Rä di Martino deals principally with our perception of reality and fiction, drawing attention to the absurdity of representing either. The artist’s background in theatre and her passion for film emerge not just in her videos, but in photographic and installation work. Sets, actors and props are used variously to pick apart subjects as diverse as human relationships, cinematographic traditions, the theatre of war, and the fabrication of history.
Di Martino studied in London where she graduated with an MFA at the Slade School of Art. She won a fellowship at Columbia University, spending a few years in New York, before moving back to Italy. Her practice explores the passage of time, as well as the discrepancies that differentiate epic narratives from lived experiences. Her works are characterised by a tension between pathos and a certain detachment: a disconnectedness that interrupts the synchronicity binding image and text.
Recent and upcoming projects include: Kant Can’t Can-Can, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma (Italy, current); Electric Whispers, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia (Italy, upcoming); Kant Can't, Pinacoteca Provinciale di Provenza (Italy, 2024), PLAY IT AGAIN, Forte Belvedere - Museo Novecento, Florence (Italy), Premio Acacia, Museo Del 900, Milan (Italy), Isolitudine, Fondazione Merz, Turin (Italy), curated by Laura Barreca, and What a Wonderful World, MAXXI, Rome (Italy). Di Martino is currently developing her second-feature film, recently awarded the A Fabrica Award at the 35th Marseilles International Film Festival (2024).
Her work has been shown in numerous institutions including Tate Modern (London); MoMA PS1 (NY); Palazzo Grassi (Venice); GAM and Fondazione Sandretto (Turin); MACRO and MAXXI (Rome); Museion (Bolzano); MCA (Chicago); Magasin (Grenoble); PAC and HangarBicocca (Milan). She has participated to a large number of film festivals: Locarno Film Festival; VIPER Basel; Transmediale.04; New York Underground Film Festival; Kasseler Dokfest; Torino Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, where she won, in 2014, the SIAE Award and Gillo Pontecorvo Award and a Nastro d’Argento with the medium length documentary The Show MAS Go On (2014).
For her most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
Di Martino studied in London where she graduated with an MFA at the Slade School of Art. She won a fellowship at Columbia University, spending a few years in New York, before moving back to Italy. Her practice explores the passage of time, as well as the discrepancies that differentiate epic narratives from lived experiences. Her works are characterised by a tension between pathos and a certain detachment: a disconnectedness that interrupts the synchronicity binding image and text.
Recent and upcoming projects include: Kant Can’t Can-Can, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma (Italy, current); Electric Whispers, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia (Italy, upcoming); Kant Can't, Pinacoteca Provinciale di Provenza (Italy, 2024), PLAY IT AGAIN, Forte Belvedere - Museo Novecento, Florence (Italy), Premio Acacia, Museo Del 900, Milan (Italy), Isolitudine, Fondazione Merz, Turin (Italy), curated by Laura Barreca, and What a Wonderful World, MAXXI, Rome (Italy). Di Martino is currently developing her second-feature film, recently awarded the A Fabrica Award at the 35th Marseilles International Film Festival (2024).
Her work has been shown in numerous institutions including Tate Modern (London); MoMA PS1 (NY); Palazzo Grassi (Venice); GAM and Fondazione Sandretto (Turin); MACRO and MAXXI (Rome); Museion (Bolzano); MCA (Chicago); Magasin (Grenoble); PAC and HangarBicocca (Milan). She has participated to a large number of film festivals: Locarno Film Festival; VIPER Basel; Transmediale.04; New York Underground Film Festival; Kasseler Dokfest; Torino Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, where she won, in 2014, the SIAE Award and Gillo Pontecorvo Award and a Nastro d’Argento with the medium length documentary The Show MAS Go On (2014).
