Born 1972 in Ravenna, Italy
Lives and works in Milan

Selected Solo Shows

• 2024 —Altri quadri. Artisti e immagini in movimento, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (upcoming)
• 2023 —Lascia Stare I Sogni, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
• —Atlantide 2017–2023, MAMbo–Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna
• 2022 —Works 2002–2022, Kunstverein Hannover
• 2019 —Yuri Ancarani. The Roots of Violence, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli
• 2018 —Sculture, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
• 2017 —Artbasel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
• —Biennale of Moving Images, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève
• 2016 —Yuri Ancarani, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich
• —Bora. Museum Calls the Artist – AMACI, Museo del Novecento, Milan
• 2015 —The Malady of Irony, HIT Gallery, Bratislava
• 2014 —Yuri Ancarani, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
• —La Malattia del Ferro / Die Krankheit des Eisens, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
• 2012 —Ricordi per moderni, Museo Marino Marini, Florence
• —La malattia del ferro, ZERO..., Milan
• 2010 —Made in Italy, N.O. Gallery, Milan
• 2009 —Souvenir, Studio di via Ariani, Ravenna
• —Pink Flag, T.I.C.A. Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana
• 2008 —In God We Trust, PlacentiaArte, Piacenza
• —Rendering Video, Yuri Ancarani, Kjersti Sundland, T.I.C.A. Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana
• 2007 —Yuri Ancarani, N.O. Gallery, Milan
• 2004 —Yuri Ancarani/Laura Henno, Galleria Francesca Aversa, Perugia
• —Yuri Ancarani - personale, Villa Serena, Bologna
• 2003 —No border, MAR Museo d'Arte Contemporanea della Città, Santa Maria delle Croci (RA)

Selected group shows

• 2023 —Petromelancholia, Brutus, Rotterdam
• —Giorni felici?, Fondazione Merz: ZACentrale, Palermo
• —Roma Arte in Nuvola, Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea, Rome
• 2022 —Festo Do Cinema Italiano, Lisbon
• —Docaviv 2022, Tel Aviv International Documentary Film
• 2020 —Me, Family, Mudam, Luxembourg
• —WHEN WE DISAPPEARED. FOUR VIDEO WORKS, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur
• —Lorsque l’âme agit, Pavillon Vendôme, Clichy sous Bois
• —NON GIUDICARE, Ex convento di San Francesco, Bagnacavallo
• —Spina Festival, Casa Remo Brindisi, Lido di Spina, Ferrara
• —REAL_ITALY, MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
• 2019 —Fashion Moving Forward, The Screening Room, BASE, Milan
• —Alienations or The Fire Next Time, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
• —The Quest for Happiness. Italian Art Now, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä
• —BAUKUNST. PERFORMANCE & PERFORMATIVITY, BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
• —Bodyfiction(S) 3, Black Box Casino Luxembourg - Forum D’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
• 2018 —ArteSport Nel cerchio dell’arte, Centro Trevi, Bolzano
• —Manifesta 12, Palermo
• —Wedding, Art Basel, Basel
• —16th International Architecture Exhibition, Biennale Architettura 2018, Venice
• —Technologies of Violence, The Quantified Body, Kino Arsenal, Berlin
• —Simulation, «Par amour du jeu», Magasins généraux, Pantin
• —L'ITALIA A HOLLYWOOD, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Florence
• —Why Work?, FOTODOK, Utrecht
• —Anthology Film Archives, wiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York
• —Biennale of Moving Images, Verbier Art Summit, Verbier
• 2017 —Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente, Artissima, Turin
• —Transparency Machines, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
• —FIAC Cinéprémière, Grand Palais, Paris
• —HÄMATLI & PATRIÆ, Museion, Bolzano
• —The Hierophant, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest
• —As the story was told, Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast
• —Lavoro in Movimento, Fondazione MAST, Bologna
• —Biennale of Moving Images, Faena District, Miami Beach
• —Biennale of Moving Images, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
• 2016 —Biennale of Moving Images, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva
• —Biennale of Moving Images, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice
• —I giovedì della Villa, Villa Medici, Rome
• —D’une Méditerranée, l’autre, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon
• —16a Quadriennale d’Arte. Altri tempi, altri miti, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
• —>>+ultra. Knowledge & gestaltung<<, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
• 2016 —Race to the Bottom, Schloss Ringender, Hammonkeln, Germany
• —Studio Systems, The American Academy of Rome Gallery
• —People Like Us, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
• —Architecture of Life, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
• 2015 —Ennesima / Umpteenth, Triennale di Milano, Milan
• —GLOBALE: Exo-Evolution, ZKM, Karlsruhe
• —Body-Me: The Body in the Age of Digital Technology, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
• —Liebe Deine Maschine, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim
• —Artists’ Film International, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
• 2014 —Shit and Die, Palazzo Cavour, Turin
• —Inside, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• —Puisqu'on vous dit que c'est possible, Saline Royale d'Arc et Senans, Arc et Senans, France
• —Glitch, Pac, Milan
• —Hypothèse de l’impact géant, Le Carreau and Visages du Monde, Cergy, France
• —Sequence 5, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
• —The sea is my land. Artisti dal Mediterraneo, La Triennale di Milano, Milan
• —Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea, MAXXI, Rome
• —In forma di ceramica, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
• —Video screening 25, Zero, Milan
• 2013 —The Sea is my Land, MAXXI, Rome
• —Off course Fuori rotta, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
• —The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th International Venice Biennale, Venice
• 2012 —Le Associazioni Libere, La Maison Rouge, Paris
• —Database, Museo del Marmo, Carrara
• —Sotto la strada, la spiaggia, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
• 2011 —People have the Power, ZERO..., Milan
• —Guarda che Luna, 14 Media Art Biennale Wro, Wroclav
• 2009 —New Italian Epic, Brown Project Space, Milan
• 2008 —200 Artisti per Careof, Careof, Milan
• —Torinover 08, Palafuksas, Turin
• —Stars, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone
• —Videoart Yearbook 2008, various venues, Venice
• —Inscape Landscape, N.O. Gallery, Milan
• —Fragili, Espay Ubù, Barcellona
• —A, B, G, M, N, O, R, O, Z.., Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
• —Gold. Zero Karati, My Own Gallery, Milan

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