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Luigi
Coppola,
born in Lecce (Italy), lives and works between Lecce and
Brussels
LONGTERM
PROJECT
Ongoing
-2014
Parco
Comune dei Frutti Minori,
public art project, Castiglione d’Otranto, ITA
Mercato
Comune dei Frutti Minori,
public art project, Castiglione d’Otranto
in
collaboration with Casa delle Agriculture.
Ongoing
– 2015
OrtoComune,
public art project Valle Camonica. Initiated in the context of
Aperto_2015 Art on the border.
Ongoing
-2012
Masses
and Motets, Exercises
in Political Chorality
PUBLIC
ART / PERFORMANCES / VIDEO SCREENINGS / GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2015 The
Indipendents, group
exhibition, with Casa delle Agriculture, cur. by Aspramente and G.
Ferracci, MAXXI Museum Roma, ITA
-
Athens Biennale, Omonoia, cur.
by M. Mollona, Athens
GR
-
Fashion
as social Energy, group
exhibition, with M. Migliora, cur. by Gabi Scardi & Anna
Dethridge, Palazzo della Moda, Milano, ITA
-
Fondo Speculativo di Provvidenza, public
art project, with C. Maierhans, cur. by Silvia Bottiroli, within the
Santarcangelo Festival dei Teatri, ITA
-
Orto Comune,
public art project, cur. by G. Azzoni, within Aperto_2015 art on the
border, Valle Camonica (BS), ITA
-
Preaching
the Choir, group
exhibition, cur. by Maayan Sheleff, Herziliya Museum Tel Aviv, IS
-
Parco
Comune dei Frutti Minori, (actions
4, 5, 6), public art project, Castiglione (LE), ITA
2014 -
Masses
and Motets vol III, public
art project, in Notte Verde_ agricultura e sviluppo sostenibile,
Castiglione d'Otranto (LE)
- Masses
and Motets vol II,
public art project, in Face to Face with Monument, cur. by Chto
Delat? Into the City / Wiener Feswochen, Wien, AU
- Onufri
Prize exhibition, with M. Migliora cur. by Claudio Cravero, Tirana,
AL
- Parco
Comune dei Frutti Minori, (actions
1, 2, 3) public art project, Castiglione d'Otranto (LE), ITA
- Rural
in action, workshop,
cur. by Vessel, Cerignola (FG), ITA
2013 -
Free Home University, public art project, Ammirato Culture House and
Musagetes Found., Lecce ITA
-
Io in testa/ A-head, public art project, Nomas Foundation (in A
Theatre Cycle cur. by C.Canziani and Ilaria Gianni), Teatro Valle,
Nuovo Cinema Palazzo, Rome ITA
-
Masses and Motets vol I, public art project, in Lungomare Gasthaus,
Bolzano ITA
2012
- Steirscher Herbst 2012, Graz (AU), screening and panel in Truth is
concrete cur. F. Malzacher
-
Kunsthaus Graz (AU), exhibition in Cittadellarte Sharing
Trasformation cur. K.T. Bucher
-
50°49’19.50’’N 4°21’25.53’’ ERG Gallery (BE), screening
-
Kadist Art Foundation Paris (FRA), exhibition in Enacting Populism
curated by M. Lucchetti
-
Lovely Days, Brac (CR), screening cur. By R. Poljac
-
Mains d’Oeuvres Paris (FRA), performance in Enacting Populism
curated
by M. Lucchetti
2011
- Extra City – Antwerpen (BE) performance in public space /
screening
2010
- Artisterium International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art
Events, Tbilisi (Georgia), cur. M.Guruli
-
MASS Alexandria, Egypt, workshop cur. by W. Shawky
-
Neutral Ecological Body # Seoul, solo exhibition, Seoul Art Space
Geumcheon, cur. Kim Hee- young , S. KOREA
2009 -
Atti Democratici, public art and performance, 1st
Democracy
Biennale, Cavallerizza Reale, Torino, ITA
-
Atti Democratici, Fabbrica Europa Firenze, public art and
performance Stazione Leopolda , ITA
-
Teatro Regio Torino (ITA), performance in Artissima Teatro with M.
