San Gimignano
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Valentina Ornaghi (Milan, 1986) and Claudio Prestinari (Milan, 1984) began their university education at the Polytechnic of Milan, graduating respectively in Industrial Design and Architecture. They both continued to study at the IUAV in Venice.
Ornaghi and Prestinari have participated in various workshops and residencies, including Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte (Turin, 2011) and VIR-Via Farini in Residence (Milan, 2013).
In 2012, they won the Regione Veneto prize and received a grant from Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa (Venice). In 2014, Ornaghi and Prestinari had a solo exhibition Familiare at the Galleria Continua (San Gimignano).
In 2016 they have participated at Artista x Artista, the first international artist residency program in Havana (Cuba) and they had their first solo exhibition in New York curated by Vittorio Calabrese, the art director of Magazzino Italian
Art, at the New York University - Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò.
In 2017, they have produced a number of works relating to Giorgio Morandi which were exhibited at MAMbo - Casa Morandi (Bologna) and they were awarded a residency at Carlo Zauli Museum in Faenza with a final showing held at the MIC International Ceramics Museum. They unveiled their public sculpture entitled Filemone e Bauci at the new Citylife Park in Milano the same year.
Ornaghi and Prestinari have taken part in several international exhibitions, both in experimental spaces and institutions, including MAAT, Lisbon, 2018; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, 2016; Aguila de Oro, Havana, 2016; Le Centquatre, Paris, 2015; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2015; Museo Pietro Canonica of Villa Borghese, Rome, 2015; Biblioteca Ariostea, Ferrara, 2013; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, 2012; Zsolnay Cultural Quarter, Pécs, 2012; GMB - Centre for Contemporary Art, Bratislava, 2012; Hamburg Kunsthaus, Hamburg, 2012; KCCC-Klaïpeda Culture Communication Center, Klaïpeda, 2012; La Fabrique, Mountrouge, 2011; Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, 2009.
2015
Dynamo Camp, workshop with Dynamo children, San Marcello Pistoiese (PT), IT
Artista X Artista, curated by Estudio Carlos Garaicoa, La Habana, CU
2014
Conversation, curated by Claudia Santeroni, The blank residency, Bergamo, IT
Fondazione Spinola-Banna per l’arte, tutor: Liliana Moro-Mario Airò, Poirino (TO), IT
2013
VIR Viafarini-in-residence, curated by Simone Frangi, Milan, IT
Effetto Venturi, workshop with Gianni Pettena, curated by Peep Hole, Museo del ‘900, Milan, IT
2012
Penso con le mie ginocchia, workshop per la Cattedrale, Viafarini DOCVA, Milan, IT
2011-2009
IUAV visiting professors: Lewiz Baltz, Tania Bruguera, Enrico David, Antoni Muntadas, Francesco Vezzoli, Cesare Pietrosi, Venice, IT
2011
In un luogo imprecisato, opera radiofonica con Liliana Moro, curated by Lelio Aiello, Bologna, IT
Fondazione Spinola-Banna per l’arte, visiting professor: Massimo Bartolini, Poirino (TO), IT
Museo dell’arte italiana in Esilio, workshop with Cesare Pietroiusti, 54° Biennale di Venezia, IT
2018
KEEPING THINGS WHOLE, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, IT
2017
Grigio lieve, Casa Morandi, Bologna, IT
Solo Show, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, IT
STILLE, Villa Pacchiani, Santa Croce sull'Arno, IT
2016
Ornaghi & Prestinari, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, New York, USA
Artista X Artista, Open Studio, La Habana, CU
2014
Amoir Libre, Dedar, Paris, FR
Familiare, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, IT
2013
Pentagona: un percorso a Ferrara dopo il terremoto, Palazzo Paradiso- Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara, IT
2018
Eco-Visionaries: Art, Architecture and New Media after the Anthropocene, MAAT, Lisbon, P
Immagini Ombre Idee / Images Shadows Ideas, The Open Box, Milano, IT
Young Italians 1968-2018, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York, USA
Caducità, MIDeC – Museo Internazionale del Design Ceramico, Cerro di Laveno Mombello, IT
