Born 1974 in Faenza, Italy
Lives and works in Milan, Italy
EDUCATION
2001
Degree in Architecture, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy
2002
Postgraduate Studies at ENSAP/ Ècole National Supérieure d’Architecture et du Paysage, Bordeaux, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS | SOLO SCREENINGS
* denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition
2024
Epigoni | Devis Venturelli, Subplace, Milano, curated by Rossella Moratto
2023
BelVedere | Devis Venturelli, Solo Screening, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, in Fluidum 2 Milan-Berlin, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
2020
Devis Venturelli, Solo Screening, Musei di San Domenico, Forlì, in Ibrida Festival delle Arti Intermediali, curated by Piero Deggiovanni
2019
BelVedere | Devis Venturelli, Solo Screening, Teatro dei Fauni, Locarno, Switzerland, collateral event at Locarno Film Festival, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Estasi Urbane | Devis Venturelli, Solo Screening, Premio Alinovi Daolio, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, curated by Renato Barilli, Claudio Marra
Scivias, Galerie Lisi Hammerle, Bregenz, Austria, three person exhibition
2018
Sculpt the Motion | Devis Venturelli, Solo Screening, Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, Canada, in Antimatter Media Art Festival *
Superdecor | Devis Venturelli, Galleria Il Frantoio, Capalbio (Grosseto), Italy, curated by Davide Sarchioni
Primitive Paradise | Devis Venturelli, Ribot Gallery, Milan, Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi *
2017
Objets d'Amour | Devis Venturelli, MARS, Milan, Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Dancing Columns | Devis Venturelli, Department of Media Art and Art History, University of Mary Washington, Hurley Convergence Center, Fredericksburg, USA
The Triplets, Supersimétrica, Chamberì Station, Madrid, Spain, three person exhibition
2016
Capricho | Devis Venturelli, Edicola Radetzky, Milan, Italy, curated by Andrea Lacarpia
Veladuras. Cao Guimarães & Devis Venturelli, Redfundamentos, Arquitectura y Universidad. Sinergias en Hiberoamérica, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, two person exhibition, curated by Andrea Franco
2013
In my end is my music | Luciano Berio, Devis Venturelli, Tempo Reale, commissioned by Fondazione Romaeuropa with Tempo Reale, Opificio Telecom, Rome, Italy *
2012
Estasi urbane | Devis Venturelli, Villa Rusconi, Milan, Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi *
2011
Estasi urbane | Devis Venturelli, Italian Cultural Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, curated by Marco Nember *
Devis Venturelli, Solo Screening, Chiostro di Santa Cristina, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy, curated by Reanato Barilli *
2010
Continuum | Devis Venturelli, Ursula Blickle Videolounge – Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria, curated by Angela Stief and Peter Weiermair
2009
Abaco di un’altra città | Devis Venturelli, Galleria De Faveri Arte, Feltre (Belluno), Italy, curated by Viviana Siviero and Peter Weiermair *
Estensioni astratte | Devis Venturelli, Spazio Bottoli, Vittorio Veneto (Treviso), Italy, curated by Daniele Capra
2008
Folies du Printemps | Devis Venturelli, Studio Dieci, Vercelli, Italy
2007
Variazioni sul sacro | Devis Venturelli, Fondazione Culturale San Fedele, Milan, Italy, curated by Angela Madesani *
2005
Il mondo attorno, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy, curated by Angela Madesani *
SELECTED GROUP SHOW, FILM AND MEDIA ART FESTIVALS
* denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the festival
2024
30th Regensburg Short Film Week, Regensburg, Germany
Chapeau! Bite&Go, Gallia e Peter, Milano Design Week
Salon Bite&Go, Palazzo Regione Lombardia, Milano, curated by Nicoletta Rusconi
2023
Fluidum 2, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, curated by Elisabeth Sonneck, Stefano Comensoli, Nicolò Colciago
Nuovi Linguaggi audiovisivi, in 5th Desenzano Film Festival, Museo Civico, Desenzano, Italy
8th Ibrida Festival delle Arti Intermediali, EXATR, Forlì, Italy
40th Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo (TV)
16th Videoartyearbook, DAMS, Bologna, curated by Reanto Barilli, Piero Deggiovanni, Silvia Grandi, Pasquale Fameli
Shadow in Motion, Village Underground, Lisbon, Portugal
22th Video Art Festival Miden, Thessaloniki, Greece
Musica x Arquitectura, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Around the world, Casa Bianca, Kalamata, Greece
Fluidum, Pavillion am Milchhof, Berlin, Germany, curated by Elisabeth Sonneck, Stefano Comensoli, Nicolò Colciago
Flatland Dance Film Festival, Spurlock Museum, Urbana, USA
2022
14th Short Waves Festival_Urban View Competition, Poznan, Poland
34th International Girona Film festival, Girona, Spain
My mama told me I’m experimental, 4th Saigon Experimental Film Festival, Ho Chi Min, Vietman
35th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
Animation Expanded: Urban Bodies – Human Spaces, Berlin Animation Festival, Berlin, Germany, curated by Amrei Keul
18th Lago Film Festival, International Festival of Indipendent Cinema, Revine Lago, Italy
Miasto 10, City and Architecture Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
Screening, Ad Arte Foundation, Poznan, Poland
La pellicola che ti tocca, Verona, Italy, curated by Bridge Film Festival
