MARINELLA SENATORE ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Marinella Senatore (Italy, 1977). Lives and works in Rome and Paris. Trained in music, fine arts and film, Senatore is a multi-disciplinary artist and her practice is characterized by a strong collective and participatory dimension. Senatore’s work merges forms of resistance, vernacular and popular culture, dance and music, mass events and activism, rethinking the political nature of collective formations (“Assembly”) and enable the public to generate a potential for social change. Intertwining with the artist’s personal autographical experiences and collective shared narratives, her practice encompasses collage, performance, sculpture, photography and video. In 2013 she found The School of Narrative Dance, a nomadic, free of charge school focused on non-hierarchical learning and emancipation. The multidisciplinary school, conceived as alternative training ground, is characterized by free workshops engaging local groups and by public energetic, soulful processions, where the artist and participants together orchestrate narratives, tracing new connection between contemporary relations. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout Italy and With the upmost honour, Senatore is the winner of the 4t abroad, including: h edition of Italian Council (2018) of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries MANIFESTA 12, Palermo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MAXXI (DGAAP) that will result a unique collaboration with Castello Museum, Rome; Queens Museum, NY; Kunsthaus Zurich; di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin and IZIKO South Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Kunsthalle, Sankt Gallen; Palais African National Gallery, Cape Town in 2019. de Tokyo, Paris; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, In 2017, the artist was awarded with the International Art Santa Barbara; High Line, NY; Madre Museum, Naples; Les Grant in Dresden, Germany including a residency program. In Laboratories d’Aubervilliers, Paris; Faena Art Forum, Miami; 2014 Senatore won the prestigious MAXXI Prize and was the Bozar, Brussels; Kunstverein Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano; CRAC recipient of the “Museum Calls Artist” commission of AMACI, Alsace, Altkirch; Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun; Petach the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums. In 2013 Tikva Museum of Art; Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, she won the Fellowship for Young Italian Artists at Castello di Turin; Serpentine Gallery, London; ISCP, New York; La Rivoli, Turin. In 2011 Senatore was an Affiliated Fellow at The Triennale, Milan; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence CCA, Tel Aviv; Le American Academy in Rome and a finalist for the Furla Art Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble; Extra Award. In 2010 she won The New York Prize, the 21st Bellisario City Kunsthal, Antwerp; MAC Musée d’art contemporain de Award, the Gotham Prize and the Terna Prize. In 2009 she was Montréal, Canada; ICA, Richmond, Virginia, US; BAK Basis voor the recipient of Dena Foundation Fellowship. Actuele Kunst, Utrecht; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid; Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, In addition to teaching at various universities, the artist Rotterdam; Moderna Museet, Stockholm. regularly lectures at international institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, NY; Creative Time Summit, NY and UABB Bi, Shenzhen, 2017; Biennale de Lyon, 2015; Thessaloniki Venice; Spike Island, Bristol; ICA-Institute of Contemporary Biennale, 2015; Liverpool Biennale, 2014; Shiryaevo Biennale, Arts, London; Foundation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris; NYU, 2013; Athens Biennale, 2013; Havana Biennale, 2012; Moscow Berlin; ERG, Brussels; University of Madrid; University of International Biennale for Young Art, 2012; 7th Göteborg Granada; University of Turin; Beursschouwbug, Brussels; International Biennial for Contemporary Art , 2013; Contour- Academy of Fine Arts, Mechelen; NABA New Academy of Fine Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium, 2013; Arts, Milan; Kunstverein Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano. Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, 2014, 54th Venice Biennale «ILLUMinations», 2011. In 2013 Marinella Senatore founded The WORKS School of Narrative Dance, focused on the idea of storytelling as an experience that can be explored choreographically, on non-hierarchical learning, self-training and the creation of an active citizenship through informal education. Nomadic and free of charge, the School takes different forms depending on the spaces it temporarily occupies, and proposes an alternative system of education, based on emancipation, inclusion, and self- cultivation. THE SOND offers a wide range of classes in subjects such as literature, oral history, carpentry, art history, crafts, SCHOOL photography, arithmetic, drama, choreography, cinematic language, etc., OF encouraging individuals to share their skills or achieve new ones, building new groups and ideas of community. To date, NARRATIVE the School‘s projects – produced by