For her most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
Rä di Martino, Afterall (A Space Mambo), 2019, HD double channel video installation, 12 min (still)
Rä di Martino, Poor Poor Jerry, 2017, Single channel projection, full HD 1920 x 1080, audio stereo, colour, 6'18'' (still)
Rä di Martino, Play, 2022, Light stand, paper, led, colour gel, Installation view of solo show ‘Play it again’, 2022, Forte Belvedere, Florence
Rä di Martino, Controfigura, 2016, Feature Film , 75 minutes (still)
Rä di Martino, Installation view of solo show ‘All of his steps were sentiments, all of his teeth were ideas’, 2023, Copperfield, London
Rä di Martino, Authentic #30, 2014, photographic, 71 x 52.5 cm including white border and white wood grain frame, Carbon pigment print on cotton paper, watercolour
Rä di Martino, The Picture of Ourselves, 2013, HD video, 3 min (still)
Rä di Martino, Là dove muore, canta #3, 2022-2023, Archival pigment prints, gold leaf, 52 x 39 cm
Rä di Martino, Authentic #dummy tank 3, 2014, Wood, Dimensions variable
Rä di Martino, Installation view at Fondazione Merz. Photo credit: F. Nicoletti
Rä di Martino, Moonbird, 2022, Video opera live 50’
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Solo Exhibitions
2025 Electric Whispers, Beirut Art Center, Beirut (upcoming) Electric Whispers, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia (upcoming) Kant Can’t Can-Can, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma (current) 2024 Kant Can't, Pinacoteca Provinciale di Provenza, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Italy 2023 Play, Platea Palazzo Galeano, Lodi All of his steps were sentiments, all of his teeth were ideas, Copperfield, London, UK 2022 Isolitudine, ZACentrale, Palermo Là dove muore, canta; Carmelo Bene’s archive, Lecce & Torre Matta, Otranto, Italy Play it again, Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy Le città di Bolo, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy 2020 Allunati, Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Italy L’eccezione, Lio Capital Art Prize, Milan, Italy 2019 Rä di Martino, Museo del ‘900, Florence, Italy Pilgrimage, Fondazione Volume!, Rome, Italy L’eccezione, Museo del Novecento, Florence, Italy Afterall, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy 2018 Poor Poor Jerry, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy Premio Acacia 2018, Museo del ‘900, Milan, Italy Focus, Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence, Italy Poor Poor Jerry, Musia, Rome, Italy 2017 The Day He Swims Thru Marrakech, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy Rä di Martino, Monica de Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Italy Rä di Martino, Marselleria, Milan, Italy 2015 The Picture of Ourselves, Art Pod, Adelaide, Australia Certo è ch’io nacqui, Istituto Nazionale della Grafica, Rome, Italy On Making a Circle to Swim Under Water, Collicaligreggi Gallery, Catania, Italy Staging the Screen: Fatma Bucak & Rä di Martino, The Ryder, London, UK 2014 Rä di Martino, Museion, Bolzano, Italy Rä di Martino, MAXX Project, Sierre, Switzerland Marilyn, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy Authentic News Of Invisible Things, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK Authentic News Of Invisible Things, Museion, Bolzano, Italy Authentic News Of Invisible Things, nctm per l’arte, Milan, Italy 2013 Rä di Martino – Nedim Kufi, Sumarria-Lunn, London, UK 2012 Rä di Martino - Greater Torino, Fondazione Sandretto, Turin, Italy 2011 La controfigura – The Stand-In, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy 2010 Artscape, Vartaj Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania 2009 The Night Walker and Other Works, CAV, Coimbra, Portugal August 2008, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy Espace Doll, Les Urbaines Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland 2008 The Night Walker, Maze Gallery, Turin, Italy 2006 La camera, MACRO, Rome, Italy 2005 The Dancing Kid, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy 2003 Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy Group Exhibitions 2024 Scenes from a Marriage, WEST, The Hague No Time for Prophecies, Maxxi, Roma Stranger Than Fiction, West Space, Victoria, Australia The Animal that Therefore I am, Festival del Paesaggio, Anacapri Travellers Mirror Cities, VIU, San Servolo Venezia Passeggiate romane, Maxxi, Roma 2023 Art and Human Rights, Palais des Nations, Geneve Perchè questo è un tempo duro, Circolo, Milano Untitled (Radical Objecthood), Artvisor, Londra, curated by Piero Tomassoni 30 YEARS, Monica De Cardenas, Milano 2022 Eretici, Mart, Rovereto, Italy Isolitudine, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy, curated