Supercreativity, FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Galeria de Arte Sesi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Urban bodies - Human spaces, Super+Centercourt, promoted by Platform Munich, Germany, curated by Amrei Keul
2021
Rythm Formulas for Dance Film, Parallel Art Foundation, Budapest, Hungary, curated by Gitta Wigro
Re-Emerging arts, Spazio Well 360, Milan, curated by Fabio Carnaghi *
Les Amies, MARS/Milan Art Week, Milan
2020
Dance@30FPS, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA, curated by Demetra Chiafos
Contact Dance Film Festival, Portland, USA, curated by Mitchel Rose
On Art International Film Festival, National Museum, Amphitheatre at Lazienki Royal Park, Krolikarnia Palace, Warsaw, Poland
L'aureola nelle cose: sentire l'habitat, Premio Michetti, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare (Chieti), curated by Guido Molinari*
L'aureola nelle cose: sentire l'habitat, Premio Michetti, Pinacoteca nazionale di Bologna, curated by Guido Molinari*
The Sand Threshold, MIART/Milan Art Week, MARS, Milan, Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
2019
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin - New Cinema and Contemporary Art, Forum des Images, Auditorium du Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Cité Internationale des Arts, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
Channels Festival 2019, International Biennial of Video Art, Nova Cinema, Melbourne / Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia, curated by Kelly Alred*
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin - New Cinema and Contemporary Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
In Shadow Lisbon Screendance Festival, Teatro do Bairro, Lisbon, Portugal
40th Brussels International Film Festival , Atomium, Cinéma Ritcs, Cinéma Galéries, Brussels, Belgium*
Eco Shifters Screening, Carriage Trade, New York, United States, curated by Debora Hirsch
7th Arquiteturas Film Festival, Human Nature, Cinema São Jorge, Lisboa, Portugal*
23rd Avanca Film Festival, Cinema Dolce Vita, Avanca, Portugal*
18th International Kansk Video Festival, City House of Culture, Kansk, Russia*
Festival Marieta à Parte, Casa Parte, Jardim Europa, São Paulo, Brazil*
Eurocinema International Film Festival, Humanity House Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
13th Migrations Dance Film Festival, Wales, United Kingdom
Festival Internacional de Films sobre Arquitetura, IAB SP - Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil / FAAP - Fundação Penteado / SENAC Lapa Faustolo, São Paulo, Brazil
Ibrida Festival, Il Quotidiano Surreale, Fabbrica delle Candele, Forlì, Italy, curated by Piero Deggiovanni
Videoartyearbook, Cultural Heritage Department, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, curated by Renato Barilli, Silvia Grandi, Fabiola Naldi*
SEAFF - International Film Festival, Cinema Zita, Stockholm, Sweden *
Import Export, la rada, Locarno, Switzerland, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Eco Shifters, Fondazione La Fabbrica del Cioccolato, Torre, Switzerland, curated by Debora Hirsch and Franco Marinotti
Progressive, Edicola Radetzky, Milan, Italy
2018
46th Dance on Camera, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York, USA *
New Filmakers NY, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA *
Cinema e Arquitetura, SESC - Cine Teatro Mussi, Laguna, Brazil
Eurocinema International Film Festival, Royal Halloway University of London, Engham Hill, UK
International Architecture Film Festival, PCA / Paris College of Art, Paris, France
nodoCCS - International Videoart Festival, Fundacion El Hatillo, Caracas, Venezuela *
Joinville International Short Film Festival, Escola do Teatro Bolshoi, Joinville, Brazil *
Venice Film Week, La Casa del Cinema, Venice, Italy*
Antimatter [Media Art], Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, Canada, curated by Doborah De Boer and Todd Eacrett *
Move Cine Arch, 16th Architecture Biennale, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy *
New York City Indipendent Film Festival, New York, USA *
Videoartyearbook, Complesso di Santa Cristina, Bologna, Italy, curated by Renato Barilli, Silvia Grandi, Fabiola Naldi*
24th International Short Film Week, Regensburg, Germany *
Nero Fortissimo, Antichissimo Rosa, MIDeC- International Ceramic Design Museum, Laveno Mombello (Varese), Italy, curated by Lorenza Boisi
Straordinaria Bellezza, Palazzo Collacchioni, Capalbio (Grosseto), Italy, curated by Davide Sarchioni*
BelVedere, MIART/Milan Art Week, MARS, Milan, Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
2017
Ursula Blickle Video, Studio im Hochaus, Berlin, Germany, curated by Claudia Slanar
34th Tehran International Short Film Festival, Tehran, Iran *
Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, Hong Kong
Carlina on stage, Piazza Carlina, Turin, Italy, curated by Olga Gambari
BAFF, Busto Arsizio Film Festival, Busto Arsizio (Varese), Italy, curated by Piero Deggiovanni *
CODEC Festival de Video y Creaciones Sonoras, Mexico City, Mexico
Locus Amoenus, Tornielli Museum, Ameno (Novara), Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Loop Discover Award, Barcelona, Spain
De Academia, Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi*
Petit Salon, MARS, Milan, Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Pathosformel, Current Project Space, Milan, Italy, curated by Andrea Lacarpia
Studio Freud, Studio B&G, Milan, Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Rainbow Catchers, Studi Festival, Milan, Italy
2016
