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