Isabella Pers

Bio

Isabella Pers sviluppa i suoi progetti attraverso l’uso di diversi linguaggi artistici, come pittura, installazione partecipativa e performance, video, fotografia, disegno. 

I temi portanti della sua ricerca sono l’osservazione e le connessioni tra gli ecosistemi naturali, sociali, e culturali, l’impatto del dominio antropocentrico sulla vita del pianeta e le trasformazioni del nostro tempo. Le sue azioni collettive, in particolare, sono rivolte ad indagare processi cognitivi che aspirano alla simbiosi tra i viventi e gli altri elementi naturali, analizzando le dinamiche che caratterizzano le scelte della specie umana ed immaginando nuove visioni tramite l’incontro tra diverse percezioni. Negli ultimi anni sto lavorando sulla memoria dell’acqua e delle piante, e su come l’azione umana possa interagire in maniera simbiotica con questi percorsi.

Insieme alla sorella Tiziana è co-ideatrice di RAVE East Village Artist Residency, un progetto partecipativo che apre la discussione sul ruolo dell’arte contemporanea nei confronti dell’alterità animale e sulla necessità di ripensarsi in una prospettiva biocentrica ed antispecista. RAVE ha luogo nel borgo storico di Soleschiano (Manzano, Ud), dove vivono animali salvati dal macello tramite la pratica Art_History di Tiziana e alberi salvati dall’abbattimento. 

Gli artisti che dal 2011 hanno preso parte a RAVE sono: Adrian Paci, Ivan Moudov, Regina José Galindo, Diego Perrone, Tomás Saraceno, Igor Grubic e Giuseppe Stampone. 

Membro di giuria dell’Unsolicited Proposal Program 2014-2015 e del Franchise Program 2015 di Apexart, New York, e di full(Y)_grounding di Bridge Art 2017, 2018 e 2019.

Ha tenuto conferenze sulla sua ricerca e sul progetto RAVE in diverse università, festival e istituzioni, tra cui: PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Milano, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Casa Cavazzini di Udine, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Forum Internazionale InCE/ Continental Breakfast, Venezia, Bordercrossing, Manifesta12 Palermo, Luci nel PARco, incontro LA VITA SULLA TERRA con Pietro Gaglianò e Tiziana Pers, PARC Performing Arts Research Centre, Firenze.

Nel 2008 ha presentato Vesuvian Rhapsody, progetto realizzato da Persisters al Museo MADRE di Napoli, a Imagine art after: Satellite Talk, E:vent, East End London, su invito di Breda Beban, per la mostra imagine art after da lei curata alla TATE Britain.

 

 

Mostre personali e Performance

 

2020

When mind becomes form, collective performance, PARC Performing Arts Research Centre, Firenze

2018

RAVE around Palermo, Manifesta12, Planetary Garden. Cultivating coexistence, European Nomadic Biennial, collateral event Border Crossing, drawings by Isabella and Tiziana Pers, texts by Iara Boubnova, Leonardo Caffo, Daniele Capra, Giuliana Carbi, Nico Covre, Mylène Ferrand, Pietro Gaglianò, Valentina Sonzogni, Spazio Y, Palazzo Savona, Palermo, curated by Lori Adragna and Andrea Kantos

When mind becomes form, collective performance, Music Art Park Fvg, in dialogue with Tagliamento River Stone Ring by Richard Long, Art Park Verzegnis, collection Egidio Marzona, curated by Butik collective

2017

The Next Flow, aA29 project room, Milano, curated by Pietro Gaglianò

Teitiota, public installations within the international conference Living Together on this Earth, Udine University

2016

Caring Voices, Isabella and Tiziana Pers, Palazzo Manin, Udine, curated by Leonardo Caffo and Martina Peruch, organized by All /Udine University within the international conference The real wealth of Nations, in collaboration with Vulcano unità di produzione contemporanea

Present, video projection, festival Vicino/lontano Premio Terzani

2015

MADRI, curated by Eleonora Raspi, VolterraVegan, Volterra, Pisa 

2014

Opening, performance, SetUp Art Fair, curated by Giovanna Giannini Guazzugli for Sponge ArteContemponaea

