Paola Di Bello

Paola Di Bello, born in Naples in 1961, lives and works in Milan. She is Lecturer in Photography and Head of the MA Photography at the Brera Academy of Fine Art. Paola Di Bello makes use of video and photographic research to study contemporary world, especially the relationship between human life and urban phenomena and their contradictions. The artist wishes to draw our attention to details, secondary events and the socially excluded in order to confront habit and prejudice, which often alter our vision and lead us to adopt a superficial attitude towards the world that surrounds us.

Selected solo exhibitions:

2012 Ottakringer Straße, Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art curated by Marco Scotini
2009 "Work in progress", Triennale Bovisa, Milano
2008 Icarus Game, ex Collegio Aeronautico, Forlì
2007 Strip, Milano, Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art, Lecco
2006 The green Fuse, Galleria Studio G7, Bologna
2004 Framing Devices, The Agency Contemporary, London
2004 Cosa si vede a Mirafiori. Cosa vede Mirafiori, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino*
2003 Rear Window, Galleria Artopia, Milano*
2002 In alto. Arte sui ponteggi, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano*
1999 Concrete Island, Luciano Inga-Pin Gallery, Milano
1997 Video-Stadio, Care of Gallery, Milano

* exhibitions with catalogue

Selected group exhibitions:

2013 BUILDING UTOPIA AND ABSTRACTION at Federico Bianchi Gallery
2013 Andata e ricordo, Souvenir de Voyage, Mart Rovereto
2013 Energy, group show at MAXXI Roma
2013 group show at MAPPAMONDI, Hotel des Arts, Centre NAtional du Var - Tolone
2012 group show from 17/11/2012 at Fondazione ALT, Alzano Lombardo, Bergamo
2012 Premio Terna
2012 GAMEC Bergamo: CARTE DEL MONDO
2012 Premio Treviglio
2012 Frigoriferi Milanesi - Fight-Specific Isola, a cura di Isola Art Center
2011 “Made in Filandia”, Pieve a Presciano (AR)
2011 “Cartaditalia Nuova Fotografia Italiana”, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Stoccolma
2011 “Balkanmeile”, 24 Stunden, Wien
2011 “Il Bel Paese dell'Arte”, Gamec, Bergamo
2011 “Sguardo Italiano”, curated by Elio Grazioli, Palazzo Gerra, Fotografia Europea 011, Reggio Emilia
2011 “Mappa Mundi”, Museo Berardo, Lisboa
2010  "Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando? Opere d'arte contemporanea dalla collezione Consolandi", MAGA - Museo Arte Gallarate, Gallarate (VA)
2010 "Learning Machines. Figures"  NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano
2010 Collezione del Museo Del Novecento, Palazzo dell'Arengario, Piazza Duomo, Milano
2010 Who wants to use my windows?, Galleria Paolo Maria Deanesi, Rovereto
2009 "Urban Attitudes", A cura di Alessandro Trabucco, Tube Gallery, Milano
2009 "Rereading the Image" curated by Luca Panaro, Biennale di Praga, Praga
2009 Art Athina, Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art, Atene
2009 “Open Care open day” collezione Isola Art Center, Milano
2009 Presentazione del libro “Bildung” con l’intervento di Tiziano Scarpa e Marco Senaldi, Arte Fiera Bologna
2009 Elogio dell’accoglienza, cured by G. Foschi, Galleria San Fedele, Milano*
2009 Rileggere l’immagine, cured by L. Panaro, Bergamo Art Fair*
2008 200 artists for Careof, cured by R. Pinto, Careof, Milano
2007 The word in art, Mart, Trento and Rovereto*
2007 Public Art, cured by M. Campitelli, Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste
2007 SituazionIsola, cured by M. Biraghi, M. Bortolotti, B. Theis, Isola Art Center, Milano
2006 A Tale of Two Cities, Busan Biennale, cured by Manu Park, Busan, Korea*
2006 The Visible City, cured by R. Gavarro, Architecture Biennale, San Servolo, Venezia*
2006 The people’s Choice, cured by M. Scotini, Isola Art Center, Milan*
2005 La dolce crisi, cured by F. Bonami, Museo di Villa Manin, Udine*
2005 Playgrounds and Toys, cured by A. von Fürstenberg, Hangar Bicocca, Milano
2005 Donna, Donne, cured by A. von Fürstenberg, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze*
2005 Domus Circular, cured by S. Boeri e A. Lissoni, Stadio di San Siro, Milano
2004 Segni disegni diversi. Artisti 2004-2005, Banca del Gottardo, Bergamo*
2004 Suburbia, cured by M. Paderni e M, Senaldi, San Domenico, Reggio Emilia*
2004 Vidéo au musée Géo-Charles, Magasin, Grenoble, France
2004 Empowerment, cured by M. Scotini, Museo di Villa Croce, Genova*
2003 X International biennial of photography, cured by A. Detheridge, Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino*
2003 50a Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Biennale di Venezia, cured by F. Bonami, Venezia*
2003 Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Cinéma l'Arlequin, Paris e Podewil Art Center, Berlin
2002 exIT, cured by F. Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino*
2002 Idea di Metropoli, cured by R. Valtorta, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milano*
2002 To the Lighthouse, Nuove acquisizioni, cured by E. Volpato, Videoteca GAM, Torino
2002 The built and the living, cured by C. Gattinoni, Madga Denisz Galerie, Paris*
2002 Un Ponte per…, workshop at Irachi Union Photography, Baghdad
2001 The Overexcited Body, cured by A. von Fürstenberg, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo and Pal. Reale, Milano*
2001 Points of View, cured by A. Seebach, Künstlerhaus, Dortmund*
2000 Money Nations II, cured by M. von Osten Kunsthalle, Wien and Shedhalle, Zürich*
1999 Signs of Life, cured by R. Pinto, Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne*

