Contact

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Bio

Barbara Ceriani Basilico (Saronno, 1979) and Alessandro Mancassola (Arzignano,  1979) began working together in 2005.

Among others, they exhibited their videos at the Centre Pompidou, Pac, Rauma Art  Museum, Merz Foundation, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Bevilacqua La  Masa Foundation and at the National Art Gallery in Tirana.

Barbara leads creative/experiential workshops in schools, health facilities and prisons.

Ale teaches Digital video in the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan.

Solo exhibitions

2022
Un attimo prima, Megazzino, Garbagnate Milanese, Milan, Italy

2015
#reboot, B/A studio, for 6pm your local time, curated by Fabio Paris, Saronno, Varese, Italy

2011
Wish you were here, curated by Hannele Kolsio, Rauma Town Library, Rauma, Finland

2009
Shark Tale and other stories, The Promenade Gallery, Vlore, Albania

2007
Any Thing, Mancassola Ceriani Basilico’s Solo Show, Unorossodue, Milan, Italy

Solo events

2022
Screening + Live, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2020
Giornata del contemporaneo 2020, screening on-line, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2017
The sky is falling, Megazzino, Garbagnate Milanese, Milan, Italy

Group shows – selection

2020
Performing Pac. Made of sound, curated by scientific board, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2018
Madatac 09, Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain
Lo Sguardo Sospeso, curated by Elisabetta Di Sopra from Visualcontainer’s Selection, Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival, Auditorium Santa Margherita, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy
10# FlashForward – Art Week Milano, .BOX, Milan, Italy
Bab 03 by Ikonemi, OFF PAPER c/o SIFEST, Savignano sul Rubicone (FC), Italy
Bab 03 by Ikonemi, Festival Diecixdieci, Teatro comunale, Gonzaga (MN), Italy

2017
Simultan Festival XII, several locations, Timosoara, Romania
Industreal Video art event VIIIth edition, Visualcontainer’s selection, Museum of Ţării Crişurilor, Oradea, Romania

2016
Tasmanian International Video Art Festival, curated by Jessica Dorloff, Ashley Bird and Darryl Rogers, Sawtooth ARI Gallery, Launceston, Australia
DocuTIFF 2016, in collaboration with Gallery On The Move, Tirana, Albania

2015
No Place 2, Castello di Fombio, Lodi, Italy
Nanjing Youth Festival, Jinling Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Vorrei non vederti oggi per vederti tutti gli altri giorni, @ Franchising Zuretti, Milan, Italy
AVI, Art Video International, curated by Ynin & Irit Shillo, Independence Square, Netanya, Israel
Glitch. Interference between art and cinema, curated by Davide Giannella, OCAT, Shanghai, China
All About These… Ladies and Gentlemen, curated by Fani Zguro, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany

2014
Glitch. Interference between art and cinema, curated by Davide Giannella, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Art Nova 100, 2014 Edition, SZ Art Center, Dashanz – 798 Art District, Beijing, China
Non potendomi arrampicare sulle nuvole, presi per le colline, curated by Eva Fabbris, Galleria Civica e Galleria dei Nani, Valdagno, Vicenza, Italy
All About These… Ladies and Gentlemen, curated by Fani Zguro, Co-Pilot, Istanbul, Turkey // National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania // Studio Arte Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Laguna Art Prize, Arsenale, Venice, Italy

2013
Multimedia Showcase.3, curated by Park Art Magazine, Axa Bulding, Porto, Portugal
All About These… Ladies and Gentlemen, curated by Fani Zguro, Viafarini, Milan, Italy
Archisle #2 – Interior/Exterior, Jersey Arts Centre, Jersey, United Kingdom

2012
Hors Pistes 2012, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Taide rakentaa Raumaa, curated by Henna Paunu and Hannele Kolsio, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland

2011
(Never) Work, curated by Nikola Uzunovski, Ulica Marshal Tito, Bitola, Macedonia

2010
#1, curated by Keti Shehu, Nerina Ciaccia and Stela Suloti, The Office_Contemporary Art Space Affair, Tirana, Albania
The Courage. Contemporary art by the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, a project by Francesco Bonami, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, Centro Saint-Bénin, Aosta, Italy
Fotografia?, curated by Chiara Agnello and Matteo Balduzzi, C/O Careof, Milan, Italy
Videoprogetto, curated by Viviana Checchia, Gabriele Gaspari and Cheryl Jone, Grand Union, Birmingham, United Kingdom

2009
So Many Men, The Promenade Gallery, Vlore, Albania
Video.it, curated by Francesco Bernardelli, Mario Gorni, Paola Nicita, Cristiana Perrella, Francesco Poli, selected by Francesca Di Nardo, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy and Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy
Playlist, curated by Odile Orsi, Neon, Bologna, Italy
Correspondences 2.2, curated by Gabriella Arrigoni and Michela Gulia, 26cc Association for contemporary art, Rome, Italy

2008
I 7 arcobaleni, curated by Matteo Rubbi, C/O Careof, Milan, Italy

2007
Central Park, curated by Paolo Toffolutti, Parco di Toppo Florio, Udine, Italy
Lo Schermo Ansioso, curated by Matteo Chini and Bruno Muzzolini, Teatro E. Peroni, Verona, Italy
Punto di fuga, curated by Ferrario Frères, S. Agostino, Bergamo, Italy

2006
Onufri ‘06, curated by Rubens Shima, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
Mulliqi Prize 2006, curated by Mustafa Ferizi, Kosova Art Gallery, Pristina, Kosovo
90° group show, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, San Marco, Venice, Italy
Quaranta per Quaranta. Circa, curated by Sebastiano Zanetti and Francesco Bonazzi, PAD-Play and Display, Verona, Italy
Progresivne nade, curated by Biljana Tomic, Galerija Haos & nKA, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Talk to the city, C/O Careof, Milan, Italy
Corpo Urbano, curated by Alberto Balletti and Bruno Muzzolini, Fondazione Cominelli, Brescia, Italy

2005
Arhipelag, curated by Peter Mignozzi, Trg Na Zelezniski Postaja, Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Other projects – selection

2017
The sky is falling, solo show preview, megazzino, Garbagnate Milanese, Milan, Italy

2015
6pm your local time, solo show presentation, Triennale di Milano, Italy

2014
Archisle #2, Guernsey Photography Festival, Guernsey, United Kingdom

2011
Raumars Artist In Residence Programme, Raumars A.I.R, Rauma, Finland

2011
XII Movin’up, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, DG PaBAAC and Gai, Turin, Italy

2009
So Many Men, presented by Fani Zguro, MAMM, Medellìn, Colombia
Delphic Games ‘09, selected by Nerina Ciaccia and Keti Shehu (Artemia’s Mobile Desk), Jeju City, South Korea

2008
Progetto Utopia, curated by Angelo Bertani, visiting professor: Alberto Garutti, Colonos, Udine, Italy

2007
2 VIDEO, with Francesca Di Nardo and Matteo Rubbi, Undo.net

Education

2003-05
Second Level degree in Visual Arts, Brera Fine Arts Academy, Milan, Italy

1998-03
Painting degree, Brera Fine Arts Academy, Milan, Italy^Barbara
Painting degree, Venice Fine Arts Academy, Venice, Italy^Ale 

1994-98
Liceo Artistico Paolo Candiani, Busto Arsizio (Varese), Italy^Barbara
Liceo Artistico Umberto Boccioni, Valdagno (Vicenza), Italy^Ale