Marco Di Giovanni's first solo exhibitions are held in alternative spaces such as the Unsicht Keller in Berlin in 1999 and the Zero Media Zanchetta Archive in Bologna in 2001. His first research focuses on recycled materials, pipes and cisterns, which they are reassembled and brought back to life by inserting lenses that allow them to see what happens - or what is stored - inside them, like real people in performance. Of frequent protagonist of actions during the presentation of his works, Di Giovanni plays with irony on the mechanisms of vision and, at the same time, organizes sculptural structures with a strong visual impact, in an uninterrupted exchange between the persistence and the mutability of materials and shapes. , always designed and installed in close relationship with the exhibition space. In 2011 he created the project entitled NORD, developing it in three solo exhibitions in two galleries and at the Unicredit Kunstraum in Munich. He exhibited in group exhibitions at Casa Testori, at the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow, at the Marta Museum in Herford, at the Museion in Bolzano, at the Mambo in Bologna, at VIII Contemporary Istanbul and is among the fifteen artists selected for the sixth edition of the Prize VAF Foundation.
Last year he presented the project "L'Infinito Edible" in three solo shows at the San Domenico Museum in Imola and in two private galleries. In January 2017, in collaboration with MAMbo, he will participate in the Art City exhibition of ArteFiera with a solo show at the International Museum of Music in Bologna.
Solo exhibitions
2012
Camera 112, Gallia Palace Hotel, Punta Ala
2011
Nord, Kunstraum, Spazio d’Arte Unicredit, München
Nord, le distanze siderali (Nord Siderale Entfernungen), Galleria Galica, Milano
2010
Happy Hour (Heppenheimer Kunstverein), Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse (zusammen mit in collaborazione con Andrea Facco)
2009
Caraqueno d’Abruzzo, Chiostro Arte Contemporanea, Saronno
2007
Porteno, Università LUISS, Roma
2006
Ucraina, Galleria Il Ponte, Firenze
2005
Fuori di Terra (Außerhalb der Erde), Giardini di Villa Guastavillani, con il patrocinio della Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
Di lá (Dort), Il Chiostro Arte Contemporanea, Saronno
2003
Imbrujo, Galleria Otto Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
Arte e Ricambi, Kunst und Ersatzteile, Galleria Arte e Ricambi, Verona
2002
Int. Terra, Galleria interno & dumdum, Bologna
2001
P. Terra, Archivio Zero Media Zanchetta, Bologna
1999
Eierbaustelle, Sozialstation Umsicht Keller, Sozialstation, Berlin
Group exhibitions
2013
La grande Magia, Opere scelte della Collezione Unicredit (Die große Magie, Ausgewählte Werke aus der Unicredit-Sammlung), MAMBO, Bologna
Onthewater (Am Wasser), Porto di Marino di Scarlino, Grosseto
2012
Minima Marginalia (Minimale Nebensächlichkeit), Dolomiti Contemporanee – Ex Fabbrica Visibilia, Taibon Agordino
Moves to New Delhi (Nach Neu-Delhi in Bewegung setzen), Art Embassy, Berlin
2011
Giorni felici 2011 (Glückliche Tage 2011), Casa Testori, Novate Milanese
Things are queer, Highlights from Unicredit Collection (Die Dinge sind sonderbar Höhepunkte aus der Unicredit-Sammlung), Museum MARTA, Herford
2010
C’era una volta un futuro (Es war einmal eine Zukunft), Via dei Volsci 114, Roma
No fear beyond this point (Keine Angst jenseits dieses Punktes), Galleria Galica, Milano
2009
Relitti perfetti (Perfekte Relikte), Galleria Fiorella Pieri, Cesena
It’s only paper moon (Es ist nur ein Mond aus Papier), Galleria Galica, Milano
2008
Arrivi e Partenze (Ankünfte und Abfahrten), Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona
Ad a 6, Musei Civici di San Domenico, Imola
In sede, viva il disegno (Im Sitz es lebe die Zeichnung), Torino
Playstation, Kunstraum, Meran
2007
L’Arte come amante (Die Kunst als Liebha- berin), Casa di Mantegna, Mantova
Strade Bluearte, MAMBO, Bologna
2006
Allegra con brio, Arte italiana dal Pop ad oggi (Heiterkeit mit Schwung – Italienische Kunst von der Pop-Art bis heute), Chiesa del Suffragio, Carrara
2005
Il disegno della scultura contemporanea da Fontana a Paladino (Die zeitgenössische Bildhauerzeichnung von Fontana bis Paladino), Palazzo Binelli, Carrara
2004
Dal profondo (Aus der Tiefe), Mainz
2003
POLYPHONIX 40, Centre Culture Canadienne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
La vita delle forme (das Leben der Formen), Galleria Civica di Modena
Mito-Logica-Mente, Borgo Medievale di Castelbasso, Teramo
Anteprima (Voraufführung), XIV. Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino
