Alfredo Aceto

Alfredo Aceto (born 1991) is an Italian and Swiss visual artist based between Paris and Geneva. Aceto was born in Turin, Italy. He studied fine arts at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ÉCAL) with Philippe Decrauzat and Valentin Carron , the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (ENSBA) and The Mountain School of Arts (MSA^). His work has been exhibited in many international surveys, including DOC!, Paris, Museo Canonica, Rome, Museo del Novecento, Milan, Centre d'art contemporain Genève, Kunsthaus Glarus, MAMCO in Geneva and Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne . His practice includes film, installation, performance, text and sculpture, and is mainly concerned with the body and the biography.

Art work Using among others sculpture, film and sound, Italian and Swiss artist Alfredo Aceto creates spaces suspended between fiction and reality. His environments are places to live, in which one can find a sort of melancholy, artificial time alteration and image saturation. The objects he produces are traces, functional elements for the construction of the space where the blurred boundaries between his personal timeline and the collective one express the way chronology can be manipulate. His work arises from the will to create a place where would mix together the various strata of a linear form of time, turning into a platform from which signs of different ages emerge. Developing his work in a creative path that passes through multiple and never truly resolved phases of growth. Alfredo Aceto nurtures his own research by questioning his own self and, more in general, the ego that reigns in every person, if only on a latent level. Aceto is currently teaching at ECAL in Lausanne. In 2018 he is nominated for Swiss Art Awards in Basel. In 2019 he is the recipient of the prestigious Leenaards Culture Grant from the Fondation Leenaards.

Exhibitions

Solo and Duo exhibitions

2024 Full Moon Sergio, CIRCUIT, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland 2024 Parliament Unlimited, Paris, France 2024 MLIS, Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son, Villeurbanne, France 2024 HUA International, Beijing, China 2023 Builders Supply, Lange + Pult, Zurich, Switzerland 2022 Chew, with Thomas Liu Le Lann, Vin Vin, Vienna 2021 Ambarabà ciccì coccò, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen St. Gallen 2020 Kevin, Kunst Raum Riehen, Riehen 2019 Sequoia 07, Swiss Institute, Milan 2016 Something between Posthistoria and Prehistoria, Barriera and Albert Stiftung Foundation, Turin 2016 Modesty or Surprise, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome 2016 Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world, pierced by a ray of sunlight, and suddenly it’s evening, COSMIC Galerie, Bugada & Cargnel Paris 2015 Refaire le Portrait #Acte 1, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Genève, Genève 2015 Refaire le Portrait #Acte 2, Lavorare lavorare lavorare, preferisco il rumore del mare, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Genève, Geneva

