Caterina Silva
  • Caterina Silva
  • News
  • cv
  • words
  • unpowered xr
  • non-power
  • Diary of a Space
  • Impressioni
  • Amor Proprio
  • 15 kg
  • tic tic
  • SSOL/AP
  • Münster
  • Calcutta
  • Senza sistema / ssol
  • Marco, Paolo, Ashok, Luigi, Luca, Adele, Alighiero
  • tbc (august)
  • Soggetto. Oggetto. Abietto.
  • The Punk sister of Agnes Martin
  • it / Diary of a neuter
  • io non amo la natura (archive)
  • Luglio Unnot
  • Subverting dualities
  • Caterina Silva
  • News
  • cv
  • words
  • unpowered xr
  • non-power
  • Diary of a Space
  • Impressioni
  • Amor Proprio
  • 15 kg
  • tic tic
  • SSOL/AP
  • Münster
  • Calcutta
  • Senza sistema / ssol
  • Marco, Paolo, Ashok, Luigi, Luca, Adele, Alighiero
  • tbc (august)
  • Soggetto. Oggetto. Abietto.
  • The Punk sister of Agnes Martin
  • it / Diary of a neuter
  • io non amo la natura (archive)
  • Luglio Unnot
  • Subverting dualities
  Caterina Silva


Caterina Silva
b. rome, 1983
info@caterinasilva.com


education
2001-2002 Camberwell College of Arts, London
2003-2006 BA-Scenography, Istituto Europeo di Design, Rome
2003-2005 Philosophy, La Sapienza, Rome
2014-2015 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam

residencies
2019  BOCS curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Cosenza
2019  Fondazione Spinola Banna, Poirino, Turin
2018  Arp Residency, Cape Town
2018  NKD, Dale, Norway
2016  ACC-Rijksakademie Dialogue and Exchange, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju
2014-2015 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2012-2013 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

grants
2019 Fondazione San Paolo / GAM Galleria Arte Moderna Torino / Fondazione Spinola Banna
2018 Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale
2015 Van Bijlevelt Foundation
2014 DE.MO./Movin’Up
2014 Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
2012-2013 Incontri Internazionali d’Arte
2001-2002 European Union

solo show
2020  Unpowered, Vortic London Collective, XR
2019  Present Future, curated by Ilaria Gianni, Emilie Villez, Juan Canela, Artissima, Turin
2018  Impressioni, Bosse&Baum Gallery, London
2017  Amor Proprio, performance, project curated by C.L. Pisano, Centrale Montemartini, Rome
2016  Münster, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome
2016  Senza Sistema, Bosse&Baum, London
2016  Sacrosanctum, curated by Adalberto Abbate, Oratorio di San Mercurio, Palermo
2016  Miart 16, Milan, w/Riccardo Crespi Gallery
​2015  tbc(august), Bosse&Baum, London
2015  Paolo, Marco, Ashok..., RijksOpen, Project Space South, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2015  Soggetto.Oggetto.Abietto, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan
2014  Story of the City of Brass, RijksOpen, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2014  Fear Eats the Soul, the Soul Eats Fear, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan
2010  Subverting Dualities, curated by Aria Spinelli, VM21 Gallery, Rome

group show | performance
2020 Talent Prize, Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome (online)
2020  Due quadri e un tavolo, Richter Fine Arts, Rome
2020  Mistici Sensuali Contemplativi, curated by Nicola Nitido, Metodo, Milano 
2019  TuttoApposto, Tutto Bene, performance, Galleria Nazionale di Cosenza, Cosenza
2019  Summer exhibition, curated by  Eva Menzio, Francesco Pistoi, Claudia Zunino, 
Lunetta 11, Mombarcaro, Alba
2019  Diari tra diari/Diaries among diaries, curated by Maria Morganti and Elena Volpato, Fondazione Spinola Banna, Poirino , Turin
2018  Graffiare il presente/Scratching the present, curated by Giuseppe Frangi and Daniele Capra, Casa Testori, Novate , Milan
2018  Premio Francesco Fabbri VII, Francesco Fabbri Foundation, Pieve di Soligo, Treviso
2018  Festa Franca curated by Adelaide Cioni, Fabio Giorgi Alberti and Marta Silvi, Franca, Cannara

