Curriculum Vitae
Paolo Cavinato
Born in Gazoldo degli Ippoliti, Mantua (Italy) in 1975
Lives in Mantua and Copenhagen
E-mail: info.paolocavinato@gmail.com
Education
2001 – 2003 Assistent set design, Studio Ezio Frigerio, Paris/Rome
1999 – 2000 Course of cinematography, School of Cinema, Milan
1994 – 2000 Brera Art Academy, Milan
1989 – 1994 Art high school, Giulio Romano Art Institute, Mantua
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Your Place or Mine, curated by Peter Assmann, Ducal Palace Museum, Mantua
2016 Hidden Steps, text by Christian Caliandro, The Flat, Milan
2016 Altrove / Andetsteds, Italian Cultural Institute, supported by Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fondation
and Gentofte Kommunes Kulturpulje, Copenhagen
2016 Paolo Cavinato. Interni, Spazio Aperto San Fedele, Milan
2015 Spazio Visivo – Beyond Sight, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London
2015 Resonator, The Flat, Milan
2015 Reflections, curated by Manuela Zanelli, ex Church of San Cristoforo, Mantua
2013 Paolo Cavinato, Volta, An invitational solo project fair for contemporary art, Soho, New York
2012 Spazio Visivo – Souvenir de Voyage, Mario Mazzoli Galerie, Berlin
2012 Behind the Curtains, text by Elisabetta Bolasco, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan
2011 Constellation, text by Ian Hunt, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
2010 An Intelligent Design, text by Alberto Mugnaini, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan
2010 Spazio Visivo - Linie, text by Ilaria Bignotti, Mario Mazzoli Galerie, Berlin
2009 Albedo, Fondazione Dominato Leonense, Dellearti Design Hotel, Cremona
2009 Aleph, text by Paola Artoni, MAM, Gazoldo degli Ippoliti (IT)
2008 Spazio Visivo, Festival della Creatività, Fortezza da Basso, Florence
2008 Spazio Visivo, Festival eterotopie, Palazzo Te, Mantua
2008 Spazio Visivo, Palazzo Libera, curated by Antonio Cossu and PromArt, Villa Lagarina (IT)
2007 Spazio Visivo, Festival della Creatività, Fortezza da Basso, Florence
2007 Spazi Vuoti, Spina Festival, Palazzo Bellini, Comacchio (IT)
2007 Echoes, Palazzo Gonzaga, Volta Mantovana (IT)
2006 Paolo Cavinato, curated by Umberto Branchini, Visual Display, Treviso
2006 Benim Sultanahmetim, curated by Umberto Branchini with Associazione Palatina Istanbul and
supported by the Ministero Italiano degli Affari Esteri, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti,
Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice
2005 passaggioininterno, curated by Nadia Melotti, Galleria Testoni, Verona
2005 Intersezioni - Video e Installazioni, Interzona, Verona
2002 Di-Stanze, curated by Francesco Bonazzi, Black-Cube-Project, Verona
2002 eterotopie, Assessorato alla Cultura della Provincia di Mantova, Casa di Rigoletto, Mantua
2001 Lo Spazio Vuoto – Suoni Immagini Elementi, Villa Balestra, Rodigo (IT)
2001 Labyrinth, curated by Enrico Comi, Centro Arte Contemporanea Spazio Umano, Milan
Group Exhibitions
2018 NoPlaceSpace #4, Ex Ceramica Vaccari, Santo Stefano di Magra (IT)
2018 Birthmarks (Touched by an angel), The Flat, Milan
2018 Incontri in CasermArcheologica - dialoghi sull'arte contemporanea, curated by Ilaria Margutti,
CasermArchelogica, Sansepolcro (IT)
2017 Chronos, curated by Angela Madesani, Palazzo Barbò, Torre Pallavicina (IT)
2017 Itinerari di arte e fede, San Fedele Museum, Milan
2017 IN Contemporanea. Mats Bergquist, Gregorio Botta, Paolo Cavinato, curated by Virginia
Monteverde and Stefania Giazzi, Spazio46, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa
2017 Segrete. Tracce di Memoria, Alleanza di Artisti in memoria della Shoah, IX, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa
2016 La Galleria, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
2015 Nuove acquisizioni. Inediti e riscoperte dalla collezione della Galleria civica di Modena, curated by
Gabriella Roganti, Palazzo Santa Margherita, Galleria Civica, Modena
2014 Urban Agriculture Survival Kit, Fuorisalone, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan
2013 Travel, Paolo Cavinato, Ditte Ejlerskov and Anne Skole Overgaard, supported by Kgs. Enghave
