NICOLA FORNONI
Nicola Fornoni (1990 Brescia, Italy) graduated in Fine Art and in Visual Art at Fine Art Academy SantaGiulia of Brescia. Has been dedicating to performance art since 2013 patiently and with all his might.
Marked by Scleroderma dealt with social themes usually embodied a core to talk about bodies, strenghts, limits, energies, scars, illness and healing processes in relationship also with public. From the 2019 he has been working on lightness and weightness such as central themes exhibit in his latter performances to Genova, Milan and Aosta;
He uses also devices, instruments bounded to fitness, physioteraphy to think about well being overwhelmed mental and physical pain playing also with the witness ideologies.
Some text's author have been published on Researchgate about anatomies, disabilities and creative processes coworked with Andrea Pagnes.
He has a strong relationship with VestAndPage filming and projects whom collaborate in different works like Vulcanalia and Strata with social, ethnographic, anthropological aims.
​In the 2022 He joined to Under Scars a residency opera program curated by VestAndPage in Forte Marghera developed then in The Under Scars a collective performance in Palazzo Mora, Venice.
As far as concerned personal exhibitions and solo performances Nicola worked in New York at the Grace Exhibition Space, in Berlin at Soma Art Space with Untitled, and in Bergamo at Vaku Project Space;
Such as Take a breath and let it go have been a solo show included in the art festival Meccaniche della Meraviglia at MoCa in Brescia.
Using his life like way of working and approaching to cooperate and extend the mean of inclusion breaking and levelling prejudices. His art practice includes also electric guitar with which compose installation, video and performance sounds.
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2024
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
- The Beginning (light), ex Cittadella dei giovani, Aosta
- The Beginning (light), Spazio Base – Milan
- The Beginning (light) – Biblioteca dell’Università – ex Hotel Colombia, Genova
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies Art as Seismography of Precarious Presences – MAXXI, Rome
- videoat.ist – Baris Manco Kultur Merkezi, Istanbul. Turkey
2023
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
- The Beginning (light) – VIII Venice International Performance Art Week. Palazzo Mora, Venice
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- VIII Venice International Performance Art Week. Palazzo Mora. Venice
- PerformVu – Satellite Art Show. Miami
- PAV- Performance Art Video. Online
- Maratona di Visione IV. Online
- From stage to screen – Laboratorio 31. Bergamo
- Dimmi chi sono – Cinema Arsenale. Pisa
- Parole di pelle – Magazzini del Sale,Villa Savorgnan, Rivignano Teor. Udine
- PerformVu – online
- Pasolini chi? - Il corpo come strumento di rivendicazione sociale all'epoca della cancel culture. Casa della Musica. Cernigliano del
Friuli. Udine
- Pasolini chi? - Il corpo come strumento di rivendicazione sociale all'epoca della cancel culture. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso. Brescia
- Fonland Festival. Espaco Artes Multimedia e performance. Online.
2022
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTED PERFORMANCES
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- Take a breath and let it go – Palazzo MO.CA, Brescia - Take a Breath and let it go, Palazzo MO.CA
Brescia
ART RESIDENCY
- Body Matters - C32, Forte Marghera. Venice
2021
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
-The beginning (weight)- Alberta University , Edmonton, Canada.
2020
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Corpo X - festival delle art performative, Screening Online
- GOLEM to be generative in solidarity rather than be creative in solitude. Online
- FREE performance art - Screening Online.
- Liminality, betwixt and between- galleria Myymala 2, Helsinki.
- Gestozero, istantanee 2020-Museo Santa Giulia, Brescia; Museo del Violino, Cremona.
ex church Santa Maria Maddalena, Bergamo.
- Geni Comuni - Museo del Presente, Rende.
- Evvi un’altra prospettiva - Galleria Bertoni. Cervigliano del Fiuli
- In Absentia - The wrong biennale. Cinema Porto. Foggia
- Give two Grace – Premiere Video. Screening Online.
2019
SELECTED PERFORMANCES SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- Dancing on nature - Grace exhibition space. New York -
- Unlimited- SOMA Art Space. Berlin.
- The Beginning (light) - SOMA Art Space. Berlin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Corporea 5to Festival di arte performativa - Università Autonoma. Zacatecas MXCD
- Ibrida. Festival di Arti Intermediali - Fabbrica delle candele. Forli.