2018  La superficie accidentata curated by Gino D'Ugo, Fourteen ArTellaro, Tellaro (SP)
2018  Combat Prize, winner of painting section, Museo Giovanni Fattori, Livorno
2018  Storm II, performance in collaboration w/ Andrea Koch,  satellite event of Block Universe festival, Bosse&Baum, London
2018  Storm I, performance in collaboration w/ Clover Peake, Bosse&Baum, London
2018  Tunnel, Passetto del Biscione, Rome
2018  Finite/Infinite, curated by Emma Van de Merwe, Everard Read-Circa, Cape Town (duo)
2018  Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2018 , curated by Alessandra Atti Di Sarro, ARP_Cultural Platform section, Cape Town
2018 Cold-Cold/ Rain-Rain/ Fsch-Fsch /Tic-Tic, performance in collaboration with Ruth Prowse School of Art, Fairview Park, Cape Town
2018  De Lachende Cavalier, curated by Abstracte,Wijnstraat 119, Dordrecht
2017  Deposito d'arte italiana presente, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, Artissima, Turin
2017  Herstories, curated by Juliette Desorgues, Protein Studios, London
2017  SIC-Intertrashional, curated by Bea McMahon&Dan Walwin, performance/publication, Florijn, Amsterdam
2017  The Best of the Best, Temple Gallery of Art, Rome
2017  You see me like a ufo, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Ascot
2017  Ssol/ap-Amsterdam, performance, The Family Gym, Rozenstraat-a rose is a rose is a rose, Project Space South-Rijkskademie, Vijzelvintage, Amsterdam
2017  Ssol/ap, performance, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome
2016  A.P., performance, ACC, Gwangju
2016  Anthropocene, Riccardo Crespi, Milan
2016  Secret Society of Lovers, performance, Bosse&Baum, London
2016  15Kg, Start Art fair, w/Bosse&Baum at Saatchi Gallery, London
2016  Sacrosantum, curated by Adalberto Abbate, Oratorio di San Mercurio, Palermo
2016  Jolly Joker with Maria Barnas, curated by L. Reitmeier, C. Biocca, B. Hipp, Amsterdam
2015  Painting Now, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan
2015  16° Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan
2015  Art 15, with Bosse and Baum, Olympia, London
2015  Dynamo art factory, Pistoia
2015  The reconfigured painting, curated by R. Gavarro, Canal 05 Gallery, Brussels
2014  Premio Francesco Fabbri, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, Treviso
2013  Room 8111, Cité des Arts, Paris
2013  She views herself, curated by Doris Kloster, Air France, Paris
2012  Giorni Felici, invited by Enzo Cucchi, Casa Testori, Novate-Milan
2012  Nero su bianco, project for Eni, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
2012  Vetrinale, w/G. Pontrelli, Festival of Relational and Performative Arts, curated by C. Casorati, Rome
2012  Premio Roma Centro Storico, curated by C. Casorati, Monte della pietà, Rome
2012  Reality Show, curated by S. Di Giugno, Tiziana Di Caro Gallery, Salerno
2012  Portonaccio, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Ex Magazzini di Via Arimondi, Rome
2012  Tutto, 26cc space for contemporary art, Rome
2012  Come una bestia feroce/No beast so fierce, curated by Federico Mazzonelli, Bonelli Lab, Canneto sull’Oglio, Mantova
2011  Non è facile/It is not easy, curated by C.L. Pisano, Palazzo Incontro, Rome
2011  Brooklyn Boudoir, 400S2nd, NYC
2011  Via Arimondi, Gallery of Art-Temple University, Rome
2010  Impresa Pittura, curated by C. Pisano&R. Gavarro, C. I. A.C. Museum, Genazzano, Rome
2008  Poetiche della precarietà, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Future Net Group, Milan
2008  Scanning: Body-Project, Studio Soligo, Rome
2008  The wedding über hosted for Black & Yellow, with H.Hedinge, Almhult, Sweden
2007  Viaggio in tempo reale, Roma Poesia ‘07, invited by S. Carella, Teatro Colosseo/Fondazione Baruchello, Rome
2007  CoLab 07, Teatro Colosseo (Rome), Massma (Ronneby), Espacio 01 (Bogotà)
2007  Human Solo Show, ESC Atelier Occupato, Rome


curatorial | commission | teaching | lectures | collaboration
2020 T-shirt design for Open Arms Italia
2020 Take Heart, Part for Spallanzani, artwork sale and donation in support of Spallanzani Hospital, Rome

2020 Take Part-Save Art, multiple in support of the restoration of ancient artworks, Rome
2018 Ruth Prowse School of Art, guest lecturer BA Fine Arts, workshop and performance with students, Cape Town
2018 Tunnel, group show, Passetto del Biscione, Rome
2015 Dynamo art factory, immersive painting workshop/art therapy for children, Pistoia
2012  Ditelo con i fiori, installation&performance in collab. w/ Veronica Botticelli, curated by Claudio L. Pisano, CIAC Museum
2011-2013 The punk sister of Agnes Martin, project with dance maker Cristina Kristal Rizzo
2013 RUFA, Rome University of Fine Arts, Guest Lecturer, Sculpture Class, Rome
2012 IT: 10 Copies of Au Bal by Berthe Morisot by 10 artists, group show, Private Flat, Paris
2012 Nero su bianco, commission, project for Eni, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
2011 I am not there and don’t live here anymore, Ex Magazzini di Via Arimondi, Rome
2010 E-picentro project, w/ G. Pontrelli, Arsenale Novissimo, 12° Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, la Biennale di Venezia
2007_Uh! with Kinkaleri, Palazzo Re Enzo, Netmage Festival, Bologna
2007_Meninas Project, in collaboration with actors from FTII, Pune, India