by Brizia Minerva and Luigi De Luca Hersey. Art and Life, The Mart, Trento, Italy, curated by Denis Isaia The Future Behind Us, Villa Arson, Nice, France The Floating Collection, MAMbo, Bologna, Italy Spectres: palimpsests of memory, Museo Madre, Naples, Italy La’dove muore, canta, Museo Castromediano, Lecce, Italy What a Wonderful World, MAXXI, Rome, Italy A LOVER'S DISCOURSE: FRAGMENTS, Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy Il video rende felici, Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, Italy 2021 Il sogno di Antonio, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy Io dico Io, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy Simone Carella - Io poeto tu, Macro, Rome, Italy Io poeto tu, MACRO, Rome, Italy 62nd edition of Premio Termoli (nominated artist), MACTE, Rome, Italy La Vita Nova, Museo di Scultura Antica Barracco, Rome, Italy Around the World in 83 Minutes, Harabel, Tirana 2020 Around the World in 128 minutes, Townsend, New York, USA Swimming Pool – Troubled Waters, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Metamorphoses Overdrive, KunstMuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland Stardust: Convergence – 5 MOSTRE, American Academy in Rome, Italy Insieme, mura aureliane, Roma, Italy Wall Eyes, Looking at Italy and Africa, curated by Ilaria Bernardi, Fondazione Musica per Roma, Italy Loneliness at the Time of Covid, Spatiu Intact, Cluj Napoca, Romania Unstilled Life Artist Animations, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2019 Uncommon Nature, Blindside, Melbourne, Australia Kronos e Kairos, Parco archeologico Palatino | Colosseo, Rome, Italy 2018 100% Italia (International), Mastio della Cittadella, Torino, Italy Arabesques, Terme Di Diocleziano, Rome, Italy Please, Come Back, IVAM, Valencia, Spain 2017 Please Come Back, Maxxi, Rome, Italy Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Le Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France Controfigura, Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Venice, Italy 2016 From Generation to Generation, Jewish Museum of Cont. Art, San Francisco, California, USA XVI Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China High Line Channel 14, The High Line, New York, USA Time and Detail, Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy L’astronauta caduto, Galleria A+A, Venice, Italy 2015 Illuminati, Palazzo Mosca, Pesaro, Italy Levitate, Quarter 21, Museum Quartier, Vienna, Austria Avant-Noir, ICA Artists’ Film Biennal, London, UK Delta ti - In tempo reale, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy Reverse Inequality, Patrick Ebensperger Galerie, Berlin, Germany Waiting for the Acciddent to Happen, Screen Space, Melbourne Concrete, The Tophane-i amire Arts Centeri, Istanbul, Turkey Cosa vuoi che sia, Fondazione Remotti, Camogli, Italy Le Point De Fuite De l’Histoire, Centre d’art et photographie, Lectoure Speculative Frictions, Deluge Contemporary, Victoria, Canada Avant- Noir Vol.2, Artist Film Club, ICA, London, UK Fashion as Social Energy, Palazzo Morando, Milan, Italy Worlds in Collision, Samstag Museum, Adelaide International, Australia Displacement, MAXXX Project, Sierre, Switzerland Vaf Foundation Award, Schauwerk Sindelfingen and Stadtgalerie, Kiel Meraviglioso, Fondazione VOLUME, Rome, Italy 2014 71° Venice film Festival, Venice, Italy Soleil Politique, Museion, Bozen, Italy Glitch, PAC, Milan, Italy Open Museum, Open City, MAXXI, Rome Premio Maretti, Havana, Cuba Act & Application, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, UAE Concrete, Muma, Museum of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy Noli me tangere, Biblioteca Civica, Verona, Italy Premio Maretti, Havana, Cuba Act & Application, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, UAE Concrete, Muma, Museum of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy Noli me tangere, Biblioteca Civica, Verona, Italy Worlds in Collision, Samstag Museum, Adelaide International, Adelaide Displacement, MAXXX Project, Sierre, Switzerland Vaf Foundation Award, Schauwerk Sindelfingen and Stadtgalerie, Kiel Meraviglioso, Fondazione VOLUME, Rome, Italy 2013 Ruins in Reverse, Tate Modern, London and MALI, Lima, Peru Andata e Ricordo, Souvenir de Voyage, MART, Trento and Rovereto Remainder, BWA SokòL Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nowy Sącz Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany Clueless, HDLU, Zagabria, Croatia Mardin Biennale, Mardin, Turkey 2012 2nd Mardin Biennale, Mardin, Turkey Lo sguardo espanso, Cinema d’artista 1912-2012, Fond. Guglielmo V, Catanzaro Mission Afterviews, Victoria theatre, San Francisco, USA Fantasie fluttuanti, Torrione