About a Vase, Montelupo Fiorentino, IT
anteprima a palazzo, Palazzo Bernetti Evangelista, Fermo, IT
2017
Mythologies, Palazzo Palmieri, Monopoli, IT
2016
The Habit of a Foreign Sky, FutureDome, Milan, IT
Full Moon, Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, NL
Microonde, The Blank Residency, Bergamo, IT
Substantial, curated by Ginevra Bria, The Open Box, Milan, IT
Artista X Artista (III), curated by Estudio Carlos Garaicoa, La Habana, CU
Homeworks in gita, curated by Samuele Menin, Careof, Milan, IT
Linea del tempo annodata, StudiFestival #2, Milan, IT
YOU + ME = US, Arte Continua, Aguila de Oro, La Habana, CU
2015
ArtLine, curated by Roberto Pinto and Sara Dolfi Agostini, Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT
Talent Prize, Museo Pietro Canonica in Villa Borghese, Rome, IT
Rebuilding the future, curated by Marco Pierini in collaboration with Laura Barreca, Andrea Bruciati and Claudia Loffelholz, Chiesa dei Cavalieri di Malta, Siracusa, IT
Follia Continua! Les 25 ans de GALLERIA CONTINUA, curated by José-Manuel Gonçalvès, Le Centquatre, Paris, FR
Homeworks, Esercizio numero 1, Corso Monforte, Milano, IT
Ever Present Past, Relais La Suvera, Casole d'Elsa (SI), IT
Milano Roma Palermo Torino, StudiFestival #1, Milan, IT
2014
On another scale, curated by Ricardo Sardenberg, GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano, IT
Extradelicato 2, via privata Pantelleria, Milan, IT
2013
Come se tutti avessero smesso di respirare nello stesso istante, curated by Lelio Aiello, Zola Predosa (BO), IT
Open studio VIR Viafarini-in-residence, curated by Simone Frangi, Milan, IT
Tutta colpa dell’amore, Premio d’arte città di Treviglio, curated by Sara Fontana, ALT, Alzano Lombardo (BG), IT
Jeune Création Européenne, (November 2012-January) Galerie im traklhaus, Salzburg, AT and (April-June) Museu Amadeo De Souza Cardoso, Amarante, PR
2012
96ma collettiva Giovani Artisti, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleria di San Marco, Venice, IT
Tutta colpa dell’amore, Premio d’arte città di Treviglio, curated by Sara Fontana, Museo della Torre, Treviglio, IT
The Self-Moving Number, curated by Sils project, Duende studios, Rotterdam, NL
Jeune Création Européenne, touring biennal of young artists: (October-November) Zsolnay Cultural Quarter, Pécs, HU; (June-July) GMB - Centre for Contemporary Art, Bratislava, SK; (April-May) Hamburg Kunsthaus, Hamburg, DE; (February-March) KCCC - Klaïpeda Culture Communication Center, Klaïpeda, LT
Extracurricular Activity, curated by Daniele Capra, Superfluo, Padova, IT
2011
Jeune Création Européenne, (October-November) La Fabrique, Mountrouge, FR
Senza Soggetto - Sul fare, workshop by Enrico David, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice, IT
2010
Il museo immaginario, workshop by Antoni Muntadas, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice, IT
Cielo di pietra, curated by Francesco Vezzoli, Pietro Rigolo and Claudia Cremonini, Ca d’Oro, Venice, IT
2009
Ogni limite ha una pazienza (Esperienze non lineari del tempo), curated by Cesare Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, Fondazione Gervasuti, Venice, IT
XIV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, BJCEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, MK
Quotidiana 09, curated by Teresa Iannotta and Stefania Schiavon, Palazzo Trevisan, Padova, IT
IMMAGINI OMBRE IDEE / IMAGES SHADOWS IDEAS, The Open Box, Milan, Italy
2018
Club GAMeC Prize, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, IT
2017
Under35 prize SIAE/Sillumina, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, IT
2015
Talent Prize, Finalist, Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome, IT
2012
Premio Regione Veneto, 96ma collettiva Giovani Artisti, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT
2009
A box of dreams, menzione d’onore, Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice, IT
2017
Residenza d'artista Faenza, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, IT
2015
Artista X Artista, artist residence curated by Estudio Carlos Garaicoa, La Habana, CU
2013
VIR Viafarini-in-residence, curated by Simone Frangi, Milan, IT
2017
Filemone e Bauci, Artline, Milan, IT