Proyector Festival, Prado Media-Lab, Madrid, Spain *
Kalamata Street Festival, Kalamata, Greece, curated by Margarita Stavraki
Ibrida Festival, Fabbrica delle Candele, Forlì, Italy *
Videoart Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
Tlanchana Film Festival, Mubact, Mexico City, Mexico
Digital Pop, 12th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece *
Fonland International Video Art and performance Festival, Coimbra, Portugal *
Les 19ème Rencontres de Traverse Vidéo, Goethe Institute, Toulouse, France *
3rd Noida FInternational Film Festival, Greather Noida, India
Le stanze dei frammenti, MARCA, Catanzaro, Italy, curated by Simona Caramia
Edicola Radetzky Project, PAC - Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan, Italy, curated by progetto Città Ideale
Spiaggia Radetzky, Edicola Radetzky, Milan, Italy
Learning from Lascaux, Museo Fiorentino di Preistoria "Paolo Graziosi", Florence, Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Di Vaso in Vaso, Studio B&G, Milan, Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Empatema, Alberto Aperto, Milan, Italy, curated by Corrado Levi, Yari Miele, Alberto Mugnaini
By the Way, PAC - Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan, Italy
No Place 2, Castello di Fombio (Lodi), Italy, curated by Ermanno Cristini
Cosmologia Domestica, MIDEC - International Ceramic Design Museum, Laveno Mombello (Varese), Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Cantieri Radetzky, Edicola Radetzky, Milan, Italy
Carrus Navalis, Dimora Artica, Milan, Italy, curated by Andrea Lacarpia
2015
FILE: Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo, Brazil *
3rd Video Babel festival, Museo de Arte, Lima, Peru
Meta-cinema Festival, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy, curated by Piero Deggiovanni *
7th Cairo Video Festival, Madrar Art Center, Cairo, Egypt
13th Videomedeja, Contemporary Art Museum, Novi Sad, Serbia *
Thesaurus, Terme di Como Romana, Como, Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Premio Francesco Fabbri, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo (Treviso), Italy, curated by Carlo Sala*
Notre avenir est dans l’air, Antiquarium Alda Levi, Milan, Italy, curated by Fabio Carnaghi
Città con vista, Innesti urbani, Padua, Italy
2014
Encountering: the New Art on the Silk Road, 2nd Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Xinjiang International Convention & Exhibition Center, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, curated by peng feng and Maria Yvonne Pugliese*
Quadriformis, MARS, Milan, Italy
Il meglio della video arte italiana, Palazzo Bissari Malvezzi, Vicenza, Italy, curated by Renato Barilli
Videoslam, Augeo art space, Rimini, Italy, curated by Alessandra Casadei and Anrea Ferri
Lo sguardo sospeso. International film festival Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy *
2013
Digital life 2013, Liquid landscapes, MACRO, Contemporary Art Museum, Rome, Italy*
Essere o non essere con gli altri. Premio Terna 05, Tempio di Adriano, Rome, Italy *
A Pantalla Hybrìda -The Hibryd screen, Louis Seoane Foundation, La Coruña, Spain
All I desire, Spazio Orlandi, Milan, Italy
2012
Supertemporal. International Video Art Today, Kulturhuset Museum, Stockholm, Sweden *
Pixel. La nuova generazione della video arte italiana, Pala Riviera, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy *
De rerum natura, Galleria De Faveri, Feltre (Belluno), Italy *
On videos for hours and hours, Arte Boccanera, Trento, Italy
16 / 9 Widescreen, Allegretti Artecontemporanea, Spazio Armani, Turin, Italy
Mapping, Centro per la creatività, Tito, Potenza, Italy
Extracurricular activity, Superfluo, Padua, Italy
Chain reaction, Artcore gallery, Bari, Italy
EuroShorts Film Festival, Gdansk, Poland
FIVA – Videoart Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina *
art:screen festival, Örebro, Sweden
Ionian International Digital Film Festival, Lefkas, Greece
International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk, Russia
CologneOFF, National Cinematheque, Quito, Ecuador
Ares Film & Media Festival, Siracusa, Italy
VideoBabel Festival, Cusco, Peru *
A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh, Meta House German Cambodian Cultural Center, Phom Penh, Cambodia
Videoart Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
CologneOFF, Polytechnical University, Valencia, Spain
Now&After Festival, MMOMA - Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia *
One Shot - International Short Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
Urban Culture and Fire Festival, Minsk, Belarus
ARTchSO Festival, Rennes, France
Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia
Fonlad - Digital Art Festival, Coimbra, Portugal *
Anemic - Festival of Independent Film and New Media, Prague, Czech Republic
International Short Film Festival, Prokuplje, Serbia
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
Cinema Perpetuum Mobile, Minsk, Belarus
2011
Round the Clock, Collateral event 54^ Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte - la Biennale di Venezia, Spazio Thetis, Arsenale Nuovissimo, Venice, Italy*
Digital Life², Fondazione Romaeuropa, Ex GIL, Rome, Italy *
Regards sur l’art video, Institut Français de Serbie, Belgrade, Serbia *
Fashion LA, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The night event, Angel Orensaz Foundation, New York, USA
Regards sur l’art video, Institut Français de Serbie, Belgrade, Serbia *
Big Screen Project, SCOPE, New York, USA
Il Coreografo Elettronico, PAN, Naples, Italy