Institutions, Museums and Foundations – DANCE have been developed in several countries in Europe and US, with the involvement Performance, photography, video, video tutorial, of political activists, scholars, artisans, installation, drawing, collage, banner, riso print, sculpture, painting illiterate people, students, housewives, musicians, writers, worker unions, retired, teachers, feminist choirs and Alpines. The work uses dance as a common language through which to celebrate the vernacular, amateur, and professionally trained gestures of the participants. WORKS THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE DANCE THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE WORKS THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE DANCE THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE WORKS THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE DANCE THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE WORKS THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE DANCE THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE Parades: Brass Band 2018 Collage, brass band music scores from last century, drawing, acrylic and mixed media cm 50 x 70, framed each Private collection and Collection: MAXXI, Rome WORKS THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE DANCE THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE The School of Narrative Dance: Dance First, Think Later 2018 Collage and acrylic on vegetable cardboard cm 29 x 21 each WORKS THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE DANCE THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE Remember the first time you saw your name 2017 Diptych paintings Acrylic and lacquer on canvas cm 30 x 40 each The School of Narrative Dance, Shenzhen 2017 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle paper cm 80 x 105, framed WORKS The School of Narrative Dance: Venice Parade 2015 Fine Art Prints on Hahnemühle paper cm 80 x 105, framed Private collection THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE DANCE THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE The School of Narrative Dance: Little Chaos 2013 Fine Art Prints on Hahnemühle paper cm 160 x 300, framed Produced by Musei Civici and Comune of Cagliari, Italy Private collection The School of Narrative Dance, Berlin Parade 2012 Fine Art Prints on Hahnemühle paper cm 80 x 105 , framed Private collection THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE DANCE THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE Exploring new ways of moving while forming new elective communities in the process 2016 Risograph prints cm 42 x 30, framed Private collection WORKS THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE DANCE THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE The School of Narrative Dance, Queens 2014 Installation: Dance floor 4,50 x 10 mt, 5 DVD players, 5 monitors, wall painting, mixed media Installation views at Queens Museum The School of Narrative Dance, Roma 2014 Classroom designed in collaboration with ASSEMBLE STUDIO, London Wood, sand, towers, fabric, dance mats, mixed media Dimension determined by the space Collection : MAXXI, Rome WORKS The School of Narrative Dance, Sweden 2014 7 drawings on paper (variable dimensions, framed), monitor, banner Installation views at Kunst Halle, St. Gallen Photo G. Meier THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE DANCE THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE The School of Narrative dance 2013 5 tutorials, color, sound 3 mins each Stills from video The School of Narrative Dance: Rivoli 2013 Installation: Dance floor 4,50 x 10 mt, 5 DVD players, 5 monitors, wall painting, mixed media Installation views at Castello di Rivoli Photos by R. Ghiazza Collection: Ruben Levi, Turin WORKS THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE DANCE THE SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE Piazza Universale/Social Stages – the entrance 2017 - 2019 Installation: wood, painting, mixed media Dimension determined by the space Installation view at Queens Museum, NYC (right) and association for contemporary art, Graz (left) Photo T. Raggam (left) and H. Zhang (right) Protest Forms: Memory and Celebration PROTEST explores the multifaceted forms and rich legacies of protest in different countries, FORMS: while also engaging with ecology of affiliation, empowerment, and belonging. The artist articulates her long term interest in the role MEMORY that the collective crowd, dance and music play into the creation of temporary communities AND united in demonstrating resistance. CELEBRATION Performance, drawing, installation, banner, sculpture, luminaries, UV print, wallpaper, painting WORKS PROTEST FORMS: MEMORY AND CELEBRATION FORMS: PROTEST Parades: Brass Band Protest Forms 2018 2019 Collage, brass band music scores from last century, drawing, acrylic and mixed media Collage, brass band music scores from last century, drawing and mixed media cm 50 x 70, framed cm 50 x 70, framed WORKS PROTEST FORMS: MEMORY AND CELEBRATION FORMS: PROTEST Protest Drums 2019 LED, neon, mixed drum set, women hair, mixed media Various dimension Installation view at <rotor> association of contemporary art Photo T. Raggam WORKS It’s time to go back to street 2019 20 drawings graphite