UPCOMING

Solo exhibition, Biblioteca Braidense, Milan (october, 2026)

 

Selected solo exhibitions and public art projects

2025

Lettere Mediterranee, retrospective exhibition, BUILDING gallery, Milano. Catalogue published by BUILDING gallery with essays by Elio Cappuccio, Angelo Crespi, Christine Macel

 

2024

Condenser l’Infini, Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brest, curated by Loïc Le Gall. Catalogue published by Johan & Levi, Milano with texts by Alessandro Castiglioni, Loïc Le Gall, Melissa Bianca Amore, Angelo Crespi

Natura Naturans, Michel Rein, Paris

Condensare l’Infinito, Building Terzo Piano, Milano, curated by Angelo Crespi

 

2023

Condensare l’Infinito, Museo MA✪GA, Gallarate, curated by Alessandro Castiglioni. Catalogue published by Johan & Levi, Milano with texts by Alessandro Castiglioni, Loïc Le Gall, Melissa Bianca Amore, Angelo Crespi

2022

Step into Life of Maybe, Michel Rein, Bruxelles

 

2021

Sans commencement et sans fin, retrospective exhibition, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, curated by Sébastien Faucon. Catalogue published by Zamân Books, Paris by Sébastien Faucon, Valérie da Costa, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Roberta Garieri, Morad Montazami and Michele Ciacciofera

 

2020

The Library of encoded time, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze, curated by Angelo Crespi

Time in Territories of Life, Michel Rein, Paris

 

2019

The Library of encoded time, Michel Rein, Paris

  

2018

A chimerical museum of shifting shapes, Voice Gallery, Marrakech

The translucent skin of the present, Mirrored Gardens, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou

 

 2017

Emisferi Sud, Museo MAN, Nuoro, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Fragments of nature and other stories, Senesi Contemporanea, London, curated by Marco Izzolino. Catalogue with text from Richard Demarco, Marco Izzolino and an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist

 

2016

Enchanted Nature, Revisited, CAFA Museum, Beijing, curated by Wang Chunchen. Catalogue published by CAFA with texts from Christine Macel, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Wang Chunchen

Enchanted Nature, Revisited, Primus Capital Art, Milan, curated by Angelo Crespi. Catalogue published by Johan&Levi with texts from Christine Macel, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Angelo Crespi

2015

Odio gli Indifferenti, Carta Bianca Fine Arts, Catania

Odio gli Indifferenti, 20th Street Studio Projects, New York, curated by Jee Won Kim

2014

I hate the indifferent, Summerhall, Edinburgh, curated by Robert Mc Dowell

Art is Reality is Art, Musée en Herbe, Paris (showing with Malachi Farrell)

Odio gli indifferenti, Palazzo Montalto, Siracusa

2013

Tell me a story, Magazzini dell’arte contemporanea, Trapani, curated by Antonio Sammartano

 Dessins, Onishy Project gallery, New York

2011

Mining memories, Light of Creativity, Miami Beach, curated by Renato Miracco

No man’s land, Museo Civico, Noto, curated by Ornella Fazzina. Catalogue published by Marchese with text from Ornella Fazzina and Lorenzo Guzzardi

Michele Ciacciofera/Enzo Rovella, Fondazione Sambuca, Palermo. Catalogue published by Fondazione Sambuca with texts by Marina Giordano and Paolo Falcone

The triumph of death, Epicentro Contemporary, Berlin, curated by Renato Miracco. Catalogue published by Epicentro  with texts by Renato Miracco and Judith Plodeck

 

2010

No man’s land, Galleria André, Rome

ARTI-FICI: argonauta, Galleria Civica d’arte contemporanea Montevergini, Siracusa, curated by Carmelo Strano and Giorgia Romano. Catalogue published by Marchese with text by Carmelo Strano and Giorgia Romano

2009

Silence!, Italian Cultural Institute, New York, curated by Renato Miracco. Catalogue published by Charta, texts by Miracco and Lance M. Fung

Silence!drawings, Palazzo At Borgia del Casale, Siracusa, curated by Carmelo Strano. Catalogue published by Erreproduzioni with text by Carmelo Strano

2007

Viaggio nell’immagine sulle tracce di Goethe, St. John’s College, Santa Fé (New Mexico USA) . Catalogue published by Lussografica with texts by Giuseppe Quatriglio, Pasquale Hamel, Manuel Giliberti

Prigionieri e deserti, Palazzo del Governo, Siracusa, curated by Ornella Fazzina. Catalogue published by Erreproduzioni with text by Ornella Fazzina

 

2005

Dentro il paesaggio, Complesso dello Spasimo, Palermo, curated by Aurelio Pes. Catalogue published by Edizioni La Rocca, with texts by Aurelio Pes and Giuseppe Quatriglio

Selected group exhibitions

2025

36th São Paulo Bienal Not All Travelers Walk Roads — Of Humanity as Practice, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, co-curated by Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz, Thiago de Paula Souza and  Keyna Eleison

Fissare l’arcipelago, Fondazione Sant’Elia, Palermo, curated by Philippe Terrier-Hermann

 

2024

Further away, 6th Mardin Biennial, curated by Ali Akay

Opus Liber, Building Milano, curated by Angela Madesani

Art & Craft, ArtParis 2024, Grand Palais Éphémère Paris, curated by Nicolas Tremblay