Shams, The Sunflower Arts Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Su Nero nero, Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
aquAquae, Villa Rusconi, Castano Primo (Milan), Italy *
Photo reload (Naked city), Romberg arte contemporanea, Latina, Italy
Green Obsession, Lab 610 XL, Sovramonte (Belluno), Italy *
Esperienza Estetica, Spazi Aperti, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy *
Art & the City, Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
Dalla Terra al Cielo, TimeinJazz, Museo PAV, Berchidda (Olbia - Tempio), Italy *
Invideo, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy *
Videoartyearbook, Fondazione Sandretto Rerebaudengo, Turin, Italy *
Big Screen Project, SCOPE, New York, USA
Il Coreografo Elettronico, PAN, Naples, Italy
Festival ICN - Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France *
Digital Marrakech Festival, Marrakech, Morocco
International Videoart Festival, Camaguey, Cuba
Waterpieces Contemporary Art & Video Festival, Riga, Latvia
BuSho - Budapest International Short Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary
CologneOFF VII – Art & the City, Cologne International Videoart Festival, Köln, Germany *
International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS, Riga, Latvia *
Videoholica international video festival, Varna, Bulgaria *
Cinema take away, Rovereto (Trento), Italy
2010
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing, the Next Generation of Video Art from Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, USA *
VIDEO.it 2010, CAREOF- DOCVA, Milan, Italy *
VIDEO.it - A Nord/Sud del Mediterraneo, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy *
Premio Agenore Fabbri, VAF Stiftung, Palazzo Ziino, Palermo, Italy *
A remote viewing: Loop Barcellona (2003-2009), Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain *
Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung, Kunstverein, Augsburg, Germany *
Incanto. Al di là delle apparenze opache, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy *
Lo stato dell’arte, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy *
I want snow in August, Lab 610 XL, Sovramonte (Belluno), Italy *
Please me fashion, Teatro all’Antica, Sabbioneta (Mantua), Italy
Premio Agenore Fabbri, VAF Stiftung, Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany *
Viaggi in immagini, Aperto alle Murate, Florence, Italy
Videoartyearbook, Chiostro di Santa Cristina, Bologna, Italy *
Mecal film festival, Barcelona, Spain
2009
Beyond Media -9thInternational festival for architecture and media, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy *
Videoartyearbook, Fondazione March, Padua, Italy *
25FPS experimental film festival, Zagreb, Croatia *
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France *
Cannes AVIFF Festival, Cannes, France *
Playlist, Galleria Neon Campobase, Bologna, Italy
Urban attitudes, Tube Gallery, Milan, Italy
Souvenirs from heart, Cologne Art Fair, Köln, Germany
WRO Expanded City, 13th Media Art Biennale, National Museum, Wrocław, Polonia *
Cannes AVIFF festival, Cannes, France *
Act on, Studio Dieci, Vercelli, Italy *
2008
VideoartVerona, ArtVerona, Verona, Italy *
Videoartyearbook, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy *
Magic moving image, Melina Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece*
TTV performing art on screen, Villino Monti, Riccione (Rimini), Italy *
Adunata del contemporaneo, Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza), Italy *
Il drago di Giorgio, De Faveri arte, Feltre (Belluno), Italy *
Anghelos Listening, Centro Culturale Santa Chiara, Vercelli, Italy *
Liberaci dal male, Fondazione Culturale San Fedele, Milan, Italy*
VRoom, Minispace, Artissima Art Fair, Turin, Italy
Biennale Video Fotografia Contemporanea, Cittadella, Alessandria, Italy *
2007
Milano Doc Film Festival, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”, Milan, Italy *
Il Viaggio di Eva, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, San Donato Milanese (Milan), Italy *
Videosette, Spazio Sette, Reggio Emilia, Italy
La Giostra di Maggio, Video-Dance Festival, Teatro Magnani, Fidenza (Parma), Italy *
Danza in Fiera, Video-Dance Festival, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
Fellini & Chador, Video Dance Project, 7th International Dance Film Festival, Athens, Greece*
3rd Festival La 25a ora. Il cinema espanso, La7 (TV)
Storung Festival, Barcelona, Spain
iXem - italian eXperimental electronic music and mixed media, Goethe Institut, Palermo, Italy *
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France *
Athens Videoart Festival, Athens, Greece *
2006
Il Coreografo Elettronico, Cinema Modernissimo, Naples, Italy
2th Festival La 25a ora. Il Cinema Espanso, La7 (TV), Italy
Visionaria 15th International Video Festival, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy *
Risonanze interne, Rialto-Santambrogio, Rome, Italy
Directors Lounge, Karl Marx Allee, Berlin, Germany *
Vision Art. Visual Arts in Motion, Palazzo Appiani, Piombino (Livorno), Italy *
Figures of Motion, Künstlerhaus, Plüschow, Germany
Reality from my point of view, Palazzo Poggi, Bologna, Italy
2005
Unimovie 9, Città Sant’Angelo, Pescara, Italy
Visionaria, 14th International Video Festival, Teatro dei Rozzi, Siena, Italy *
5th International Short Film Festival Circuito Off, Venezia, Italy *
1th Festival del corto La 25a ora. Il Cinema Espanso, La7 (TV), Italy
