Alfredo Aceto
Born in 1991, Turin, Italy
Lives and works in Geneva (CH)
EDUCATION
Rome International Film School, Rome, IT (2020)
MSA, The Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, US (2016)
ECAL, École cantonale d´art de Lausanne, Switzerland (2014)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Builders Supply, Lange + Pult, Zurich, CH
Fullo, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2022
Chew, Vin Vin, Vienna, AT
Souvenir Souvenir, Sonnenstube, Lugano, CH
2021
Brains & Bronze, Laurence & Friends, Geneva, CH
My Italian Is a Little Rusty, Lange + Pult, Auvernier, CH
Tiramisù for Two, L’Ascensore, Palermo, IT
Ambaraba Ciccì Coccò, with Denis Savary, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, CH
Cockroack or Queen?, Last Tango, Zurich, CH
Parliament Unlimited, Paris, FR
2020
Laurence & Friends, Geneva, Switzerland
Levy.Delval, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Alfredo Aceto, Galerie Lange + Pult, Zürich, Switzerland
SEQUOIA 07, curated by Samuel Gross, Istituto Svizzero, Milano, Italy
Miart 2019, with Claude Closky and Sylvie Fleury, Levy.Delval, Bruxelles, Belgium
2018
AZURE, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Germany
2017
Unreachable Turtles, Lateral Art Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Endemisms, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
Something between Posthistoria and Prehistoria, curated by Stéphanie Serra, Albert Stiftung Foundation, Pro Helvetia, Associazione Barriera, Turin, Italy
Modesty or Surprise, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome, ItalY
Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world, pierced by a ray of sunlight, and suddenly it’s evening, Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris, France
2015
Refaire le Portrait, Acte #1, curated by Andrea Bellini, Kunsthalle Geneva, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Switzerland
Refaire le Portrait, Acte #2, Kunsthalle Geneva, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Switzerland
2014
HARAM, Frutta Gallery, Rome, Italy
Prophétie et Croque-Monsieurs, Happy Baby Gallery, Crissier, Switzerland
2013
iii-ooo, Blancpain Art Contemporain, with Peter Hutchinson, Geneva, Switzerland
2011
Lullabies for obsessions, curated by Massimo Sgroi, Changing Role Gallery, Rome, Italy
2010
Format à l’italienne, Espace le Carré, Ville de Lille, Lille, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2023
Jardin d’Hiver, curated by Simon Wursten Marin, MCBA, Lausanne, CH
Transformations, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, CH
Stanza 224, Fondazione Merz, Palermo, IT
12 Rooms, Kunstmuseum, Appenzell, CH
2022
Barbe à Papà, curated by Cédric Fauq, CAPC, Bordeaux, FR
Soft Machines, HUA International, Berlin, DE
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
Neue Arbeiten, by Samuel Haitz, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin, DE
Print Art Now, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, CH
2021
Eifersucht, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin, DE
Ensemble au Chateau, Chateau de Nyon, CH
Signatures(X), Smallville, Neuchâtel, CH
Eifersucht, Parliament Unlimited, Paris, FR
2020
Blade-Banner, SPRINT - Independent Publishers and Artists’ Books Salon, Spazio Maiocchi, Milano, IT
The Living Room, curated by Samuel Gross, Artgenève, CH
UPLIFT, Galerie xippas, Geneve, CH
La Totale, Moulin de Sainte Marie, Les Moulins, FR
The Crowning Show, Lange + Pult, Zurich, CH
2019
La métamorphose de l’art imprimé, Zeitgenössische Westschweizer Editionen und serielle Unikate, VFO, Verein für Originalgraphik, Zurich, Switzerland (forthcoming)
Still Life: An Ongoing Story, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland
#80|90, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Was erzählt die Romandie?, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Big Rip, Bounce, Chill or Crunch?, Last Tango, Zurich, Switzerland
Immersione Libera, curated by Giovanni Paolin, Bagni Misteriosi, Galleria Continua, Milan, Italy
2018
Re-Routing Nature, curated by Irene Campolmi, Sixty-Eight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Talent Prize 2018, curated by Irene Art, La Pelanda, II Mattatoio, Rome, Italy
