Costanza Ferrini (1964) lives and works between Italy and France.
e. mail: costanza.ferrini@gmail.com

CURRENT
2024

  • Spazio Latinadamare (ex tipography Il Gabbiano) Latina, 16.06 – 13.07 in Signs of Sounds, curator Jamila Campagna (collective exhibition)
    Resti 2024
  • Fondazione Orestiadi di Gibellina 14.01- 21 .03 2024 in Donazioni (collective exhibition)
    Alfabeto degli occhi 2020

2023

  • Rome, Casa del Municipio I, 30.09- 9.10 in Pane! (collective exhibition)
    Suture Balcaniche 2023
    La luce delle briciole 2023
  • Pula (Ca) Ex Pretura Regia 13-19.08 in Ri-connessioni (collective exhibition)
    Perpendicolari (2017-22)
  • Rome, Biblioteca Pasolini 14.03 – 13.04, collective exhibition/ reading/performances Di acqua e di tempo. Of Water and time. (She’s the editor of the volume with the same title)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

– STREET INSTALLATIONS

  • Quarter San Paolo Rome installation in parked car. 2021 March 4, Confini invisibili, (Invisible Borders) of drawings calligraphic pen, on paper white and green and on canvas.
  • Monte dei Cocci, Rome, 2020 June 6 Monte dei Cocci, Installation/performance, food paper sewed, indian ink, kalam and calligraphic pen, wood frame on the gate and on the sidewalk of site. To the memory of the syrian artist Fatheh al-Moudarres.(1922-1999) text reading Golan Haji transl. C.F. ph. Marco LoRocco© published in 2022 April 15 in: https://www.atassifoundation.com/thejournal
  • Piazza San Sepolcro, Cagliari 2017 February 25 Tudo azul, azzurro, șini asmani
    Installation interactive juta fabric, tailor chalk, silver cards. dedicated to the memory of the 19 Yazidi girls burned alive in Mosul June 1, 2016) – video Rosi Giua©.

– SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

  • ANPI, Perugia 2021 December 7, the evening titled Suture meridiane is dedicated to the memory of Franco Cassano. The historian Claudio Fogu present his book The Fishing net and the Spider Web and the artist present her work and perform on it completing Il rovescio e il diritto (paper brodery) dedicated to the afgan poet and activist Parwana Amiri, who lives in Germany.
  • Lazzaretto di Cagliari 2019 October 27, in “Cosmomed” Performance on the work Suture mediterranee, catalog by Raffaele Cattedra and Efisio Carbone
  • Biblioteca Pasolini, Rome, 2018 May 17- 25 Alberi a fronte, book with Annalisa Comes poems. Reading/Installation of the original tables, kalam n.9, indian ink on watercolor paper.
  • Biblioteca Pasolini, Rome, 2017 May 10 – june 7 Mappe pasoliniane (cloth, soluble watercolor graphite). Installation site specific + International Reading May 10 with Annalisa Comes, Marc Porcu, Stephen Watts, Golan Haji, Giacomo Trinci, sound, sax Nicola Alesini.
  • Giardino sonoro, San Sperate, Cagliari, 28 February 2017 I seed the work Semi in memoriam of Pinuccio Sciola in his orange garden studio Giardino sonoro.
  •  Giardino di Note in Festival Dall’isola dell’isola di una penisola September 3-7 2015 installation of Retablo degli olivi, San Pietro Island, SU.
  • Museo Civico Casa del Duca, San Pietro Island, August 18-31 2015 installation Retablo degli olivi.
  • Casa della Cultura, Monserrato, Cagliari, 2015 February 15- 28 Segnare la vita. In memoriam of Franca Rame (belt for 7 women: clay, cloth, pomme granate of Cyprus, embroidery in silver thread, crochet work + performance text).
  • St. Anne College, Oxford, 2014 September 10-11, in the international conference “Minding Borders” paper/performance Writing Is To Paint in Light And Dark, exhibition solo Liber. A Book of Olive Trees.

