EDUCATION
2005
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
They didn’t explain too much, and no one dared to ask, IUNO, Rome, Italy
2023
Il giorno della fine non ti servirà l’inglese, Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy
2022
PAROLACCE, curated by Massimiliano Scuderi, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara, Italy
La prima rosa, Spazio Lima, Milan, Italy
Lamb Arts, London, UK
2017
L’impero delle luci, Frutta, Rome, Italy
2016
Time Goes By So Slowly, Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014
If There is a Last Summer Morning, Frutta, Rome, Italy
2013
On Parasols, Jumpers and Balls, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
Uprisings: Alek O., MOSTYN, Wales, UK
2010
The Thing, Gallery Vela, London, UK
2009
Rien que les heures, 317 association pour l’art contemporain, Nice, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
ITALIA 70 – I NUOVI MOSTRI, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi Milan, Italy
2023
Panorama L’Aquila, curated by Cristiana Perrella, Italy
Basel Social Club, Basel, Switzerland
Everything broken down, Solid Haus Kunsthalle, Suffolk Coast, UK
2022
Back Home, Lamb Arts, London, UK
Future cities, National Poetry Library, South Bank Centre, London, UK
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in, Martina Simeti Gallery, Milan, Italy
L’abaco rovesciato, Straperetana 2022, Pereto, Italy
2021
To Situations New, Lamb Arts, London, UK
Io dico Io – I say I, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Panorama, curated by Vincenzo De Bellis, Italics, Procida, Italy
2020
Io dico Io – I say I, curated by Cecilia Canziani, Lara Conte e Paola Ugolini, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday, MA Curating the Art Museum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Sommerset House, UK
2019
Appocundria, curated by Marta Cereda, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese, Italy
2018
Into the Wild, curated by Christiane Rekade, KunstMeran, Meran, Italy
In Addition, an Exhibition of Artist Editions, curated by Adam Carr, MOSTYN, Llandudno, UK
The Collector’s House, curated by Caroline Corbetta, Salone del Mobile, Molteni&C., Milan, Italy
Per andare dove dobbiamo andare, per dove dobbiamo andare?, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy
One Missing Sock After Doing Laundry, curated by Giulia Colletti, The Art Laundrette, Glasgow, UK
The Annotated Reader, curated by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P. Watts, Cork Street, London, UK
Ortica, Frutta, Rome, IT
2017
Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, Artissima, Turin, Italy
Playspace, PS8, curated by Samantha Rosenwald, Rosa Tyhurst and Grace Xu, CCA, San Francisco, USA
EXIT, curated by Adam Carr, Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
ALL’APERTO – Tre artiste per Trivero, curated by Barbara Casavecchia and Andre Zegna, Fondazione Zegna, Trivero, Italy
2016
La seconda volta, curated by Cristiana Perrella, 16a Quadriennale d’Arte 2016, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (Awarded: Special Mention Under 35)
Ma l’amor mio non muore, Opere dalla Collezione Alloggia, curated by Rita Selvaggio, Casa Museo Ivan Bruschi, Arezzo, Italy
Je Ne Sais What?, Carnelutti Firm Law, Milan, Italy
Support Material, soft furnishings, curated by Liang Luscombe and Lisa Radford, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Project Space, Melbourne, Australia
Sem Saber Quando Virá o Amanhecer…, curated by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas, Silvia Cintra + Box4, Rio De Janeiro, Brasil
Art Situacions III, SPAIN / ITALY, curated by Vicente Todolì, Maria de Corral, Lorena Martinez de Corral, Ilaria Gianni, Matadero, Madrid, Spain
2015
Ennesima, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Triennale, Milan, Italy
What is a Bird? We Simply Don’t Know, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania
16° Premio Cairo, la Permanente, Milan, Italy
Art Situacions I-II, SPAIN / ITALY, curated by Vicente Todolì, Maria de Corral, Lorena Martinez de Corral, Ilaria Gianni, Villa Croce, Genova, IT, MACRO, Rome, Italy
TAVERNA – We are open (Icastica 2015), curated by Ilaria Gianni, Fraternità dei Laici, Arezzo, Italy
Shadow Scenes, Colomoscope 2015, curated by Natasha Ginwala and Menika Van der Poorten, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Fantastica. The way we make art, BeatTricks, Milan, Italy
Alek O. and James Viscardi, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden
Le regole del gioco, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, Studio Castiglioni, Milan, Italy
2014
The Go-Between – artists from the Ernesto Esposito collection, Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy
SMALL, curated by Adam Carr, Frutta, Rome, Italy
Ab-Stretching the Canvas, Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Non-Profit & Profit, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
Accordion, Laura Bartlett, London, UK
2013
Grand Opening, Frutta, Rome, Italy
Premio Moroso, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
2012
D’après Giorgio, Fondazione Casa Giorgio De Chirico, Rome, Italy
Differenza e ripetizione, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
Everything old was once new, National Trust, Arts Council Collection, Worcester, UK
Als Morandi mit der Kinematographie liebäugelte, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany
An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy
Lucie Fontaine: Estate, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Without (Jonathan Monk), Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
Detective, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria
2011
Illy Prize Present Future, Artissima 18, Turin, Italy
