San Gimignano
Beijing
Les Moulins
Habana
Roma
Sao Paulo
Paris
Arcangelo Sassolino was born in Vicenza, Italy in 1967, where he lives and works.
Sassolino’s sculptures and installations explore mechanical behaviours, materials, and physical properties of force. By applying these properties to the natural world and behaviours, the artist examines the friction between industrial progress and environmental concerns.
Sassolino’s works are carefully planned and researched, resulting in constructions of a high degree of physicality and forces applied by or on an object, as he pushes materials past their physical limitations. The tension, the expectation, and the awareness of risk—along with the powerful aesthetics of the works—play key roles in the experience of the spectators.
Arcangelo Sassolino has had solo exhibitions at Pearl Lam Galleries H Queen’s, Hong Kong, China (2018); Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2017); Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany (2017); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (2016); the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (2016); Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2010); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2008); and MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy (2011), among others. He also presented an environmental project at Z33 Center for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium (2010) and in the context of Art and The City, Zurich, Switzerland (2012).
His works have been shown in public institutions such as Grand Palais, Paris, France; Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, USA; Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy; Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Punta del Este, Uruguay; Le 104, Paris, France; MART Museum, Rovereto, Italy; Swiss Institute, New York, USA; Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; FRAC Museum Regional, Reims, France; Autocenter and MICA MOCA, Berlin, Germany; Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland; CCC Strozzina, Florence, Italy; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy; Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy.
2025
Present tense, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, IT
2024
No flowers without contradiction, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Repetto Gallery, Lugano, CH
2023
Mitico. Identity and uprooting, La Residencia Deià, Mallorca, ES
Sconfinamenti, curated by Keith Sciberras, University of Malta, La Valletta, MT
2022
Form et Temps, Galleria Continua, Paris, FR
Il vuoto senza misura, Atipografia, Arzignano, IT
Instabile come la speranza, curated by Daria Carmi, Sinagoga di Casale Monferrato, IT
Physis, Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana, Trento, IT
2021
Il vuoto senza misura , Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Köln, DE
2019
Fragilissimo, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, IT
Art Club #29, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Académie de France - Villa Medici, Rome, IT
2018
Arcangelo Sassolino: Warped Matter, Curved Time, Pearl Lam Galleries H Queen’s, Hong Kong, CN
Conflitti, Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, DE
The Way We Were, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, FR
2017
Matter Revealed, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Repetto Gallery, London, GB
2016
Canto V, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, IT
Not Human, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, CAM Museum, St. Louis, USMechanisms of Power, curated by Franziska Nori, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE
Damnatio Memoriae, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, DE
2014
Nicola Carrino - Arcangelo Sassolino, curated by Francesca Pola, Villa Pisani Bonetti, Stra, IT
2011
Piccolo Animismo, MACRO, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Rome, IT
2010
Qui e Ora, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, IT
Time Tomb, Z33, Hasselt, BE
Arcangelo Sassolino, Galerie Nicola Von Senger, Zurich, CH
2008
Superdome, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Critical Mass, curated by Aaron Moulton, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin, DE
2007
Arcangelo Sassolino, Nicola von Senger, Zurich, CH
Untitled, 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, US
2006
Momento, Galleria Galica, Milan, IT
2004
Rimozione, curated by Alessandra Pace, Galleria Arte Ricambi, Verona, IT
2001
Concrete Matters, Galleria Grossetti, Milan, IT
2025
And All That Is In Between, curated by Muhannad Shono, Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah, SA
2024
On the rocks, Galleria Continua, Paris, FR
Stanze, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, IT
ITALIA 70 - I NUOVI MOSTRI, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, IT
Torn curtain, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and Hélène de Franchis, Studio la Città, Verona, IT
2023
Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Sassolino. Tre Capolavori a Vicenza, curated by Guido Beltramini and Francesca Cappelletti, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, IT
Tensione Continua, curated by Carlo Falciani, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, IT
Percorsi, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, IT
Unveiled. Piercing Wrapping Carving Straining, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Cernobbio, IT
Libertà di avere tre idee contrastanti, curated by Costantino D'Orazio, Premio Michetti 2023, Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla a Mare, IT