2013

Trivignano Dreasm by PERSISTERS, City Art Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2012

Opening, performance, Corpiscomodi, Cantù

Trivignano Dreams, NDK Lovers Bridge, Sofia, Bulgaria

2009

Trivignano Dreams, Krossing, official collateral event of the 53th Venice Biennale of Art , Forte Marghera, Venice  

ECHO, video installation, Palazzo Reale, Napoli

2008

Vesuvian Rhapsody by PERSISTERS, performance, N.Est, MADRE Museum, Naples, project room curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio and Stefania Palumbo

2007

ECHO, performance, PAN|Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Palazzo Reale, International Forum Fastforword on New Media Art, Naples, curated by Patrizia Di Maggio

2006

I Cercaluna, theatrical performance with and by the poet Pierluigi Cappello 

Al di là del sonno, performance, XXIV Biennale di Scultura di Gubbio, curated by Giorgio Bonomi

2003

PERS2003, Palazzo Frangipane, Tarcento (Udine), curated by Gianluca Marziani 

Juliet, Trieste, curated by Roberto Vidali           

Isabella Pers, GIT Grado, Gorizia, curated by Luca Beatrice

2001  

Chiaro/SCURO by Isabella and Tiziana Pers,  Spazio Juliet, Casier di Treviso, curated by Roberto Vidali

2000  

Madison Avenue. Where Fashion Meets Art, in collaboration with The Whitney Museum of American Art, Ezair Gallery, New York                                                                                                                           

 

Mostre collettive

 

2020

Noah’s Ark, ARKAD c.e. Manifesta 13 Marseille – Les Parallèles du Sud, curated by Dimora OZ and Analogique, in partnership with ESADMM. 

Contrappunto, Casa Cavazzini Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Udine, curated by Francesca Agostinelli and Vania Gransinigh 

Ex-Machina, Convento del Carmine Museum, Scicli (Ragusa), curated by Rosa Cascone and Lara Gaeta, observers Laura Barreca, Maurizio Bortolotti, Rossella Farinotti, Diego Mantoan, produced by Site Specific and aA29 Art Project 

emergencyexit_Italian Artists in quarantine, IG project curated by Adriana Rispoli

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_QDS7cFwTI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Ti do la mia parola, online project curated by Butik Collective

https://www.tidolamiaparola-butik.com/word/isabella-pers/

Art Resistance Kit, IG project curated by That’s Contemporary

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_XixSQKsrv/

It’s gonna be #viral, Five Art Gallery, IG project curated by Rosa Cascone and aA29 project room

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-IGrrwoEOj/

Telai, Officine Fratti, Perugia, curated by Butik collective

2019

Libere tutte, Casa Testori, curated by Daniele Capra and Giuseppe Frangi

SCREENING AFTERNOON AT NYU. Sustainable Art Projects Caught on Video…, EDRA50 Brooklyn – Sustainable Urban Environments, NYU New York University Tandon, Brooklyn, New York City, curated by Diego Mantoan and Lara Gaeta, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Global Education Welcome to Venice, by Giuseppe Stampone, School for Curatorial Studies, VAP Venice Art Project, Venice, curated by Margherita Mannoni

When Mind becomes form, del moto et misura dell’acqua, collective medit/action and video installation, Invisible Cities Festival, Gorizia, in collaboration with Museo Leonardiano in Vinci, curated by Diego Mantoan

Open Ceremony, aA29 Art Project, Reggio Emilia

Videoartforum Bordercrossing Mediterraneum, Teatro Garibaldi, Palermo, curated by Lori Adragna and Andrea Kantos

2018

Nesxt/TheIndependent, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, curated by Elena Motisi and NESXT

The Miracle Series Part II: MIRACOLO A MILANO, curated by Eccentric Art & Research, aA29 Art Project, Milan

Between the elements, Manifesta 12 collateral event Border Crossing, project by Site Specific, Spazio Y,  Palazzo Savona, Palermo, curated by Lori Adragna

Livingbodies@blurringrealities, Partnership Studies Group, All/Udine University, Conoscenza in Festa, Udine

Immaginario oltre la crisi #3 nuove geografie, Palazzo Costanzi, Casa dell’Arte di Trieste 

