Agnese Purgatorio
Agnese Purgatorio, Dalla Clandestinità, Digital collage.
Agnese Purgatorio is an artist who works primarily in photography, video, installation and performance. Born in Bari, she lives between
Beograd and Beirut.
Graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures, she holds an M.A. in Art Therapy. Her training as an artist began with a period of
study in São Paulo, Brazil, at the Lasar Segall Museum and at the SESC Pompéia Factory (drawing techniques, printmaking and
phothography). Since 1990 she has exhibited her work, in Italy and abroad, in solo and group exhibitions, and is the recipient of
important international awards. Her work is included in many private and public art collections.
Selected Exhibitions, Awards and Events
2015 Learning by Heart, solo exhibition, curated by Martina
Corgnati, Podbielski
2014 E pettirosso diventò il cammello, solo exhibition, curated
by Martina Corgnati, Italian Institute of Culture, Tirana, Zagreb,
Koeln, Strasbourg
2014 Venti per una, solo exhibition, curated by Martina
Corgnati, Italian Institute of Culture, Zagreb, Wien, Bratislava
2013 Twenty for one, Special Project, 5 Moscow Biennale of
Contemporary art, Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, (catalogue),
Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersboug
2013 Il corpo solitario, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, curated
by Giorgio Bonomi e Alessandra Migliorati (catalogue)
2013 20 x 1, Centro Culturale Recoleta - Buenos Aires; Spazio
Culturale Museo delle donne – Córdoba; Espacio de Arte
Contemporáneo – Montevideo; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo,
La Plata; curated by Martina Corgnati (IGAV Torino - catalogue)
2012 Confini, International Mediterranean Art Festival,
Horcynus Orca Fondation, Reggio Calabria
2012 J'ai utilisé la mémoire, performance, Armenia-Turkey
border
2012 Remote sensing, Armenian Center for Contemporary
Experimental Art, Yerevan
2012 Venti per una, IGAV, Istituto Garuzzo per le Arti Visive,
curated by Martina Corgnati, Castiglia di Saluzzo (CN)
2011 Waves... The Tides of Time, Gallery Onetwentyeight,
New York
2011 Dalla cella all’atelier, permanent art collection IGAV
curated by Alessandro Demma, Castiglia di Saluzzo (CN)
2011 Sulla linea verde, performance, Horcynus Orca
Fondation, International Art Festival, Messina
2010 Perhaps you can write to me, presentation of the book,
video-performance, Castello Svevo, Bari
2010 Era un giorno di neve, video-installation, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Skopje
2010 Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art,
video presentation curated by Martina Corgnati, Murcia
2010 Contemporary Artists between Italy and Turkey, videoinstallation Torino- Istanbul-Teheran, Yapi Kredi gallery,
Ministry of Italian Foreign Affairs celebrate Istanbul European
Capital of Culture (catalogue)
2009 Dalla clandestinità, performance and video-installation,
solo exhibition Mars gallery, Melbourne
2009 Fronte dell’est, performance, Istituto Italiano di Cultura,
Melbourne
2009 Perhaps you can write to me, performance and videoinstallation, Horcynus arti visive, Horcynus Orca Fondation,
International Art Festival, Messina
2008 International Experimental Film Festival, Museum Florean,
Carbunari
2008 Le porte del Mediterraneo, (curated by Martina Corgnati),
Palazzo Piozzo, Rivoli (TO) (catalogue)