selected online press
Text on ATP Diary, 2020
Interview on Artoday, 2019

Interview with Simek Shropshire on Floorr Magazine, Issue 22, Nov. 2019
Interview Fonsazione Spinola Banna per l'arte (ita)
Diari tra Diari: Start Interview. Caterina Silva, artista in residenza
Avanti e indietro nell'arte
Interview with Raffaele Gavarro on Exibart (ita) 2017
Caterina Silva e la politica del linguaggio
Interview with Marco Arrigoni on ATP Diary (ita) 2017
Secret Tongues : Caterina Silva shares her intuitive visual language, Siska Lyssens, Wallpaper Magazine,  2015
Caterina Silva’s wild unruly paintings take inspiration from female artist forebears, Himali Sing Soin, Artsy, 2015
Incorniciare una mancanza : Caterina Silva chez Riccardo Crespi, Giulia Meloni, Artribune (online), 2015
Caterina Silva pittura al femminile tra il rosa e la distruzione
Oggetto. Soggetto. Abietto., Mavi Mazzolini, Inside Art, 2015


selected publication | catalogue
Present Future, Emilie Villez, cat. Artissima, 2019
Diari tra diari/Diaries among diaries, Elena Volpato & contribution of the artists, viaindustriae publishing, book 2019
Graffiare il presente/Scratching the present, Giuseppe Frangi and Daniele Capra, cat. 2018
Premio Francesco Fabbri VII ed., cat. 2018

Combat Prize 9°ed. , cat. 2018
Tunnel, il passetto del biscione si veste d'arte (al femminile), per una notte, L. Garrone, Il corriere della Sera-Roma, 2017
Finite-Infinite, Canale Arte, 2018
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Alessandra Atti Di Sarro, cat. 2018
SIC-Intertrashional, artist zine, 2017
Sacrosanctum, Adalberto Abbate, Maria Luisa Montaperto, Drago edizioni,  cat, 2016
Telegraaf – 26/11/2015 “Amsterdamse kunstwereld opent haar deuren voor publiek” (paper)
De Rijksakademie Open 2015, Lieneke Hulshof, Mister Motley, (online)
Rijksakademie Open, cat, 2015
L'astrazione decostruita di Caterina Silva, Arte Magazine, Sept. 2015 (paper)
Video Interview, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, 2015
16° Premio Cairo, Cairo Edizioni, cat., 2015
Secret Tongues : Caterina Silva shares her intuitive visual language, Siska Lyssens, Wallpaper Magazine, (online), 2015
Caterina Silva’s wild unruly paintings take inspiration from female artist forebears, Himali Sing Soin, Artsy , (online), 2015
Incorniciare una mancanza : Caterina Silva chez Riccardo Crespi, Giulia Meloni, Artribune(online), 2015
Oggetto. Soggetto. Abietto. , Mavi Mazzolini, Insideart, (online), 2015
Riapre la camera delle meraviglie di Riccardo Crespi, Roberto Spada, 2015
Ultime di Via Farini DOCVA, Giulio Verago, Artribune Magazine #25 (paper), 2015
Rijksakademie Open, cat. , 2014
Premio Francesco Fabbri, Carlo Sala, cat., 2014
Untitled (the punk sister of Agnes Martin), artist book, 2013
Artisti al Portonaccio, Carlo Alberto Bucci, La Repubblica, 23/5/12
Portonaccio, Achille Bonito Oliva, cat. Portonaccio-Artisti in condominio, 2012
Route tournante en sous bois, Federico Mazzonelli, cat. No beast so Fierce 2012
“Non è facile” con cinque artisti, Lilli Garrone, il Corriere della Sera, 2011
Smith, Spero, Di Fabio esporre “Non è facile “, La Repubblica, 2011
Non è facile. L’arte come eterno esercizio, Daniela Trincia, Espoarte, 2011
Fabbrica di pittori, Carlo Alberto Bucci, La Repubblica, 2011
Nuova Factory Portonaccio, Edoardo Sassi, Il Corriere della Sera, 2011
Orientamenti nell’arte romana d’oggi, Antonello Tolve, ArtKey Magazine, 2010
Gli spazi rivelati da Caterina Silva, Lilli Garrone, Il Corriere della Sera, 2010
Il corpo racconta. O tace, Claudio Libero Pisano, Gli Altri, 2010
Bianco-Valente/Silva, Francesca Orsi, Exibart n° 67, 2010
Impresa Pittura, Elena Bordignon, Flash Art n° 285, 2010
La sovversione della dualità, Aria Spinelli, 2010
Raffaele Gavarro, La pittura italiana oggi, 2010, cat. I mpresa Pittura
Claudio Libero Pisano, Un luogo incerto, 2010, cat. Impresa Pittura
Poetiche della precarietà, Francesca Alfano Miglietti ( FAM ), 2008