COLLECTIVE

  • “Buon Compleanno Faber Festival” Featuring 2021 March 20 on line video Dedicato a Pippa Bacca 3’08, with texts Tullia Ranieri, music Y. Gonzalez Garcia, photos Costanza Ferrini from Calepini 2 (2000-2020) + work: Acetosella tessuta, photo printed on paper and sewed with sorrel flowers (2021).
  • Fondazione delle Orestiadi di Gibellina (Sicily), 2020 June 26- August 8 , Museo a Cielo aperto. Work Alfabeto degli occhi (video Marco Lo Rocco e montaggio Francesco Tomba).
  • Casa Museo Antonio Gramsci, Ghilarza (Sardinia) 2020 June 20- 2022 April 20, Ricominciando dall’inizio (curator and artist in residence), the two works realized in situ Corrias Curriazzu (2020) and Curriazzu (2020) are part of the collection of Fondazione Casa Museo Antonio Gramsci.
    https://www.unionesarda.it/articolo/cultura/2020/05/13/ricominciando-dall-inizio-casa-gramsci- riparte-con-una-nuova-most-8-1018107.html
    https://www.videolina.it/articolo/tg/2020/06/22/ghilarza_riapre_casa_gramsci_un_museo_moderno_e_funzionale-78-1031925.html
    https://ilmanifesto.it/gramsci-nella-casa-di-ghilarza/
  • La linea Contemporanea, Rome, 2020 February 20-March 20 Ex libris.
  • Polo Museale ATAC, Rome 2019 November 23-25, Installation/performance Vai lenta nell’aria dedicated to the Kurdish women (inspired by a line of the poet Al-Ma’arri Walk slowly in the air…), in the collective exhibition Per il corpo, per l’anima. Per le donne. Workshop with Tullia Ranieri, with the students of Liceo Artistico Giulio Carlo Argan, Rome.
  • Casa Museo Antonio Gramsci, Ghilarza (Sardinia) 2019 September- March 5th 2020 Project “Ritornare a Gramsci”: including collective exhibition Ricominciando dall’inizio. Residence in Casa Gramsci. Meeting/reading/workshop with 300 students of high school in Cagliari, Oristano, Terralba and Ghilarza (Sardinia).
  • Ospedale Maggiore Niguarda, Milano 2019 May 18-24, L’Ultima Nascita (installation for seated). Staging Costanza Ferrini & Raffaella Valsecchi. Video L’ultima nascita by Francesco Tomba (tables about the cycle of Athena’s birth, revisited in the work Liber.A Book Of Olive Trees) and an artist in wheel chair visiting the exhibition.
  • Parco Ventaglieri, Napoli, 2019 April 13, Impronte, collective work in clay an application of the concept of public space with children of the quarter. Tiles made by children participants to be placed in the park in their favourites places.
  • Poetic Festival “Langue” Rome, 2018 May 26 -28 Alberi a fronte, book with Annalisa Comes (Installation /Reading).kalam n.9, indian ink on watercolor paper.
  • La Stanza, (Gallery) Narni, 29 October 2017- 13 January 2018 Expose the work Il sentiero degli alberi sacri (2017) single fired stoneware and oxides. (catalog) collective Fatti di terra curated by Beppe Sebaste , participants: Gea Casolaro, Gianfranco Baruchello, Andrea Fogli, Ines Fontenla, Marco Tirelli, Naoya Takahara, Paolo Canevari, Silvia Stucky, Lindo Fiore, Primarosa Cesarini Sforza, Salvatore Piermarini, collettivo Ticon3, Luo Guixia, Claudio Pieroni, Silvia Bordini, Hans-Hermann Koopmann, Stefania Salvadori, Luigi Ghirri. (catalog) https://www.exibart.com/evento-arte/fatti-di-terra
  • September 2016 – March 2017 Presentations/exhibitions in Carloforte, Cagliari, Rome, Trieste, Varese, Nicosia- Cyprus Zizzanie (collecive artist book) with Etel Adnan, Adania Shibli, Marta Fontana, Rosi Giua, Gaia Zaccagni, Elizabeth Grech, Lilia Parizot Clerico, Annalisa Comes, Choman Hardi, Maria Pace Chiavari, Cristina Viti, Hanan al-Shaykh, Najah Taher.
  • Carré 52, Paris, 2015 March 20- 28 Segnare la vita. In memoria of Franca Rame (Collective Exhibition)Ismail Yldirim, Anne Nguyen Dao, Philippe Cibille, Alain Gaudebert, Alain Veuillemet,Christine Berthonnet.
  • Museo del Crudo, San Sperate, Cagliari, 2014 November 1- December 7 Retablo degli olivi (2014) in collective Mani with Pinuccio Sciola and Carminal Martinez.
  • MAXXI, Rome 2013, September 13, (Tracing the invisible) Tracciando l’invisibile, project/event with Palestinian writer Adania Shibli.
  • Museo Etnografico Pigorini, Rome, 2012, September 20-30 installation La parola è bussola (Word is Compass) by Giacomo Sferlazzo, text Costanza Ferrini with the collective Askavusa of Lampedusa (Sicily).