Frammenti di danza, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Futurshow, Fiera Milano, Milan, Italy
La caffettiera del masochista, Artandgallery, Milan, Italy
Il Senso del corpo, Fondazione Culturale San Fedele, Milan, Italy
2004
Invideo, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy *
VIE Festival, Teatro delle Passioni, Modena, Italy
4th International short film festival Circuito Off, Venice *
Monaco Dance Forum, Dance on Screen, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, Principaute de Monaco
AWARDS
2022
18th International Lago Film Festival, Revine Lago, Italy (Special Mention - National Competition)
2020
71° Premio Michetti, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare (Chieti) (finalist)
2019
Premio Alinovi Daolio, Departement of Visual Art - University of Bologna, Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy (First Prize)
Best Screendance, In Shadow Lisbon Screendance Festival, Lisbon, Portugal (First Prize)
2018
NODOCCS - International Video Art Festival, Caracas, Venezuela (First Prize)
Best Experimental Film, Venice Film Week, Venice, Italy (First Prize)
Best Film Arthouse, International Film Festival de la Bienale de Curitiba, Joinville, Brazil (First Prize)
2017
Best Experimental Film, Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, Hong Kong (First Prize)
Loop Discover Award, Barcelona, Spain (Finalist)
2015
Premio Fabbri per la Fotografia Contemporanea, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo (Treviso) (Finalist)
2013
Premio Terna 05, Tempio di Adriano, Rome (Finalist)
2012
Una copertina per La Lettura, Corriere della Sera (Finalist, publication)
2011
Premio Romaeuropa web factory, Fondazione Romaeuropa, Rome (First Prize)
Premio Agenore Fabbri, Fondazione VAF, Germany (Finalist)
Premio Arte Rugabella, Milan (Special Prize)
2010
VIDEO.it, Fondazione Merz, Turin (First Prize)
2009
Pagine Bianche d’Autore (Special Mention)
2008
Premio Aletti ArtVerona, Banca Aletti, Verona (First Prize)
2007
Premio arti visive San Fedele, Milan (First Prize)
2006
Videoart, 15th Visionaria International Film Festival, Siena (First Prize)
2004
Circuito Off- International Film Festival, Venice (Best Short Film)
LECTURES
2019
Premio Alinovi Daolio, Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy
BelVedere Locarno, Teatro dei Fauni, Locarno, Switzerland
Visioni Architettoniche, Ex-Gil, Forlì, Italy
2011
Devis Venturelli, Visual Arts Department, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
EVENTS
* denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the event
2019
Duo Screening / Screening presented by Jorge Nunes, Cinema São Jorge, Lisboa, Portugal
Duo Screening / Cinema de Arquitetura, Casa Parte, Jardim Europa, São Paulo, Brazil
2016
Videomapping / Dancing Columns, Villa Ceretti, Verbania, Italy
2010
Public site-specific installation / La casa dell’ospite, Obalne galerije, Pirano, Slovenia *
2009
Public site-specific installation / La casa dell’ospite, Arte Fiera Off, via Stalingrado 86, Bologna, Italy
2008
Public site-specific installation / La casa dell’ospite, commissioned by Archivio Bonotto, piazza Garibaldi, Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza), Italy
2005
Performance / Atti Osceni, FuoriBiennale, Venice, Italy *
2004
Performance / Atti Osceni, Urb _10. Interventi artistici nel tessuto della città, Bologna, Italy
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Aletti Bank, Verona, Italy
Belvedere Museum, Wien, Austria
DOCVA, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
Fondazione Romaeuropa, Rome, Italy
Mediateca di Siena, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
TEACHING
2016-2023
Adjunct professor in Exhibition Design, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy
2019-2023
Adjunct professor in Exhibition Design, Academy of Fine Arts, Verona, Italy
2020-2023
Adjunct professor in Multimedia Installations, Academy of Fine Arts, Perugia, Italy
2021-2022
Professor in Exhibition Design, Academy of Fine Arts, Macerata, Italy
2020-2021
Adjunct professor in Interior Design, University of Bologna, Faculty of Architecture, Cesena, Italy
Adjunct professor in Museography, Academy of Fine Arts, Frosinone, Italy
2015-2017
Adjunct professor in Museography, Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy
2014-2016
Andjunct professor in Exhibition Design, Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy
ARCHITECTURE
2004-present
Devis Venturelli Studio, Milan, Italy
2002-2012
Collaboration with Studio Italo Rota, Milan, Italy
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
MONOGRAPHIC CATALOGUES
Primitive Paradise, limited edition, Milan 2018. Text by Fabio Carnaghi.
Estasi Urbane, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2012. Text by Fabio Carnaghi.
Estasi Urbane, exhibition catalogue, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Amsterdam 2011. Text by Marco Nember.
Abaco di un’altra città, exhibition catalogue, Belluno 2009. Text by Peter Weiermair
Variazioni sul sacro, exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Culturale San Fedele, Milan 2006. Text by Angela Madesani.
PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGUES
Pier Luigi Tazzi, De Academia, Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Gli Ori, Pistoia 2017, pp. 172 - 173.
Elena Marcheschi, Videoestetiche dell’emergenza, Kaplan Edizioni, Turin 2015, pp. 30 - 31; p. 144.
Premio Francesco Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee, exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo, Treviso 2015. pp. 46 - 47.
