE, YET THE WHOLE IS TERRIFYINGLY UNSTABLE

The sun shines in Kiev (2006)
wins the Golden Cow (1st prize) at Gstaad Film festival (Switzerland)



THE SUN SHINES IN KIEV WINS 1ST PRIZE IN GSTAAD FILM FESTIVAL
3rd of April
Exhibition Architectures of Survival
3rd-27th April
Presentation of the project The good life (2008/2050)
by Rossella Biscotti & Kevin van Braak + Bart
Curated by Kompot for Sparwasser
Sparwasser, Berlin (Germany)
www.sparwasserhq.de/
www.kmpl t.be
www.kevinvanbraak.com

The Good Life  (2008 / 2050)

The Good Life is a collaboration project between Rossella Biscotti & Kevin van Braak, visual artists and Bart Schoonderbeek, architect.
The title is inspired by the homonymous book of the architect Inaki Abalos that invites: to travel in the imagination, to stimulate the pleasure of thinking, planning and living intensively, to encourage the invention of a house that doesn’t exist yet.

The Good Life involves the design and the actual building of a house/structure that is made to become the main character of a movie.

The Good Life will be a movie where the movement of the local community/actors inside the house will test and push the architectural elements towards utopic shapes.

The Good Life will live after the movie as an independent estate.

The Good Life will be a concrete slap in the landscape.
The Good Life will be a foldable structure on a concrete slap.
The Good Life will be located on a rocky land betweens two seas.
The Good Life will be built around a helicopter platform to encourage speed.
The Good Life will be far away from the closest city.
The Good Life will have facilities to enjoy life.
The Good Life will offer its facilities to guests and cultural refugees.

The Good Life starts with a series of presentations.
Before creating the final structure various installations will be made as inspiration material. The Collapsible bus with a series of foldable walls is the first presentation especially made for the exhibition Architectures of Survival.

The Good Life would like to thank: Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton, Angiolo Mazzoni and Rudolph M. Schindler.



PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT THE GOOD LIFE (2008/2050) IN SPARWASSER
29th of March
Presentation of the site-specific project commissioned by Pietro Pensa's Archive.
Esino Lario (Italy)
29th of March

Video, 11', 2008
By Rossella Biscotti, sound by Jacob Kirkegaard
The work will become part of the archive collection.

Jacob Kirkegaard website: www.foni k.dk



SITE-SPECIFIC PROJECT COMMISSIONED BY PIETRO PENSA'S ARCHIVE
09/03/2008
The photographs Aula Bunker and Staircase
part of the project Cities of Continuous lines by Rossella Biscotti & Kevin van Braak

will be exhibited in Interiors, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle (BE)
from the 9th of March until 13th of April
www.grusenmeyerart.be/



EXHIBITION 'INTERIORS'
29/02/2008
THE UNFAIR FAIR

My work Will will be here forever will be exhibited in The Unfair Fair

29 February until 3 March 2008
Preview Friday 29 february, 6pm to 12pm

a project by 1:1projects
in collaboration with Ines Musumeci Greco

Venue: Loto Arte Via Civinini, 41, Rome (IT)

Curated by: Cecilia Canziani e Vincent Honoré
Production: Louise Garrett, Athena Panni, 1:1 projects
www.unfairfair.blogspot.com< /a>




THE UNFAIR FAIR

French magazine Courrier International n. 902
Issued from February 14th until 20th, 2008



JOSEPH PISTONE IN COURRIER INTERNATIONAL (PHOTO FROM THE SET OF MY FILM)
01/02/08
The latest issue of L'Espresso, well-known monthly Italian magazine, highlights the extraordinary life of the ex-FBI agent Joseph Pistone, who was recently in Rome in order to take part, as a main character, into the film The Undercover Special Agent of the artist Rossella Biscotti. The important magazine commissioned to the famous writer Roberto Saviano an interview with Pistone, during the shooting of the film.

Text of the interview by Roberto Saviano
Images in the magazine are taken from the film of Rossella Biscotti

The film The Undercover Special Agent

In the background a recreated film-noir set from the 40's, in the foreground Joseph Pistone, a.k.a. “Donnie Brasco”, who is about to tell his extraordinary life story to the interviewer and filmamaker Rossella Biscotti.

The research of Rossella Biscotti taps into the information emerged from the investigation conducted by the agent Joseph Pistone, who infiltrated in the New York's Mafia from 1976 to 1982. Pistone is the only witness of what happened during the 6 years of the FBI undercover operation in the Mafia.