* exhibitions with catalogue

Selected bibliography:

2009 Paola Di Bello, Bildung, Damiani Editore, Bologna
2008 AAVV, 5 Libri scelti da…, Connecting Cultures, Milano
2007 Paola Di Bello, L’Isola-Che-Non-C’è
2007 Alberto Mugnaini, Strip, Milano, in “Flash Art”, n°150
2005 Roberta Valtorta, Newfotos, in “Multiverso”, n°1
2004 Martina Corgnati, Artiste: dall’impressionismo al nuovo millennio, Bruno Mondadori
2004 Marco Scotini, Paola Di Bello, in “Tema Celeste”, n°104
2004 AAVV, Torino Mirafiori Nord, Luca Sossella Editore, Roma
2004 Stefano Boeri, 10 anni fa la fotografa Paola Di Bello…, Domus cover n° 870
2004 Paolo Bianchi, Existenzielle Kartographie, in “Kunstforum International”, n°168
2004 L’Enciclopedia dell’Arte, Zanichelli, Milano
2003 Michèle Cohen Hadria, Le Lontain est ici, in “CV photo”, n°62
2003 Elisa Fulco, Paola Di Bello, in “Flash Art”, n°240
2003 Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, L’urgenza dello spazio, in “Flash Art”, n°240
2003 Stefano Boeri, Atlanti eclettici, in “USE”, Skira, Milano
2003 Roberta Valtorta, Paola Di Bello, in “European Photography” n°73/74
2002 Paola Di Bello, Random Tour, Mazzotta, Milano
2002 AAVV, The horse would know, but the horse can't talk, Edizioni Charta, Milano
2001 Angela Vettese, Sfida tra i contendenti del tempo libero, in “Sole 24 ore”, 1.4.2001
2000 Paola Di Bello, Lucky Town, cured by Bossé, Christov-Bakargiev e Obrist, Villa Medici, Roma
2000 Paola Di Bello, Everyday Life, in Oreste at the Biennial, Charta, Milan
1999 Francesco Jodice, The imagining of the Italian landscape, in “Archis”, luglio 1999
1999 Paola Di Bello, bxh/2, in Oreste uno, I libri di Zerinthia, Charta, Milan
1997 Paola Di Bello, La disparition, Artshow Edizioni, Milan
1994 AAVV, Dictionnaire mondial de la photographie, des origines à nos jours, Larousse, Paris