biography
Marcello Maloberti was born in 1966 in Codogno (Lodi), Italy. He lives and works in Milan.
Malobertiʼs artistic research draws inspiration from trivial events and urban contexts, paying attention to shapeless and precarious states of life. His observations, however, go beyond the ordinary evidence of everyday life experience thanks to an often estranged and visionary neorealistic approach. His performances and multimedia installations take place in both private and public spaces having a strong interactive impact for the audience. The artist puts together an extremely condensed, theatrical narrative and suspenseful atmospheres for the viewer to watch and feel. The performersʼ bodies belong to each other, they are part of a dialogue as they set up a participatory event. Maloberti also emphasizes the relationship between art and life researching new approaches to photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture and drawing, as to form a contemporary gesamtkunstwerk.
Marcello Maloberti was born in 1966 in Codogno (Lodi), Italy. He lives and works in Milan.
Malobertiʼs artistic research draws inspiration from trivial events and urban contexts, paying attention to shapeless and precarious states of life. His observations, however, go beyond the ordinary evidence of everyday life experience thanks to an often estranged and visionary neorealistic approach. His performances and multimedia installations take place in both private and public spaces having a strong interactive impact for the audience. The artist puts together an extremely condensed, theatrical narrative and suspenseful atmospheres for the viewer to watch and feel. The performersʼ bodies belong to each other, they are part of a dialogue as they set up a participatory event. Maloberti also emphasizes the relationship between art and life researching new approaches to photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture and drawing, as to form a contemporary gesamtkunstwerk.
Recently, his artworks have been shown at Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, at Museion, Bolzano, and at MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow. In 2018 he was the artist chosen by AMACI association for a series of diffused exhibition on Italian ground; he realized a performance for Manifesta, Palermo, and at Centro Pecci in Prato. Following its debut at the 16th Quadriennale d’Arte, in Rome (2016), Maloberti presented his performance Vir Temporis Acti at the Pune Biennale, in India (2017). In 2013 he participated to the 55th Venice Biennale (as part of the Italian Pavillion), the Thessaloniki Biennale, and the project All’Aperto, Zegna Foundation, Trivero. Institutions that have devoted solo exhibitions to the artist include MACRO in Rome (2012), the Generali Foundation in Vienna (2010) and GAMeC Bergamo (2009).
He has participated in a number of exhibitions in major public and private spaces, such as: Triennale Milano (2022), the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2021), MACRO, Rome (2020), Haus Wittgenstein, Wien (2019), MAXXI, Rome (2019), Stazione dell’arte, Ulassai (2019), Haus Wittgenstein–Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut, Wien (2019), Mac / Val de Vitry (2012); Kunstverein di Frankfurt (2012); Copenhagen Art Festival (2012); Triennale di Milano, Milan (2015, 2012 e 2008); Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (2011); Nuit Blanche, Paris (2011); CAC Bretigny, France (2011); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2010); Performa, New York (2009) and Yvon Lambert Collection (2005).
gallery exhibitions
images
Martellate
Martellate – Le montagne sono i denti di dio, 2022
Marker on paper, steel binder clips
134 × 96 × 10 cm framed
Martellate – Ho lasciato al mare il mio rumore, 2022
Marker on paper, steel binder clips
134 × 96 × 10 cm framed
Martellate – Il cielo macchiato di vento, 2022
Marker on paper, steel binder clips
134 × 96 × 10 cm framed
Cuore Mio
Cuore Mio, 2020
Inkjet print