2017

Seoul Biennale of Architectureand Urbanism Imminent Commons, project RAVE around Seoul within the Architecture of Intelligence of Giuseppe Stampone, curated by Helen Hejung Choi

RAVE around Sofia, One Night Stand Gallery, Sofia, curated by Ivan Moudov, text by Iara Boubnova

Sous les pavés, la plage!, Festival dell’Internazionale di Ferrara, curated by Daniele Capra and Serena Ribaudo, Yoruba/Ferrara Off

Death by Water, Fondazione Giuseppe Whitaker, Villa Malfitano, Palermo, curated by Lorenzo Calamia

RAID Manumission Motel, a cura di Fat Studio, San Lazzaro di Savena (BO) 

Casa Sponge 10, curated by Serena Ribaudo

GuilmiArtProject / Nuova Didattica Popolare curated by Pietro Gaglianò

2016 

Teatrum Botanicum, PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Torino

POLITIC(S), Art Stays Festival, Ptuj, Slovenja, curated by Jernej Forbici and Marika Vicari, selected by Antonio Arevalo

Waiting for RAVE. Anticipations of a Posthuman Time, Villa Manin di Passariano, Udine, curated by Pietro Gaglianò for RAVE

Immaginario oltre la crisi #2, Palazzo Costanzi / Casa dell’Arte di Trieste, curated by Massimo Premuda

2015

Maravee Therapy, Teitiota, Castello di Susans, Majano, Ud, curated by Sabrina Zannier

Alter, One and million chairs, Chiaramonte Gulfi, curated by Site Specific and Martina Cavallarin

M’Arte, Madri, Montegemoli, curated by Eleonora Raspi

2014

BIO50 24th Biennial of Design Ljubljana, Slovenia, MAO Museum of Architecture and Design, curated by Giovanna Giannini Guazzugli and Sponge

Nuvole. Viaggio nell’Arte Indipendente, River Road, Scicli, curated by Sabrina Zannier

2013

Italian Market, Hong Kong, curated by CCI Hong Kong and Macao

2012

Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP) archive, L’artista ha l’oro in bocca, project online by e-flux and the Serpentine Gallery London, devised by Hans Ulrich Obrist,  Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle and Julia Peyton-Jones

2011

The Last Book, a project curated by Luis Kamnitzer, New York Public Library, New York

54th Venice Biennale of Art, Magazzino 26, Trieste

Nessuno è perfetto (parte prima), 3g arte contemporanea, Udine

2010

The Last Book, a project curated by Luis Kamnitzer, Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland 

The Berlin Wall, Promenade Gallery, Valona, Albania 

Blicke Sguardi Pogledi, Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt, by CRAF/Center of Research of Photography

Walls of Authority, Old Police Station, London

2009

New Digital Age, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia, curated by Andrey Martynov

Videospritz®EST#4, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, curated by Laura Spolaore

Sguardi Pogledi,  Slovenski Etnografski Muzej, Ljubljana, curated by Walter Liva e G. Ellero 

TemperaturaEsterna, Sale Espositive della Provincia di Pordenone, curated by Sabrina Zannier

2008 

The Last Book, a project curated by Luis Kamnitzer, National Library Buenos Aires

SpilimbergoFotografia08, by CRAF/Center of Research and Archiviation of Photography, curated by A.Giusa e R.Del Grande

Trivignano Dreams by PERSISTERS, N.Est, MADRE Museum, Naples, project room curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio and Stefania Palumbo

2007 

Vicino/lontano, Premio Terzani, Udine

Art for Nothing, Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica, curated by BridA

2006

Artiste, Teppiste, GAMC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bondeno, Ferrara

2005 

Contemporary Italian Painting, Dade-Miami Public Library, Miami

Openscreening, Whitechapel, London

2004 

MaraveeClorofilla, Ariis Ud, Villa Ottelio-Savorgnan, curated by Sabrina Zannier

Il sogno della pittura, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara

2002    

Multimerijdian, Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Pola, Croazia          

Striis, 3g arte contemporanea, Udine, curated by Andrea Bruciati      

2000            

NYAD2000, DFN Gallery, New York