Local Committee and Copenhagen’s Arts Council, Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen
2013 Paolo Cavinato and Peter Ogilvie, William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2012 Sinestetica, curated by di Primo Marella, Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano (CH)
2012 Memory, contemporary international sculpture, PAN, Naples
2012 Segni e (non) Sogni, curated by Giorgio Verzotti, Miart, Milan
2012 geometrie perfettibili/ perfectible geometries, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan
2012 Arte Fiera Off, Raum, Bologna
2011 Memory, contemporary international sculpture, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London
2011 Start, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan
2011 Hear Me Out, curated by Cecilia Casorati, CIAC Museum, Genazzano (IT)
2011 Quarta dimensione - Visioni Plastiche del tempo e del cambiamento, curated by Mimmo Di Marzio
and Nicoletta Castellaneta, Banca Akros, Milan
2010 Lo Spazio del Sacro, curated by Marco Pierini, Palazzo Santa Margherita, Galleria Civica, Modena
2010 Sonorizzazioni e Soundscape, Indie Summer Festival, Spazio Gerra, Reggio Emilia
2010 Art in the City, Egmont Park, Brussels
2009 L’Uomo e il suo Destino, Galleria San Fedele, Milan
2008 Premio Arte Laguna, curated by Igor Zanti, Fondazione Benetton, Treviso
2008 simmetria personale, curated by Andrea Gaspari, Fabbrica Borroni, Bollate (IT)
2008 chora = spazio, Sentieri nell’arte, curated by Nadia Melotti, Valle del Tasso, Pazon (IT)
2008 Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, International Competition for Young Sculptors,
second edition, curated by Angela Vettese, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan
2008 The word is yours, curated by Margherita Salmaso, Fabbrica Borroni, Bollate (IT)
2007 BigScreen Italia, the Italian Culture Festival in China, Kunming (CN)
2007 Lo spirito dei luoghi, curated by Elisa Gusella, Fabbrica Borroni, Bollate (IT)
2006 Quaranta per Quaranta, circa, curated by Francesco Bonazzi, PAD, Verona
2006 Melting House, Festival della Creatività, Fortezza da Basso, Florence
2006 Intimate Spaces, CVB Gallery, New York
2006 Camerae Pictae, curated by Paola Artoni, MAM, Gazoldo degli Ippoliti (IT)
2006 Cromatismi, Museo Carlo Zauli, Ravenna
2006 BigScreen Italia, the Italian Culture Festival in China, Kunming (CN)
2006 Salone Satellite, 9° edition, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, curated by Marva Griffin Wilshire,
Rho (IT)
2006 Lavoro ad Arte, MuVi, curated by Afro Somenzari, Viadana (IT)
2005 Home, private collection exhibition (Istanbul Biennal 2005), curated by Charles Esche and
Vasif Kortun, Asli Tunca Atelier, Istanbul
2005 Salone Satellite, 8° edition, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, curated by Marva Griffin Wilshire,
Milan
2004 IV Biennale d’Arte Postumia Giovani, MAM, Gazoldo degli Ippoliti (IT)
2003 Linee di Confine, video, a cura di Chiara Agnello, C/O Care of, Milan
2003 Fabbrica delle Idee, Fabbrica Cometti, a cura di Nadia Melotti, Caprino Veronese ( IT)
2002 San Giò Video Festival, Cortile Mercato Vecchio, Verona
2000 Videozero 2000, curated by Francesco Ballo, PAC, Milan
1999 17° Torino Film Festival, Video Zero, Turin

1999 Gonzaga Fotografia ’99, curated by Guido Guidi and Manuela Zanelli, Gonzaga (IT)
1999 Civitavideo, Arena La Barcaccia, Civitanova Marche (IT)
1999 Artech, Associazione Cinematografica Pandora e Sambers, Smau 99, Milan
1999 Salon I I999, Museo della Permanente, Milan
1997 Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan
Awards and Pubblic Collections
2017 Ducal Palace Museum Collection, Mantua
2017 San Fedele Museum, Milan
2016 Premio Isabella d’Este, Villa Mirra, Cavriana (IT)
2016 Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels
2016 Artphilein Foundation, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2015 Galila’s Collection, Brussels
2014 Swatch Art Peace Hotel's Collection, Shanghai
2011 Premio Aletti, Second Prize, ArtVerona, Verona
2011 Premio Ettore Fico, Finalist, the Road Contemporary Art Fair, Rome
2010 Art in the City, Finalist, Egmont Park, Brussels