- Stato d’identità. Corpo, ricordo, società, territorio. MVSA. Sondrio.
2018
SELECTED PERFORMANCES SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- Fuckdermia - Vaku project space. Bergamo -Italy Fuckdermia – Vaku project Space. Bergamo. Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Video contest – LADA, Live Art Development Agency. Londra. (UK)
- Starptelpa - Riga performance festival. RISEBA H2O6 Architecture and Media Centre. Riga (LV)
- PerForArtNet - International festival de performance, VI edizione. Bogotà. (CO)
- Angst - La Copela. Parigi. (FR)
- Hawk-Eyed and Amorphous (Buzz) – Koraj Project Space. Nicosia.
- Harvesting Mind – Salo Buro Raume, Studio Wertraum. Braunschweig.
2017
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Corporea - festival internacional de performance - Centro Cultural Ciudadela del Arte. Zacatecas
- Corpo VII. Historicizing - Spazio Matta. Pescara.
- Tactile Bodies - Sensorium Space. Nicosia.
- I diritti della natura. BACS. Leffe.
- L’Assente, presente – Nisem Tu. Ponte Nizza.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
- Corallo liquido - Corpo VII, Historicizing. Spazio Matta. Pescara
- Rinascita - International performance art week end. 136.10 Hertz. Luisa Catucci Gallery. Berlin
PRIZES
- Adrenalina - Jesus 3.0. categoria Silver.. Rome
2016
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
- Become what you are, to my mother- Venice International Performance Art Week. Palazzo Mora. Venice
-In Vino Veritas – Jesus. 3.0 Adrenalina Prize. Museo Mastroianni. Marino Laziale.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Corpus n 1. La luce che intercetto - Temporaneo Spazio Cit. Turin
- PerfoArtNet. V Bienal internacional de performance. Universidad de los andes. Bogotà. (CO)
- EJECT - V festival internacional de video performance Laboratorio Arte Alameda. Mexico city (MX)
- Mutoscopio –Tercera Edicion, Teatro della Ciudad. Puebla, (MX)
- Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival – Hotel Hill, Sarajevo.
- X-24 Festival. X Church, Gainsborough. (UK)
2015
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
- In vino veritas - Cibi condimentum esse famen. Galleria Sabrina Raffaghello. Milan.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Progetto D’Io – Palazzo della Permanente. Milan
- Virtual body connection - Universitas Negeri. Jakarta.
- Artcevia – Palazzo dei Priori. Arcevia
- Artcevia - Gallery Miklova Hisa Stane Kljun, Ribnica.
- Pancaroba – Performance Art Festival. Gallery Visual Art Departement F.Building State University of Jakarta. Jacarta.
- ShingLe 22J – V Biennale d’arte contempoanea di Anzio e Nettuno. Museo Civico Archeologico. Anzio.
2014
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
- Corpocontrocorpo – Aliens. Forme alienate nell’arte. Casa di Ludovico Ariosto. Ferrara.
PRIZE
- Finalist Premio Arti Visive San Fedele – Il ritratto. Galleria San Fedele. Milan.
2013
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
- Rinascita – La voce del corpo. Spazio opera De Andrè. Osnago
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COLLABORATIONS
- Vulcanalia- video by VestAndPage with the collab of Nicola Fornoni. Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies Art as Seismography of Precarious Presences – MAXXI, Rome,
- Under Scar - Residenza Artistica, VestAndPage, C32 Performing Art Work Space, Forte Marghera, Mestre
Venice, 2022
- Strata - Film by VestAndPage. 2021
- Ecce (h)Omo, Guerrieri. Kyrahm, Palazzo Falletti, Rome.
CONFERENCES AND LESSONS
- Biblioteca Regionale Aosta. 2024
- Accademia SantaGiulia. Brescia. 2020
- Grace Exhibition Space, New York 2019
- Fuorinorma – Palazzo Martinengo. Brescia 2019
- Euritmie - seminary, Sessualità e diritti. San Pietro in Monastero, Verona. 2018
- Queens Museum, New York. 2018
- Istituto Tecnico Cesare Battisti, Salò. 2018
- Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna. 2017
- Laba. Libera Accademia di Belle Arti. Brescia. 2017
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