Selected group exhibitions

2019 #80|90, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome 2019 Immersione Libera, Palazzina dei bagni misteriosi, Milan 2019 Still Life: An Ongoing Story, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva 2019 La métamorphose de l’art imprimé, Zeitgenössische Westschweizer Editionen und serielle Unikate, VFO, Verein fur Originalgraphik, Zurich 2018 Swiss Art Awards, Messe Basel, Basel 2018 Le Colt est Jeune & Haine, DOC!, curated by Cédric Fauq, Paris 2018 Talent Prize, Mattatoio, Rome 2018 Performance Program Code Art Fair, curated by Irene Campolmi, Bella Center, Copenaghen 2018 Greffes, Lateral Art Space, Cluj-Napoca 2018 Re-Routing Nature, Alfredo Aceto, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Adrien Missika, Biitsi, Rune Bosse, Viktor Timofeev, curated by Irene Campolmi, Sixty-Eight Art Institute, Copenaghen 2018 Greffes, Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space, Venice 2017 La Norme Idéale, Levy Delval, Brussels 2017 X, Galerie l'ELAC, Renens 2017 Shivers Only, with Iván Argote, Mohamed Bourouissa, Antoine Donzeaud, Julien Goniche, Angélique Heidler, Thomas Mailaender, Hubert Marot, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, La Paix, Paris 2017 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest 2017 Terrasse 2017, Silicon Malley, Lausanne 2017 Greffes, with Mohamed Namou, Achraf Touloub, Villa Medici, Rome 2017 Happiness is a Fiat 500, White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca 2017 Mementos, curated by Piper Marshall and Jens Hoffmann, Tours et Taxis, Brussels 2017 Prix MAIF pour la sculpture 2017, MAIF Social Club, Paris 2017 Alfredo Aceto, Nicola Martini, Lionel Maunz, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin 2017 Premio Moroso, curated by Andrea Bruciati and Paola Pivi, Museo Etnografico, Udine 2017 Solidi Platoonici, La Rada, Locarno 2017 General Audition, curated by Samuel Gross and Stéphane Kropf, L'élac, Lausanne 2016 In Mostra – corpo, gesto, postura, curated by Simone Menegoi, Artissima, Turin 2016 The Milky Way, Gio Marconi, Milan 2016 Il Principio è solo e solo un centro spostato verso il centro, COSMIC Galerie, Bugada & Cargnel Paris 2016 Souvenir d'été, Villa Medici, Rome 2016 I would've Done Everything For You / Gimme More!, Flat 7, 22 Westland Place, curated by Cédric Fauq, London 2016 Kiefer-Ablitzel, Swiss Art Awards, Basel 2016 All the Lights We Cannot See, Random Institute, Pyongyang 2016 Texture and Liquidity, The Workbench International, Milan 2015 Death of the Shambls, Silicon Malley, Prilly 2015 Wincklemans, PAZIOLI, Chavannes-près-Renens 2015 Unter 30 Junge Schweizer Kunst Kiefer Hablitzel Preis, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus 2015 Nuit des Musées, Musée Jenisch, Vevey 2015 Kiefer-Ablitzel, Swiss Art Awards, Basel 2015 LISTE, Bugada & Cargnel, Basel 2015 L'heure qu'il est, Centre d'Art Contemporain (CACY), Yverdon-les-Bains 2015 Lavorare lavorare lavorare, preferisco il rumore del mare, Kunsthalle Geneva, Centre D'Art Contemporain, Geneva 2015 Club of Matinée Idolz, , Turin 2014 The Go-Between, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples 2014 The Arcades Project, Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris 2014 Jump, Gasconade at Art-O-Rama, Marseille 2014 World Wide, WALLRISS, Fribourg 2013 One Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty Peep-Hole, Peep-Hole, Milan 2013 ARI MORTIS, curated by Milovan Farronato and Roberto Cuoghi, Museo del 900, Milan, Italy 2012 There is a différence between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks, curated by Philippe Decrauzat, ECAL 2011 Soirée, Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato

Residencies

2026 WIELS, Bruxelles 2020 Istituto Svizzero, Milan 2018 Swiss Art Awards, Messe Basel, Basel 2018 Talent Prize, InsideArt Magazine, Rome 2017 MAIF, Prix pour la sculpture, Paris 2017 Premio Moroso, Udine 2016 Cité internationale des arts, Paris 2016 Kiefer Hablitzel Preis, Messe Basel, Basel 2016 MSA^, Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles 2015 Kiefer Hablitzel Preis, Messe Basel, Basel 2015 Kunsthalle Geneva, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva 2014 Residency Unlimited (RU), New York City 2013 Full Scale, Museo del Novecento, Milan 2010 Ville de Lille, Lille

Publications

Immersione Libera, ed Galleria Continua ArtClub, ed Pier Paolo Pancotto, Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis Fortezzuola, ed Pier Paolo Pancotto, Nero Magazine Premio Moroso, text by Cédric Fauq. Catalogue As If We Never Said Goodbye, text by Elise Lammer. Ed. Dittrich & Schlechtriem Something between Posthistoria and Prehistoria. Texts by Stéphanie Serra and Tristan Lavoyer. Barriera and Albert Stiftung Foundation (Pro Helvetia) Alfredo Aceto | Andrea Bellini. First Monograph HAPAX. JRP Ringier 2015 Unter 30 XI Junge Schweizer Kunst Kiefer Hablitzel Preis. Catalogue. Kunsthaus Glarus L'heure qu'il est, Centre d'Art Contemporain Yverdon (CACY). Catalogue TEXTSCORE. Entretiens avec Arthur Fouray De Generation of Painting. Fondazione 107 The Go In Between. Museo di Capodimonte Km011. Umberto Allemandi & C Interview Julien Previeux. Alfredo Aceto and Jean Bourgois, ECAL