 

2023

Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, curated by Sébastien Faucon

Circulus – “Le fond de ma nature est, quoi qu’on en dise, le saltimbanque” (Flaubert), Galerie Papillon, Paris, curated by Colette Barbier

 

2022

Celebrazioni 800 anni Duomo di Cosenza, Cosenza, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

Ceramics Now, Galerie Italienne, Paris, curated by Florian Daguet-Bresson

Ground Odyssey: Amphoreus, Le Marais 91530 (France) and Brownstone Foundation, curated by Victoire de Pourtales

Edipo. Lo sguardo in se, Museo di Palazzo Bellomo, Siracusa, curated by Antonio Calbi

 

2021

Monaco-Alexandrie. Le grand détour. Villes-mondes et surréalisme cosmopolite, NMNM Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, curated by Morad Montazami. Catalogue published by Zamân Books

La Couleur crue, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, curated by Jean-Roch Bouiller, Sophie Kaplan, Anne Langlois

WAAG21, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, curated by Francesco Piazza and Vassilis Karampatsas

Real Utopias, Maison R&C – Manifesta 13 project , Marseille, curated by Bianca Cerrina Feroni and Melania Rossi

 

2019

FIAC Projects, Petit Palais, Paris, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel

Fiber Art Biennale – Museo Murats, Samugheo

 

2018

Geographies of Imagination, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, curated by Antonia Alampi and Bonaventure Ndikung.

Sutures, Marc Straus, New York, curated by Tim Hawkinson

Textile Abstraction, Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia, curated by Jens Hoffmann.

Through, Aghmat archaeological site/Voice Gallery, Marrakech.

 

2017

Helicotrema Recorded Audio Festival, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi and Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia, Italia

57th Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia Viva Arte Viva, curated by  Christine Macel

Documenta 14 Kassel/Athens – Every time a ear di soun, curated by Adam Szymczyk and Bonaventure Son Bejeng Ndikung

 

2016

J’ai rêvé le goût de la brique pilée, ENSA/La Box, Bourges, curated by Natsuko Uchino and Sophie Auger-Grappin

 

2015

Nel Mezzo del Mezzo, Museo Riso, Palermo, curated by Christine Macel, Marco Bazzini, Bartomeu Mari

What we call love – from Surrealism to now, IMMA Museum, Dublin, curated by Christine Macel and Rachel Thomas

Art Bridge Center, Beijing

 

2012

Endless summer, White Box, New York, curated by Jee Won Kim

 

2011

Barocco austero, ex Monastero dei Benedettini, Catania, curated by Carmelo Strano

Carta delle circostanze – frontiere liquide, Teatro Verga Ortigia, Siracusa

54 Biennale di Venezia – Padiglione Italia, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venezia

Sicilia sopra tutti, Galleria Civica d’arte contemporanea Montevergini, Siracusa

 

2010

Suite 13,  Nostra Signora, Palermo

Icona Magnifica, Palazzo della Cultura, Catania

Intramuros – Sobre Libros. Reflexiones en torno al libro de artista, Refectorio de Real Monasterio de S.ta Maria de la Valladigna, Universitat Politècnica de València, curated by Blanca Rosa Pastor Cubillo. Catalogue published by Sendemà Editorial

Neoiconoduli-figurazione internazionale complessa, Museo Bellomo, Siracusa, curated by Carmelo Strano

Terzo Rinascimento – linguaggi della sensibilità ibrida, Castello Normanno Galleria Civica d’arte contemporanea, Acicastello, curated by Carmelo Strano

 

2009

Salvados por el arte, el viaje artistico de unos libros condenados a morir, Istituto Cervantes, Palermo, curated by Ornella Fazzina

Porta della Bellezza, Librino/Fondazione Fiumara d’Arte, Catania

 

2008

Trinacria: Gambadoro, Ciacciofera, Roccasalvo, Le Ciminiere, Catania

 

2007

Contemporanea, Palazzo del Governo, Siracusa, curated by Ornella Fazzina and Paolo Giansiracusa

 

2006

200 artisti per 100 anni – i colori del lavoro, Palazzo del Governo, Siracusa, curated by Alberto Baio

Ratio Naturalis, Biviere, Lentini, curated by Ornella Fazzina

Pluralità segniche: Ciacciofera – Pasini – Roccasalvo, Church of S. Salvatore, Caltavuturo, curated by Ornella Fazzina

Migrazioni, Palazzo del Governo, Siracusa, curated by Michele Romano

La visione negata, Church of S. Nicolò dei Cordari- Parco Archeologico, Siracusa, curated by Nino Portoghese

 

2005

Periplo Blu, Monastero del  Ritiro, Siracusa, curated by Nino Portoghese

VI Biennial of Sacred Art Jacob’s Ladder, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania

Via Lucis, Monastero del Ritiro, Siracusa, curated by Paolo Giansiracusa

Diafania – luce dal buio, L’Arco e la Fonte arte contemporanea, Siracusa, curated by Nino Portoghese

 

2000

Nel cuore di Sciascia, Galleria La Rocca, Palermo / Fondazione Sciascia, Racalmuto