2008 L’arca, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, (catalogue)
2007 Bienal B, International Art Festival, Porto Alegre, R.S.
2007 Fronte dell’est, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, solo exhibition
(catalogue: critique Martina Corgnati)
2007 Funny women, 23 international artist, Gallery 128, New
York
2006 Stanza dei Portatori d’acqua, (art room, project realized
with Antonio Presti) Art Hotel, Atelier sul mare, inaugurated by
Danielle Mitterrand, Castel di Tusa - ME
2006 Telepass, Museo civico Castello dei Ventimiglia,
Castelbuono – PA
2005 bac!05 – 6 International Festival of Contemporary Art in
Barcelona, Spain, video-installation, (catalogue)
2005 Premio Milano e Torino Incontrano… l’Arte, Palazzo Affari
ai Giureconsulti, Milano
2005 S/ago/me 547, traforo via Nazionale, installation,
collective event, Roma (catalogue)
2004 Self-ish, curated by Kazuko Miyamoto, Gallery
Onetwentyeight, New York
2004 500 Spot per Librino, Fiumara d’Arte, curated by di
Antonio Presti, collective event, Catania – Roma
2004 Superheroine, Gallery 128, New York (catalogue)
2003 Maternità dell’opera, Galleria Bonomo, solo exhibition
(catalogue: critique Teresa Macrì), Bari
2003 43° Premio Suzzara, “Anima e corpo fra tradizione e
cibernetica” curated by Martina Corgnati, Nicola Marras, Enrico
Mascelloni, Suzzara (Mantova) (catalogue)
2002 Extraordinario, art room Il centro molle,installation and
performance, Casa Museo STESICOREA, curated by Teresa
Macrì, Catania
2002 Arte Maggio (curated by Linda Blumberg - American
Accademy in Rome and Marilena Bonomo), Sala Murat, Bari
(catalogue)
2002 Artisti per l’EPICENTRO - Museo delle mattonelle d’arte,
Gala di Barcellona – ME
2001 Mille e una Biennale, in conjunction with 49th International
Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Bevilacqua La Masa Fondation
(curated by Teresa Macrì)
2001 Border Stories, IX International Torino Biennale of
photography (curated by Denis Curti), Palazzo Bricherasio,
Torino (catalogue)
2001 Biennale delle Arti e delle Scienze del Mediterraneo
(curated by Giovanna Dalla Chiesa), Convento di San
Francesco, Giffoni Valle Piana - SA (catalogue)
2000 Non Racconti, solo exhibition, critique Denis Curti, Aroma
Photogalerie, Berlin
2000 Art Woman, Castello Carlo V, Lecce (catalogue)
1999 ESPERIMENTA 99, I° Edition, Trullo Sovrano, Alberobello
- BA (catalogue)
1999 Lo sguardo pluricentrico, curated by Mario Cresci,
Rencontres Internationales d’Arles
1999 Non Racconti, solo exhibition, Kismet Opera Opificio per
le Arti, Bari
1998 Il demone ambiguo, curated by Roberto Mutti, Fondazione
Italiana per la Fotografia, Torino
1998 Stati Estensi 199A project curated by Roberto Margini,
solo exhibition, Casalgrande - RE, (artistc book by Agnese
Purgatorio, critique Massimo Mussini)
1998 Stati Estensi 199A project curated by Roberto Margini,
solo exhibition, Casalgrande - RE, (artistc book by Agnese
Purgatorio, critique Massimo Mussini)
1998 ART&MAGGIO Prima rassegna d’arte contemporanea,
curated by Marilena Bonomo, Bari (catalogue)
1997 The European Face, Weesper Synagoge, Weesp
(Amsterdam): Galerie FotoForum, Bolzano: Jewish Culture
Centre, Krakow, Poland: PS Gallery, Poznan: Estonian National
Library,Tallin (catalogue)
1997 Tribus, solo exhibition, Artoteca Alliance Ass.Cult. Italo
Francese, Bari
1996 Tribus, solo exhibition, Exposition France-Italie, Le Génie
de la Bastille, Paris
1996 The European Face, The Copenhagen 96 Ferry - M/F
Kronborg, Copenhagen: Danish Cultural Institute, Hannover:
Galeria Foyer, Gdansk: Fotoforum West, Innsbruck, (catalogue)
1995 She represents Italy in the project The European Face,
Talbot Rice Gallery - University of Edimburgh and The
European Union Cultural Forum, Edimburgh, (catalogue)
1995 Comme dans un miroir, Le portrait dans la collection du
Musée, exposition itinérante (curated by C. H. Favrod), Musée
de L’Elysée, Lausanne
1994 European Panorama Kodak Award, international selection
Paris, winners’ exhibition: Eglise des Jésuites, Rencontres
Internationales d’Arles, (catalogue)
1994 Dialogue, solo exhibition, Accademia di Belle Arti di
Bologna (catalogue)
1993 5 International Torino Biennale of photography,
Photosalon, Torino
1993 Dialogue, Artoteca Alliance Ass.Cult. Italo Francese, solo
exhibition, Bari
1990 Rotte mediterranee - Biennale d’Arte Mediterranea
Giovani, Tipasa, Algérie, (catalogue)
1990 Fata Morgana, a room for arts, solo exhibition, Fortino
Sant’Antonio, Bari