Performing Identities, curated by Irene Campolmi, Performance Program Code Art Fair, Bella Center, Copenaghen, Denmark
Greffes, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland
Greffes, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Lateral Art Space, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Greffes, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space, Venice, Italy
Le Colt est Jeune & Haine, curated by Cédric Fauq, DOC!, Paris, France
2017
As If We Never Said Goodbye, with Nicola Martini and Linnéa Sjöberg, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Germany
X - TEN YEARS IN RENENS, ECAL & Galerie l’elac, Renens, Switzerland
Shivers Only, with Iván Argote, Mohamed Bourouissa, Antoine Donzeaud, Julien Goniche, Angélique
Heidler, Thomas Mailaender, Hubert Marot, and Noki Sutter-Shudo, curated by Hubert Marot, La Paix,Paris, France
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
La Norme Idéale, Levy.Delval, Brussels, Belgium
Terrasse, Silicon Malley, Prilly, Switzerland
Greffes, with Mohamed Namou and Achraf Touloub, Art Club #18, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto,
Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Happiness is a Fiat 500, White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Prix MAIF pour la Sculpture 2017, MAIF Social Club, Paris, France
Premio Moroso, Museo Etnografico, Udine, Italy
Mementos, curated by Piper Marshall and Jens Hoffmann, Art Brussels, Belgium
Solidi Platonici, La Rada, Locarno, Switzerland
General Audition, curated by Samuel Gross and Stéphane Kropf, Galerie l’élac, Renens, Switzerland
2016
The Milky Way, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
In Mostra – corpo, gesto, postura, curated by Simone Menegoi, Artissima, Turin, Italy
Mémoires d’été, Art Club #7, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Kiefer-Hablitze Preis, Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland
I Would’ve Done Everything For You / Gimme More!, curated by Cedric Fauq, Flat 7, 22 Westland Place, N1 7JR, London, United Kingdom
All the Lights We Cannot See, curated by Anna Hugo and Sandino Scheidegger, Random Institute, Pyongyang, North Korea
Texture and Liquidity, curated by Vincenzo Della Corte, The Workbench International, Milan, Italy
2015
PAZIOLI, Winckelmans, Avenue de la Gare 34, Renens, Switzerland
Death of the Shambls, Silicon Malley, Prilly, Switzerland
Lavorare lavorare lavorare, preferisco il rumore del mare, Kunsthalle Geneva, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Switzerland
Kiefer-Hablitzel Preis, Swiss Art Awards, Basel
L’heure qu’il est, Centre d’Art Contemporain (CACY), Yverdon Les Bains, Switzerland
16e nuit des musées, invited by Simon Paccaud, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland
Club of Matinée Idolz, Co2, Turin, Italy
Junge Schweizer Kunst XI, Kiefer Hablitzel Preis 2015, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
2014
The Go-Between, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
Jump, Art-O-Rama, Gasconade, Marseille, France
World Wide, WALLRISS, Fribourg, Switzerland
2013
One Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty Peep-Hole, Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy
Sol LeWit Loves Pancakes, ZIP, Basel, Switzerland
ARI MORTIS, curated by Milovan Farronato and Roberto Cuoghi, Museo del 900, Milan, Italy
AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES
2021
Open Studio, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia & Istituto Svizzero, Milan, IT
2020
Milano Calling, Istituto Svizzero, Milan, IT
2019
Leenaards Grant, Fondation Leenaards, Lausanne, Switzerland
2018
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland (Nominated)
Talent Prize, InsideArt, Rome, Italy
2017
Premio Moroso, Udine, Italy
MAIF, Prix pour la sculpture, Shortlisted, Paris, France
2016
MSA, Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, California, United States
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2015
Centre D’Art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland
Residency Unlimited (RU), New York City, New York, United States
2013
Full Scale, by Piero Golia, Museo del 900, Milan, Italy
Fontaine, School of, by Lucie Fontaine, Artport, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010
Residency la Malterie, Ville de Lille, Lille, France