Passari, Molfetta, Italy Re-generation, MACRO, Rome, Italy Silence where things abandon themselves, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia 2011 When in Rome, IIC, Hammer Museum and LaxArt, Los Angeles, USA Terre vulnerabili, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy Unità, New York, USA 2010 SI Sindrome Italiana, Magasin, Grenoble, France VideoZone 5°, International Video Art Biennal, Tel Aviv, Israel VideoReport, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone Linguaggi e Sperimentazioni, Mart, Rovereto, Italy Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK Person in Less, Fondazione Sandretto, Guarene, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy Mal d’archive, Friche la belle de Mai and Italian Cultural Institute, Marseille, France Clueless, Manifattura Tabacchi, Turin, Italy 2009 Italics, MCA, Chicago, USA Fuori Centro, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy Work in Space, Connaught House, Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland Lumen, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy Eppur si muove, Fondazione Sandretto, Guarene, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy Kunst Film Biennale, Cologne and Bonn, Germany Solo al buio, Mercati di Traiano, Rome, Italy The Buffer Zone, American Academy in Rome, Italy Financial District, ISCP Studios, New York, USA 2008 Manifesta7, Rovereto, Trento, Bolzano, Italy Italics, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Worlds on Video, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy How Soon Is Now?, Bronx Museum, New York, USA Tarantula, Piazza Duomo, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, Italy XV Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy Here Once Again, Loop Gallery e MOA, Seoul, South Korea Hot Season, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway Here, Seaport Swing Space LMCC, New York, USA 2007 Senso Unico, MoMA PS1, New York, USA Art Summer University, Tate Modern, London, UK Off Screen, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Film Program, Padiglione Sloveno, 52a La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Carte Blanche, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA Dwelling Among the Elsewheres, Botkyrka Kohnstahlle, Stockholm, Sweden The World Is Yours, Oliver Kamm5BE Gallery, New York, USA TV Dinners, Lmak Projects, New York, USA 2006 Altered, Stitched and Gathered, MoMA PS1, New York, USA Busan Biennale – CAFE2, Busan, South Korea Setting The Scene, MACRO with Discoteca di Stato, Rome, Italy Frame, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia The Mind/Body Problem, Artists Space, New York, USA Girato a Palermo, Kals’art, Palermo, Italy 2005 T1 Triennale Torino Tre Musei, Fondazione Sandretto, Turin, Italy Follow Your Shadow, Premio Furla, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy Tracce di un seminario, Via Farini, Milan, Italy 2004 All Tomorrow’s Parties, The Yugoslav Biennal of Young Artists, Serbia Surely We Will Be Confused, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy VideoZone 2°, International VideoArt Biennal, Tel Aviv, Israel Our Personal Vision, Futura Gallery, Praga, Czech Republic 2002 Beck’s Futures Student Film Award, ICA, London, UK Collections MoMA-PS1, New York, USA Tate Modern, London, UK MCA, Chicago, USA Macro, Rome, Italy Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy Artists Space, New York, USA Museion, Bozen, Italy Magasin, Grenoble, France The Busan Biennial Manifesta, Busan, South Korea Torino International Film Festival, Kino der Kunst, Munich, Viper Basel Transmediale Berlin, Germany MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy Museo 900, Milan, Italy Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contem- poranea, Rome, Italy Snaporazverein, Switzerland Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy MADRE, Naples, Italy VAF Stiftung, Frankfurt am Mein, Germany GAM, Galleria Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy Fondazione Arte/ CRT, Turin, Italy Museo Castromediano di Lecce / Archivio Carmelo Bene Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy MEF, Museo E. Fico, Turin, Italy Collezione Collezione Gino Viliani, Italy Collezione Liguria, Italy Collezione PLATEA, Palazzo Gaetani, Lodi, Italy Collezione Sciarretta, Rome, Italy Collezione famiglia Mauri, Milan, Italy MiramArt Collection (Collezione Fustinoni), Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy Collezione Remotti, Milan, Italy Screenings 2021 Copperfield, London, UK 2020 Afterall shown at Mattatoio, Rome, Italy Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Zurich, Switzerland 2018 Venice Film festival, Venice, Italy 2014 The Show MAS