50 × 33 cm; 55 × 39 cm framed
...Ma l'Amor Mio Non Muore
...Ma l'Amor Mio Non Muore, 2019
Inkjet print
86 × 130 cm; 90 × 134 cm framed
Vir Temporis Acti
VIR TEMPORIS ACTI, 2018
Photo inkjet print
150 × 100 cm; 153 × 103 × 5 cm framed
Vir Temporis Acti India, 2017
Inkjet Print
110 × 73 cm; 113 × 76 × 5 cm framed
Marmellate
Marmellate, 2018
Collage
32 × 58 cm
Marmellate, 2018
Collage
Photo: 32 × 58 cm
Marmellate, 2018
Collage
32 × 58 cm
Marmellate, 2018
Collage
32 × 58 cm
Medusa, 2018
Photo inkjet print
70 × 52 cm; 72,8 × 54,8 × 4 cm framed
Martellate, il mio lavoro nasce da uno spavento, 2014
Copper plate
41,5 × 32 × 0,5 cm
Circus
Circus Cuore Mio, 2019
Inkjet print
50 × 75 cm; 61 × 86,5 × 8 cm framed
Circus (Palermo), 2007
Lambda print
100 × 127 cm; 104 × 129 × 5,5 cm framed
Circus (Imola), 2004
Lambda print
100 × 127 cm; 104 × 130,5 × 5,5 cm framed
Raptus, 2009
C-print
34 × 22 cm; 35,5 × 23,5 × 4 cm framed
La vertigine della signora Emilia, 1992-2019
inkjet print on Barytata Canson paper
30 × 45 cm; 39,5 × 54,5 × 5 cm framed
Famiglia Metafisica, 1990-2015
Gelatin silver print
30 × 40 cm
public exhibitions
Fondazione Memoriale Della Shoah Di Milano Onlus
Invitami notte a immaginare le stelle
Permanent neon installation
Panorama
Procida, Italy
Malincuore
2.9 – 5.9.2021
Photo: Amedeo Benestante
Kestner Gesellschaft
Hannover, Germany
I am the happiness of the world
10.9.2021
Photo: Francesca Grossi and OKNO Studio
Centro Pecci
Prato, Italy
RAID
23.10.2020 – 10.1.2021
Photo: Ela Bialkowska – OKNO studio
Centro Pecci
Prato, Italy
RAID
23.10.2020 – 10.1.2021
Photo: Ela Bialkowska – OKNO studio
Biennale Gherdëina
Urtijëi
Biennale Gherdëina 7
8.8 – 20.10.2020
Photo: Tiberio Sorvillo
MACRO
Rome
Museum for Preventive Imagination — EDITORIAL
17.7 – 27.9.2020
Photo: Roberto Apa. Courtesy MACRO — Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome.
MACRO
Rome
Museum for Preventive Imagination — EDITORIAL
17.7 – 27.9.2020
Photo: Roberto Apa. Courtesy MACRO — Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome.
Hotel Principi di Piemonte di UNA Esperienze
Turin
Marcello Maloberti …ma l’amor mio non muore
27.10 – 3.11.2019
Photo: t-space studio
Hotel Principi di Piemonte di UNA Esperienze
Turin
Marcello Maloberti …ma l’amor mio non muore
27.10 – 3.11.2019
Photo: t-space studio
SubBrixia - Arte in Metropolitana
Brescia
2015
Brixia
Permanent installation in Brescia's subway, Stazione stop Photo: Marco Cartapani
SubBrixia - Arte in Metropolitana
Brescia
2015
Brixia
Permanent installation in Brescia's subway, Stazione stop Photo: Marco Cartapani
Performance at Centro Pecci
Prato
RAID
13.10.2018
Courtesy: Centro Pecci Prato. Photo: Okno Studio
Performance at Centro Pecci
Prato
RAID
13.10.2018
Courtesy: Centro Pecci Prato. Photo: Okno Studio
Performance at Centro Pecci
Prato
RAID
13.10.2018
Courtesy: Centro Pecci Prato. Photo: Okno Studio
Performance at Manifesta 12
Piazza Garraffello
Palermo
Circus Revival
14.6.2018
Photo: Okno Studio
Performance at GAM
Milan
Vir Temporis Acti
13.4.2018
Photo: Alessandro Calabrese
Performance at 16esima Quadriennale dArte
Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Roma
Vir Temporis Acti
10.12.2016
Photo: OKNOstudio. Courtesy: Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma.
La Biennale di Venezia
La Voglia Matta
30.3.2023
La Biennale di Venezia
La Voglia Matta
30.3.2023
press
A Milano, un’installazione per riflettere su un futuro migliore
Elle Decor Italia
March, 2023
Marcello Maloberti nella camera dei pensieri dove crea le Martellate
la Repubblica
February 09, 2023
publications
MARTELLATE (SCRITTI FIGHI 1990-2019)
Flash Art Books
Milan
2019
Other times, Other myths
Catalogue published on the occasion of the 16th Art Quadriennale
NERO
Rome
2016
Marcello Maloberti
Mousse Publishing
Milan
2014
Marcello Maloberti: Blitz
Quodlibet
Macerata
2012
Marcello Maloberti: RAPTUS
Damiani Editore
Bologna
2009
video
...Ma l'Amor Mio Non Muore
2019
Installation for Artissima Art Fair at Hotel Principi di Piemonte, Turin
