Alfredo Aceto
Work inquiryAbout the artist
Alfredo Aceto (b. 1991 in Turin, Italy) lives and works in Geneva. Aceto's practice includes film, installation, photography, text, and sculpture, and is mainly concerned with the body and the biography. Using among others sculpture, film, and sound, Alfredo Aceto creates spaces suspended between fiction and reality. His environments are places to live, in which one can find a sort of melancholy, artificial time alteration, and image saturation. The objects he produces are traces, functional elements for the construction of the space where the blurred boundaries between his timeline and the collective one express the way chronology can be manipulated. His work arises from the will to create a place where would mix the various strata of a linear form of time, turning into a platform from which signs of different ages emerge. Alfredo Aceto nurtures his research by questioning his self and, more in general, the ego that reigns in every person, if only on a latent level.
His work has been widely covered by leading international media including Mousse Magazine, 2019, Mousse Magazine, 2017, Flash Art, Artviewer and Conceptual Fine Arts.
Education
2025
ENSBA, Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique, DNSEP, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, FR, Lyon, FR
2020
Rome International Film School, Rome, IT
2016
MSA, The Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, US
2014
ECAL, École cantonale d´art de Lausanne, Switzerland
Solo Exhibitions
2026/27
TBA, Musée LAM, Lille, FR
TBA, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, IT
TBA, HUA International, Beijing, CN
2025
Swans Take Off Like the Concorde, Parliament Unlimited,, Paris, FR
Amusia, Lange + Pult, Genève, CH
2024
Full Moon Sergio, CIRCUIT, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, CH
Wifi Swan, Parliament Unlimited, Paris, FR
Faces og Francis, MLIS, Biennale de Lyon résonance, Villeurbanne, FR
3, HUA International, Beijing, CN
2023
A Curtain, That is a Room on Uranus, HUA International, Beijing, CN
Builders Supply, Lange + Pult, Zurich, CH
Fullo, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
3, Hua International, Berlin, DE
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, IT
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, DK
2016
Something between Posthistoria and Prehistoria, curated by Stéphanie Serra, Albert Stiftung Foundation, Pro Helvetia, Associazione Barriera, Turin, IT
Modesty or Surprise, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome, IT
Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world, pierced by a ray of sunlight, and suddenly it’s evening, Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris, FR
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, IT
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, FR
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2026
Above, Below, Between, UA26, Vienna, AT
Nature Feeling Form, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, AT
2025
Total Climate, Nicoletti Contemporary, London, UK
The Pastry Show, Dagnino, curated by Pier Paolo Pnacotto, Rome, IT
Find me if you want me in the garden, HUA International, Berlin, DE
A Hundred Ways To Disappear, No Name, Paris, FR
Nature Feeling Form, Castel Belasi, Val di Non, IT
Alfredo Aceto X Adil Levain-Chavanon, Espace de Meuron, Neuchatel, CH
LISTE, with Eva Marisaldi and Nile Koetting,, Liste, Basel, CH
Stage, Curated by Camille Regli, Bergenz, AT
RitaRitaRita, Turbigo, IT
Secret Garden with Raphael Danke, UNA, XNL Aperto, Piacenza, IT
Nature Feeling Form,, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Wien, AT
3500 cm2, Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Ahead Project,, Rome, IT
2024
Swiss Art Awards, Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
Premio Francesco Fabbri, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, IT
Zinnober Video Festival, Zinnober Video Festival, Hanover, DE
Que Est In Natura, Lange + Pult, Zürich, CH
Le MAMCO, de mémoire,, MAMCO, Genève, CH
weihnachtsausstellung,, Lange + Pult, Zürich, CH
Des Seins à Dessein, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, CH
Slow Days, Fast Company, Lange + Pult, Geneva, CH
Vies Parallèles, Parliament Unlimited, Paris, FR
Beyond The Looking Glass, Lange + Pult, Zurich, CH
Acquisitions 2022/2023: la collection de la Mobilière Suisse Société Coopérative, Mobilière Suisse Société Coopérative, Bern,CH
Mighela Shama X Hit, Galerie Mighela Shama, Genève, CH
2023
MAMCO, MAMCO, Geneve, CH
Bourses de la Ville de Genève, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
Palai, Palazzo Tamborino Cezzi, Lecce, IT
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 / Kunsthalle 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, 2Vevey, 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
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
Still Life: An Ongoing Story, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland
#80|90, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, IT
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, DK
Talent Prize 2018, curated by Irene Art, La Pelanda, II Mattatoio, Rome, IT
Performing Identities, curated by Irene Campolmi, Performance Program Code Art Fair, Bella Center, Copenaghen, DK
Greffes, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, DE
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, DE
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, FR
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, IT
Happiness is a Fiat 500, White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Prix MAIF pour la Sculpture 2017, MAIF Social Club, Paris, FR
Premio Moroso, Museo Etnografico, Udine, IT
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, IT
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, UK
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, IT
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, IT
Jump, Art-O-Rama, Gasconade, Marseille, FR
World Wide, WALLRISS, Fribourg, Switzerland
2013
One Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty Peep-Hole, Peep-Hole, Milan, IT
Sol LeWit Loves Pancakes, ZIP, Basel, Switzerland
ARI MORTIS, curated by Milovan Farronato and Roberto Cuoghi, Museo del 900, Milan, IT
Awards, Grants, Residencies
2026
WIELS, WIELS, Bruxelles, BE
Résidence Le Tremblay, Résidence Le Tremblay, Orgères, FR
2024
Premio Francesco Fabbri, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, IT
2021
Open Studio, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia & Istituto Svizzero, Milan, IT
Research Grant 2021 in the context of COVID-19, Geneva, CH
2020
Milano Calling, Istituto Svizzero, Milan, IT
2019
Bourse Culturelle, Fondation Leenaards, CH
2018
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland
Talent Prize, InsideArt, Rome, IT
2017
Premio Moroso, Udine, IT
MAIF, Prix pour la sculpture, Shortlisted, Paris, FR
2016
MSA, Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, US
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
Kiefer Hablitzel, Basel, CH
2015
Centre D’Art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland
Residency Unlimited (RU), New York City, US
Kiefer Hablitzel, Basel, CH
2013
Full Scale, by Piero Golia, Museo del 900, Milan, IT
Fontaine, School of, by Lucie Fontaine, Artport, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010
Residency la Malterie, Ville de Lille, Lille, FR
Collections
MAMCO, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain,, Geneva, CH
Banque Nationale Suisse, CH
MCBA,, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne, CH
Museo del 900, IT
Centre d’Art Contemporain de Geneve, CH
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, IT
Wallriss, CH
Stoffel Collection, US
Mobilière Collection, CH
Crédit Suisse, CH
Julius Bär, CH
BCV, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise, CH
MLIS, Villeurbanne, FR
MASI, Lugano, CH
Wed-Fri: 10:00 – 17:00
Sat: 11:00 – 15:00
Sun-Tue: Closed