BIO

Valerio Conti is a visual artist, architect and musician who lives and works in Den Haag (NL) .
By adopting a polyphony of media, Valerio studies the body and its representation outside the normative canon. His works investigate the boundaries between proximity and distance in the contact between bodies, through processes of subtraction and reformulation. In his works, the public and private spheres often dissolve to give life to a shared intimacy. His research approach is material and tactile, conceiving images as bodies from know, dissect, magnify, touch and hurt.


CURRICULUM VITAE  

EDUCATION

2021-2023 Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Ma Artistic research
2018-2019 Master MOVIES Iuav 110L/110
2010-2016 Single cycle’s Degree in Architecture at Alma Mater Mater Studiorum, Bologna. 110/110


EXHIBITIONS and RESIDENCIES

2023 “What the swans are twittering about in the riverbed”, Trixie, Den Haag (NL)
2023 Fruit de Mar, NEST,  Den Haag (NL)

2022 A Scenic Route to Self, NEST, Den Haag (NL)
2022 UltraQueer – espressioni artistiche metagender”, a cura di Twm Factory, in collaborazione  con Circolo di Cultura Omosessuale Mario Mieli, Roma Pride e Medicina inclusiva, Roma (IT)

2021 Helicotrema web playlist selection (IT)
2021 Psicopolidomofonia lecture and performance, Ex galleria ferroviaria, San Marino (RSM)
2021 Inedita residency, Venice (IT)

2020-2021 Selected at School of waters, Mediterranea 19 young artist biennale (RSM)

2020 Selected at Videocity.bs, Basel (CH)
2020 Curator and artist of the publication and exhibition “Lonely At The Party”, in collaboration with Adriatico Book Club, Venice and Iuav Master MOVIES (IT)
2020 Residency at MetaForte, Cavallino-Treporti, Venice (IT)

2019 Portfolio special mention call “Sacred. The experience of beyond” by Urbanautica
2019 Karaoke Umbratile, Venice, Palazzo Badoer (IT) - San Marino Galleria Nazionale (RSM)

2017 Installation “in the corner” at Mediterranea 18 - Young Artists Biennale, Tirana (AL)


EXPERIENCES and WORKSHOPS

2022 Refunc (NL)
2021 Cultural mediator, Architecture Biennale (IT)
2020-now Freelance works
2020 Video direction with I Randagi, Riccione (IT)
2020 Scuola Cònia, directed by Claudia Castellucci (Societas Raffaello Sanzio), Cesena
2019 Assistant, Peter Welz, Berlin (DE)
2018 Admitted to practice as an architect, Politecnico di Milano (IT)
2017-2018 Collaboration at the studio PARK associati in Milan (IT)
2016 Collaboration at the studio of Arch. Antonella Salvatori and Arch.Sandro Pittini (RSM)
2016 Tutor at the faculty of Architecture of Bologna with Arch.Sandro Pittini
2015-Now Founder and collaborating partner of Makeroba s.r.l (RSM)
2014 “Progettare l’Archeologia”. Designing Archeology. International museography competition villa Adriana XII edition. First prize
2012-2017 Acting and singing experiences with the Cesena company “Genesi”