In fact, during his infiltration in the Mafia’s Bonanno Family of New York, Pistone never made use of recording devises. Once the trials against the American Mafia started in 1982, his testimony was, and still is, the only evidence to rely on. The reconstruction of the events occurred during that undercover operation and the recall of the language and the rituals adopted by the criminal organization are the focus of the film that will be issued the coming Spring.





JOSEPH PISTONE IN FOCUS ON THE MAGAZINE L'ESPRESSO (PHOTO FROM THE SET OF MY FILM)

Information about my new movie (in production) are coming soon on this website.



NEW FILM IN PRODUCTION
28/01/2008
Cinema Lumière
Via Azzo Gardino, 65 – 40122 BOLOGNA
h. 22.15

The sun shines in Kiev by Rossella Biscotti (10’)
Black Cross Bowl by Invernomuto (5’)
An odyssey of the 21st century by Alessandro Nassiri Tabibzadeh (15’)
Memoria esterna by ZimmerFrei (27’)
Ensi e Shade by Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio (59’)



REALITY ADDICTION
17/01/2008
Fondazione Stelline, Sala Bramante, Milano
from 5 p.m.

The following videos will be presented:
Rossella Biscotti, The sun shines in Kiev, film, 16mm, 18', 2006
Sarah Vanagt, Begin Began Begun, DV-cam, colore, 36’, 2005
Sophie Nys, Lénine en pensant, super8/dv, B/N, 6’ 36’’, 2005
Die Hütte, 16mm/dv, B/N, 12’, 2007



MEETING WITH THE ARTISTS ROSSELLA BISCOTTI, SARAH VANAGT END SOPHIE NYS
12/12/2007
The two photos Congo Congo Bruxelles Brussel (2007) will be in the exhibition 'Looking for the Border' at the Fondazione Stelline, Milano (IT)
From the 12/12/2007 until 03/02/2008



EXHIBITION 'LOOKING FOR THE BORDER'
29/11/2007
The video New Crossroads (2006) will be in screening at  the upcoming Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid that will take place at different locations in Paris (Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume national museum, Palais de Tokyo).
From November 22nd to December 1st 2007
http://www.art-action.org/site/ en/prog/07/paris/prog_11_29.htm



RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS / BERLIN / MADRID

Ouverture Rossella Biscotti
in the magazine Flash Art Italy, October-November 2007
Text by Lorenzo Bruni



OUVERTURE IN FLASH ART

Spotlight in the magazine Tubelight n. 53
Nathalie Hartjes (text), Simon Wald-Lasowski (Photo)
Go to the press page to download the article or look at the website:
www .tubelight.nl/Articles/view/592/Ros sella_Biscotti




SPOTLIGHT IN THE MAGAZINE TUBELIGHT
20/11/2007
The sun shines in Kiev won The City of Geneva Grand Prize (CHF 15,000.-) at the 12th Biennial of Moving Images, organized by the Centre pour l’image contemporain in Geneva (Switzerland).
http://www.12bim.ch

Jury statement:
The jury was impressed by the formal inventiveness of this piece, notably the daring use of montage and the very rigorous work carried out on the different dimensions of archives and records. We also greatly appreciated the subject dealt with in Biscotti’s film, a subject that is increasingly central to modern societies. This is an important work for it subtly reveals the fragility of visual material in its relationship to history.

The jury of the 12th Biennial of Moving Images (BIM) was made up of Lars Henrik Gass (director of the International Festival of Short Films, Oberhausen), Philippe-Alain Michaud (head of the film department at the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris), Jean-Pierre Rehm (director of the International Documentary Film Festival [FID], Marseille), Koyo Yamashita (representative of Image Forum, Tokyo) and Marie Sacconi (artist and teacher at ECAV, Sierre).




THE SUN SHINES IN KIEV WON THE CITY OF GENEVA GRAND PRIZE
16/11/2007
The new installation Presente (2007), the video Shooting on Dam (2005) and the installation La cinematografia è l’arma più forte (2003-2007) will be exhibited in the show Looking for the border, De Garage Mechelen (BE) and Cultuurcentrum Strombeek (BE) from 16th November 2007 up to 8th January 2008.
Opening 16th December 2007



LOOKING FOR THE BORDER
28/10/2007
The installation The Sun Shines in Kiev (video, slides projections, poster, drawing) is in the exhibition Nessuna paura, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato (IT) from the 28th of October 2007 until the 7th January 2008.



THE SUN SHINES IN KIEV AT THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART LUIGI PECCI
26/10/2007
The video L'Italia e' una repubblica democratica fondata sul lavoro (2004) is in screening at the exhibition Work_show in progress at the Galleria Civica di Trento (IT).
From the 26th of October until the 8th of November.



WORK_SHOW IN PROGRESS AT THE GALLERIA CIVICA DI TRENTO