Landscape of Desire, curated by Christoph Doswald and Paolo Bianchi, 4th Industrial Art Biennial (IAB 04), Labin, CR
2022
Diplomazija Astuta, curated by Keith Sciberras, Jeffrey Uslip , Malta Pavilion, 59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
Spazi Capaci/Comunità Capaci, curated by Alessandro de Lisi Fondazione Falcone, Palermo, IT
Le Songe d’Ulysse, curated by Francesco Stocchi, Fondation Carmignac , Île de Porquerolles, BE
Welt in der Schwebe. Luft als künstlerisches Material , curated by Barbara J. Scheuermann, Anna Döbbelin Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE
L’Europa non cade dal cielo, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso, IT
2021
Antarctic Resolution, curated by Giulia Foscari/UNLESS, 17. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Venice, IT
2020
Golem, curated by Raphie Etgar, Museum On The Seam, Jerusalem, IL
Attraverso le avanguardie, APE Parma Museo, Parma, IT
Labor & materials, 21c Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, US
2019
Artistes & Robots, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
Biennale des Arts Numériques Némo. Jusqu’ici tout va bien? , curated by Gilles Alvarez and José-Manuel Gonçalves, Le Centquatre, Paris, FR
The Only Stable Things, Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Venice, IT
Materie prime. Artisti italiani contemporanei tra terra e luce, Rocca Roveresca, Senigallia, IT
A Story That Was(n’t), Accademia di Brera, Milan, IT
Artistic Intelligence, curated by Sergey Harutoonia, Kunstverein, Hannover, DE
2018
Artistes & Robots, curated by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac and Jérôme Neutres, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, Paris, FR
2017
The Transported Man, curated by Marc- Olivier Wahler, Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, US
Flow. Arte contemporanea e cinese in dialogo, curated by Maria Yvonne Pugliese and Peng Feng, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, IT
Greffes (Grafts) / Innesti, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Académie de France - Villa Medici, Rome, IT
Porto Marghera 100 1917-2017, curated by Gabriella Belli and Paolo Apice, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, IT
Rebuilding Spaces. Dieci artisti in dialogo sul concetto di spazio, curated by Niccolò Bonechi, Castello del Monferrato, Casale Monferrato, IT
Storie e opere, Palazzo Clemente, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz Castelbasso, Teramo, IT
2016
Torre di Babele, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, ex Fabbrica Lucchesi, Prato, IT
Vertigo au rendez-vous des amis, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Punta del Este, UY
2015
Prosopopées: quand les objets prennent vie, curated by Némo Gilles Alvarez and José-Manuel Gonçalvès, Le Centquatre, Paris, FR
Follia Continua!, curated by José-Manuel Gonçalvès, Le Centquatre, Paris, FR
Signori prego si accomodino, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, studio Scatturin, Venice, IT
2014
Arte contemporanea a Villa Pisani, Villa Pisani Bonetti, Stra, IT
A Chromatic Loss, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Bortolami Gallery, New York, US
About Sculpture #1, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, DE
2013
Garage Grit, curated by Thomas Mareck, MU, Eindohoven, NL
2012
Beyond occupied images, curated by Tevz Logar, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, SL
Art and the city, curated by Christoph Doswald, Zurich, CH
Francis Bacon e la condizione esistenziale nell’arte contemporanea, curated by Franziska Nori and Barbara Dawson, CCC Strozzina, Florence, IT
2011
Under Destruction, curated by Chris Sharp / Gianni Jetzer, Swiss Institute, New York, US
Interferenze costruttive, Fondazione Menegaz, Castelbasso, IT
Percorsi riscoperti dell’arte italiana nella VAF-Stiftung 1947 – 2010, curated by Gabriella Belli and Daniela Ferrar, MART, Trento, IT
Broken Fall (Organic), Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, IT
Artisti D’Italia, Ex Chiesa della Madonna del Duomo, Arezzo, IT
2010
Videodrome, Autocenter, Berlin, DE
Ottocento Veneziano, Veneziano Contemporaneo, Museo di Villa Pisani, Stra, IT
Idoles, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, FR
La Scultura Italiana del XXI secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, IT
As Soon As Possible, L’accelerazione nella societá contemporanea, curated by Franziska Nori, CCC Strozzina, Florence, IT
2009
Themes and Variations, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, IT
Sleeper, Brown, London, GB
Zweckgemeinschafft, curated by Art at Work, Micamoca, Berlin, DE
Italian Open!, curated by Art at Work, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Aspekte des sammelns, Essl Museum, Wien, AT
2008
Visionary Collection Vol. 6, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, CH
Disarming Matter, curated by Chris Sharp, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, SE
Château de Tokyo / Palais de Fontainebleu, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Chàteau de Fontainebleu, Fontainebleu, FR
2007
Ginnunggagap, 52. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
What You See is What You Guess, curated by Francois Quentin and Alessandra Pace, FRAC, Rheims, FR
2006
Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
2005
Visioni. 20 artisti a Sant’Agostino, curated by Annamaria Maggi, ex Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, Bergamo, IT
Premio A.Fabbri, Kunsthalle Göppingen, DE
2003
N/E, curated by Simone Menegoi, Fondazione O’Artoteca, Milan, IT
Mito-Logica-Mente, curated by Silvia Pegoraro, Borgo Medievale, Castelbasso, IT
2001
Materia-Niente, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
