Michele Bazzoli (b. 1996, IT) is an Amsterdam-based visual artist working through sculpture, installation, and digital medias. Investigating the relationship between human and nature within the anthropocentric vision of the Western world, his artistic research can be seen as attempt to create an autonomous visual language with which to relate to, explore, and question our entanglement within the current ecological breakdown and the environmental transformations of our present.
Education
2019 – 2021 Visual Arts, MFA, Master Institute of Visual Cultures AKV|St.Joost, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2015 – 2018 Painting, BFA, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, IT
Fellowships
2023 ARTeCHÓ – Art, Economy & Technology, European Fellowship
Exhibitions
2024 ARTeCHÓ Fellowship group show, ETOPIA, Zaragoza, SP Forthcoming
2024 KunstRAI Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL Forthcoming
2023 Sketches of Transition, group show & book Launch, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL
2023 How Small Can You Go, group show at Tiny Art Gallery hosted by Ruis, Nijmegen
2023 Springboard Art Fair, Werkspoorkathedraal, Utrecht, NL
2023 Troubled Waters – ReA! Prize 22 Exhibition at Spazio Lampo, Milan, IT
2023 Queries within articles within questions within distinctions, duo show at Personeelskamer, Amsterdam, NL
2022 ReA! Fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
2022 Melting Realities, solo show at Het Blauwe Veld, Arnhem, NL
2022 Supporters, group show at ZAZA Ramen, Milan, IT
2021 I believe you, I believe in you, group show at SK, Solingen, DE
2021 Moon Scale, Group show at Galleria Arrivada, Milan, IT
2021 Live Alone Die Together, MIVC AKV|St.Joost Graduation show, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2021 The Raw Cases, Collective exhibition at Werkwarenhuis, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2019 It’s my fault – Intersubjectivity as Practice, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL – Group show event organized by Bas van der Hurk
2019 Tetsuo’s Body, 9hrs Capsule Hotel, Tokyo, JP – Off-site collective exhibition curated by Andrea Samory
2018 No Place °4, Ex Ceramica Vaccari, La Spezia, IT – Rhizomatic collective exhibition
2017 Cosa non fare negli spazi verdi, Botanical Museum MuBAJ, Milan, Italy
2017 Speriamo Che Non Piova, StudiFestival#3, Home-Studio Arcangeli-Bonfiglio, Milan, Italy
Residencies
2024 ARQVA Museum, Cartagena, SP Forthcoming
2023 ARTeCHO Fellows residency, ETOPIA, Zaragoza, SP
2023 AiR Stichting Destination Unknown, Roermond, NL
2023 WOW Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL Ongoing
2022 Grant: Steunfonds Pictoright, NL
2022-23 De Structura, international program, Tallin – Europe – Online
2021 Nov. The Raw Cases #1: Mid-Air, artist residency at DOOR, Dordrecht, NL
2021 Oct – Dec: A Room of One’s Own, guest resident at Nova Zembla, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2021 Sept. Cultuurfondsen Gemeente ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Fonds Pop-up
Research
2024 Organismo, international research program, TBA21 Academy, Madrid, SP Ongoing
Books
Sketches of Transition – An Atlas on Growth and Decay, publisher: Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL ↗
Grants
2023 Mondriaan Fonds, Publicatie
2023 Jaap Harten Fonds, Publicatie
2022 Pictorights Steunfonds – Startende Makers
2021 Sept. Cultuurfondsen Gemeente ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Fonds ‘Pop-up’
Other projects
2023 Prize design: ‘Fiori Nella Rocca’, Club Garden Brescia and Fondazione Ugo da Como, IT
Press
De Lage Landen, interview Forthcoming
Artsted – 99 Future Blue-Chip Artists catalogue
VVOVVA, ESC — WAVE #2031, SS (Joey Ramone + VVOVVA) ↗
Live Alone Die Together – MIVC Graduation show ‘21 on Art&Education ↗
Moon Scale, group exhibition at Galleria Arrivada on Art Mirror ↗
Michele Bazzoli, on A3 ↗
Coloring Quarantine by Exile Gallery, Berlin (DE) ↗
Tetsuo’s Body, Curated by Andrea Samory on Ofluxo ↗
Other activities
2023 Assistant to artist Ronald van der Meijs, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Assistant to artist Katja Novitzkova, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Talk presentation at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, NL
2021 Guest lecturer at Brera Academy of Fine Arts
2020 Workshop: Becoming Infrastructural by Philippine Hoegen, Den Bosch, NL – Brussels, BE
2019 Assistant to artist Giulia Cenci, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Assistant to artist Alice Ronchi, Milan, IT