To see an object, to see the light, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy
Ariane De Rothschild Prize, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Domesticity, Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republich
Fruits, Flowers and Clouds, with Gallery Vela, MaK, Vienna, Austria
Quite Like A Lake, Unosunove, Rome, Italy
Like rowing a boat; facing the way you came, Gallery Vela, London, UK
V Bienal de Jafre, various seats, Jafre, Spain
2010
Exhibition Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Certo sentimento, Cripta 747, Turin, Italy
Olivia Flecha, Alek O., Helen Marten, Gallery Vela, London, UK
Gallery, Galerie, Galleria, Galleria Norma Mangione, Turin, Italy
2009
Lisson Presents 6, A Troubling Metamorphosis of Loose Ideas into Cast Forms, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Italian Open, Annet Gelink, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Territoria 4, The Great Leap, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Playlist, Neon > Campobase, Bologna, Italy
2008
Seek Refuge, Venezia Village, Venice, Italy
Onufri Award 2008, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
Don’t disappear, Expotrastiendas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007
La legge è relativa per tutti, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy
2006
5th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennal, The Black Theater, E-6, Shen Zhen, China
La necessità di un’isola, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
2005
J’en rêve, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Isola in-video, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
GRANTS/PRIZES
2018
Premio Lissone 18 / Exibart Editorial Prize, MAC Lissone, Italy
2017
Level 0, ArtVerona, Verona, Italy
2016
Special Mention Under 35, 16th Art Quadriennial, Rome, Italy
PROJECTS
2018
Ho Ho Ho, Frutta, Rome, Italy
2016
Je Ne Sais What?, Carnelutti Firm Law, Milan, Italy
2011
‘wo Times Once – an exhibition by Mr. Rossi, Limoncello, London, UK
Night School #8, performance as Mr. Rossi, ICA, London, UK Festivela, Gallery Vela, London, UK
Colazione con Mr. Rossi, performance as Mr. Rossi, Artissima Lido, Turin, Italy
2009
As you enter the exhibition, you consider this a group show by an artist you don’t know by the name of Mr. Rossi, ex-fabbrica Minerva, Milan, Italy
L’indiano in giardino, various seats, Milan, Italy
2007
A Certain Ratio, Room arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy
WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIES
2023
Alek O. Che disfare? – Web TV, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
2018
Alek O. – Il Giardino, Artissima, Turin, Italy
2010
Flux Factory Inc., Long Island City, New York., USA
HIAP, Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Program, Helsinki, Finland
2006
Wherever we go, workshop with Adrian Paci, Viafarini, Milan, Italy
Making Of, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
2004
Real Presence 4, Museum 25th May, Belgrad, RS
2003
Corso Superiore di Arti Visive, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
REVIEWS AND CRITICAL TEXTS
Silvia Conta, «Alek O.», Exibart n.104, April – June 2019, Milano
Caroline Corbetta, «Il mestiere dell’arte», Esquire n.3, March 2019, Milano
Enrico Migliaccio, «Alek O.», Insideart n. 102, May 2015, Roma
Pier Paolo Pancotto, «Alek O.», Artforum, November 2014, New York
Vincenzo Latronico, «Alek O., Un’opera di specchi (questo ricordo di te)», Flash Art n. 314, Feb.2014, Milano
Luca Lo Pinto, «Histoire d’O.», in Moroso Award for Contemporary Art catalogue, 2013
Alessandra Galletta (interview with), Flash Art n. 308, February 2013, Milano
Chris Fitzpatrick, «A Few Recombinant Layers», in Artissima 18 catalogue, 2011
Vincenzo Latronico, «Alek O., Questo ricordo di te», Flash Art n. 293, May 2011, Milano
Francesco Manacorda, «Alek O.», in Ariane De Rothschild Prize catalogue, 2011
Adam Carr, «Lives and works – Alek O.», Spike Quarterly n. 26, 2010, Wien
Laura McLean-Ferris, «Alek O.: The Thing», Art Review on-line, November 2010
Marco Tagliafierro, «Esotico quotidiano, Fenomenologia dell’alterità», Flash Art n. 276, June – July 2009, Milano
Roberta Tenconi, «Permission To Stay. Essere un artista straniero a Milano», Flash Art n. 268, February – March
2008, Milano
Roberta Tenconi, «A Certain Ratio, spostamenti minimi», Flash Art n. 267, December – January 2008, Milano
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
The Annotated Reader, Ryan Gander & Jonathan P. Watts, London 2019
Artists’ Artists, Frieze Masters, Issue 6, London 2017
2015: Present Tense, Indefinite Mood, Mousse Publishing, Milano 2015
A Metaphysical Interior, Izet Sheshivari & Luca Lo Pinto, Boabooks, Genève 2014
TERRAZZA. Artisti storie luoghi in Italia negli anni zero, Marsilio, Venezia 2014
Alek O., Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales 2013
Moroso Award for Contemporary Art, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia 2013
To see an object, to see the light, Mousse Publishing, Milano 2011
Artissima Lido, catalogue of the project, 2011
Ariane De Rothschild Prize 2011, catalogue of the exhibition, 2011
Exhibition Exhibition, Skira, Milano 2010
Ange Leccia et le Pavillon, Musée Bourdelle, Paris 2009
100e Ceramiche per il Paradiso, Mariogros edizioni, Torino 2008
Oh, Charlotte, artist book, Salzinsel, Luxembourg 2007
J’en rêve, catalogue of the exhibition, Actes Sud, Arles 2005
Design at Work, Stefania Palmieri, Edizioni Polidesign, Milano 2004
Richard Nonas, Quaderni del Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva, Charta, Milano 2004
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arts Council, UK
ART situacions, Spain
Contemporary Art Society, UK
Mostyn, UK
Re Rebaudengo, Italy
Rothschild Foundation, UK
Tiffany & Co, USA