Essere o non essere con gli altri. La rete sociale a regola d’arte, exhibition catalogue, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello B.mo 2013, pp. 31 - 33. Texts by Cristiana Collu, Gianluca Marziani.
Liquid Landscapes, exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Romaeuropa, Rome 2013, p. 8 - 9; p. 21. Texts by Monique Veaute, Alain Fleisher.
De rerum natura, exhibition catalogue, Vanilla Edizioni, Albissola Marina 2012, p. 19; pp. 64 - 67. Texts by Angelo Andreotti, Daniele Capra.
Digital Life, exhibition catalogue, Guido Talarico Editore, Rome 2012, p. 21; pp. 34 - 35; pp. 66 - 70. Texts by Jean-Paul Cournier, Monique Veaute, Richard Castelli, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi.
Illuminazioni, exhibition catalogue, La Biennale di Venezia, 54. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Marsilio Editori, Padua 2011, pp. 554 – 555; p. 596.
Green Obsession, exhibition catalogue, Vanilla Edizioni, Albissola Marina 2011, p. 14; p. 20; pp. 80 – 81. Text by Peter Weiermair
Shifting Distances, exhibition catalogue, Mimesis, Milan 2011, pp. 74 - 75.
Round the Clock, exhibition catalogue, Vanilla Edizioni, Albissola Marina 2011, p. 10; pp. 68 - 71; pp. 90 - 91. Text by Martina Cavallarin.
Esperienza Estetica, Spazi Aperti, exhibition catalogue, Stoller Editore, Rome 2011, pp. 56 - 57.
Paul Young, Remote Viewing, La Fabrica Editorial, Barcelona 2010, p. 45; p. 57.
Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung, exhibition catalogue, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello B.mo 2010, pp. 10 - 11; pp. 14 - 15; pp. 48 - 51; p. 66. Texts by Peter Weiermair and Christian Thöner.
A Nord/Sud del Mediterraneo, exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Merz, Turin 2010, pp. 67 - 69. Texts by Francesco Poli, Francesco Bernardelli, Maria Centonze, Mario Gorni, Paola Nicita, Cristiana Perrella.
I want snow in August, exhibition catalogue, Vanilla Edizioni, Albissola Marina 2010, pp. 66 - 67. Text by Peter Weiermair.
Let’s go outside, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2010, pp. 3 - 4; pp. 13 - 14; pp. 30 - 31; p. 41. Text by Daniele Capra
Aktuelle Positionen Italianischer Kunst, VAF Stiftung, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello B.mo 2010, pp. 127 - 134. Text by Peter Weiermair.
Enchantment, European Photography, exhibition catalogue, Electa, Milan 2010, p. 121; p. 128. Texts by Elio Grazioli, Gigliola Foschi.
Devis Venturelli in Kunst and Haustellung / Wien, Hatje Cantz, Berlin - Stuttgart 2010, pp. 28-31. Text by Peter Weiermair.
Expanded City, 13th Media Art Biennale, exhibition catalogue, Wroclaw 2009, p. 87.
Visions, Beyond Media, exhibition catalogue, Image Publishing, Florence 2009, p. 51.
Das Porträt. Fotografie als Bühne, Verlag für modern Kunst, Nürnberg 2009. Text by Ulrich Pohlmann.
25FPS Internacionalni Festival Eksperimentalnog Filma I Videa, catalogue, Zagreb 2009, pp. 36 - 37. Text by Mirna Belina.
Mario Casanova, The Body of Evidence. Imprisonment, CACT Switzerland, Bellinzona 2008, pp. 24 - 25; pp. 60 - 61; pp. 95 - 97.
Anghelos Listening, exhibition catalogue, Vercelli 2008, pp. 3 - 4; p. 26. Text by Angela Madesani.
Confini, exhibition catalogue, Rimini 2008, pp. 80 - 82.
Lia Furxhi, Gaetano Stucchi, Le Forme del Corto, Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio, Edizioni Falsopiano, Alessandria 2007.
Videodance 2007, catalogue, Thessaloniki 2007, p. 43. Text by Christiana Galanopoulou.
Il Viaggio di Eva, exhibition catalogue, Nicolodi Editore, Rovereto 2007, p. 9; pp. 128 - 131. Text by Angela Madesani.
Il Male, exhibition catalogue, San Fedele Arte, Milan 2007, p. 3; pp. 12 - 13; pp. 21 - 22; p. 80.
CyberArts 2005. International Compendium, Prix Ars Electronica, Hantje Cantz, Berlin - Stuttgart 2005, pp. 204 - 206. Texts by Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf.
Pino Scaglione, Net.it, a snapshot of contemporary architecture, design and photography in Italy, Actar, Barcelona 2005.
Il senso del corpo, San Fedele Arte, Milan 2005, p. 13; p. 17; p. 20; pp. 30 - 31; p. 69. Texts by Andrea Dell’Asta, Stefano Pirovano, Angela Madesani.
Liquid States, Exhibition of Video Art and Cinema Beyond, exhibition catalogue, Revolver Libri, Milan 2004, p. 19; p. 21; p. 105. Texts by Gene Youngblood, Michel Chion, Valentina Valentini, Sandra Lischi.
MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS
Elisabetta Muritti, Spiritual Art, D la Repubblica, May 4, 2019, pp. 52 - 58.