PUBLICATIONS

  • Inhabiting Zenobia in “Californian Italian Studies” vol. 12,2023
    https://escholarship.org/uc/ismrg_cisj/12/1
  • Of water and time Di acqua e di tempo (collective artist book) curated and include her works nelle radici dell’acqua 2021, cotton paper, sea water, indian ink and pencil 2021 and Elementi I (digital photograph) 2022
  • Come Alda,(collective book)2022 April, X Edizioni Cagliari Sardinia work: Io ero un albero grande, digital collage with the digital artist Noe.Z.
  • Breath, Ghosts, Blind, catalog by Maurizio Cattelan, September 2021 translation from French of Cani e mendicanti. Scrivere attraverso la traduzione, Al-Maarri e Omero by the Kurdish Syrian poet Golan Haji.
  • In Margutte 22 giugno 2021 http://www.margutte.com/?p=35439, senza titolo, 2017, china e timbri con inchiostro su carta cotone 300 gr 10,5x 14,8 cm. ph. Marco Crivellin ©
  • Alberi a fronte, book with Annalisa Comes’poems 2018
  • Zizzanie, (collecive artist/poet book )with Etel Adnan, Adania Shibli, Marta Fontana, Rosi Giua, Gaia Zaccagni, Elizabeth Grech, Lilia Parizot Clerico, Annalisa Comes, Choman Hardi, Maria Pace Chiavari, Cristina Viti, Hanan al-Shaykh, Najah Taher.

 

CURATOR

  • 2022 NOVEMBER Light Year 91: “ Inhabiting Zenobia” NYC, Manhattan Bridge
    Toronto: The Drey, Woodbine Ave, East York, ON M4C 4E1, Canada
    Berlin: Scope BLN. Lübecker Straße 43, 10559, Berlin
    Curated by: Costanza Ferrini
    Exhibition Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022
    Featuring videos by: Jamila Campagna & Alektron, Raffaella Valsecchi, Francesca Manca di Villahermosa, Miltos Manetas, Alessio Liberati, Dimitri Porcu & Lionel Martin.
  • 2010 May 7th to September 30th, Volx (France), at the ‘Ecomusée de l’olivier’ de Volx, À l’ombre de l’olivier enfant part of the events of L’Art de Mai with the contribution of the Conseil Régional des Alpes de Haute Provence. Cure of collective exhibition and catalog.
  • December 15th , 2007 – January 6th , 2008 Perugia, CERP, Ulivolio, visioni dell’albero di Ulisse, Collective exhibition cure and catalog.

 

Costanza Ferrini (1964) graduated in philosophy of language, developed the idea of contemporary Mediterranean literature. She has lectured in many universities in North Europe and Mediterranean countries, helped to found the scientific committee and the design of the literary collection of the Mesogea publishing house in Messina from 1997 to 2002.

She was been in the scientific committee and then artistic director of the Mediterranean Literature Festival of Lucera  2003 – 2010.