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 decostruction of the body. Through drawing, installation, sculpture, and performance, the artist explores the human condition by examining the role of ritual and ceremonial objects in today’s society. Her research projects into the observation of the body and its living space as radical instruments of freedom investigating the concepts of rest and sexuality, transforming this fields 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. Bosetto reveals apparently restrictive architecture – caves, cells, domestic and exhibition spaces as fluid and welcoming places, in an act of poetic reconnection with our bodies and their vital forces. Through sculptures, drawings, and environments, the artist proposes a systemic view of the body as a conductor of multiple realities and narratives, continually interacting with its environment. Bosetto mixes materials and images, crafting a careful balance between opacity and figuration, innocence and play. She creates afterimages of a sexuality that goes beyond genital parameters and eludes univocal classifications, challenging constructions of nature, gender, and crime, as well as the (mis)conception of certain behaviours as being ‘against nature’. These bold elements are contrasted against spaces of intimacy and retreat.
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).