Scivias, Il Sole 24 ore, April 14, 2019, p.28.
Il mondo oltre i sensi, Arte n.547, Cairo Editore, March 2019.
Karlheinz Pichler, Wisse die Wege, Zeitschrift für Kultur und Gesellschaft, March 2019, pp. 92-93.
Giulia Ronchi, Riapre la Galleria Lisi Hammerle a Bregenz, artribune.com, 18 January 2019.
Devis Venturelli in mostra a Capalbio, La Nazione, 21 August 2018 , p. 11.
Devis Venturelli, Primitive Paradise, artaround.info, 22 June 2018.
Transformer #1 / Devis Venturelli, xibtmagazine.com, 5 June 2018.
Lisa Andreani, Jollies, atpdiary.com, 23 November 2017.
Locus Amoenus, Interview by Rossella Moratto, atpdiary.com, 3 October 2017.
Andrea Lacarpia, Devis Venturelli a MARS, cerchiomagazine.com, 29 September 2017.
Devis Venturelli. Objets d’Amour, Tique Art Paper n. 6, September 2017.
Objets d'Amour, Xibt Magazine, September 2017.
Simona Caramia, Le stanze dei frammenti, Juliet Art Magazine, n°180, January 2017, p. 67.
Devis Venturelli /Dancing Columns, visitordesign.com, January 2017.
Lucia Landoni, Milano, nel mini museo dell'Edicola Radetzky spunta una colonna di pizzo, milano.repubblica.it, 3 January 2017.
Martina Bastianelli, Devis Venturelli porta Capricho all’Edicola Radetzky, whynotmag.com, 13 December 2016.
Laura Ponti, Devis Venturelli: Capricho at Edicola Radetzky, blouinartinfo.com, December 2016.
Capricho/Devis Venturelli, visitordesign.com, November 2016.
Chiara Venzetto, Arte contemporanea all'Edicola Radetzky, Corriere della Sera, 19 April 2016.
Silvia Conta, Cosmologia domestica: un viaggio nella ceramica contemporanea, espoarte.com, 4 April 2016.
Ritorno in città, Vogue Italia n. 787, March 2016.
Andrea Franco, Veladuras: Cao Guimarães and Devis Venturelli, Redfundamentos, Arquitectura y Universidad. Sinergias en Iberoamerica, 16 March 2016.
Matteo Galbiati, Archeologie contemporanee e antiche: a Como tesori da riscoprire, espoarte.com, 8 July 2015.
Martina Corbetta, Riapre la via della Seta! Italiani in Cina alla Biennale di Xinjiang, exibart.com, 25 June 2014.
Arte ed energia: una rete di solidarietà, Specchio Economico, 4 January 2014.
Premio Terna. La vera arte è solidale, Milano Finanza, 20 December 2013.
Gabriele Simongini, Premio Terna, per l’arte nel segno della solidarietà, Il Tempo, Roma, 20 December 2013.
L’arte specchio della società solidale, Il Messaggero, 20 December 2013.
Luciano Berio e Devis Venturelli. In my end is my music, Rockerilla n. 398, December 2013.
Claudia Colasanti, Paesaggio liquido con pixel e monitor, Il Fatto Quotidiano, 4 December 2013.
Johannes Feigl, The electroacoustic music of Luciano Berio: In my end is my music, Musikblätter n.4, Universal editions, November 2013.
Helga Marsala, Premio Terna 2013, artribune.com, 28 November 2013.
Premio Terna, ecco i 15 i finalisti, Il Messaggero, 28 November 2013.
Lea Mattarella, I paesaggi precari di Digital Life, la Repubblica, 24 November 2013.
Elena Giulia Rossi, MACRO e MAXXI si fanno digitali, Il Sole 24 Ore, 10 November 2013.
Video e suoni per Luciano Berio, Corriere della Sera, 7 November 2013.
Salvatore Insana, In My End Is My Music, Zero, 7 November 2013.
Musica: RomaEuropa Festival omaggia Luciano Berio con la videoarte di Devis Venturelli, Libero, 4 November 2013.
Giovanni Viceconte, Luciano Berio/Devis Venturelli. In my end is my music, Flash Art online, 4 November 2013.
Luciano Berio e Devis Venturelli, Interview by Fabio Carnaghi, Lazagne Art Magazine n.5, October 2013, pp. 18-37.
Luciano Berio e Devis Venturelli. In my end is my music al REF 2013, Rolling Stone Magazine, October 2013.
Cecilia Cirinei, L’esperienza del paesaggio tra onde e sogni, la Repubblica, 10 October 2013.
Arianna Di Genova, Passeggiate tra paesaggi liquidi, Il Manifesto, 10 October 2013.
Edoardo Sassi, Se il paesaggio è liquido, Corriere della Sera, 10 October 2013.
Francesca Giuliani, I paesaggi liquidi di Digital Life, la Repubblica 18 settembre 2013.
Luciano Berio e Devis Venturelli. In my end is my music, artribune.com, 15 September 2013.
Roberto L. Moskowich, La pantalla híbrida en la Fundación Luis Seoane, fedellando.com, 14 September 2013.
Monique Veaute, Tu chiamala se vuoi arte viva, Inside Art, June 2013.
Giorgia Cadinu, Non è più tempo per sonni tranquilli, rumorscena.com, 22 June 2013.