2010 Solo@108 Exhibition, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
2009 Premio Artivisive San Fedele 2008-2009, Second Prize, Galleria San Fedele, Milan
2009 Twister. Museums in Lombardy for Contemporary Art, First Selection
2008 Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, International Competition for Young Sculptors,
second edition, Third Prize, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan
2008 Premio Arte Laguna, finalist in the Sculpture Section, Fondazione Benetton, Treviso
2005 Salone Internazionale del Mobile, selected for Salone Satellite 2005, Milan
2001 Visual Arts City of Caprino Veronese, First Prize, Verona
1999 Salon I° 1999, Special Award, Adolfo Pini Foundation, Museo della Permanente, Milan
Residencies, Talks, Workshops and Special Events
2018 Talk, Incontri in CasermArcheologica - dialoghi sull'arte contemporanea,
CasermArchelogica, Sansepolcro (IT)
2016 Talk, Altrove / Andetsteds, art-week, Copenhagen
2016 Mise en Abyme, billboard in Sydhavn Station, supported by The Danish Arts Foundation
and the City of Copenhagen (August - September)
2016 Open Studio, event curated by Palazzo Ducale, Mantova Capitale della Cultura 2016, Mantua
2015 Talk, Reflections, curated by Marco Tonelli, Mantova Creativa, Mantua
2014 M Art Talk, M on the Bund, Shanghai
2014 Swatch Art Peace Hotel Guest Artist Program, Shanghai
2013 Residency in the exhibition space Sydhavn Station, supported by Kgs. Enghave Local Committee
and Copenhagen’s Arts Council, Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen
2013 Talk at Aarhus Art Academy, Aarhus (DK)
2013 Talk at Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus (DK)
2011 Talk at the RBS, London
2007 Residency at the Spina Festival, Palazzo Bellini, Comacchio (IT)
2005 Residency at the Asli Tunca Atelier, Istanbul
1999 Gonzaga Fotografia ’99, workshop with Guido Guidi, Gonzaga (IT)
1998 Europa Creativi, Nevers (FR)
Art Fairs
2017 Yia Art Fair, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
2017 Volta 13, Markthalle, Basel
2017 Yia Art Fair, The Square Brussels Meeting Center, Brussels
2016 Yia Art Fair, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
2016 Volta 12, Markthalle, Basel
2016 ArtRotterdam, Rotterdam
2016 Arte Fiera Bologna, Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
2015 Scope Art Show, Scope Pavilion, Miami Beach
2015 Slick Contemporary Art Fair, Paris
2015 Volta 11, Markthalle, Basel
2015 London Art Fair, Dialogues, Business Design Centre, London, UK
2014 Scope Art Show, Scope Pavilion, Miami
2014 Volta 10, Markthalle, Basel
2014 Scope Art Show, Moynihan Station, New York
2014 Art Wynwood - International Contemporary Art Fair, Miami
2014 The Metro Show – New York, New York
2014 LA - Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles
2013 Scope Art Show, Scope Pavilion, Miami
2013 Slick Contemporary Art Fair, Paris
2013 Art Verona, Quartiere Fieristico, Verona
2013 Scope, Basel
2013 Art Brussels, 31 Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels
2013 Slick Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels
2013 Arte Fiera Bologna, Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
2012 Scope, Scope Pavilion, Miami
2012 Slick Contemporary Art Fair, Le Garage, Paris
2012 Art Copenhagen, Forum, Copenhagen
2012 Scope, Pavillion Kaserne, Basel
2012 Miart, Fiera Milano City, Milan
2012 Drawing Now Paris, Le Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
2012 Scope, New York
2012 Arte Fiera Bologna, Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
2011 Contemporary Art Istanbul, Istanbul
2011 Slick Contemporary Art Fair, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2011 Art Verona, Quartiere Fieristico, Verona
2011 Preview Berlin, Tempelhof, Berlin
2011 Scope Art Fair, Kaserne, Basel
2011 Art Athina, Faliro Pavilion, Hellenic Olympic Properties, Athens
2011 Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2011 the road to contemporary art, Ex Mattatoio, Rome
2011 Arte Fiera Bologna, Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
2010 Slick Contemporary Art Fair, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2010 Art Brussels, 28 contemporary art fair, Brussels