ARTIST PROFILE

Filippo Berta

  • Italy (b. 1977 in Treviglio (bg))
  • Currently in Milan, Italy.
  • He has exposed in museums like MADRE Museum of Naples (IT) and biennials like Biennial of Thessaloniki IV Edition (GR). In 2014 he wins the Maretti Award La Habana (Cuba)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014

2013

2012

2011

  • Zoom Festival VI Edition – Controcorrente, Studio Theatre Scandicci, Florence, Italy.

2010

2009

  • Absences, NT Art Gallery, Bologna, Italy.

2008

  • Canzonette, Realized for 1.60 Porject - Collective-performance in the centre of city of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015

  • Who makes Europe?, Miejska Gallery, Gdansk, Poland.
  • Embodied Resilience, Italian Embassy, Berlin, Germany.
  • Exhibition M.I.A. Foundation Award, BACO Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy.

2014

  • Tradition-Reversal, 30th International Festival of Sarajevo, Bosnia And Herzegovina.
  • The Human Behaviour, MARS, Milan, Italy.
  • Exhibition Maretti Award, FAC Fábrica de Arte Cubano , La Habana, Cuba.
  • Exhibition Talent Prize 2014, Casa dell'Architettura, Rome, Italy.

2013

  • Thessaloniki Biennale 4, State Museum of Contemporary Art and Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • Performance Voyage 3, MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Different Pulses - Festival of Immaterial Art, Spaziocortequattro, Cividale del Friuli, Italy.
  • Who makes Europe?, Städtische Galerie of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
  • Who makes Europe?, Matadero, Centro de Creación Contemporánea, Madrid, Spain.
  • All in a good time, BACO, Contemporary Art Center of Bergamo, Italy.
  • Kriza, i alternative, CZKD - Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Serbia.
  • It’s the political economic, stupid, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland.
  • The crisis of confidence, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest, Romania.
  • Refuse, Ex Mattatoio di Testaccio, Rome, Italy.
  • Thessaloniki Performance Festival 3, CACT - Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • New Performance Festival, In collaboration with MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, Tutku, Finland.
  • International Konst Film, Vandalorum Museum and Jonkopings Lans Museum, Sweden.

2012

  • Storytellers, Superfluo Project, Padova, Italy.
  • Romaeuropa Festival - Digital Life 2012, MACRO Museum and EX GIL.
  • 25 Frames/Second, International Video Art in Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
  • De rerum natura, Lab 610 XL, Belluno, Italy.
  • Pixel, Pala Riviera, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.
  • Moscow Biennale for Young Art - III Edition, National Centre for Contemporary Arts – Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russian Federation.

2011

  • The Wall (Archives), Reload, Ex officine automobilistiche, Rome, Italy.
  • Tulca Festival of Visual Arts - Ninth Edition, The Niland Gallery, Galway, Ireland.
  • International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media, Athens, Greece.
  • European Performance Art Festival , Labirynt Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Intervals, Mezzopreti Palace, Teramo, Italy.
  • Fratelli d’Italia, Farnese Palace, Piacenza, Italy.
  • The human dimension of contemporary, National Gallery of Cosenza, Italy.
  • Random Access Memory, Berlin, Germany.
  • Euromediterranean Festival Altomonte 2011, Cosenza, Italy.
  • PixelPops - Performance from Far Away, TPTP Platform, Gallery Nouvel Organon, Paris, France.
  • Danno d’immagine, Zajia Lab, Beijing, China.
  • Matter of Action, O’ Space, Milan, Italy.
  • Playing with Borders, PSM Art Gallery, Pokhara, Nepal.
  • Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republic.

2010

  • Exhibition 'Città di Treviglio Prize', ALT Arte Lavoro Territorio, Bergamo, Italy.
  • My favourite things, Contemporaneo Gallery, Mestre, Italy.

2009

  • Artist’s dialogues, Via Moroni Gallery, Bergamo, Italy.
  • F.A.B.S. Four italian Artists, National Brukenthal Museum of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania.
  • Final Exhibition of the Residency , Spinola Banna Foundation, Turin, Italy.

2008

  • Internationale Prize of Performance - IV Editon, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy.
  • Mod. C/3, Palazzo della Regione, Bergamo, Italy.
  • Same Democracy, Neoncampobase Gallery, Bologna, Italy.
  • Storie, Viamoronisedici Gallery, Bergamo, Italy.

LOCATION

  • Born 1977 in Treviglio (Bg), Italy.
  • Lives and works in Milan, Italy.

EDUCATION

  • 2006 - 2011
    Academy of Fine Arts, Bergamo, Italy
    Bachelor of Arts - Theory and Practice of Contemporary Arts in New Media

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2015
    MIA Foundation Award (Winner)
    MIA Foundation - BACO Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy
  • 2014
    Maretti Editor Award Cuba (Winner)
    Fábrica de Arte Cubano FAC, La Habana, Cuba
  • 2014
    Talent Prize (Finalist selected by the jury)
    Inside Art, Guido Talarico Editor, Rome, Italy

RESIDENCIES

  • 2012
    Ratti Foundation, CSAV , Como , Italy
  • 2009
    Spinola Banna Foundation, Turin, Italy