Giorgio Cerasoli, Romaeuropa tra Gould e Berio, giornaledellamusica.it, 22 June 2013.
Edoardo Sassi, Paesaggio e tecnologie in mostra per Digital Life, Corriere della Sera, 21 June 2013.
Micol di Veroli, Pixel, globartmag.com, 7 July 2012.
Giovanni Viceconte, Devis Venturelli, Flash Art n. 309, May - June 2013, p. 40.
Luca Vettorello, Le Estasi Urbane di Devis Venturelli, artevarese.com, 22 May 2012.
Andrea Bellavita, Black Mirror, Cinematica, Flash Art n. 302, May 2012.
The moving index. Stockholm’s Kulturhuset Museum, Focus online, April 2012.
Supertemporal. International Videoart Today, xtrart.es, March 2012.
Il potere del nero, Flash art online, 20 March 2012.
Martina Cavallarin, Artisti Mutanti, alfabeta2.it, 26 February 2012.
Anna Puricella, Arte contemporanea di scena a Bari, la Repubblica Bari, 20 January 2012.
Lucia Spadano, Over Black black, Segno n. 237, October-December 2011, p. 68.
Edoardo Sassi, L'arte Digitalife: audio, video, 3D, Corriere della Sera, 26 October 2011.
Cecilia Cirinei, Progetto Digitalife, tecnologie oltre il futuro, la Repubblica Roma, 25 October 2011.
Valentina Mariani, Round the Clock, Arskey n. 3, Speciale Biennale di Venezia, September - October 2011.
Carmen Lorenzelli, Panorami video artistici, Exibart. onpaper n. 98 July- August 2011.
Erika Prandi, Round the Clock, exibart.com, 13 July 2011.
Elisabetta Allegro, Vedi alla voce: videoarte. Omaggio a Devis Venturelli, Artribune online, 10 July 2011.
Natalia Distefano, Spazi aperti per i giovani artisti, Corriere della Sera, 2 June 2011.
Laura Valente, Il coreografo elettronico, la Repubblica Napoli, 6 May 2011.
VIDEO.it. A Nord/Sud del Mediterraneo, Flash Art online, 22 November 2010
Marina Giordano, Un premio tedesco per giovani italiani, Il Giornale dell'Arte n. 302, October 2010.
E palazzo Ziino schiera le posizioni attuali, la Repubblica Palermo, 8 October 2010.
Michael Schreiner, Doppeldeutig und verspielt, Augsburger Allgemeine, 4 August 2010.
Gigliola Foschi, Fotografia Europea. Al di là delle apparenze opache, La Stampa,18 April 2010.
Viviana Siviero, Devis Venturelli, Espoarte n. 63, February - March 2010, pp. 26-31.
Milovan Farronato, Nuovi Nuovi Nuovi, Exibart onpaper, n. 56, April - May 2009.
Incontro con Devis Venturelli, Interview by Stefania Segatto, mam-e.it, 25 November 2008.
Premio Aletti ArtVerona, vince il giovane Devis Venturelli, exibart.com, 17 October 2008.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Palermo-Manifesta, Living, Corriere della Sera, n.7-8, July - August 2018, p.103.
Chiara Savino, Italo Rota in L’Architettura. I Protagonisti, vol.8, L’Espresso, Rome 2013.
Matteo Vercelloni, Boscolo Palace, Interni n. 621, May 2012.
Hanuman Temple, Area n. 115, March-April 2011.
Manolo De Giorgi, La magia del Novecento Italiano, Domus n. 944, February 2011.
With Wildness, Id+c Interior Design + Construction n. 189, May 2010.
Italo Rota, Installation exhibit. Creating worlds through objects, edited by Raffaella Poletti, Electa, Milan 2009.
Anna Sartea, Italo Rota, I Maestri dell’Architettura, Hachette fascicoli, Milan 2009.
Matteo Vercelloni, Architettura per adulti, Interni n. 597, December 2009.
uHmepbep n. 144, March 2009.
Lanterne fiorentine, Architecture Intérièure n. 342, February 2009.
Maria Giulia Zunino, La casa cangiante, Abitare n. 486, October 2008.
Cristina Morozzi, Antimoda, Interni n. 578, January - February 2008, pp. 24-27.
Kaye Durland Spilker, Sharon Sadako Takeda, CONTRO Moda. La moda contemporanea dalla collezione permanente del Los Angeles County Museum, exhibition catalogue, Skira, Milan 2007.
Valeria Alebbi, Luca Molinari, Italo Rota. Projects, Works, Visions 1997-2007, Skira, Milan 2007.
Sensational. Italo Rota e Devis Venturelli, Casa Vogue n. 27, April 2007, pp. 34-39.
Fashion but moderate, Id+c Interior Design + Construction n. 137, January 2006.
Cristina Morozzi, Luna park Cavalli, Interni n. 5, May 2005.
Edie Cohen, More is more, Interior Design, April 2005.
Beppe Bonazzoli, Fashion Entertainment, Suite n. 112, February 2005.
Andrea Branzi, Architetture diabetiche, Domus n. 867, February 2004.
More and more and more Cavalli, Area n. 71, November - December 2003.
Francesca Picchi, L’architetto affabulatore, Domus n. 863, October 2003.