Pistoletto – Blinding The Years, cur. A. Bellini
-
Tate Modern, London (GB), performance with M. Pistoletto in Long
Weekend Performance, cur. C. Wood and K. Noble
- University of Applied Sciences Nijmegen (NL), performance with Y. Duan
- Selfportait of the artist, solo exhibition CCCB Barcelona, (SP)
2008
- Untiled Portrait project, performance and exhibition Museo MADRE
Napoli, ITA
-
Untitled Portrait, Untitled Ocean, Stazione Leopolda, Festival
Fabbrica Europa, ITA
-
Dock 11, Berlin (GER), performance
-
1st International Roaming Biennal of Teheran, video screening
-
Teatro Affratellamento, Firenze (ITA), performance
-
Lungomare gallery - Parallel Ev. Manifesta 7, Bolzano (ITA),
performance
-
Cittadellarte Fond. Pistoletto, Biella (ITA), performance /workshop
-
EXTRA Italy, Castrovillari (CS) (ITA), video screenings / prize
-
New Lanton Arts Gallery, San Francisco (USA), performance
-
Farmlab Social Sculpture, Los Angeles (USA), performance
-
Festival Fabbrica Europa, Prato (ITA), performance
-
Officine Caos, Torino (ITA), performance
2007 -
Hweilan Cultural Centre (TAIWAN), performance
-
Guling Theatre of Taipei(TAIWAN), performance
-
Taipei Artists Village, (TAIWAN), exhibition
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
2013
Guest curator of Lungomare
Gasthaus, public
art project,
Bolzano
ITA
2012
Co- curator of Shared
Knowledge Site, in
Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Collaborator
of Fondazione Teatro Valle, Rome ITA
2011-2010
Joint artistic director of the urban art biennale Evento
2011: Art for an urban re- evolution,
Bordeaux, FR
2010-2008
Collaborator of Michelangelo Pistoletto and Cittadellarte, Biella
ITA
2009-2008
Initiator of the network and projects Democratic
Acts, Torion
1st
Democracy Biennale, Festival Fabbrica Europa Firenze, Lungomare
Bolzano
2008
– 2004
Founder and director of the art and activism network LOSS , ITA
2008-2006
Teaching staff Faculty of Science of Education, course of Theatre
and Community Univ.
Torino, ITA
2009-2002
Freelance teacher of relational dynamics. On Stage college,
Artherapy School Lecco, Professional Education Provincia of
Bolzano, Mus-e, art for children Torino.
2007-2000
Director of the performing art space “Reiss arti performative”
Torino -ITA
2005-2004
Teaching staff of Torino University, Faculty of Arts and Cinema, ITA
2005
Teaching staff of Master “Theatre and Community” – University
of Turin – ITA
2003
- 1999
Founder, director and performer of the performing arts collective
Blusuolo – ITA
PUBLICATIONS
(selected)
2011
- COMMUNITY ART: the politics of trespassing, editor Pascal Gielen
and Paul De Bruyne, Valiz
Antennae
Series
2010
- We’ve come a long way: Michelangelo Pistoletto actions and
collaborations with the people of
Corniglia,
curated by L. Coppola, Cittadellarte Ed.
2009
- Arts in Society: being an artist in post- fordism times, edited by
Pascal Gielen and Paul De Bruyne, contributors included: Paolo Virno,
Michael Hardt, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Pippo Delbono, Anne Teresa
Dekeersmaeker, Matthew Herbert, Rudi Laermans. Nai Publishers, NL
EDUCATION
Academic
2010-
2009 Researcher at Fontys University, members of the Arts in Society
Knowledge Circle. Studies and research on art & post-Fordism,
community art. Tilburg (NL)
2002
-1999 PhD, Safety and Risk Analysis, Politecnico di Torino (ITA)
Dissertation
title: Exodus in Case of Panic, an investigation of models of
evacuation in confined spaces, merging the studies of crowd
psychology, collective unconscious theory and anthropometry, with the
aim of setting integrated design criteria.
1997
– 1991 MA and BA in Environmental Engineering – Politecnico di
Torino (ITA)
Extra
-academic
Education
in performing and visual arts, obtained via experiences, interests
and collaborations involving artists, theorists, methods and
institutions:
2011-2009
collaboration with the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto and his
institution Cittadellarte. Study of the “materials action” from
the Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and 1970s: reenactment of
performances, publications, imagining art institutions for socially
engaged practice.
2010
collaboration with Italian philosopher Paolo Virno: studies in Art &
Post-Fordism.
2006-1999
applied studies in Authentic Movement (A. Whaterhoeg), Expression
Primitive (Jhon Doese) and dance rituals from southern Italy.
1995-1998
study and collaboration with the Italian exponent of the literature
and contemporary art movement Neovanguardia: Edoardo Sanguineti,
Nanni Balestrini, Alfredo Giuliani: studies, performances and
experiments.
1993-1996
workshops with Josef Svoboda (scenography, Czech Republic), W. and J.
Janicky (theater, Kantor's actors), Luciano Berio (music), Riccardo
Caporossi (theatre).
PRIZES,
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
2015
Finalist
of Furla Prize, ITA
2012
Finalist of Talent Prize 2012, ITA
2011
Residency and fellowship AIR Antwerpen, Belgium
2010
Residency and fellowship Seoul Art Space_ Geumcheon, Seoul – South
Korea
2008
Residency New Langton Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
Residency
Here Arts Center, New York
Prize
and grant for production Moving – Movimento, ITA (Fabbrica Europa
Firenze, Santarcangelo dei
Teatri,
Cantieri Culturali - Assessorato Cultura e Politiche Giovanili del
Comune di Prato, Giardino
Chiuso/
Teatro dei Leggieri, San Gimignano (Siena), Movi|mentale, Interno 5 –
CDTM, Napoli)
Grants
Movin'up (GAI, DARC), ITA
2007
Residency Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan
