Benni Bosetto
Biography
Benni Bosetto (Merate, 1987) is an Italian artist based in Milan.She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan and studied at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam.Benni Bosetto's artistic practice has always been centered on the transformation and decontraction of the body. The artist explores the human condition by examining the role of ritual and ceremonial objects in today's society, seeking alternative methods for self-care as a poetic critique of neoliberal power structures. Through drawing, installation, sculpture, and performance, Bosetto reinterprets the concepts of body fragmentation and vaporization, along with the loss of unitary identity, replacing it with an expanded collective body, thus transcending the space-time dimension. Her research projects into the observation of the body as a radical instrument of freedom. By investigating the concepts of rest and sexuality, she transforms this field into a fertile ground for imagination and the production of new visions of reality. Using a pre-logical visual language, Bosetto appeals to the construction of a code of unconscious images drawn from a collective memory, where the represented subjects are lost and dissolve, becoming parts of a fragmented and composite whole.
She recently had solo exhibitions in Italy, Verde d'Alghe at Museo della Marineria in Pesaro curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini (2024) and Slippery Orchid at Emanuela Campoli in Milan (2023); Stultifera at MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, (2022); 00 0 00 at ADA, Rome (2021); Il Portico at Almanac, Turin (2020); Ambiente X at Kunstraum, with Xenia Perek, London (2019); Le Streghette at Fonderia Battaglia, Milan (2018) ; Gli Imbambolati at ADA, Rome (2018); Sweep away sweep anyway, the end of the world will never come curated by Caterina Molteni at Convento de los Domenicos, Eivissa (2017); Tile Project Space, Milan (2016).
Her work has been showcased in several group exhibitions, including Vibrant Nature. On decay and rebirth at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Orti Generali, Torino (performance) (2024); che sarà sarà at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (2023);Afterimage at MAXXI L’Aquila (2022); Dancing Plague at GAMEc, Bergamo (2022); La camera picta at Galleria Civica, Trento (2021); Io dico Io at Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2021); FUORI at Quadriennale d’arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2020); Wave between us at Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (2020); #80#90 at Villa Medici, Rome (2019).