Go On, the Venice International Film festival, Italy Film and Video Festival 2022 Vive La France, Lecce, Italy Avvistamenti, Bisceglie, Italy FIFA, Montreal, Canada Sudestival, Monopoli, Italy 2021 Festi- val Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence, Italy 2018 Festival Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence, Italy 2017 Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Venice, Italy Festival Lo Schermo dell’arte, Florence, Italy Cortodorico, Ancona; Les rècontres international, Paris (France), Berlin (Germany) Tirana Film Festival, Tirana, Albania 2016 Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence in collaboration with Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy 2015 Subversive Film Festival, Zagabria; Visioni Italiane Film Festival, Bologna, Italy 2014 Salina Doc Festival, Salina, Italy Attraversamenti, Ostuni, Italy Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 2013 Alternative Film/Video, Belgrade, Serbia Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, Texas 5th Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt Muslihat OK, 6th Jakarta International Video Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia 2011 Stuttgart Filmwinter23, Stuttgart, Germany International Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Festival Videomedeja, Novi Sadi, Serbia EMAF European Video Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany 2010 Impakt Video Art Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands 4th Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt Signal & Noise Media Art Festival, Vancouver, Canada 2009 Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada Fundada Artists’ Film Festival, Halifax, Canada Festival Premio Sergio Amidei, Gorizia, Italy Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany 2008 Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Turin, Italy 2007 Media Art Festival Friesland, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, Texas Unclassifiable, Malmö Film Festival, Malmö, Sweden Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro; Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy 2006 Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, Italy Viper Basel, Basel, Switzerland DUMBO Film & Video Festival, Brooklyn, USA 2005 Kassel Video & Doc Festival, Kassel, Germany Media Art Friesland, Friesland, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands Rio De Ja- neiro Film Festival, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil New York Underground Film Festival, New York, USA 2005/2004 Impakt Video Art Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands Transmediale, Berlin, Germany Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Saint Petersburg Film Festival of Experimental Cinema, Saint Petersburg, Russia Vila Do Conde Festival, Vila Do Conde, Portugal Montreal Festival of New Ci- nema, Montreal, Canada Aarhus Film Festival, Aarhus, Denmark Island Film&Video Festival, London, UK EMAF, European Video Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany 2003/2002 Torino Film Festival, Turin, Italy Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain Video Mundi Festival, Chicago, USA Awards and Commission 2021 Premio Termoli, MACTE, Termoli 2020 Premio Lio Capital 2018/2019 Italian Council– Mibact 2018 Premio ACACIA Nastro d’argento, (Mentioned Best Docu-Film) The Mibac, Italian Council L’Eurimages Lab Award 2017/2016 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, (Winner of the section Mixed Media Arts) 2016 Museo chiama Artista Award, Mibact and AMACI 2015 Nastro d’argento (Mentioned Best Docu-Film) 2014 Salina Doc Festival, Salina (Special Mention) Premio SIAE Premio Gillo Pontecorvo, Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Venice VAF Award, Dreieich; Premio Cairo, (Finalist) Gillo Pontecorvo award SIAE award Nastro d’argento for best docu-film at the Venice International Film festival 2010 Premio Fondazione Ettore Fico 2008 Talent Prize, Fondazione Roma, Rome 2005 Premio Furla, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (Finalist) 2005/2004 Premio New York 2003 2° Premio Video-Art, Mart, Trento and Rovereto 2002 Development Award (16mm Film), FLAMIN, London. Residencies 2021 Mahler&Lewitt Foundation, Spoleto, Italy Prender-si cura; Mattatoio, Rome, Italy 2019 Prender-si Cura, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy 2018 Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy 2008 AIM Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum, New York, USA 2006 OMI International Artists’ Residency, Columbia County, Georgia, USA 2004 Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy 2002 Prototipi, Fondazione Olivetti, Rome, Italy |